Sunday, 16 February 2014
Children's ANIME And Manga - Specifics and examples:- The very first anime were related to such genre. This genre started in the late 19th century with the production of small, approximately 15 page long comicsin magazines, targeting both boys and girls. These short manga were created as a part of Meijiera's attempt to encourage literacy amongst Japanese children and youth. Children's anime and manga can be divided into four categories. First category is the anime and manga adaptations of the Western legends, tales etc. For example, World Masterpiece Theater. Those works can be quickly understood by non-Japanese viewers. Most of them are TV series. Despite them being popular, they aren't particularly helpful for understanding Japanese anime specifics. They are being made by examples of classical American or Soviet cartoons, respectively treating the spirit and fabula of the adopted work. The second category is unique to Japanand is not readily understood by non-Japanese viewers. These are manga adaptations and originalworks. They can exploit the language humour and contain the references to the Japanese reality. However, it has similar works in American animation, like South Parkor The Simpsons, but they are aimed towards older audience. Example of such works is Chibi Maruko-chan. If look on the storyline, these works contain shounen elements. Third category are cute anime popular amongst girls. For example, Hello Kitty or Bottle Fairy. Another category that is closer to shouneninc ludes Pokemon. These shows have a connection with popular video game and toymarkets, and have the best commercial success. Today there are magazines such as Coro Coro Comic, first published by Shogakukan, which targets boys audience, especially in elementary school. There is also Kodansha's Comic Bonbon, which also published children's manga. Both of these magazines are released monthly in Japan. Popular children's manga also is reinvented as animeand is accompanied by a plethora or merchandise. For example, Sonic X has its video game franchise for Nintendo console. Despite its being aimed at children, children's anime and manga is also being popular amongst older audience. Similarly, shōjoanime like Tokyo Mew Mew or Shugo Charaare also popular amongst younger audience
Children's ANIME And Manga:- Children's manga (Kodomomuke manga) and children's anime (kodomomuke anime), are Japanese terms which literally mean " manga (or " anime", respectively) directed towards children". Children's manga are also known by the word "Kodomo", or "child". These works are noted for stories that are often very moralistic, teaching children how to behave as good and considerate people and helping them to stay on the right path in life. The episodes are generally stand alone and non-episodic in order to appeal to a child. Doraemon by Fujiko F. Fujio is one of the most notable examples for this manga/anime genre.
Saturday, 15 February 2014
Let's Find Out More About Toei Animation, The Company Who produced the first color anime feature filmin 1958 Toei Animation:- Toei Animation Co., Ltd.(Tōei Animēshon Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese animation studio owned by Toei Company, Ltd.The studio was founded in 1948 asJapan Animated Films(, Nihon Dōga Eiga, often shortened to Nichidō Eiga). In 1956, Toei purchased the studio and it was reincorporated under its current name. Over the years, the studio has created a large number of TV series, movies, and adapted many Japanese comics by renowned authors to animated series, many popular worldwide. Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata, Leiji Matsumotoand Yoichi Kotabehave all worked with the company in the past. Toei is a shareholder in the Japanese anime satellite televisionnetwork, Animax, along with other noted anime studios and production enterprises such as Sunrise, TMS Entertainmentand Nihon Ad Systems Inc. The company headquarters are located in the Ohizumi Studio in Nerima, Tokyo. Until 1998, the company was known asToei Doga(Tōei Dōga Kabushiki-gaisha ?) (although even at that time the company's formal English name was "Toei Animation Co., Ltd."), with "dōga" being the native Japanese word for "animation" which was widely used until the 1970s. Their mascot is the cat Pero, from the company's 1969 film adaptationof Puss in Boots. Toei Animation produced the anime versions of works by many legendary manga artists, including Go Nagai, Eiichiro Oda, Shotaro Ishinomori, Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro, Takehiko Inoue, Mitsuteru Yokoyama, Masami Kurumada, Akira Toriyama, Leiji Matsumoto and Naoko Takeuchi. In addition, the studio helped propel the popularity of the magical girland Super Robot genres of anime; among Toei's most legendary and trend-setting TV series include the first magical-girl anime series, Mahoutsukai Sallythe anime adaptation of Mitsuteru Yokoyama's manga of the same name, and Go Nagai's Mazinger Z, animated adaptation of his manga, which set the standard for Super Robot anime for years to come. Although Toei Company usually lets Toei Animation handle its official animation works, on occasion they may hire other companies to provide animation on their behalf, such as Sunrise for the Robot Romance Trilogy, Toei Company handled the overall production, but the animation work went to Sunrise instead. Anime created by Toei Animation that have won the AnimageAnime Grand Prix award have been Galaxy Express 999 in 1981, Saint Seiyain 1987, and Sailor Moonin 1992. In addition to producing anime for domestic release in Japan, Toei Animation also provided animation work for several American box office motion pictures and television series for US companies, dating back as far as the 1960s, but they mostily provided outsourced production work during the 1980s.
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