Japanese Animation

1. Japanese Animation By Kimberly Kulkovit

2. Table of Contents • Animation Timeline • What is Japanese Animation • First Feature Anime Film • First Talkie Anime • Manga • American Protest • Action • Adventure • Comedy • Slice of life • Drama • Fantasy • Horror • Romance • Melancholic • Science Fiction • Cyber Punk • Thriller/Suspense • Psychological • Spirited Away • Sailor Moon R

3. Acknowledgements • Separation of genders • For the male audience • Shounen • Hentai • For the female audience • Shojo • Josei

4. Animation timeline • 1914 -  Cartoonists were among the first Japanese artists to experiment with animated motion pictures. • 1918 - Momotar by Kitayama Seitaro became Japan's first world wide success.  However, the manga industry was still growing slowly and had a long way to go. • 1932 - Before the WWII, Seitaro released the anime, Chikara To Onna No Yononoka. • 1941- The Japanese government used cartoonist to make comic strips with propaganda to use against their enemies. • 1947 - After World War II, Osamu Tezuka became a cartoonist and released his first work Shintakarajima (known in English as New Treasure Island). • 1951 - Osamu Tezuka created the milestone manga, Tetsuwan Atom or Astro Boy, as it was known in the US.  As a result, years later he became a pioneer in anime, and was the man responsible for the success of anime and manga worldwide. • 1956 - The production company, Toei Animation, was founded by Hiroshi Okawa and released its first feature, The Tale of the White Serpent. • 1958 - Tezuka furthers his talents entering the anime world.

5. 1961 - Tezuka founded the Osamu Tezuka Production Animation Department, which eventually became Mushi Productions. • 1962 - Manga Calendar was the very first anime to be aired on television. • 1963 - Tezuka's Astro Boy premiered on NBC stations. • 1970's- Various "mecha" anime (anime with giant robots) took over.  Among them were G-Force, Battle of the Planets, Great Mazinger, and Star Blazers. • 1979 - Mobile Suit Gundam, the originial version of the current anime Gundam Wing premiered and was a huge success which turned into a nation wide obsession.  As a result, the series was released into three theatrical films. • 1986 - The artist, Akira Toriyama, released the series Dragon Ball, which became one of Japan's most popular anime shows.  Later, the series went on  forming Dragon Ball Z and Dragon Ball GT.

6. 1988 - The world receives a blast with the graphically violent and gruesome anime, Akira, which was an international hit. • 1995 - The girls anime, Sailor Moon, was aired in the US. • 1997- Cartoon Network launched Toonami, a segment that showed non-American cartoons which later on proved themselves to be more than worthy of watching in the US. • 1999 - Pokémon was released in the US and it hit the country by storm!  Sometime during the same year, Miyazaki released the movie, Princess Mononoke with help from Disney. • 2000 - Gundam Wing, the anime descended from Mobile Suit Gundam, was released.  Along with it came Tenchi Muyo, Card Captors, Blue Submarine 6, and the short lived Vision of Escaflowne. • 2001 - Outlaw Star, the most current anime to be aired in the US, is showing on Cartoon Netwrok's Toonami.

7. What is Japanese Animation • The earliest known Japanese animation dates to 1917, and many original Japanese animations were produced in the ensuing decades, the characteristic anime style developed in the 1960s—notably with the work of Osamu Tezuka—and became known outside Japan in the 1980s. • Anime, like manga, has a large audience in Japan and recognition throughout the world. Distributors can release anime via television broadcasts, directly to video, or theatrically, as well as online. • Both hand-drawn and computer-animated anime exist. It is used in television series, films, video, video games, commercials, and internet-based releases, and represents most, if not all, genres of fiction. As the market for anime increased in Japan, it also gained popularity in East and Southeast Asia. Anime is currently popular in many different regions around the world.

8. The Oldest anime known in existence • The oldest known anime in existence first screened in 1917 – a two-minute clip of a samurai trying to test a new sword on his target, only to suffer defeat.Early pioneers included Shimokawa Oten, Jun'ichi Kouchi, and Seitarō Kitayama. • trailer

9. First feature anime film • The first feature length animated film was Momotaro's Divine Sea Warriors directed by Seo in 1945 with sponsorship by the Imperial Japanese Navy. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ne-0e6P4jo

10. First talkie anime • The first talkie anime was Chikara to Onna no Yo no Naka, produced by Masaoka in 1933. • It is considered a lost film since there is no recollection of the film. • The protagonist is a father of four children. His wife is 180 centimeters (5.9 ft) tall, and weighs 120 kilograms (260 lb) due to her incredibly large physique. Because he is constantly being henpecked at home, he becomes involved in an affair with a cute typist at his company and accidentally tells his wife about it while talking in his sleep. After obtaining additional evidence of the affair, she goes to confront both her husband and the typist at her husband's office.

11. Manga • Almost like comic books, they are the roots for anime and basically make the story which animators adapt. • animated filmmaking started in Europe and then the U.S. When it appeared in Japan, it became a huge phenomenon—so much so that after 1940, over 40% of all domestic films in Japan were animated films based on manga.

12. American protest • shows were edited to American standards (often with numerous episodes not even being released in the U.S.), broadcasters and pressure groups still complained about the violence present in these shows. • These protests resulted in a lull in bringing anime to American television for a number of years, although series and features were still being released in Japan and were wildly successful.  U.S. viewers didn’t get another look at anime until the late 1970’s, when 1972’s Kagaku Ninja Tai Gatchaman<

13. Action anime • Fullmmetal Alchemist: The conquer of Shamballa • Directed by Seiji Mizushima and written by ShoAikawa, • a continuation of the first Fullmetal Alchemist television series. The film follows the story of alchemist Edward Elric as he attempts to return to his homeworld, having lived for two years on Earth, which exists in a parallel universe to his own, while his younger brother Alphonse is equally determined to reunite with his brother by any means necessary. Edward's search attracts the attention of the Thule Society, which seeks to enter his homeworld, believing it to be Shamballa, in order to obtain new weapons to help them in an upcoming war. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_4nfoT93Rs

14. Adventure anime • My neighbor Totoro (1988) (classic) • Written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and produced by Studio Ghibli. • The film follows the two young daughters of a professor and their interactions with friendly wood spirits in postwar rural Japan. The film won the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize and the Mainichi Film Award for Best Film in 1988. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuLX50_5UAI&feature=related

15. Comedy anime • Summer Wars (2009) • Directed by MamoroHasoda and produced by Madhouse studios • The film tells the story of Kenji Koiso, a timid eleventh-grade math genius and is addicted to an online game named OZ along with his friend, Takashi Sakamura. He is taken to Ueda by twelfth-grade student Natsuki Shinohara to celebrate her great-grandmother's 90th birthday. He find out that he needs to pretend to be her fiance. However, he is falsely implicated in the hacking of a virtual world by an artificial intelligence. Kenji must repair the damage done to the virtual world and he must find a way to stop the artificial intelligence from causing any further damage • trailer

16. Slice of Life anime • 5 centimeters per Second (2007) • Directed by Makoto Shinkai • The movie talks about two childhood friends who are distant from each other. They soon come to find out that they love each other once they finally meet. A cherry blossom tree symbolizes their bond and the petals fall 5 centimeters per second. Throughout the film our main character, Takaki is tested with his power of love. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDBH4xCE9ys

17. Drama anime • The girl who leapt through time (2006)- classic • Directed by Mamoru Hosoda • Written by Satoko • Plot: A young girl named Makoto Koto who gains the power to time travel and finds out that her aunt has the same power. She, then, starts fixing everything with that power but only to find out that there is a consequence for it. • trailer

18. Fantasy anime • Ghost in the Shell (1995) • Directed by Mamoru Oshii . The studio is Production I.G. • A female cyborg cop and her partner hunt a mysterious and powerful hacker called the Puppet Master. • The year is 2029. The world has become intensively information oriented and humans are well-connected to the network. Crime has developed into a sophisticated stage by hacking into the interactive network. To prevent this, Section 9 is formed. These are cyborgs with incredible strengths and abilities that can access any network on Earth. Written by L.H. Wong • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpls4UROLw4

19. Horror anime • Ergo proxy (2006) • Directed by ShukōMurase and produced by Manglobe • Tens of thousands of years ago humans destroyed the atmosphere, lost 85% of the population and had to evacuate Earth. In a hasty attempt to insure the survival of humanity, a human regeneration project was left behind under the care of an unstable management system. In one of the remaining pieces of that project called Romdo City, the proud and cool-minded Re-l Mayer works as an inspector for the Citizen's Intelligence Bureau. During the process of an investigation she meets the earnest and unassuming Vincent Law. Soon after Re-l has a disturbing encounter with a monstrous intruder in her home. Unable to shake the strange feelings she experienced, Re-l is drawn into the mystery and terrible fate of the Proxies with which she and Vincent are somehow connected. Together, Re-l and Vincent work to unravel the mystery of Vincent's true identity, the fate of the Proxies and what their future holds now that Earth's atmosphere has finally recovered. • It features a combination of 2D digital cel animation, 3D computer modeling, and digital special effects.

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21. Romance anime • Fruits Basket (2001) • Directed by AkitaroDaichi and produced by Studio DEEN • The plot is mostly about a young teenage girl named Tohro Honda who is an orphan but tries to get he best out of life. She is a cheerful and optimistic girl and because of her personality she refuses to “burden” her aunt, grandfather, or friends for taking her in. One day, while walking to school a man named Shigure and Yuki Soma find out that she lives in a tent in the forest which is near their house, so they hospitalize her. After living with them for a while, she finds out that the Soma family has the curse of the zodiac and if they are ever hugged by the opposite sex, they turn into the animal they were born with. Deep feelings of love, dismay, grief, and mourning fill this anime with a lot of deep moral messages for all ages. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKpqU-AxB1o

22. Meloncholic anime • Angel Beats (2010) • Directed by SaijiKishi and produced by P.A. Works and Aniplex. Story was conceived by Jun Maeda • Our main protagonist, Otanashi is suddenly awakened to find himself in a world of disaster and rebellion towards god. The leader, Yuri leads the SSS to destroying Angel, a girl who is also a person like them unlike the NPC’s (unreal humans)- someone already dead. He finds out that the high school they all live on acts as a purgatory. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc5GCDSgWQI

23. Science Fiction • Paprika (2006) • This film was directed by Satoshi Kon, it was produced and distributed by Sony Pictures Classics • This movie’s main character influenced Ellen Page to do his story, Inception, and therefore, hit the screens with the help of Noland. • trailer • Paprika is mostly about a research psychologist who uses a device that permits therapists to help enter the patients dreams.

24. Cyber Punk • Akira (early anime and classic- 1998) • Directed by Katsuhiro Otomo, written by Otomo and Izo Hashimoto • Produced by Ryōhei Suzuki and ShunzōKatō • The film depicts a dystopian version of the city of Tokyo in the year 2019, with cyberpunk tones. The plot focuses on teenage biker Tetsuo Shima (Nozomu Sasaki) and his psychic powers, and the leader of his biker gang, ShotaroKaneda (Mitsuo Iwata). Kaneda tries to prevent Tetsuo from releasing the imprisoned psychic Akira. While most of the character designs and settings were adapted from the original 2182-page manga epic, the restructured plot of the movie differs considerably from the print version, pruning much of the last half of the manga. The film became a hugely popular cult film and is widely considered to be a landmark in Japanese animation-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_%28film%29

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26. Suspense/Thriller/Mystery • Death Note (aired in Japan on October 3, 2006) • Directed by Tetsuro Araki and animated by Madhouse • Manga (writer-TsugumiOhba ~ artist: Takeshi Obata • The series Death Note centers around a high school student named Light Yagami who discovers a supernatural notebook that allows him to kill anyone by writing the victim's name while picturing his or her face. The plot follows his attempts to become God by creating a New World cleansed of evil, using the book; the complex conflict between himself and all those who try to stop him trailer Live-action film http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaYRRj2rphg

27. Psychological anime • Serial Experiments Lain (broadcasted on July-September 1998) • Directed by Ryutaro Nakamura • Serial Experiments Lain describes "the Wired" as the sum of human communication networks or more similar to the internet. Our protagonist, Lain one day finds a strange message in her e-mail and finds out that it is from a girl who had committed suicide. The girl tells her that she has found god and Lain tries more to notice the truth between reality and her mind. She has a borderline personality disorder in both the wired and in real life. We then travel through her experience to find out if she is god or if she found god. The storyline introduces a theory in which the Earth’s magnetic field controls long distance communications. If this link was created, the network would become equivalent to Reality as the general consensus of all perceptions and knowledge. The thin line between what is real and what is possible would then begin to blur. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDAeOatiooM -opening • trailer

28. Classic: • Spirited Away (2001) • Directed by Hayao Miyazaki • Produced by Toshio Suzuki • The film tells the story of Chihiro Ogino, a sullen ten-year-old girl who, while moving to a new neighborhood, enters an alternate reality inhabited by spirits and monsters. After her parents are transformed into pigs by the witch Yubaba, Chihiro takes a job working in Yubaba's bathhouse to find a way to free herself and her parents and escape to the human world. • trailer

29. Classic: • Sailor Moon R (1993) • Directed by KunihikoIkuhara and produced by Iriya Azuma • The continuation of the Sailor moon series which aired in America and became popular • Fiore, an old friend from Mamoru's lonely childhood who couldn't survive on Earth, returns with flowers he promised Mamoru. But, the evil flower Kisenian overpowered Fiore's weak mind and manipulated him into spreading Kisenian's seeds over Earth in an effort to drain energy from everyone on Earth. Kisenian manages to do this because he's deceived Fiore using Fiore's long-lost friendship with Mamoru. It is up to Sailor Moon and the Sailor Senshi to stop Kisenian.- IMDB.com • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiGc5VLTg9M

30. Classic: Pokémon: the first movie (1998) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl5RkEpYey8 • Directed by Kunihiku Yuyama and produced by Choji Yoshikawa, Tomoyuki Igarashi, and Takeout Mori • Plot: Mewtwo is created by the rarest Pokémon, mew but finds out that he is only a guinea pig in a laboratory so he destroys it. Later on, the team rocket uses the Pokémon to their own advantage and finds out of their wrongdoings. Mewtwo begins to think that all humans are evil and sets out to clone all Pokémon into becoming his army against humans. Mewtwo finally learns that not all humans are evil.

31. References • http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Anime_and_manga_by_genre • http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailor_Moon#Anime • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon:_The_First_Movie • http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106417/plotsummary • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_(film) • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirited_Away • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruits_Basket#Anime • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergo_Proxy • http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=5115 • http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113568/plotsummary • http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0983213/ • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Neighbor_Totoro • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl_Who_Leapt_Through_Time_(2006_film) • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_Wars • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fullmetal_Alchemist_the_Movie:_Conqueror_of_Shamballa • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Fantasy_anime_and_manga • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_anime • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imokawa_Mukuzo_Genkanban_no_Maki