Top 11 American Anime. Japanese vs. American Animation. Memories of television programming from my youth consists mostly of great educational shows like Sesame Street and The Friendly Giant, but also consists of classic 1980s cartoons like Transformers and G.I. Joe. Mention these two cartoons to any other guy in their late teens or early twenties and their face will light up, reminiscing on the great fun they had growing up with these action/adventure shows. However, ask any adult in their forties or fifties about these shows and they'll answer with "All that violence on TV... what a shame. " or "Sorry, I didn't watch any of those kiddie shows. " These are typical responses in America, where animation has evolved into an industry aimed, more or less, at children.
In Japan, an entirely different result has occurred in the evolution of the Japanese animation industry, where the main audience consists of anyone aged from one to one hundred. And there is one thing prevalent in almost all American animation Ò it is episodic. Bibliography. Top 100 Anime List. List of anime in the United States. History of Anime. A Brief HISTORY of ANIME Primer by CosmoP Justy(originally written as a study guide for tour guides for the My Reality exhibit at the Tampa Museum of Art.) Anime (ah-NEE-may), more commonly referred to as Japanese animation, has its roots in manga (MAHN-ga), or Japanese comics. Manga developed over hundreds of years, starting as pictures drawn on temple walls, then on wooden blocks, and finally as woodblock prints with captions collected in books. In time, the captions became stories and the art became sequential.
By the early 20th century, manga had become the main form of literature for most of Japanese society. At the same time, 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. When television became a popular entertainment medium in Japan, animation naturally became a large part of the programming schedule. Anime.com March 2012: Our Tenth Anniversary. Anime News Network.