Anime

1. Anime The ever growing fandom Anime The ever growing fandom

2. Basis of anime • Osamu Tezuka was the founder of anime. He based his drawings off of Disney’s Bambi, and it is said that he watched the movie 80 times, copying the style of the characters and making his own version, but the interesting thing is the fact that he was only 6 or 7 years old. He also based his drawings off of Max Fleisher, who created Betty Boop, and Superman. • Each Japanese manga artist has his or her own unique style. These people are often identified as mangaka artists. • In Japanese anime the protagonist is usually not wearing tight blue jumpsuits with flowing red capes. In fact the heroes in anime and manga are very genuinely world oriented. Usually they are high school students with super powers. • The anime of Japan deal with real life problems. Even in the children’s anime does the hero have to deal with death. If the hero’s make a mistake then they have to deal with the consequences.

3. Anime Facts • There is a museum dedicated to Osamu Tezuka, the father of anime. • It takes about twenty minutes for a Japanese resident to read three hundred pages of anime. • The most popular character in Sailor Moon is Mizuno/Sailor Mercury. • In anime Japanese students write their names under an umbrella opposed to a heart. • In both manga and anime there are many references to the spiritual world. Many anime characters use Shinto Wards to keep demons and bad spirits from entering the real world. • In Japan more paper is used to print manga than for the production of toilet paper • The Japanese voted Osamu Tezuka as one of the people that they would like to see on postage stamps.

4. CHIBIS! • In Japan, chibi means small child, or short person • In anime fandom terms, or otaku, it has been mostly associated with terms of super deformed • Since the term of super deformed, chibis usually have huge heads and very small bodies, with huge eyes • The show that brought chibis to the west, is known as Sailor Moon, which has the character Chibi Usagi, who is in fact a chibi herself

5. Sailor Moon • Naoko Takeuchi was born on March, 15 1976 in Kofu, Japan • Naoko Takeuchi is known for creating the series sailor moon but she also accomplished many other things in her life. When she was little she loved to draw anime so drawing comic books was second nature for her • When she was 18 years old she was introduced into the manga world with her comic “Yume ja Nai no ne” it received 2nd place in the Nakayoshi comics for newcomers • While she was at Kyoritsu Yakka University she published the comic “love call” it also won the Nakayoshi New Mangaka Award for new mangaka artists, and was published in Nakayoshi Deluxe in September 1986. She graduated her university with a degree in chemistry dealing with ultra sounds • Sailor moon won the 17th kodansha manga award for girls comics in 1993 because of the fact that the readers could relate to the characters in the books • This ever so popular series has 18 comic books, 200 episodes, 3 movies and a live performance called Sera-Myu

6. Naruto Naruto • Masashi Kishimoto was born on November 8, 1947 in Okayama, Japan • Masashi created the popular anime series Naruto • When Masashi was young he loved to draw but when he was older, he realized that his real dream was to become a mangaka artist • Later in his life, after his graduation he was working on the series Naruto which he submitted to Akamaru Jump, which was then published in the weekly shonen Jump in 1999 • In Junior high Masashi became less interested in manga and more interested in the sport baseball to try to fuel his passion he even tried to create a manga about baseball but it didn’t work • After finishing his first manga, which was only 31 pages long, he asked his brother and father about it, they read it, and felt that he could do better than what he had accomplished • After his series Naruto was published it became one of the most popular mangas ever

7. Impact Impact Japanese pop culture in general has effected the U.S. in a major way. It has brought over a whole new style of music, and entertainment. Using this ability to conjoin cultures has informed all of the people of America about a new style of life, and a new art form.