The history of anime is notably broad, yes, and it's going to take hundreds of pages if I will make a chapter about it. I could, but it's going to take annually or even more for me to compile it. My primary focus is just not to present a chronological dissertation of anime history in its broadened sense, since it really is, as I said, broad. But it is 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 its history. Understanding the history, remember, will not make us ignorant of today's sophistication. Furthermore, as Christians, it is very important for us to learn or to trace back the roots before we jump into temptations of any kind.

To start with, the word "anime" is primarily based on the original Japanese pronunciation of the American word "animation." It's 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 can be very colorful and exotic. The plots range from very immature (kiddy stuff), through teenage level, to mature (violence, content, and thick plot). Additionally it is important to remember that American cartoons and Japanese animes are different. The storyline of an anime is more complex while that of a cartoon is simpler. While cartoons are intended for kids, anime, however, is more intended for the adult viewers.

However the creation of anime was basically because of the influence of the Western countries that began at the start of 20th century (when Japanese filmmakers experimented with the animation techniques that were being explored within the West) it was also inspired click through the next page the production of manga (comic) that was already present in Japan even ahead of the production of anime.

Around the beginning of the 13th century, there have been already pictures of the afterlife and animals appearing on temple walls in Japan (the majority 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, with no doubt, it gave me this insight:

"The explicit presentations of manga, that could later influence the industry 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 these days that will be too vulgar and explicit and in any other case, there will be at least one character within her showy appearance. I am not saying that all mangas are full of nudities, if that's what you're thinking by now. But instead, this exploitation of eroticism (or at least a hint of amorousness) on mangas is just not actually new. They already existed even prior to the World War I and II. They, on the other hand, advanced into something else. Manga, to a great extent, is a factor as to how and why anime existed. Actually, most animes and live actions are adaptations of mangas or comics.

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

Osamu Tezuka was best known within his work "Astro Boy (Tetsuwan Atomu)" the first robot boy through an atomic heart who had wished to be a real boy. His works were notable and his style of animation contributed a lot in the production of Japanese anime, for example large and rounded eyes. Tezuka's works did not just focus to entertain young viewers but he also conceived and initiated the establishment of Animerama. It's 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 within the mainstream of Japan. Since then, increasingly more genres emerged into being. From slice of life, drama, mechas, tragic, adventure, science fiction, romance, ecchi, shounen-ai, shoujo as well as 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.

Additionally, later during the boomed experience of Japanese animation, a whole 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 very 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 develop around animation magazines for example 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 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 in the pre and post-wars era.

Even as early as 13th century, mangas on wooden blocks, referred to as Edo, were already existent not only for the sake of art but it was there I believe as a medium of entertainment... a form of art and entertainment that will 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 whole lot of genres and motives that may be alarming more than we would ever guess.