Word: manga
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Anime originates from a type of Japanese comic called manga, which features crisp, motion-oriented illustrations, as well as storylines that are often quite violent. Anime takes that unique illustrative style and translates it into the animated medium. Result? A quality of animation unmatched by anything we have to offer here in the states...
Newspapers see The Boondocks as a way to attract younger readers turned off by the blandness of most comics pages. With its hip-hop references, its Japanese manga-style drawings and its candid discussion of race, "the strip speaks to Aaron's generation the way Doonesbury speaks to boomers," says syndicate executive Lee Salem. Perhaps for that reason, the strip has drawn complaints on more than just racial grounds. In one strip Riley whacks Cindy with a toy light saber. "See?!!! You're still alive!!" he complains. "This thing is worthless!!" McGruder was stunned by the howls of outrage from...
...Fuji and Ando Hiroshige's Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido are both travelogues and social listings, in which every sort of occupation, from pit sawing to innkeeping, gets its allotted description. This scrutiny of lower-class life would never have held so much interest to an earlier Japan. Manga, images of common life, are the direct ancestors of the modern Japanese comic strip...
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...