Anime is awesome!  The Japanese culture has created so many examples of both computer and hand-drawn animation that Americans love.
Anime is really interesting. I wonder when it first came to America. 
I'm not certain when it came to America for the first time, but the earliest commercial Japanese animation was created in 1917!
Wow that was a long time ago. Do you have a favorite Anime? 
I'm not certain that I can name just 1.  I love them all, and some have even called me "Otaku", due to my crazy interest level.
Interesting. Does Otaku refer to someone who loves anime a bunch? 
"Otaku" really just means that you have an obsessive interest in something, but its definition has changed over time.
Neat. Did the word arrive when anime emerged? I really like Dragonball but I'm not sure I'm an Otaku.
Otaku
"Otaku" subculture is a central theme of various anime and manga works, documentaries and academic research. The subculture began in the 1980s as changing social mentalities and the nurturing of otaku traits by Japanese schools combined with the resignation of such individuals to become social outcasts. The subculture's birth coincided with the anime boom, after the release of works such as "Mobile Suit Gundam" before it branched into Comic Market. The definition of "otaku" subsequently became more complex, and numerous classifications of "otaku"
March 2011, he was worried that it could be destroyed and wanted to preserve it in an animated film.
Production Animation.
Like other Japanese anime, "The Garden of Words" was created using a combination of hand-drawn animation, rotoscoping and computer animation (CGI), with the latter facilitating the realistic appearance of the film's rain sequences. Shinkai made half of the film's backgrounds by using his photographs as a base and then drawing over the top with Adobe Photoshop, while the other half were fictional