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What exactly is 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...
Since then, it has become an established tradition to bring manga, or comic magazines, to animation. Anime includes science-fiction like mecha (space sagas with robot war machines), dungeons-and-dragons-type fantasy, police/detective series, high school dramas and comedies...
Anime masterpieces are known and loved throughout the Japanese population. Toys, silverware, stationery and T-shirts of the most popular anime characters abound in Japanese stores. Reading manga, the telephone-book-sized comic strips which anime is based on, is a national preoccupation. The anime which is not yet accepted in Japan is just a reflection of its avant-garde nature. The times will probably catch up with anime, not the other way around...
...undercurrents of unhappiness and angst grow stronger as the play continues, and tense interludes break up moments of comedy which recall the original "The Ozzie and Harriet Show." The deft interspersing of the serious with the comic can best be appreciated when the audience responds to the jokes and follows the premise of the play to its gory end. The play's ending reveals the cruel absurdity of the characters' attitudes by taking them to their logical extreme. Eventually, David can no longer coexist with his family: his perspective on life has been so altered by his bittersweet experience...
TIME: You were a stand-up comic before you started your sitcom. That must have been a difficult profession for someone closeted...