What is Anime Anyway?
The Top 3 - Bleach, Naruto and One Piece https://www.theanimedaily.com/the-big-three-anime-all-you-must-know-the-anime-daily/ Good question. Anime, pronounced "an-ee-may" or "anɪmeɪ" is a type of Japanese film and television animation. It’s as simple as that. Obviously animation exists all around the world, in the West we grew up with Disney, Looney Tunes and Hanna Barbera animations which we call "cartoons". Cartoons are mostly associated mostly with the viewing habits of children. As with Western animation, the roots of anime go back to the early 1900's but, it really started to get traction and its own style in the 1960's. Although it is predominantly aimed at the Japanese market, it's been steadily gaining popularity in the West over the last 20 years and with the rise of TikTok and lockdown causing people to look for new interests it’s been accelerating its global reach.(1) In the 60's a manga artist and animator called Osamu Tezuka, ...
