The series consists of 12 episodes in total, split across three Blu-ray and DVD volumes, each containing four episodes. The director of the series is Nobuyoshi Nagayama (famous for Love FLOPS), and the script is written by Toko Machida. The ...Read more
Alright, let’s roll this back to the very start—think of it like the grandparent of anime. The earliest commercial Japanese anime didn’t just appear out of nowhere; it started in the 1910s–1920s. The first recognized commercial anime is usually credited to “Namakura Gatana” (“The Dull Sword”), madeRead more
Alright, let’s roll this back to the very start—think of it like the grandparent of anime. The earliest commercial Japanese anime didn’t just appear out of nowhere; it started in the 1910s–1920s.
The first recognized commercial anime is usually credited to “Namakura Gatana” (“The Dull Sword”), made in 1917 by Jun’ichi Kōuchi. It was a tiny silent short, about 4 minutes long, basically a funny little story about a samurai with a dull sword. Super simple animation, but it was sold to theaters, which makes it “commercial.”
Before that, Japan had some experimental animations, but they were mostly private or made for research. Once filmmakers realized they could sell short animated films to theaters, the commercial anime industry was technically born.
From there, the style and techniques slowly evolved over the decades, leading to the bigger, more polished works of the 1930s and 1940s, and eventually Tezuka in the 1960s who basically gave anime the look we know today.
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Anime is basically sorted in three simple ways: who it’s for, what it’s about, and how you watch it. Who it’s for: Kids? (Pokemon, Doraemon) Teens? (Naruto, Sailor Moon) Adults? (Ghost in the Shell, Attack on Titan) What it’s about (genre): Action, adventure, or fighting Romance and drama Fantasy, sRead more
Anime is basically sorted in three simple ways: who it’s for, what it’s about, and how you watch it.
So basically, anime is super flexible. You can have a teen action show with romance, or an adult sci-fi thriller with crazy visuals. That mix of who, what, and how is what makes anime feel so diverse and fun.
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