Essay

Sarah Hamilton 3/27/09 

Japanese Anime

__Do you know what anime is?__  Anime is the Japanese word for animation. Anime is from children themed to adult theme    cartoons that usually start from manga, which is like a comic book. Three examples are Naruto, One Piece and The Avatar: The Last Airbender. It has become so popular worldwide that even in the US that anime has been put as cable series, on the IPod, and best sellers as manga.     Anime started in the 20th century when Japanese film makers experimented with animation. Anime sometimes starts from manga which is like a comic book. "Japan broadcasts over 70 cartoons and animation series in a week and the industry is estimated to be worth 150 billion yen."(Reuters India) In some of them the element such as wind, water, fire, earth, and lightning were very important. Like in the Avatar they can use the elements as away to fight.  The first one is Naruto. Naruto is about a loud hyper active blond haired blue eyed ninja, Naruto Uzumaki who is also the container of the Nine Tailed Fox Kyuubi no Kitsune, wants to be accepted. In the begging of his life people try to kill him due to fact that he is the Jinchuuriki (Human Sacrifice). The demon fox was put in to him when he was a baby making life hard for him. When he gets older he becomes a genin which is the first level of being a ninja. slowly as he grows up his life get better. He was able to accomplish his dream of becoming Hokage (King/President). Another anime is Avatar: The Last Airbender. The Avatar's name is Ang. Ang is the last of his people The Air Benders use the air to fight and defend themselves. The Fire Benders use fire to do the same. Same for the Water and the Earth Benders. Ang disappeared 100 years before he was found by two kids. And was the Avatar and he had little time to master all the elements and defeat the fire nation. When he did he did he went up against the fire lord. He won but didn't kill the fire lord he just took his power out of him. The last is One Piece is about Monkey D. Luffy and his crew that are going to look for the ultimate treasure that used to belong to the king of the pirates before he was sentenced to death. In order to become The King of the Pirates, which is what Luffy wants to be. His crew consists of a swordsman Zoro(or Zolo in the US), a navigator Nami, king chef Sanji, a reindeer doctor, and a lying sharp shooter Usopp.