Anime through the Ages- Part One

Anime through the Ages -Part One

Anime is a relatively new phenomenon, having just been created within the 20th centaury. Animation in sprung up in Japan during the sixties, and was very similar to western cartoons. Some examples of sixties anime would be;

Astroboy, or Tetsuwan Atom as it was called in Japan, was created by Osamu Tezuka in 1963

and shown in black and white for the first time. During the 50’s Astroboy got its start as a manga, or comic.

Gigantor is when anime truly becomes anime, it has robots and Lasers, what more does an Otaku need?

The original series has 96 episodes, but when translated at least 44 episodes were dropped during the translation to english.

The animation was created by TCJ (Television Corporation of Japan ), which is now nonexistent, in 1968.