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The '''Japanese animation''' industry has attracted much interest in the West, with [[English]]-speaking fans avidly adopting Japanese terminology such as ''anime'' (short for "animation", but used almost exclusively to refer to animated features originating from [[Japan]]) and even ''otaku'' (a derogatory term meaning "obsessive fan",<ref>[http://www.beneaththetangles.com/the-christians-guide-to-anime-and-otaku-dom/ The Christian's Guide to Anime and Otaku-dom] at Beneath the Tangles</ref> the Western equivalents of which are likewise derogatorily called "fanboys" and "fangirls").The term anime (アニメ) is the short form of the Japanese word ''animeeshon'' (アニメーション), which is itself derived from the English word ''animation''.<ref name="Anime">[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Anime Anime] at TV Tropes</ref> Anime shares a similar visual style with its print couterpart ''manga'' and both are derived from the works of Japanese artists such as Osamu Tezuka.<ref name="Anime"/>

The best known ''anime'' director in Japan is [[Hayao Miyazaki]], founder of [[Studio Ghibli]] and famous for "''[[My Neighbor Totoro]]''," "''[[Spirited Away]]," '' and "''Princess Mononoke''."

As in the West, Japanese animation tends to follow Japanese comic book styles (called ''[[manga]]''). An author/illustrator of a manga is called a manga-ka. Many anime begin as manga in magizines magazines such as ''Weekly Shounen Jump'', one of the most popular compilations in Japan.

In recent years, the translation process of anime and manga has come under criticism for the process of "Americanization". This process is the editing of the original works so that they can be made more acceptable for the American public, or at least in the mind of the localizers and distributors, since the general fanbase and true fans and customers always want and ask for an uncensored and faithfully localized and translated product. Episodes are known to be shortened to add more time for commercials. Religious influences and [[homosexuality ]] are removed so that anime can be shown and marketed to younger audiences, despite the original product with said subjects and topics in it was not originally target mainly to children. Some directors adopt a policy of "no cuts", where their works cannot be altered and are more literal translations. If this condition is not met, the director will not allow his work to be translated. In some cases, because of the original Japanese producers' utter insistence at literal translations and not allowing for any alterations, the quality of the dub tended to decrease in quality and be considered inferior to the original version. A more infamous example of this was the English dub for ''Love Hina'', where the producers constantly overruled the directors in terms of delivery and often required the voice actors to adopt roles they weren't suited for. Some groups of Bilingual bilingual speakers have, thus, taken to providing '"unofficial' " translations for the general public, uploaded to the internet for free. This was one of the major controversies of the SOPA bill that was recently a major issue.

===Shojo (少女)===Japanese for ''young girl'Many ', Shoujo is also popular outside of AnimeJapan, with such famous dubs as ''Sally the Witch'', ''Princess Knight'', ''Laura the Prairie Girl'' (an adaptation of [[Laura Ingalls Wilder]]'s genres fall into ''Little House'' books), ''Candy Candy'', ''Sailor Moon'', ''Cardcaptor Sakura'' (''Cardcaptors'' in America), ''Tokyo Mew Mew'' and ''Fruits Basket''. Within Shoujo there is the following categories:subgenre of Magical Girl, where an otherwise average Japanese girl has magical powers with which she saves the world. More often than Shounen, Shoujo are romance tales or rely heavily on romance in the plot. The heroine is often saving the world by night and snagging the boy of her dreams by day. <br />

''''''Shonen''' ===Seinen (少年青年)- ===Japanese for ''young boyman'', Shounen Seinen (or seijin) targets the 18 to 40 male audience, though it is not uncommon to find much older men reading manga on the most popular genre in Japan and the most well known outside the countrytrain ride to work. Aimed at young teen boys, Shounen are often action/adventure series featuring martial arts, Japanese Good examples of seinen anime and Chinese folklore, simplistic animation and conceptual fantasy and science fiction. Popular titles that have been translated to English manga include : ''[[NarutoGhost in the Shell]]'', Bleach''Gunslinger Girl'', ''Bartender'', ''Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou'', ''[[One PieceCowboy Bebop]]'', ''Elfen Lied'', ''[[DragonballVinland Saga]]/'', ''Aria'', ''Bokura no'', ''[[Dragon Ball Z|ZOne Punch Man]]'', Gundam, ''[[Fullmetal AlchemistHetalia: Axis Powers]]'', Prince as well as the feature films of Tennis, [[Satoshi Kon]] and [[Sgt. FrogMakoto Shinkai]]. PokémonTitles like ''Cowboy Bebop'' and ''Ghost in the Shell'' are considered classics, while ''Cowboy Bebop'' was the 1990s superfadfirst anime aired on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim block. Seinen shares many elements with shounen, but is often darker and more mature (or immature, depending on the sense of humor) than Shounen, with horror, mystery and suspense. Sometimes, seinen manga features graphic violence, for example in the film ''[[Akira]]''. Often it will also Shonentake a slice-of-life look at stories, and provide deeper character insights than shounen action-driven works. <br />

'''Shojo''' ===Josei (少女女性)- ===Japanese for ''young girlwoman'', Shoujo is and targets women in the 18 to 40 age band. Can also popular outside of Japan, with such famous dubs be referred to as Sailor Moon, Cardcaptor Sakura (Cardcaptors in America), Tokyo Mew Mew "redisu" and Fruits Basket. Within Shoujo there is the subgenre of Magical Girl"redikomi", where an otherwise average Japanese girl has magical powers with which she saves the worldlatter being taken from the English "lady comic". More often than Shounen, Shoujo are romance tales or rely heavily on romance It differs from shoujo in that the plot. The Heroine is often saving the world by night artistic styles of josei tend to be more realistic and restrained, and snagging the boy stories tend to be more realistic and mature. Examples of her dreams by dayjosei manga and anime are ''Paradise Kiss'', ''Hataraki Man'' and ''Honey and Clover''. <br />

===Kodomo (子供向け)===Japanese for ''child'Seinen''' (青年)- Japanese for young man, Seinen (or seijin) targets Kodomo are the 18 to 40 male audiencecartoons most like American cartoons, though it is not uncommon to find much older men reading manga on the train ride to work. Good examples of seinen anime and manga include: [[Ghost as in the Shell]], Gunslinger Girl, Bartender, Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou, [[Cowboy Bebop]], Elfen Lied, Aria, Bokura no, [[Hetalia: Axis Powers]], as well as the feature films of [[Satoshi Kon]] and [[Makoto Shinkai]]for small children. Titles like Cowboy Bebop and Ghost in the Shell They are considered classics, while Cowboy Bebop was often moral teachings with simple animation. ''Astro Boy'' is the first anime aired on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim. Seinen shares many elements with shounen, but is often darker and more mature (or immaturebrought to America, depending on having the sense of humor) than Shounen, notoriety that comes with horror, mystery being a child icon for 60 years. Modern titles include ''Hamtaro'' and suspense. Sometimes, seinen manga features graphic violence, for example in the film ''[[AkiraDoraemon]]. Often it will also take a slice-of-life look at stories, and provide deeper character insights than shounen action-driven works''.<br />

==Anime and Christianity==[[Christianity]] is a minority religion in Japan, whose majority faith is [[Shinto]] (with [[Buddhism]] also prominent to a lesser extent); as a result, very few anime series are influenced by Christianity in that country. Of the few that are, notable ones include ''Haibane Renmei'Josei', '' (女性)Bunny Drop'', ''Clannad'', and ''[[Neon Genesis: Evangelion]]''.<ref>[http://www.beneaththetangles.com/the- Japanese christians-guide-to-anime-and-otaku-dom/christian-anime-recommendations/ Anime Recommendations for young womanChristian Viewers] at Beneath the Tangles</ref> At least three anime adaptations for the Christian story ''A Dog of Flanders'' also exist (two being standard anime series, and targets women in one being a feature-length film based on one of the 18 to 40 age bandaforementioned series). Can The ''Pokémon'' anime series, at least the original series, also be referred to had some Christian influences, such as the character Brock making a reference to [[Noah]] from the [[Book of Genesis]] in one episode, the character Misty attempting to ward a Gastly off via a crucifix in another episode, and James's (fake) flashback to his childhood depicted him supposedly dying with his Growlithe near the steps of a church, referencing similar scenes from ''The Dog of Flanders'redisu' and /or 'redikomi'The Little Orphan'' (all of which were surprisingly retained in the Dub). In addition, a major subplot for the latter first movie had the character Mewtwo questioning its existence, including wondering whether it was in fact created by God, with it being taken explicitly mentioned that, besides humans, only God has the ability to create things (which, unlike the other examples, was cut from the English 4Kids Dub for the movie.). In addition, 'lady comic'. It differs from shoujo Pocket Monsters: The Animation'', an adaptation for the anime in book form, implied that Pokémon themselves originated as an extra species created by God during the artistic styles six days of josei tend to be more realistic and restrainedcreation, and more specifically when he "doodled" them during the stories tend to be more realistic and mature. Examples seventh day of josei manga and anime are Paradise Kiss, Hataraki Man and Honey and Cloverrest.<br ref>http://cindysuke.tumblr.com/post/34817930237/the-facts-about-pokemon-world-lol</ref>

==Criticism of anime==Anime has come under criticism over the years by animation purists due to most, if not all, anime shows (particularly the more recent shows from the 1980s onward) looking stylistically similar in their artwork and lacking a clear-cut distinction between styles,<ref>[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.247476-Criticism-of-Anime-and-Manga Criticism of Anime and Manga]</ref> as well as being unfairly considered inferior in visual style to American animation.<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/notes/i-hate-anime/our-reasons-for-not-liking-anime/556774851034596 Our reasons for not liking anime]</ref> The anime genre has also been criticized for the inclusion of such above-mentioned subject matter as homosexuality, pedophilia (this latter unfounded, unproven and not true), pornography (which has its own anime subgenre, ''hentai'Kodomo''' (子供向け), horror and violence, which tend to make such shows taboo for younger viewers in the West, despite the fact that Western entertainment is filled with horror and graphic violence even in films, shows and comics targeted to kids since the beginning of the Western Golden Ages of animation and comics, which exposes a hypocritical and imperialist anti- Japanese for childbias despite all the "modern" Western liberal-globalist corporate [[virtue signalling]]. Another glaring criticism of anime is the poor adaptation of many such shows into English, Kodomo are with poor voice acting (in particular, making some characters sound childish), nonsensically-interpreted storylines and dialogue (especially when the cartoons most like American cartoonsdialogue and/or its tone do not match how a particular character feels in a scene), the changing of character names to ridiculous-sounding names,<ref>[http://www.cornponeflicks.org/harlock/ZIVharlock.html ''Captain Harlock'' vols. one and two by ZIV International] at the Captain Harlock Archives</ref> the altered lines to replace them with Western [[progressive]], [[marxist]], [[liberal]], [[globalist]], [[feminist]], [[woke]]/[[Social justice warrior|SJW]] and anti-capitalist propaganda not present in the original Japanese works and source,<ref>https://boundingintocomics.com/2022/05/01/netflixs-english-dub-of-tiger-bunny-2-changes-dialogue-to-have-golden-ryan-criticize-outdated-gender-norms-declare-himself-a-feminist/</ref><ref>https://boundingintocomics.com/2019/10/19/funimation-dub-of-yu-no-a-girl-who-chants-love-at-the-bound-of-this-world-changes-dialogue-to-reference-misogyny/</ref><ref>https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/daily-briefs/2015-10-03/funimation-addresses-prison-school-dub-comments-over-gamergate-line/.93736</ref><ref>https://boundingintocomics.com/2021/07/08/neo-the-world-ends-with-you-localization-changes-script-to-insert-anti-capitalism-dialogue-line/</ref><ref>https://www.sankakucomplex.com/2021/07/05/neo-the-world-ends-with-you-changes-translation-to-bash-capitalism/</ref><ref>https://www.sankakucomplex.com/2021/11/28/neo-the-world-ends-with-you-underperforms-welcome-to-capitalism-square-enix/</ref><ref>https://www.sankakucomplex.com/2021/08/07/twewy-neo-translation-worse-than-feared-full-of-slang-memes/</ref><ref>https://www.sankakucomplex.com/2022/05/07/sakura-succubus-5-censors-cgs-dialogue-on-ps4-ps5/</ref><ref>https://doujins.com/blog/will-miss-kobayashi-s-dragon-maid-season-2-english-dub-get-political-again-1138</ref><ref>https://unnecessaryexclamationmark.wordpress.com/2019/11/14/dear-anime-fans-funimation-is-not-your-friend/</ref><ref>https://www.animefeminist.com/discourse-arent-problematic-translations-fixed/</ref><ref>https://nichegamer.com/cross-dressing-13-sentinels-aegis-rim-character-re-written-as -non-binary-in -english-localization/</ref><ref>https://boundingintocomics.com/2020/09/25/13-sentinels-aegis-rim-localization-allegedly-changes-character-dialogue-to-make-character-non-binary/</ref><ref>https://www.sankakucomplex.com/2020/09/25/13-sentinels-aegis-rim-english-translation-rewrites-character-as-non-binary/</ref><ref>https://boundingintocomics.com/2022/04/11/chrono-cross-the-radical-dreamers-edition-censors-panty-shots-and-suggestive-dialogue/</ref><ref>https://www.sankakucomplex.com/2022/04/11/chrono-cross-remaster-allegedly-changes-more-dialogue-removes-speech-quirk/</ref><ref>https://www.sankakucomplex.com/2022/04/14/old-interview-reveals-skies-of-arcadia-dialogue-was-completely-rewritten/</ref><ref>https://www.sankakucomplex.com/2022/08/17/eroge-publisher-nekonyan-pushing-out-manspreading-translations/</ref><ref>https://boundingintocomics.com/2021/10/04/capcom-heavily-censors-dialogue-in-resident-evil-4-vr/</ref><ref>https://boundingintocomics.com/2021/10/22/facebook-confirms-resident-evil-4-vr-censorship-was-done-in-effort-to-update-the-game-for small children-a-modern-audience/</ref><ref>https://www. They are often moral teachings eurogamer.net/articles/2021-10-20-resident-evil-4-vr-version-includes-several-dialogue-cuts</ref><ref>https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/resident-evil-4-vr-remake-censored/</ref><ref>https://boundingintocomics.com/2022/04/28/triangle-strategy-english-localization-adds-removes-and-dramatically-alters-some-original-japanese-dialogue/</ref><ref>https://boundingintocomics.com/2022/04/07/ghostwire-tokyo-english-localization-adds-property-is-theft-line-not-found-in-original-japanese/</ref><ref>https://www.sankakucomplex.com/2022/03/31/ghostwire-tokyo-english-translation-predictably-contains-propaganda/</ref> and the elimination of Japanese cultural references and their replacement with simple animationmore recognizable pop culture for English-speaking audiences; while done with the intent of sanitizing the translated anime to make it more kid-friendly, such shows end up looking and sounding farcical and non-serious. <ref>[http://ca.ign.com/articles/2008/05/30/anime-adaptations Anime Adaptations]</ref><ref>[Astro Boyhttp://fanlore.org/wiki/Anime Anime]at Fanlore Wiki</ref> Veteran Japanese [[mangaka] ] and cartoonist [[Ken Akamatsu (Mangaka/Politician)|Ken Akamatsu]] (author of ''Love Hina'') has been elected in a landslide victory with a position and a platform in the [[Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)]] to protect Japanese [[manga]], anime, videogames (Japanese pop-culture, arts and entertainment in general) and creative and artistic freedom of expression from aforementioned (mainly) Western [[politically correct]]/[[woke]], [[globalist]] and neo-puritan [[liberal censorship|censorship]], influences and [[imperialism]].<ref>https://www.crunchyroll.com/it/anime-news/2022/01/03-1/ken-akamatsu-ends-uq-holder-manga-in-february-to-run-for-upper-house-seat-in-japans-parliament</ref><ref>https://www.crunchyroll.com/it/anime-news/2020/06/29/love-hina-manga-creator-discusses-mangas-freedom-of-expression-with-japanese-government</ref><ref>https://anime.astronerdboy.com/2020/08/akamatsu-sensei-worried-about-foreign-regulation.html</ref><ref>https://boundingintocomics.com/2021/06/04/love-hina-mangaka-warns-of-rising-pressure-from-foreign-markets-to-introduce-political-correctness-into-manga/</ref><ref>https://boundingintocomics.com/2020/07/07/love-hina-mangaka-warns-about-a-future-where-japanese-works-are-regulated-by-foreign-standards/</ref><ref>https://nicchiban.nichegamer.com/tokyo-gender-equality-proposal-draws-concerns-from-love-hina-author-over-international-perspective/</ref><ref>https://nicchiban.nichegamer.com/ken-akamatsu-once-again-expresses-concerns-over-western-influence-in-manga/</ref><ref>https://andyarttv.com/why-anime-girls-get-censored-so-much-in-the-west/</ref><ref>https://boundingintocomics.com/2020/08/06/keep-your-hands-off-eizouken-mangaka-responds-to-critics-after-hes-attacked-for-following-loli-art-account/</ref><ref>https://comicbook.com/anime/news/manga-harem-creator-politician-censorship/</ref><ref>https://animemotivation.com/anime-woke-culture/</ref><ref>https://soranews24.com/2021/12/17/popular-harem-comedy-manga-artist-is -running-for-parliament-to-protect-freedom-of-expression/</ref><ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-53428863</ref><ref>https://www.sankakucomplex.com/2021/03/20/attacked-artist-provides-japanese-artists-advice-on-avoiding-cancel-culture/</ref><ref>https://animemotivation.com/the first -rising-of-the-shield-hero-controversy/</ref><ref>https://www.sankakucomplex.com/mature-content-disclaimer?then=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sankakucomplex.com%2F2018%2F12%2F28%2Ffalse-rape-accusation-anime brought -tate-no-yuusha-no-nariagari-already-controversial%2F</ref><ref>https://www.sankakucomplex.com/2019/01/09/tate-no-yuusha-no-nariagari-very-problematic-women-never-fake-rape-accusations/</ref><ref>https://boundingintocomics.com/2022/07/29/interview-japanese-video-game-developer-discusses-the-rise-of-loli-censorship-in-anime-and-video-games/</ref><ref>https://www.asahi.com/articles/ASQ6X6DK7Q6WUTFK00T.html?iref=ogimage_rek</ref><ref>https://mainichi.jp/articles/20220709/k00/00m/010/136000c</ref><ref>https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2022-07-10/manga-creator-ken-akamatsu-wins-seat-in-japan-house-of-councillors/.187556</ref> ==Anti-Japanese Leftist and [[Woke Supremacy|Woke imperialism]] and [[racism]]==On February 17, 2022, when episode 6 of the mini-anime series ''Petit Sekai'' titled "Petit Sekai: Leo/need Style" first premiered on [[YouTube]] in early 2022, it was accused by some [[woke]] neo-puritan American viewers of "doing/promoting [[blackface]]" and "cultural appropriation" due to Americaa scene inspired by [[gyaru]] fashion substyle of [[ganguro]] perceived as being blackface. The next day, having the notoriety episode was withdrawn indefinitely and a public apology in both English and Japanese was uploaded on the official [[Twitter]] account, quite probably with the reluctance of the Japanese work side due to woke American imperialists. The removal of the episode is controversial and many fans of the game and the show, either Japanese and American, especially Japanese, were disappointed with the company's decision, with some even openly blaming SEGA for its "bending the knee" and "listening to outraged Twitter users who insist that comes everyone should respect foreign cultures while applying and imposing their own Western prejudices, views, puritanism and imperialism against foreign media and subcultures". The episode was reuploaded to YouTube on the 15th of March 2022 with being a child icon some modifications, removing the typical ganguro tan and make-up and also the tribal items. The anime ''My Dress-Up Darling'' received the same hypocritical, ignorant and bigoted attack by woke puritan and racist parasites, however, it didn't bend the knee like SEGA and Project Sekai did.<ref>https://en.datosjam.net.pe/anime/otaku/petit-seka-anime-apologizes-after-accusations-of-racism/</ref><ref>https://nicchiban.nichegamer.com/project-sekai-short-removed-for 60 years-blackface/</ref><ref>https://boundingintocomics. Modern titles include Hamtaro com/2022/02/20/sega-shelves-petit-sekai-episode-indefinitely-following-accusations-of-blackface-from-western-audiences/</ref><ref>https://www.sankakucomplex.com/2022/02/19/political-correctness-infiltrates-japan-as-project-sekai-short-removed-for-blackface/comment-page-7/</ref><ref>https://www.calcuttanews.net/news/272320824/anime-episode-pulled-for-blackface</ref><ref>https://www.kakuchopurei.com/2022/02/project-sekai-anime-short-pulled-by-sega-for-blackface-from-western-fandom/</ref><ref>https://m.imdb.com/title/tt17066860/trivia</ref> On October 21, 2021, the event "Revival my dream" was released on the Japanese servers of the game. This event sparked controversy among woke imperialist English-speaking viewers on social media due to the cards’ costumes portraying perceived (again, "perceived") racial stereotypes of [[Native Americans|Native Americans or American Indians]] and a character in the event describing “forest dwellers” as “barbaric”, which some people took as "racist" or "colonialist towards Native Americans". Due to the wording English Twitter account of Colorful Stage, some might theorize that the Western developer might have - like the hypocritical imperialists they are - asked the Japanese developer for permission to alter the original content, but were denied, and thus chose to simply not have the event at all. Due to this, the event was skipped in the English server. Players defending the event have stated that it was intended to be a reference to the movie ''[[DoraemonPrincess Mononoke]]'', and that the story was about overcoming racial prejudice.<br ref>https://www.sankakucomplex.com/2022/09/23/hatsune-miku-colorful-stage-western-version-cancels-event-due-to-inappropriate-content/comment-page-8/</ref><ref>https://www.gamerbraves.com/hatsune-miku-colorful-stage-cancels-revival-my-dream-event-after-racial-allegations/</ref> ==References==<references/>