Just to answer the question: A lot of adults and kids, in America, think that animation is strictly for kids. From an early age we are taught and shown that animation is a child-like phase, like comic books, ponies, and dreams.
Here in America, if you write or draw anything, you are restricted to certain places. Most are stuck doing Disney work or working for the top comic fields. True, there are independent places one could go or even start up your own production company. But without real support, most of these places fail.
In Japan, there are tons a places a good writer and good artist can go. It is becuase, culturally, from the very begining, animation was repected.
Take the Disney film, Peter Pan and the Japanese counterpart Astro Boy. The Disney film came out in 1953 and was considered a success. The same could be said for the Astro Boy TV show. Astro Boy was created in 1951 and in the 1960 given a TV show. Astro Boy stayed in the public eye and was even shown here in the US in 1963. Peter Pan just became another Disney film.
Therefore, Astro Boy was respected by the Japanese population as a whole and Peter Pan in America, was seen as a fairly tale for kids.
Here in America, if you write or draw anything, you are restricted to certain places. Most are stuck doing Disney work or working for the top comic fields. True, there are independent places one could go or even start up your own production company. But without real support, most of these places fail.
In Japan, there are tons a places a good writer and good artist can go. It is becuase, culturally, from the very begining, animation was repected.
Take the Disney film, Peter Pan and the Japanese counterpart Astro Boy. The Disney film came out in 1953 and was considered a success. The same could be said for the Astro Boy TV show. Astro Boy was created in 1951 and in the 1960 given a TV show. Astro Boy stayed in the public eye and was even shown here in the US in 1963. Peter Pan just became another Disney film.
Therefore, Astro Boy was respected by the Japanese population as a whole and Peter Pan in America, was seen as a fairly tale for kids.