Anime History

With  the U.S. occupation at the end of World War II, many Japanese artists  had contact with Western culture and influenced by U.S. pop culture,  designers in the beginning of career began to know the comics and  cartoons in its modern form. There were traders who smuggled rolls of  American movies, Disney cartoons and others.Among the major  artists who were involved with this art, were Osamu Tezuka, Shotaro  Ishinomori and Leiji Matsumoto. These three men, were later enshrined in  the manga market. In the 1950s, influenced by the media that came from  the West, many artists and studios began to develop projects for  experimental animation.By the time that manga was the king of  media born the pioneer anime of success: Hakujaden (The Legend of White  Snake) premiered on October 22, 1958, the first production released in  commercial circuit of Toei Animation, the animation division of Toei  Company and Manga Calendar. Especially the first anime made for  television, broadcast by TBS with studio production Otogi on June 25,  1962, which lasted two years.Soon after, on January 1, 1963,  Astro Boy was released, based on the manga by Osamu Tezuka, as with the  aesthetic character with big eyes and spiky hair coming from the printed  version. Astro Boy eventually became a starter for the largest industry  in the world of animation, also winning the U.S. public. Tezuka was an  idol in Japan and its popularity gave him money to invest in their own  production company, Mushi Productions. Other producers have invested in  this new industry and was born anime classics like Eight Man, Super  Dynamo (Paa Man), but still precarious and with few resources, unlike  American animations.In 1967, there were four films and fourteen  animated series in Japan, including The Princess Knight, Fantomas and  Speed Racer, the first with major international projection.Anime  with children, girls, young people and about giant robots kept pace with  the number of weekly series during the 1970s. At the time, Tatsunoko  Production, the creators of Speed Racer, launched a title of success  called Gatchaman (in the West, Battle of the Planets).From this  time animes Industry just grow up with a lot of series of success in  '80s, like Macross (in the West, Robotech), '90s, with Saint Saya (in  the West, Knights of the Zodiac) and in the years of 2000 with a lot of  advanced series that made millions of fans all over the world.