Anime is ... The best anime

Animated films have been created for over a century throughout the world. Some countries during this time have become real leaders and literally legislators in this branch of the entertainment industry, while others modestly and imperceptibly create their pictures and show the products of foreign producers. But there is in this bright painted universe a special case - anime. This word, in general, means "animated film", but throughout the world it is understood only by Japanese works of this genre. What did the cartoons from the Land of the Rising Sun conquer the world? Let's understand!

Short reference

Anime is, in fact, a Japanese derivative of animated films created in the West and in the US. The beginning of the history of this genre is associated with the first experiments of the directors of the Land of the Rising Sun at the beginning of the last century. Borrowing from the pioneers of some technologies and adding a bit of their traditions and features, manga authors created real masterpieces that could conquer the whole world in less than half a century.

Boys and girls, as well as their parents

Anime - this is drawn movies for any age category. In this vivid variety for themselves there will be interesting stories of children (such films are usually called kodomo) and adolescents. And for young people, anime is divided into several categories: shonen for children and shyojo for girls. They differ significantly. Kodomo tells simple simple stories about the adventures of small and funny characters. Teenage girl anime - about love and hate, tenderness and rudeness, beauty and fashion, mysticism and magic, in general, that is interesting to young women. Shoenen narrate about the life and exploits of various superheroes, warriors and real machos. In the anime for the guys, there are also attitudes and mysticism, but still the stories of battles and battles between positive and negative heroes, both people and representatives of other civilizations or just fictional characters , prevail .

Recently, more and more popular "adult" anime. These are painted stories, which are often in no way inferior in terms of their plot to feature-length feature films or serials. They reveal serious questions and topics, they make you think. There are pictures on an amateur - about same-sex relationships or with elements of "strawberry".

The best anime with success go to the cinemas all over the world and at box-office fees are not inferior to works of other genres. For example, "Spirited Away" by director Hayao Miyazaki, among other awards, received the Berlin Film Festival in 2002 as Best Picture and Oscar in 2003 as Best Animated Film, and his box office gross exceeded $ 250 million .

Bright appearance

Among other things, anime is also a complex system of graphical representation of people, their characters and emotions. It has its own characteristics and strict rules. First, the appearance of the heroes is always pronounced - the European section of huge eyes, borrowed from Disney's animation. And it's no accident! With the help of large eyes, the anime artists convey emotions and the character of the hero. It is noteworthy that the facial expressions of the characters are the same in all the paintings, which allows the viewer to easily determine what the hero thinks and what he feels, whether he is positive or negative, when viewing any film of this genre. The other facial features, as a rule, are poorly drawn and do not carry semantic load.

When asked what an anime is, many will say that these are cartoons in which the characters have big eyes and colored hair. And it will be true! The second distinguishing feature of these works are the curious hairstyles of the characters. They, as a rule, consist of strands, but the variety of their length and colors is amazing. And this too has its own meaning. Hairstyle and clothes allow you to literally determine at first glance the character and characteristics of the character. This is due primarily to the fact that the absolute majority of Japanese themselves from birth have dark hair, and their coloring or lightening by a conservative nation is perceived as a protest and a challenge to society.

Variety of formats

So what is an anime - a movie or a cartoon? In fact, it is impossible to answer this question unambiguously. The thing is that the anime is shot in different formats.

• The TV series is the most common. Multiseries stories about the life and adventures of the characters last from several issues to several hundred and are broadcasted on television.
• The film is a full-length film intended for shows, primarily in cinemas.
• OVA - works created specifically for sale on media, and, as a rule, are not broadcast anywhere.
• ONA - an anime that is filmed for distribution on the web. This is the newest format, which has not yet gained much popularity, but it has high hopes.

The plot is fascinating

Plots of paintings and serials of this genre are very diverse. Everyone can choose for themselves something to their liking. There are anime about love, friendship and betrayal, unusual phenomena, about aliens and technologies of the future, about battles and exploits of soldiers or whole armies. In general, historical, romantic, dramatic, thriller, mysticism, fantasy - everything, as in the usual world of full-length feature films and television series.

Animated Pictures (manga)

What is anime and manga? What are they different from and what do they have in common? These two concepts, in principle, are inseparable. Manga is a drawing of Japanese comics, which, as a rule, form the basis of anime. In rare cases, the opposite happens - the script of the cartoon is transferred to paper in the form of pictures. A special popularity of manga was found in Japan after the Second World War. Painted books were read by people of all ages, regardless of the position in society. Today, there are entire publishers and chain stores dealing exclusively with this direction of culture. Many young artists undergo long training and dream to leave their mark on the bookshelves as authors of the manga.

Watch, do not reconsider

It is believed that the best anime created by Osamu Tezuka and Hayao Miyazaki. These people laid the foundations and for the fans of the genre became legends and gods. However, today the list of anime and their famous authors is simply huge. There are works that are popular all over the world, and there are some that are known among certain layers of connoisseurs. Here is just a small list of anime that are worth seeing:

"The Tomb of the Fireflies" (directed by Isao Takahata); "Whisper of the Heart" (directed by Yoshifumi Kondo), "Elven Song" (directed by Mamoru Kanba, Sumio Watanabe, Akira Ivanga); "The King of Shamans" (directed by Mamoru Hosoda); "Princess Mononoke" (directed by Hayao Miyazaki); "Navshikaya from the Valley of the Winds" (directed by Hayao Miyazaki); "The Wind Strengthens" (directed by Hayao Miyazaki, "Tales of the Earthsea" (directed by Goro Miyazaki), "Cowboy Bebop" (directed by Sinichiro Watanabe, Hiroyuki Okiyura), "Spirited Away" (directed by Kirk Wise, Hayao Miyazaki) Ariatti from the Land of the Lilliputians "(directed by Hiromase Yonebayashi)," The Hobo Kensin "(directed by Kazuhiro Furuhasi) and many others.

In life, like in a movie ...

There are people in the world who not only know everything about the anime, but also literally live in this painted world. Young people in many countries, and especially, of course, in Japan, have created a whole cultural layer based on the subjects of their favorite films. Boys and girls put themselves contact lenses to convey the color of the eyes, shave and dye their hair in the most insane colors, apply complex make-up, sew to order or buy in specialized stores an exact copy of clothes, and some even do plastic surgeries to be maximally similar On their heroes. They have fun, make friends and quarrel, fall in love and build relationships, create families and give birth to children. In general, they do everything the same as ordinary young people around the world, only in their unusual style. What is the anime for them? It's not just cartoons, it's an entire universe, their life and the world. They absolutely do not know anything about reality and, in general, do not seek to know.