Crespo, Evolution of Anime

Today I went to an Anime seminar given by a Japanese and Biology mayor student.
He started by saying one of the most known quotes in anime, which said: " Im living in the dream I'll never wake up from". This quote is from cowboy bebop.

He then started explaining what is anime?
-According to the Anime News Network anime is an animation of Japanese origins or animation of a particular style.
His definition for anime is: animation of Japanese origins, in which characters develop.

After this he started explaining Anime Aspects of Focus
-Art: most apparent characteristic to track change in time
-Music: when you listen to music, you return somewhere
-Plot: basically what makes an anime

He then went to the History of anime
-The first animation to appear in Japan was Momotaro in 1995. This anime was meant to be propaganda for World War II and boost moral.
After this came Astro Boy the first animation series created by Osami Teska, who is considered the father of anime.
He then showed us the intro for the original Astro Boy, in which the music was very patriotic.

Then he discused Mizuki Shigeru, who was the first person to have his manga made into an anime.

After this we went into the 1980, which was the Golden Age of anime.
-Color is introduced
-The genre Mecha was introduced with Gundam
-Plots become more complicated
-Music is used more; this was introduced in the anime Maccro

But the most important thing that happened in this age was the appereance of Studio Ghibli and the most important anime director Miyazaki.
He made some of the best anime movies of all time. Some of these are:
-Grave of the Fireflies
-Princess Mononoke
-Spirited Away
-Ponyo
and many others.

 wikipedia.org

We finally talked about the 1990's, which was the time in which many genres appeared.
-sports genre
-Psychological genre (Evangelion)
-Detective genre (Detective Conan)
-Sci-fi genre (Cowboy Bebop)

And the thing I love most about this era is the creation of Mahou Shoujo's. These were shown and perfected in two shows: Sailor Moon and Card Captor Sakura.

I learned that anime although is a form of entertainment it has very deep root on Japan economy, culture, music and art.

 myanimelist.net