Japanese Animation

While some people think Anime is a genre, it is in fact, actually an art form that incorporates all genres found in television and books. The plots range from romantic comedies to science fiction and even action adventures. Anime is released in three forms: TV shows, Movies, and OVA. What is an OVA you may wonder, OVA stands for Original Video Animation. An OVA is an anime released straight to video because of financial or social circumstances.
What is it about Anime that makes them special, unique, and different? If you compare Anime to our American cartoons it is very different. In America, you usually have a happy ending, the loved ones don't get killed when faced with potentially dangerous villains or hit men, they are saved by the hero/heroine but that is not the case for the Japanese. In Anime it is not unusual to see a character lose a love one or even their whole family [e.g. Tamahome in Fushigi Yuugi]. The characters are much more complex,......

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