I've been watching some anime recently.
Anime is so fun to watch, It is neat that they are hand drawn though some are computer animation
Yeah I really like the art style to it.
It is neat that Japanese have their one term for animation, anime, where as here we just call it cartoons
Yeah and there are so many different kinds too.
I like the variety, I can't believe it has been around since 1917, around the start of the 20th century
That long? That's pretty crazy!
or quintessentially Japanese may be related to a new form of Orientalism.
The earliest commercial Japanese animation dates to 1917, and Japanese anime production has since continued to increase steadily. The characteristic anime art style emerged in the 1960s with the works of Osamu Tezuka and spread internationally in the late twentieth century, developing a large domestic and international audience. Anime is distributed theatrically, by way of television broadcasts, directly to home media, and over the Internet. It is classified into numerous genres targeting diverse broad and niche audiences.
international popularity has resulted in non-Japanese productions using the anime art style. Whether these works are anime-influenced animation or proper anime is a subject for debate amongst fans. Japanese anime accounts for 60% of the world's animated cartoon television shows, as of 2016.
Etymology.
Anime is an art form, specifically animation, that includes all genres found in cinema, but it can be mistakenly classified as a genre. In Japanese, the term "anime" is used as a blanket term to refer