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Anime is a particular style of animation developed in Japan, characterized by stylized art, colorful characters, diverse settings, and intriguing plots. Anime often draws influence from manga, light novels, and other cultures. Anime is, at all costs, not to be confused with cartoons, those vastly more unsophisticated products of North American animation. But you have to be careful, after all everything has its lemons, and anime is no exception. While some anime is hand drawn, computer assisted animation techniques have become quite common in recent years. Anime have original stories while others draw their stories and characters from Japanese comic books (manga).
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Anime is not just movies; publishers release anime in many formats. There are OVAs (or OAVs), movies, and television shows. Don't let the direct-to-video aspect of OVAs fool you, they aren't low-budget sequels trying to capitalize on the success of a movie. Many of them are high-quality stories that can't be properly condensed into a feature-length movie, and the stories are generally more intricate than those found in a daily or weekly half-hour television show. Anime have original stories while others draw their stories and characters from Japanese comic books (manga).
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Anime has many genres typically found in any mass media form. Such genres include action, adventure, children's stories, comedy, drama, erotica (more specifically ecchi or hentai), medieval fantasy, occult/horror, romance, and science fiction. Most anime includes content from several different genres, as well as a variety of thematic elements. Thus, some series may be categorized under multiple genres. For example, Neon Genesis Evangelion might be considered to fall into the genres of post-apocalyptic, science fiction, mecha, and drama.
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Anime once bore the popular name Japanimation, but this term has fallen into disuse. It saw the most usage during the 1970s and 1980s, which broadly comprise the first and second waves of anime fandom. The term survived at least into the early 1990s but seemed to fade away shortly before the mid-1990s anime resurgence. In general, the term now only appears in nostalgic contexts. The term Japanimation is much more commonly used in Japan to refer to domestic animation. Since anime or animeshon is used to describe all forms of animation, Japanimation is meant to distinguish Japanese work from that of the rest of the world.
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Anime episodes are normally 25 minutes. Companies, generally put 2 to 5, 25 minute episodes on each DVD, depending on the total number of episodes in a series. So a 26 episode series is normally spread across 6 DVD to 8 DVDs and a 13 episode series (such as Hellsing and Serial Experiments Lain) is spread across 4 DVDs. 26 Episode series are never spread across 3 DVDs. If purchasing import DVDs check the US Region 1 edition too, if the Region 1 edition has 6 or 8 while the "import" edition only has 3 DVDs, then the "import" edition is not legitimate.
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Anime is closely related to Japanese comics, called manga: Many anime series got their start as popular manga. An industry with $3 billion annual sales in Japan, manga account for as much as 60 percent of all printed materials sold in that country, and are very avidly read--so much so, in fact, that addiction is something of a problem. Japanese smile wryly when they refer disparagingly of otaku, over-the-top manga fans whose filthy, cluttered homes are stacked to the rooftop with manga. (For more information on manga, see rec.arts.manga: Frequently Asked Questions.)
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