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The first animated film ever produced was back in 1907 it was called Katsudo Shashin ("Activity Photo") from its depiction of a boy in a sailor suit the characters
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Prewar animators faced several difficulties. First, they had to compete with foreign producers such as Disney, which were influential on both audiences and producers.
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The Japanese government began enforcing cultural nationalism, This also lead to a strict censorship and control of published media. Many animators in japan during the war, anime was mostly propaganda for the army and hating the U.S
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In 1948, Toei Animation was founded and 10 years later introduced the first color anime feature film: The Tale of the white serpent (1958) Around the same time mushi productions released Astro Boy in 1963 which is considered as the first popular anime series.
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In 1960 the first anime film to be broadcast was three tales. In the following year Osamu Tezuka's Tetsuwan Atom(Astro Boy) is often miss credited as the first anime television series premiered in January 1, 1960.
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In the early 1970s one of the earliest successful television Productions was Tomorrow's Joe (1970), a boxing anime which has become iconic in Japan.
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In the 1980s anime was getting better for making improved animation for movies and TV shows such as stars wars becoming really popular for animation
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The Simpsons was released in 1989 and its present, back in the 1990s The Simpsons became one of the iconic American TV shows with comedy, the show won multiple awards for best animation
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In the 1990s one of the most famous anime series was Dragon Ball Z, Sailor Moon, and Digimon; the success of these shows brought international recognition to the martial arts superhero genre, the magical girl genre, and the action-adventure genre
