The Man Who's A Fan Of Japan: Anime! :)

Anime are Japanese animated productions usually featuring hand-drawn or computer animation. The word is the abbreviated pronunciation of "animation" in Japanese, where this term references all animation, but in other languages, the term is defined as animation from Japan. An animation style often characterized by colorful graphics, vibrant characters and fantastic themes. Arguably, the stylization approach to the meaning may open up the possibility of anime produced in countries other than Japan. For simplicity, many westerners strictly view anime as an animation product from Japan.

The earliest Japanese animation dates to 1917, and production of anime works in Japan has since continued to increase steadily. The characteristic anime art style emerged in the 1960's with the works of Osamu Tezuka who best known for his greatest work Astro Boy. Osamu started using big eyes in his animation art style after he saw the movie Bambi. Osamu said that there was so much emotion portrayed in Bambi's big eyes in that movie so he wanted to portray that as well in his characters that he created. Osamu's work spread internationally in the late twentieth century, developing a large international audience. Anime is distributed theatrically, by television broadcasts, directly to home media, and over the internet and is classified into numerous genres targeting diverse and broad audiences.

Anime is a diverse art form with distinctive production methods and techniques. The production of anime focuses less on the animation of movement and more on the realism of settings as well as the use of camera effects, including panning, zooming and angle shots. Diverse art styles are used and character proportions and features can be quite varied, including characteristically large emotive or realistically sized eyes.

The pictures down below are some of my favorite animes. I enjoyed them as a kid and I still enjoy them today!

~ The Man Who's A Fan Of Japan