Maybe all of you guys understand what this word meant.
The animation in this country has been achieved more than any other country.
However I didn't realize it since I watched one famous Japanese animation.
It was "Evangelion".
When I was a high school student, one of my friend told me that "Evangelion is great".
She wasn't the type of Otaku, and I was little bit surprised that she said so.
Because I thought that the Evangelion is just "Robot fighting animation", and maybe the story is easy to predict.
But, I was wrong.
Some years later, I started to watch Evangelion. And I was so impressed.
The story was so grand and constructive. There are some elements of religion. It showed one idea of how mankind was born and why we gonna die out.
All of characters shows their difficulty of living in their age. And we can have sympathy with them.
Then, why I think Evangelion is great "Japanemation"?
It is because that they aren't lose the elements of Japan . If you see the title, you can aware of some elements of Japan. For example, they use Japanese old letter such as "ヱ"and "ヲ". And the orders of movie are expressed by "序" and "破". They originally meant the ways of playing Japanese old music instrument and "Noh-play". All name of characters are Japanese, and they aren't living in shelter or spaceship but they living in small japanese style apartment. Actually, the place of this anime is based on Hakone in Kanagawa.
The animation of Evangelion began airing in 1995, and the movies are still continuing untill now. Newest movie "破" was screened in 2009, and the amount sales of this movie was over 5billion yen.
Sometimes people avoid to watch anime, because they think that anime=otaku.
But, "Seeing is believing". If you watched "anime" once, you can understand why Japanemation is such a big sensation.
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