America is being introduced to a relatively new form of art characterized by exquisite animation, interesting story lines, and fantasy stories alien to mainstream American culture. In case you have heard of it, it’s called anime, and it has a language of its own. Children love it, so much so that its techniques have been copied by American animated film producers, with culturally adjusted themes that have been deemed to make anime more acceptable to parents. Anime has both a light side and a dark side, although we generally consider cartoons to be a free harmless, mindless babysitter for our kids. Which explains something about some of the television and cable shows and themes inundating our living rooms, not mention our kid’s rooms, today. Anime is a great form of entertainment, and will only get better in the coming years.
Here’s an article that will tell you a little bit more about Anime and Manga, two terms that have made their way into our language in the past decade or so. You might learn something interesting if you read it.
