A brief introduction to Japanese Anime

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This is an article to introduce Japanese Anime. As we all know, anime in Japan is quite famous and get widely support from worldwide fans of cartoon.

Firstly, you may ask what results in the produce of anime in Japan?

In fact, due to the influence of newspaper comic strip and the motion picture which are the western inventions, Japanese began to invent graphic art. The comic strip gave a chance for story-tellers in Japan to make story public to the masses. Then, a great many newspaper prints were produced by Japanese cartoonist.

In 1914, cartoonist started to experiment with animated motion pictures.  At that time, the animation industry was quite thriving and broke a new ground.  Because of the influence and popularity of Fleishers’ animated films and Disney in World War II, animation became popular in Asia and Europe.

In the mid 1950’s, Hiroshi Okawa created an Asia film studio which can be used to produce animated features just like Walt Disney Studios did in US. In 1958, Toei Animation which was founded in 1956 released its first feature The Tale of The White Serpent.

Later, a series of new programs and animated film produced in 1969’s.

In 1970’s, animation in Japan got through tough years. It became very strict to produce animated television series for children. Nevertheless, televised animation began to take unbelievable leaps forward in science fiction.

Fortunately, at the 1980’s, film and television kept up with great demand for more thriving and sophisticated animated programming, which makes animation a great development. In order to keep pace with ever-expanding market, more and more were used to adapt manga field.

Then science fiction literature got support from technology. For example, some talented artists like Atsuko Fukuhima, Mao Lamdo and Yoshiaki Kawajiri emerged at that time.

At the beginning of 1990’, more and more foreign anime fans enjoy anime. Mononoke Hime begins to appear in cinema across Japan.

Thanks to the great success of animation, many games come into being. Take the example of Final Fantasy, the graphic is quite wonderful and gorgeous. In fact, Square Enix meant to develop this game as the last game. However, it got deep love from players all around world. What’s more, the film of Final Fantasy became quite popular. Now, the game has released its fourteenth version, FFXIV. Players

buy FFXIV gil to buy items or level up class.  Many girls say its graphic effect too fantastic, which makes them love this film, though they don’t like the film at all.


The animation also bring great development of film, cartoon, television, animated books and cosplay,etc. Almost people from all around the world know Janpan is famous for anime. A simple example is that the girls in Japan make up like the figures in cartoon. Even, the most popular cartoons almost all come from Japan. A lot of Japanese animation artists are quite famous and influence the popularity trend around the world.