Anime History

The anime genre started in the 20th century with the Japanese experimenting with the western style of animation. With this the first widley popular anime was Osamu Tezuka's, Astro Boy (in 1963). Anime is besically Japanese animation and created from the western animation and addapted into other genres such as mecha. Anime are usually adapted from a manga of the same name such as Astro Boy being adapted from the manga called Astro Boy. Some fallow the story in the manga while other deviate from them and creat their own stroy such as Fullmetal Alchemist Anime was not only limited to series such as Astro Boy but it also had some succsess as animated films such a Spirited Away.




The first volume of the Astro Boy manga