On Japanese soil and now thanks to the incredible and fabulous repercussion that art has had beyond the borders of Japan, the term animeIt is used interchangeably to designate both the cartoons that have Japanese origin and the animation technique that produces them in Japan..
Traditionally and since its birth in the early twentieth century, anime has been produced by hand, although of course and as a consequence of technological innovation that has occurred in this field in recent years, today the computer has become another of the essential and most used media for the production of any Japanese anime.
When I spoke of the fabulous repercussion that Japanese animation has had in recent years, I not only include non-Japanese audiences to which it reaches and it has reached this in its various modalities (cinema, TV, DVD) and has been interested in the to the point of fanaticism, but also the anime has tried and traveled all the genres that have existed and to have, that is, not only did it remain in the traditional task of animation of entertaining the little ones, but also crossed the barrier that western animation hasn't explored or opened much yet.
An animation produced in Japan or anime, presents, both in the plot and in the physical appearance of the characters that star in it, quite a few differences with respect to the animation provided by other animation "tanks" such as Disney or Spielberg's company Dreamworks.
Regarding the stories that the anime chooses to tell mostly and as I pointed out above, They are not limited to providing children's entertainment with colors and characters that are characterized by their sympathy and tenderness, but rather complex plots that address problems that can range from existentialism, friendship, sex, to political and scientific issues. 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, the hair is also of all colors and sizes, the bodies, although they respect the proportions of the human body, they are usually 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.
