Anime (アニメ) is the Japanese word for cartoon. It's a Japanese adaptation of the word animation. Japanese cartoons are increasingly popular in Asia and the west for their original style and imaginative characters and storylines. In recent, years Anime has become an English word referring to the Japanese style of cartoon.
In the 1970s and 1980s Japanese cartoons started to get noticed in the west. Back then people called it Japanimation but this word is rarely used anymore. In the 1970s master animator Osamu Tezuka became popular
when he introduced the Mecha (giant robot) genre of anime. Since then the popularity of anime in the west has steadily increased and many genres have been introduced such as:
action
adventure
children's stories
comedy
crime stories
drama
erotica (hentai)
medieval fantasy
occult/horror
romance
science fiction
sports
There are two major types of Anime: hand drawn and computer animated. Anime is traditionally hand drawn but in recent years computers have been increasingly used.
Anime is internationally popular and titles are captioned with English subtitles and exported around the world. Anime has dramatically increased interest in Japanese culture and language. It is surprising how many people will learn Japanese just for their love of anime. Many claim that if you watch enough Anime you can pick up the language quite easily.
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