Word: astroboy
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Throughout Asia, anime has been extremely popular for decades. Some anime exports, such as Astroboy, Star Blazers and Transformers, have come to the West in the form of television programs and have been around since the 1960s. The mass exportation of anime, however, is very much a mid-to late-80s phenomenon, marked by the apocalyptic 1988 movie "Akira...
...anime? The first animated films in Japan date from the 1910s and were strongly influenced by French animators such as Emile Cohl. But in 1963, anime was catapulted into popular Japanese consciousness when comic strip artist Tezuka Osamu released for television an animated version of his comic character, Astroboy...
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