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Anime history.

HI you all!

Just recently find out in a great article about anime history that one of anime's greatest influences was in fact WALT DISNEY, particulary his Snow White and the Seven Dwarves movie. It's from Disney also that came the idea to make anime characters with big and round eyes something not typical in Nippon.

Who else knows tidbits of anime history that wants to share?

Wow I never knew that. I never thought Disney had anything to do with anime.

All Disney ever had was some influence. Nothing beyond that.

Your Protector wrote:

Wow I never knew that. I never thought Disney had anything to do with anime.

Disney didn't have a direct hand in producing the first anime, but the studio's works were an incredible inspiration for aspiring Japanese animators back when the animation industry in Japan was first taking off. In fact, other American animators like Max Fleischer, Tex Avery, and Chuck Jones could probably take every bit as much credit as Walt Disney for being a major positive influence on the budding anime industry, without any of them having ever worked on a single anime.

Huh, last I checked anime=animation so I'm a bit confused as to what exactly is being discussed here. If anime is exclusively supposed to include just Japanese animation, then I think the word we use for that purpose needs to be changed to something like J-Anime (as we see in J-Rock, J-Pop, etc.)

Kirkdawg wrote:

Huh, last I checked anime=animation so I'm a bit confused as to what exactly is being discussed here. If anime is exclusively supposed to include just Japanese animation, then I think the word we use for that purpose needs to be changed to something like J-Anime (as we see in J-Rock, J-Pop, etc.)

Don't be a twit. While the Japanese use anime to describe all animation, when an English speaker uses the word "anime", it is usually implied that they are talking about Japanese animation. It's not a perfect system, but it's simple and it works. Let's not get into a anime/animation definition tangle; those get repetitive fast.

You might be correct but you don't have to be so blunt. It's rude.

Your Protector wrote:

You might be correct but you don't have to be so blunt. It's rude.

It's an extremely old and oft-repeated argument, and typically the only people that ever take the opposing view ("we should call Tom & Jerry anime!") are trolls just trying to deliberately ruffle everyone's feathers for kicks. It's understandable if people get touchy about it being brought up.

AU_Gundam wrote:

All Disney ever had was some influence. Nothing beyond that.

I disagree wholeheartedly. Disney was more than just an influence, it was a pioneer in the field of animation. So many animation techniques were first used on a large scale at Disney that their importance can't be ignored or understated. Let's face it, the technical merits of Disney films put the vast majority of modern anime to shame. In that regard, they're nearly unrivaled. I say "nearly" only because of Miyazaki and Otomo.

Huh, last I checked anime=animation so I'm a bit confused as to what exactly is being discussed here. If anime is exclusively supposed to include just Japanese animation, then I think the word we use for that purpose needs to be changed to something like J-Anime (as we see in J-Rock, J-Pop, etc.)