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ANIME, BEING A DISTINCT STYLE OF JAPANESE ANIMATION, HAS DEVELOPED AS A POPULAR AND INALIENABLE PART OF MODERN ENTERTAINMENT CULTURE. IT HAS ITS ROOTS IN BOTH TRADITIONAL JAPANESE ART SUCH AS UKIYO-E WOODBLOCK PRINTING AND NARRATIVE SCROLL PAINTING. ITS MODERN FORM, HOWEVER, WAS CONCEIVED IN THE EARLY TO MID-20TH CENTURY AND HEAVILY INFORMED BY THE WORKS OF OSAMU TEZUKA, ALSO KNOWN AS THE “GOD OF MANGA”. HE WAS THE FIRST TO BRING TOGETHER MOTIFS FROM CINEMA (SUCH AS THE USE OF DIFFERENT SHOT FRAMING, PANNING, CLOSE-UPS, ETC.) AND JAPANESE ART TO CREATE THE FIRST EVER ANIME. AFTER DECADES OF GROWTH AND PROLIFERATION, ANIME GREW FROM SIMPLE CHILDREN’S SHOWS INTO A DIVERSE MEDIUM CAPABLE OF CONVEYING UNIVERSALLY UNDERSTANDABLE COMPLEX MESSAGES THROUGH BOTH DARK AND MATURE PLOTS AND IMPRESSIVE ARTWORK. UNLIKE WESTERN CARTOONS THAT WERE TRADITIONALLY AIMED AT A YOUNG AUDIENCE AND USED COMEDIC MOTIFS, ANIME ENCOMPASSES A BROAD SPECTRUM OF THEMES AND AUDIENCE SEGMENTS. WHILE SOME ANIME SUCH AS DRAGON BALL Z OR NARUTO ARE AIMED AT TEEN MALES AND FEATURE EXAGGERATED ACTION AND ADVENTURE GENRES ELEMENTS, THERE ARE ALSO SHOJO (GIRLS-ORIENTED) ANIME THAT FOCUS ON ROMANTIC PLOTS, SEINEN (MEN-ORIENTED) THAT EXPLORE DARK AND MATURE THEMES, JOSEI (WOMEN-ORIENTED) THAT DEPICT REALISTIC RELATIONSHIPS, AND MANY OTHER SUBGENRES, SUCH AS ISEKAI, MECHA, CYBERPUNK, SLICE OF LIFE, AND OTHERS. THERE ARE ALSO ANIME THAT ARE DESIGNED FOR A GENERAL AUDIENCE, SUCH AS THE STUDIO GHIBLI FILMS BY HAYAO MIYAZAKI, WHICH WERE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED BOTH IN JAPAN AND ABROAD. THEY OFTEN FEATURED COMPLEX PLOTS, DEEPER PHILOSOPHICAL MEANING, AND STUNNING GRAPHICS THAT SEAMLESSLY COMBINED TRADITIONAL JAPANESE ELEMENTS WITH AN EXPLORATION OF UNIVERSAL VALUES. ANIMATED FILMS PRODUCED IN THE 90S, SUCH AS SPIRITED AWAY, MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO, AND PRINCESS MONONOKE , BECAME THE FIRST ANIME TO GAIN CRITICAL ACCLAIM OUTSIDE JAPAN, WINNING NUMEROUS ACCOLADES, INCLUDING ACADEMY AWARDS. AT THE SAME TIME, TELEVISION SHOWS SUCH AS NEON GENESIS EVANGELION , COWBOY BEBOP , AND GHOST IN THE SHELL WERE BREAKING NEW GROUND, DEPICTING FUTURISTIC AND OFTEN EXISTENTIAL THEMES, SUCH AS HUMAN EXISTENCE. IN THE LATE 1990S AND EARLY 2000S, ANIME GAINED NEW GLOBAL POPULARITY DUE IN PART DUE TO THE CARTOON NETWORK’S TOONAMI BLOCK, WHICH SHOWCASED ICONIC ANIME SERIES SUCH AS DRAGON BALL Z, NARUTO, SAILOR MOON, AND POKÉMON . THIS SPARKED A WORLDWIDE RISE IN ANIME FANS THAT CONTINUES TO THIS DAY, WITH CONVENTIONS, COSPLAY, FAN-ARTIST CONTENT, AND VOICE ACTING COMMUNITIES FILLING THE DEMAND FOR ANIME-RELATED CONTENT. APART FROM BEING A UNIQUE PIECE OF ENTERTAINMENT, ANIME REPRESENTS JAPANESE CULTURE AND PHILOSOPHY IN MANY WAYS, DEPICTING THEMES THAT ARE CLOSE TO THE COUNTRY’S HEART, SUCH AS SHINTO NATURE ANIMISM, BUDDHIST TEACHINGS, WARTIME TRAUMA, AND THE LEGACY OF THE ATOMIC BOMB, AS WELL AS THEMES OF RAPID MODERNIZATION AND URBANIZATION. THE PRODUCTION PROCESS OF ANIME IS ALSO FASCINATING, AS IT OFTEN REQUIRES TALENTED ARTISTS TO PERFORM HUNDREDS OF HOURS OF PAINSTAKING WORK OF DRAWING AND SCANNING SEPARATE ANIMATION FRAMES, ADDING TO THE DETAIL AND EXPRESSIVENESS OF HAND-DRAWN ANIMATION. COMBINED WITH MODERN COMPUTER-GENERATED GRAPHICS AND SOUNDTRACKS, IT CREATES A UNIQUE AESTHETIC THAT PUTS ANIME LEAGUES AHEAD OF OTHER ANIMATED SHOWS AND FILMS. THE RISE OF DIGITAL MEDIA AND STREAMING HAS ALSO CONTRIBUTED TO THE INCREASED POPULARITY OF THE ART STYLE AS MAJOR COMPANIES SUCH AS CRUNCHYROLL, NETFLIX, AND HULU HAVE INVESTED HEAVILY INTO SUBTITLING AND DISTRIBUTING ANIME FILMS AND TELEVISION SHOWS WORLDWIDE. AS A RESULT, THERE IS NOW AN EVEN GREATER APPETITE FOR ANIME, WITH FILMS SUCH AS DEMON SLAYER: MUGEN TRAIN AND YOUR NAME BREAKING BOX OFFICE RECORDS EVERY YEAR.

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