Since I was a little girl in elementary school, one of habits included watching anime. There was a point in my life in which anime had helped me through the darkest places in my life. It was an escape for me and a way for me to indulge myself in something I enjoyed while also having fun. Additionally, with the various genres of anime I was able to relate to many characters as well as many situations and scenarios that took place. As I continued to watch more and more anime, I began to wonder the origins of anime. I also began to wonder about how different anime reached me and my friends. Knowing I live in the United States, and anime originated in Japan I began to wonder how it reached the United States. This led me to think about how many other countries anime is accessible to as well as why it has developed such a large fan base. I hope in my research to find out the origins of anime as well as the reasoning for the beginning of popularity of anime as well as manga. Additionally, I hope to find out the inspiration and idea behind creating anime and manga. As well as what this creator hoped to achieve in doing so. I hope to also find out what style of animation existed prior as well as why the new style was easily adaptable and interesting for those not as familiar with the new style. In researching, I would certainly hope to find all the answers to the many questions I have regarding this. I predict that anime and manga styles began when someone just decided to draw and write stories in a different style that no one was used to, and it became a huge hit gaining popularity. Even if I do not find information to support my hypothesis, or information that overall goes against my idea I would include it regardless and still be happy that I was able to research and find the true beginning of anime.
Category: Unit 2 (Page 5 of 42)
The Rise and Rise of Anime: Why the Japanese Artform Is Blooming
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https://www.fandom.com/articles/anime-japanese-artform-blooming
This article begins with the interview of Mamoru Hosoda, a director whom creates movies and films for the anime genre. He goes on to explain that one main reason that anime has become so popular to a wide range of people is due to the fact that anime is cartoons but can span to adults. He goes into detail to explain that the world of anime and manga can appeal universally to many people due to their unique storylines, characters, and life styles. He says that he believes the in depth character development as well as grown ups being able to enjoy the animation style that was originally made for children. He also includes that the use and development of 2-D characters has made a huge impact in the way that different methods and techniques could be used in a wide range of different genres and artists techniques. Lastly, he mentions that he believes in animation the artists do not get the proper recognition for the hard work that is put into their pieces of work. He includes that remaking animated pieces into live action pieces can pose as disrespectful to the animators.
Overall, I do agree with this producer/director. I believe that the wide range and span of anime has become fairly popular due to the wide range and groups of people that anime is able to reach. This includes that of reaching adults or overall just people of any age being able to enjoy anime. I believe that with the different storylines as well as character development of every single genre it has become something anyone around the world of any age can enjoy and indulge in. In this piece of work, I believe that it was important to include the importance and uniqueness of animating 2-D characters as opposed to the regular animation style that came about before anime. In this piece of work, I believe that it should have been expanded more upon how the animation style has impacted the anime fandom as well as how it has made an impact on worldwide making anime accessible to others. I also agree with the fact that recreating 2-D pieces of work into live action films is disrespectful to the creators of the anime due to all the work that is put in on the creators side.
“And the second phase became things that grown-ups can enjoy — but those particular grown-ups are like, say, those who still have the mind of a child, or otakus. So it was a genre. Animation — anime — was a genre of movies.”
“I think animation movies, recent modern ones, are rich in stories and also have universal appeal [with] a really strong storyline, world and lives.”
“And that’s what I don’t like. I think they just really need to pay more respect to the original animations”
Life With Manga God Osamu Tezuka: An Interview with Frederik Schodt
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https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-feature/2017/11/10-1/life-with-manga-god-osamu-tezuka-an-interview-with-frederik-schodt
This is an interview with Frederik Schodt who was better known as the interpreter and personal friend of Osamu Tezuka, one of the first artist to form the basis for all manga and anime to date. Scodt discusses his introduction and initial relationship within manga as well as anime on the whole. He goes in depth to talk about him not being able to read manga with the rest of his friends due to his limited knowledge of Japanese. Schodt continues to explain that he is a fan of Tezuka and hoped to translate his mangas for others who couldn’t understand Japanese, who is one of the most famous writers to develop one of the first mangas. Schodt and a group of his friends began a small company in which they began to translate mangas, leading them to appear at Tezuka’s production studio and Tezuka introducing himself and allowing the group to translate their mangas for the world. Schodt also discusses the times when him and Tezuka travelled to the United States to expand their influence of anime and manga within America.
I truly believe this interview was important and interesting within the impact and growth of anime. With Schodt and his group helping to translate manga for the world the fandom was able to grow more rapidly. Also, this interview allows readers to see the impact manga had on the United States. Schodt and Tezuka as well as the rest of the production crew put in a lot of time and effort into growing their business into something memorable and popular. Schodt said that as the crew was filming no one slept and everyone’s knees were buckling and were physically drained. This was interesting to me because it shows how much dedication everyone put into their work in hopes that the industry would grow and become something. In the overall interview, I believe it would have been interesting if it was asked on the development and improvement of the industry as well as his personal view and impact of anime and manga. Not to mention, it would also have been interesting to see if Schodt knew Tezuka to a personal level in which he possibly knew his hopes and dreams in which Tezuka had for his production company. However, on the whole it was interesting to see where the first translations came for the first mangas and anime to exist.
” And I remember this one guy, I’ve never seen this any other time but he actually fell asleep on his feet, because he just hadn’t slept. It was the Japanese work ethic. His knees buckled. And Tezuka also hasn’t slept. That’s just an example of how exhausted everyone was.”
“Myself and three friends, my friend Jared Cook and two Japanese, formed a group called Dadakai because we were big fans of manga and we wanted to translate manga and maybe, possibly, introduce them to the outside world because we thought they were just fabulous and everyone should know about manga.”
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