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Japanese animation has quickly become an international craze and continues to grow with each passing year. It’s from the sensational anime market’s ever-growing world impact that term “Otaku” was derived and incorporated; the coined loanword that fans choose to identify themselves by.

Once thought to be a uniquely Japanese form of animation, anime has quickly spread across the globe and become an internationally recognized art form with a rabid following and loyal fans, hailing from every country. Anime has inspired new forms of media and art and reinvented old ones.

Perhaps the greatest intrigue that Japanese Animation have to offer is its unique art form and style. Using a mix of painted backgrounds and drawn characters, anime brings a foreign medley of artistic doctrines into a singular form of media. With outlandish plot devices and artistic sequences and a fast-paced animation style, anime brings fresh and fun styles to western animation.

Dating back to as early as the 1930’s, Japanese animation has come a long way. What started as short films and movies in black and white quickly took on a popular artistic edge. After seeing the success of Disney’s animated films in the 1960’s Japanese animation took a turn to adapting itself to more modern animation techniques. By the 1970’s a surging growth in animation swept over Japan and by the 1980’s the animation industry was booming. As of the year 2000 anime had forged a definitive place in the world’s animation industry.

One of the greatest allures of anime is the unique art forms and styles that had been recently unseen by western culture. With a unique blend of painted backgrounds and drawn characters and often fast, unnatural movements the spectacle that anime delivers is unreal. Featuring sometimes-disproportionate character models and outlandish artistic devices and sequences the cultural impact of anime is vast and sprawling.

The plots of most anime series are varied and culturally relevant. Many anime series take place in a modern setting but with fantasy elements. In the Japanese culture Shinto religious beliefs have continued even into the modern day and have provided a surreal backdrop to even the most realistic plots and settings.

The most devoted and obsessed fans of Free Manga usually refer to themselves as “Otaku”, a loanword from the Japanese language which is used to describe a level of fandom and interest that is taken to an extreme. Affectionately embracing the title, fans eagerly take to the term “Otaku” with pride and dedication.

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