Pop Culture: Anime

Pop Culture: Anime Edition⭐

Father and Son duo Minato and Naruto alongside the 9 tails fox Kurama in the hit anime Naruto.

Naruto, Dragon Ball Z, Sailor Moon, Yu-Gi-Oh, Pokemon, and Bleach are just a few amongst the plethora of popular anime. Anime is defined as a Japanese style of cartoons that are mostly aimed at adults and children. I remember when I was growing up if you liked anime, you'd be deemed as a nerd or weird. Now flashforward 10 years later, anime has gotten a pretty good reception amongst American culture. What makes it influential is its amazing story-telling, growth amongst characters, aesthetics, and cool graphics. Movies like the Matrix and Ghost In The Shell were heavily influenced by anime. The anime characters would go on to influence American cartoons by cartoons introducing characters who now had big round eyes and facial expressions. Some examples of these would be Teen Titans Go, Nickelodeon's Avatar The Last Airbender and The Boondocks.

Anime's impact has racked up an astonishing 2 trillion yen which is $17 billion USD as of last year, wow! Some characters in anime that attributes to its popular success are the relatable characters, story-tell, plot, characters with colorful hair, funny characters, and it's action-packed fighting scenes. Let's not even get into it being so aesthetically pleasing, it even makes you want to eat the food! The 1990s was the renaissance period for anime which brought in popular anime such as Cowboy Bebop, Sailor Moon, and Dragon Ball Z. Due to its popularity cosplaying which is the dressing up as characters and anime conventions have become extremely popular. In conclusion, Anime plays a huge part in American film, and lifestyle.

Resources:
https://www2.palomar.edu/impactmagazine/2018/06/28/anime-more-than-asian-pop-culture/
https://thatbakablog.wordpress.com/2015/04/23/the-influence-of-anime-in-pop-culture/
https://darlingmagazine.org/makes-iconic-film/
https://www.theodysseyonline.com/what-makes-music-icon
http://blog.pop2life.com/how-to-become-a-pop-culture-icon
http://mrpopculture.com/what-is-pop-culture
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