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Japanese Anime History
With the U.S. occupation at the end of World War II had many Japanese artists influenced contact with Western culture and American pop culture, designers began in the early career with the comics and cartoons in its modern form to know. There were traders, the roles of American movies, Disney cartoons, and other smuggled.
Among the most important artists involved in this technique were, Osamu Tezuka and Shotaro Ishinomori Leiji Matsumoto. In 1950, the media, which was influenced from the West, began many artists and studios for experimental animation film projects to be developed.
By the time the manga was king of media pioneer Anime success born Hakujaden (The Legend of White Snake) Release 22 October 1958, the first production in commercial circulation published in the Toei Animation, the animation department Toei Company and manga calendar. Astro Boy eventually became a starter for the largest industry in the world of animation, also winning the American public. Tezuka was an idol in Japan and its popularity gave him money to invest in their own production company, Mushi Productions. Other manufacturers have invested in this new industry was born and anime classics like Night Man, Super Dynamo (Paa Man), but still precarious, with few resources, unlike American animations.
Anime with children, girls, young people and the giant robots kept pace with the number of weekly series in 1970. At that time, started Tatsunoko Productions, creators of “Speed ??Racer”, a title called Gatchaman success (in the West, Battle of the Planets).
From that moment anime industry only grow with much success in the 80s as a series Macross (in the west, Robotech), 90, Saint Saiya (in the west, Knights of the Zodiac), and in 2000 expanded with many series, comprising millions of Fans from all over the world. If looking for book catalog, just follow the link.