But sadly these works are no longer available as they were destroyed in the Great Kanto earthquake of 1923.

The birth year of anime can be taken as 1917, the time when they were professionally being displayed in cinemas, and creators such as Oten Shimokawa and Seitarou Kitayama produced numerous works for the same. So, let’s trace back to the beginnings of Japanimation popularly known as anime.Īnime was born in 1917! And do you know what the first-ever anime was? It’s Katsudo Shashin! Let’s see how far the world of anime has come since 1917! To make an interesting comparison, the evolution of anime is divided into infancy, adolescence, and adulthood, personifying the life of anime as a human being.Īlso Read: Edens Zero Season 2 | All You Need To Know!! The Life Of Anime: The Infancy stage These changes which began with trial and error at first made the animation industry so popular today, that it now has a worldwide fan base, the Otaku community. So why not rewind for a moment to reminisce the years when our favorite anime was going through a series of changes.

Just as Vash said in the anime Trigun– “If you only face forward, there is something you will miss seeing”, there’s truly a lot to miss as forward isn’t the only relative direction.

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