Anime is awesome

1. Anime –
An Art of Japanese Animation

2. Outline
• What is Anime?
• Common Misconceptions
• History of Anime
• Character Design
• Genres
• Basis on Manga
• Influences in Western Animation

3. What is Anime?
• Put simply, anime is animation from Japan.
• Anime is a medium, not a genre. Saying “I like
anime” is akin to saying “I like movies.” It
includes the same genres as every other
medium: drama, romance, comedy, sports,
action, horror, sci-fi, fantasy, erotica and so on.
• So basically, Anime could be seen as Japan’s
“Hollywood.”

4. Common Misconceptions
• Anime is for kids
• Anime = violence / big eyes / big robots
• Anime is Unoriginal and Unintelligent
• Anime are Cartoons -> all anime shows
are cartoons, but not all cartoons are
anime.

5. (Brief) History of Anime

6. Early 1900s
• At the start of the 20th century, Japanese filmmakers
experimented with the animation techniques that were
being explored in other countries, especially in the U.S.
(Disney).
• By the 1930s, animation became an alternative format of
storytelling compared to the underdeveloped live-action
industry in Japan. Two reasons:
– Unlike America, the live-action industry in Japan
remained a small market and suffered from
budgeting, location, and casting restrictions.
– The lack of Western-looking actors, in addition, made
it next to impossible to shoot films set in Europe,
America, or fantasy worlds that do not naturally
involve Japan. The varied use of animation allowed
artists to create any characters and settings.

7. Early 1900’s
1907

8. 1970s
World Masterpiece Theatre

9. 1980s
Rise of Sci-fi superhero & “Mecha” genre
coincided with the commercial success of
Star Wars

10. 1980s
Hayao Miyazaki & Ghibli Studio

11. 1990s
• Neon Genesis Evangelion- revived anime
TV industry
• Pokemon series
• Dragon Ball series
• Sailormoon
Extremely popular and heavily
commercialized throughout the
world

12. Character Design

13. Character Design

14. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anime

16. http://naruto224.deviantart.com/

17. Genre

18. Drama

19. Romance / Comedy

20. Sports

21. Action

22. Sci-fi

23. Fantasy

24. Basis on Manga

25. Basis on Manga
Anime Manga

26. Basis on Manga

27. Influences in Western Animation

28. Teen Titans

29. Sources
• http://wikipedia.org
• http://anime-source.com
• www.awn.com/mag/issue1.5/articles/patte
n1.5.html