A Concise History of Anime: The First Anime, Part I

January 3, 2011 by ChrisG No Comments

Some folks may surmise that anime began in the 1970s or 80s—but, sadly, they would be wrong. Western culture’s acceptance of this timeless Eastern art form occurred at the heels of some revolutionary advances in animation technology and a more tolerant west. In fact, anime has been produced in Japan for a nearly a century. [...]

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A Blogger’s Preface to “A Concise History of Anime”

by ChrisG No Comments

I can remember living in a house in the Dallas/Fort Worth metro-plex, when I was in middle school, off for the summer, and watching Cartoon Network’s late night programming. They featured off-beat animated toons like Space Ghost: Coast to Coast and some (now unremembered) Batman spin-off show. After those, a Japanese animated cartoon came on [...]

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