A Brief Introduction to Anime

Anime is the term that identifies cartoons of Japanese origin. Anime is an important and extensive source of entertainment in Japan, being a commercial entertainment product, cultural phenomenon, an art form, and at the same time a technological showcase. Anime is potentially aimed at all audiences, from children, adolescents, and adults. Anime segregate its content using a set specialize classification basically taken from the existing classifications in "manga" (Japanese for the comic in general Word.) (Outside of Japan, is used exclusively to refer to the comic from Japan.), with base classes designed to socio-demographic specifications such as employees, housewives, students, and so on. Therefore, they can deal with subjects, themes and genres as diverse as love, adventure, science fiction, children's stories, literature, sports, fantasy, eroticism and many more themes.

Anime traditionally hand drawn; however, in recent years it has become common computer generated animation better known as CGI (computer-generated imagery) or a mixture of both. Anime screenplays include much of the genres of fiction and are transmitted through film media (broadcast on television, distribution in domestic video and feature films). The relationship between of the Japanese anime and manga is close, because historically a large number of series and work of anime are based on popular manga stories or in rare cases an anime series or movie could end up being released as a manga.

Etymology
The term anime comes from the abbreviation of the Japanese transcription of the English word "animation"; hence, the word is used in the shorter form "anime".

Internationally, anime was once known as "japanimation", but the term has fallen into disuse in recent years. Fans preferably pronounced the Word as an abbreviation of the phrase "Japanese Animation". Anime saw one of its greatest expansions use during the 1970s and 1980, which generally comprises the first and second wave of anime fandom. The term survived at least until the beginning of the 1990s, but seemed to disappear just before the resurgence of the anime in the mid-1990s.

In general, the term "japanimation" now only appears in nostalgic contexts in the Western world, however the term is widely used in Japan to distinguish animations made there (Japanimation) animations in general.

The Anime Industry
Between the 1990 and 2000, the production of anime has increased in a big way. In 2001, film, video and television production reached an estimated amount of 180 billion yen, and distribution is estimated at 43 billion yen. Also the amount of television broadcasting has seen a significant increase every year.

A Brief Introduction to Manga

Manga is the Japanese word for comics in general. Outside of Japan, the term manga is used exclusively used to refer to the Japanese comics.

Manga covers a wide variety of genres, and reaches audiences in many different and diverse spectrums of ages. Manga is a very important part of the publishing industry of Japan and it motivates many adaptations to different formats: animated series, known as Anime, movies, video games and novels.
Note: Tagosaku to Mokube Tokyo Kenbutsu (1902) is considered the first manga.

Terminology
Hokusai Katsushika, a representative of the ukiyo-e, coined the term manga by combining the kanji corresponding to informal (man) and drawing (ga). It translates literally as "Informal Drawing" or "doodles". The Japanese call it 'insignificant images', also in the manga because they buy annually more than 1 billion volumes in black and white, printed on cheap paper. The professional to write or draw manga is known as a manga artist.

The Manga industry
The manga in Japan is a true mass phenomenon. A single fact serves to illustrate the magnitude of this phenomenon: In the year of 1989, 38% of all books and magazines published in Japan were manga.
As you can guess by this figure, the manga is not just a fad for young people. In Japan there are manga for all ages and social status, including homemakers, clerks, teenagers, office workers, etc. Erotic manga also known as hentai is a quarter of total sales.

Manga Magazines
Manga magazines are one of the most popular distribution forms of manga in Japan selling millions of copies every week. Shonen Jump Magazine, the most popular manga magazine in Japan sells around 6 million copies every week. Shonen Magazine follows with around 4 million copies.

Manga magazines are weekly or monthly publications of between 200 and 900 pages in which there are many different manga series that consist of between 20 to 40 pages of the magazine. These magazines are usually printed in black and white low quality paper with the exception of the cover and usually some pages from the beginning. If a series turn out to be successful they tend to be published for several years within the magazine.
Another variant that has emerged as a result of the proliferation of file sharing over the Internet is the digital format called e-comic. The most use formats of e-comics are the.cbr and.cbz, which its basically really is a set of compressed files (rar and zip, respectively) with images in formats such as jpeg or gif inside.