In addition to original works, anime are frequently versions of Japanese comics (manga), light source novels, or video games. Anime is distributed theatrically, through television broadcasts, directly to base sensitives, and over the Internet. A characteristic art expressive style emerged in the Sixties with the whole caboodle of cartoonist Osamu Tezuka and circulate in pursuit xes, developing a large house servant audience.

The earliest commercial Japanese livelinesses date to 1917. Animation produced outside of Japan with like style to Japanese liveliness is commonly referred to as gum anime-influenced animation. Outside of Japan and in English, gum anime refers specifically to liveliness produced in Japan.However, in Japan and in Japanese, gum anime (a terminus derived from a shortening of the English word animation) reports all alive whole kit and caboodle, careless of style or descent. Anime (Japanese : ?, IPA : (listen)) is hand-haggard and reckoner-generated liveliness originating from Japan.

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