About Anime...

The history of Japanese anime goes back to the infancy of animation throughout the world. Seitaro Kitayama is one of the first to get involved, since 1917. At the time, however, animation was mostly used in the context of anti-American propaganda. The famous anime expert, Takamasa Sakurai, claims that the genre has been widely accepted due to its unconventional nature, “Japanese anime broke the convention that anime is something that kids watch”. ... Famous anime producers such as Tezuka now produce and push for their work to be sold internationally. When it comes to anime there are a couple of reasons you find it so good. First because it originates in Japan that acts as a bit as a natural filter. ... Second because anime comes from a country with a different culture, they have a naturally different base for what they consider to be am utterly generic story. Japan began producing animation in 1917—still the age of silent films—through trial-and-error drawing and cutout animation techniques, based on animated shorts from France and the United States. ... His film is remembered as the first to make its presence felt outside Japan.