Entering Into the World of Anime

Hello everyone,

Throughout the course of my blog I am going to delve into the world of anime. Anime is considered to be a medium of animation that has become beloved by many all across the world since the early 20th century. Originating in Japan, anime combines unique characters, detailed storytelling, and expressive visual elements that allow its viewers to experience different imaginative worlds while still exploring a large range of themes that contain varying life lessons.

Anime as a whole encompasses far more than what we typically think of as just simple cartoons. While it has strong elements of emotional depth, it also includes various cultural ideas, too. 

Anime is even intertwined and connected alongside other forms of media, such as manga and video games, for example, providing multi-platform storytelling experiences that are known to place an emphasis on both artistic style and pop culture. 

In future blog posts I hope to dive into more detail about how anime has played a powerful role in having a major influence in the media globally, especially throughout Western animation. I will initially do so by establishing more about its Japanese origins to a fuller extent. Then, I will explain many of the various genres of anime that are present today, highlighting some of the key points that each genre offers to different audiences. In addition, I also will have the opportunity to expand my writing to speak more about both manga and video games, noting how while they are known to tie in alongside anime, they can also stand alone in terms of media as well. 

Overall, I have many ideas for this assignment that I am genuinely excited to be able to share with everyone, and I cannot wait to do so. My goal as my blog progresses is to shine a light onto anime as a whole and to have the chance to inform others about what it actually entails. As a longtime viewer of this particular medium, I sincerely feel that there is much more to anime than what is initially shown to us on the surface upon first glance, and I hope to present it broken down in more detail to everyone as time continues onward.