Anime Movies, Series, OVA — Anime Love!

Welcome to the very first post of animemovielove.com! Anime has come a long way from its origins in the early 1900s. It has transformed into a culture (as opposed to subculture) in itself and has gained a significant following all over the world.

The word Anime was derived from the “abbreviated pronunciation” of the Japanese word for “animation” (that is according to Wikipedia) and it encompasses every work of Japanese animation ever since its very first conception during the turn of the 20th century.

The Japanese animation industry or Anime has evolved into a diverse organism and have been incorporated in every form of media— From television to print, Anime has found its way to all aspects of media and story-telling. There are Anime movies shown in almost every genres of fiction: fantasy, horror, comedy, action, sports, and yes, even porn.

Today animation is done mostly through the use of computers but there are still those that do it the old-fashioned hand-drawn way. Japanese animation has developed its own distinct style that sets it apart from its western counterparts.

This distinctive style can be partly attributed to one of Anime’s pioneers known as Osamu Tezuka who started doing animated features in the 1960s. Tezuka pioneered much of the characteristics still seen in the Japanese animation of today but he did so unwittingly because he merely “adapted and simplified many Disney animation techniques (which were popular in his time) to reduce costs and limit the number of frames in productions.” (Source: Wikipedia)

So basically, Tezuka set the style that wonderfully set Anime apart from the rest of the world due to financial concerns.

In future posts, I will be featuring more of Osamu Tezuka and his work that influenced the future of this wonderful works of art.

This blog is dedicated to this art and to all die hard fans out there who live and breath Anime.