Anime

Most people are familiar with the word anime, the abbreviation of the English word "animation". When I lived in Japan, I saw it everywhere. They have a lot of Japanese anime comic books that so many people read. I even saw grown men reading out of one of the comics.

Anime is usually hand-drawn but now-a-days it has been made using technology, the computer. You can see anime on television, films, video games, and all over for advertisements. There were a lot of book stores in Japan that sold so many of the comic books written in Kanji. Anime started in Japan around the the 20th century. Things like Pokemon, which also started in Japan, is anime.

You see anime pictures on the side of buildings, posters in stores, in the subway, malls, restaurants, almost everywhere.