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in the local Barnes & Noble and Blockbuster video. Your kids are asking for the toys, your husband is asking for the videos or your girlfriend has the books by her bedside. But just what are these things called "anime" and "manga"? The easiest way to remember what anime is, and how to pronounce it, is to remember that it is simply Japanese shorthand for "animation". While English speakers tend to reduce things to acronyms, the Japanese produce shortened words, such as the Nintendo "Famicom" for "Family Computer". The term 'anime' was then picked up by foreign speakers, since the term is simpler than "Japanese Animation" or "Japanimation". Even the Japanese are using the term now to mark the difference between their own animation and foreign produced works. And the term means many things to many people. To some people, anime is simply any animation produced by Japan. To others, it includes any animation done in the Japanese style, such as the American produced "Teen Titans" cartoon. To still others, it means any adult or sophisticated animation. For the sake of simplicity, we will refer to it simply for Japanese-produced animation. Japan has been doing animation since animation has been around. However, the "anime" style didn't emerge until the early 1960's under the influence of "manga" artist extraordinaire, Osamu Tezuka. His company produced the first continuing animated serial for television, "Tetsuwan Atom", which would be marketed in America under the name of " Astroboy". While he missed being the first anime TV series by a few months (that title belongs to an anthology series called "Manga Calendar"), Tezuka's Atom would be the most popular character in Japan in anime history. As the decade wore on, more and more series were made, both by Tezuka or other manga artists. Many ended up on US shores under the names of " Prince Planet" (Yusei Shonen Papi), " Gigantor" (Tetsujin 28), " 8th Man" (Eight Man), " Speed Racer" (Mach Go Go Go), " Kimba the White Lion" (Jungle Taitei), and many, many more. It is impossible to talk about anime without talking about it's counterpart, manga. Manga (Mahn-gah) is simply the Japanese word for comic book. Manga has also been around since people first drew and published a sequence of pictures. But it did not reach it's modern form until the 1940's, again, due to the influence of a medical student by the name of Osamu Tezuka. Tezuka fell in love with early American animation, such as Popeye, Betty Boop, and early Disney cartoons. He started drawing stories with characters done in that style, but his manga had a twist. He used tricks with panels and image flow to give a greater depth, speed, or tension. Looking simplistic now, it was a revolution in Japan and his manga stories gained great popularity in the 1950's Japan. And just when the US Congress was holding hearings about the possible link between violent comic books and juvenile delinquency (resulting in the Comics Authority Code, which reduced Superman and Batman to chasing down their super pets rather than fighting crime), Tezuka was experimenting with horror, romance, sci-fi, fantasy and even delved into the slightly pornographic. As his audience started to age, he provided stories for them and manga grew with it's audience. His art style and storytelling would influence many anime and manga artists for years to come, even gaining the respect of Walt Disney, who donated an animation camera to help Tezuka with his first feature film "The Phoenix". Tezuka would be a force all of his life, and even after his death, properties such as "Tetsuwan Atom" and "Metropolis" are being made from his original stories. Manga is usually sold in anthology form aimed at certain people, like early teen boys (Shonen Jump), girls (Ribon), older teens (Young Animal), business professionals (Business Jump) and many others. These phonebook sized versions are printed on cheap paper and sell for a few dollars. The stories are then collected and bound in nicer version and sold in a graphic novel form (like what is seen at your local bookstore's manga section). If a series is popular enough, it may be optioned to be animated, either in a short version if it has a small following, or an extended series for a more popular one. While some anime is based on novels ( Vampire Hunter D) or originally produced ( Cowboy Bebop), most anime is based on manga. Being rated the number one sex toon site on the net it’s pretty clear to see why!