The history of anime is notably broad, yes, and it's going to take hundreds of pages if I shall get a chapter about it. I could, but it's going to take each year or even more for me to compile it. My primary focus isn't to present a chronological dissertation of anime history in its broadened sense, since it's, as I said, broad. But it's part of my cause to present to you, the readers, a simplified presentation of the anime history. So in the article, my cause is to give a simplified yet awakening view for us Christians about anime and it is history. Understanding the history, simply, will not make us ignorant of today's sophistication. Furthermore, as Christians, it is necessary for us to understand or to trace back the roots before we jump into temptations of any kind.

To start with, the term "anime" is primarily depending on the original Japanese pronunciation of the American word "animation." It really is the style of animation in Japan. The Urban dictionary defines it stereotypically as: the anime style is characters with proportionally large eyes and hair styles and colors that will be very colorful and exotic. The plots range from very immature (kiddy stuff), through teenage level, to mature (violence, content, and thick plot). It is also important to be aware that American cartoons and Japanese animes are different. The storyline of an anime might be more complex while that of a cartoon is simpler. While cartoons are intended for kids, anime, having said that, might be more intended for the adult viewers.

Even though the creation of anime was basically due to the influence of the Western countries that began at the start of twentieth century (when Japanese filmmakers experimented with the animation techniques that have been being explored within the West) it was also inspired through the production of manga (comic) that was already present in Japan even before the production of free anime online.

Around the beginning of the 13th century, there have been already pictures of the afterlife and animals appearing on temple walls in Japan (many of them are similar to modern manga). At the start of 1600's, pictures were not drawn on temples any longer but on wood blocks, called Edo. Subjects in Edo arts were less religious and were often geographically erotic. Noting this, without having a doubt, it gave me this insight:

"The explicit presentations of manga, that might later influence the sector of anime, were already existent in the 13th century. That is decades before anime emerged into view!"

Now it should not be too surprising, right? There are various mangas (generally known as comics) of currently that can be too vulgar and explicit and if not, there will be at least one character within her showy appearance. I am not proclaiming that all mangas are full of nudities, if that is what you're thinking by now. But instead, this exploitation of eroticism (or at least a hint of amorousness) on mangas just isn't actually new. They already existed even before the World War I and II. They, conversely, advanced into something else. Manga, to a great extent, is a factor as to how and why anime existed. In reality, most animes and live actions are adaptations of mangas or comics.

Japanese cartoonists already experimented with different style of animation as early as 1914, however the glorious expansion of anime nonetheless began shortly after the next World War where Kitayama Seitaro, Oten Shimokawa, and Osamu Tezuka were pioneering as then notable Japanese animators. Among the pioneering animators during that time, it was Osamu Tezuka who gained the most credits and was later referred to as "the god of comics."

Osamu Tezuka was best known in his work "Astro Boy (Tetsuwan Atomu)" the very first robot boy with an atomic heart who had wished to be a real boy. His works were significant and his style of animation contributed a whole lot within the production of Japanese anime, for example large and rounded eyes. Tezuka's works did not simply focus to entertain young viewers but he also conceived and initiated the establishment of Animerama. It really is a series of thematically-related adult anime feature films made at his Mushi Production studio from the late 1960's to early 1970's. Animerama is a trilogy consisting of three films: A Thousand & One Nights, Cleopatra, and Belladona. The first, A Thousand & One Nights, was the very first erotic animated film conceived by Osamu Tezuka, the god of comics.

Although anime made its way, it was only within the 1980's that anime was fully accepted in the mainstream of Japan. Since then, more and more genres emerged into being. From slice of life, drama, mechas, tragic, adventure, science fiction, romance, ecchi, shounen-ai, shoujo and a lot more of genres. While most of the anime shows shifted from more superhero-oriented, fantastical plots to somewhat more realistic space operas with increasingly complex plots and fuzzier definitions of right and wrong-in short, anime in its broadened sense is simply complicated.

Moreover, later during the boomed experience of Japanese animation, a brand new medium was then developed for anime: the OVA (Original Video Animation). These OVAs were direct-to-home-video series or movies that catered to much smaller audiences. The OVA was also accountable for allowing the first full-blown anime pornography.

As Japanese animation further gained more audience and acceptance through the world, a subculture in Japan, who later called themselves "otaku", began to produce around animation magazines such as Animage or later NewType. These magazines became known in respond to the overwhelming fandom that developed around shows for example Yamato and Gundam within the late 1970's and early 1980's and during this time period the mecha genres were prominent.

All of it started from ancient paintings, wood block arts, artistic depiction of life, nature, and animals as early as the 13th century. Until these, nonetheless, evolved into moving frames when different experimentations of mangas and animation were made within the pre and post-wars era.

Even as early as 13th century, mangas on wooden blocks, called Edo, were already existent not just for the sake of art but it was there I believe as a medium of entertainment... a type of art and entertainment that could gradually evolved in time.

In conclusion, the history of anime was broad in its sense which article has not presented all of it. But the point is, we must know that anime itself carries a lot of genres and motives that will be alarming more than we can imagine.