Concept in Definition ABC
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Florencia Ucha, in Jan. 2009
On Japanese soil and now thanks to the incredible and fabulous repercussion that the art has had passing the borders of Japan, the term animeIt is used interchangeably to designate both the cartoons that have Japanese origin and the technique animation that produces them on Japanese soil.
Traditionally and since its birth in the early twentieth century, anime has been produced by hand, although of course and as a consequence of the innovation technology that has been in this field in recent years, today the computer has become another of the essential and most used means for the production of any Japanese anime.
When I was talking about the fabulous repercussion that Japanese animation has had in recent years, I did not I only include the non-Japanese public to which it reaches and it has reached this in its various modalities (movie theater, teavee, DVD) and has been interested in it to the point of fanaticism, but in addition the anime has tried and traveled all the genres there have been and for having, that is, not only remained in the traditional task of animation to entertain the little ones, but crossed the barrier that Western animation has not explored or opened much yet.
An animation produced in Japan or anime, presents, both in the plot and in the appearance physics of the characters that star in it, quite a few differences from the animation provided by other animation "tanks" such as Disney or the Spielberg Dreamworks company.
Regarding the stories that the anime chooses to tell mostly and as I pointed out above, they are not limited to providing a entertainment child with colors and characters that are characterized by their sympathy and tenderness, but the complex plots that address issues that can range from existentialism, friendship, sex, to political issues and scientific. Although reality may be the engine of some of these stories, generally, fantasy and the supernatural are the agents that motivate and trigger conflicts in Japanese anime.
And the other pillar that characterizes and distinguishes this art: characters, always and with the minimum variations that will be determined by the time and the draftsman, are characterized by the following: the eyes are large, oval, well defined and highlighted with colors such as pink, red, green, purple, apart from the common brown and blue, hair also comes in all colors and sizes, bodies, although they respect the proportions of the human body, usually be more statuesque and a bit more exaggerated and the faces are characterized by small mouths and noses and end in the shape of a pentagon.
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