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The history of anime is notably broad, yes, and it will take hundreds of pages if I will make a chapter about it. I could, but it will take per year or maybe more for me to compile it. My primary focus just isn't 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 within this article, my cause is to give a simplified yet awakening view for us Christians about anime and it is history. Understanding the history, remember, will not make us ignorant of today's sophistication. Furthermore, as Christians, it is essential for us to know or to trace back the roots before we jump into temptations of the kind.

To begin with, the phrase "anime" is primarily in accordance with 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 are very colorful and exotic. The plots range between very immature (kiddy stuff), through teenage level, to mature (violence, content, and thick plot). It is also essential 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, then again, is more intended for the adult viewers.

Even though the creation of anime was basically because of the influence of the Western countries that began at the start of twentieth century (when Japanese filmmakers experimented with the animation techniques which were being explored within the West) it was also inspired through 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 were already pictures of the afterlife and animals appearing on temple walls in Japan (a lot of them are just like 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 sector of anime, were already existent within the 13th century. That is decades before anime emerged into view!"

Now it should not be too surprising, right? There are lots of mangas (also known as comics) of right now which are too vulgar and explicit and if not, there will be at least one character within her showy appearance. I'm not proclaiming that all mangas are full of nudities, if that is what you are thinking by now. But rather, this exploitation of eroticism (or at least a hint of amorousness) on mangas is not actually new. They already existed even ahead of the World War I and II. They, alternatively, advanced into something else. Manga, to a good extent, is a factor as to how and why anime existed. In fact, most animes and live actions are adaptations of mangas or comics.

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

Osamu Tezuka was best known within his work "Astro Boy (Tetsuwan Atomu)" the first robot boy with an atomic heart who had wished to be a real boy. His works were noteworthy 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 only focus to entertain young viewers but he also conceived and initiated the establishment of Animerama. It 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 very 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 in the 1980's that anime was fully accepted in the mainstream of Japan. Since then, a growing number of 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.

At the same, time, later throughout the boomed experience of Japanese animation, a 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 responsible 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 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.

It all 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, called Edo, were already existent not just for the sake of art but it was there I believe as a medium of entertainment... a form of art and entertainment that might gradually evolved in time.

In conclusion, the history of anime was broad in its sense which article has not presented all of it. Although the point is, we must realize that anime itself carries a lot of genres and motives that can be alarming more than we can see free anime right now.