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An analysis of American and Japanese Animation While American Animation is very different than Japanimation in terms of style and content they are both intertwined in that Japanamation stems from American Animation. While there were a few pre '50s attempts at animated films, the increasingly popular Japanese Animation (Anime) of today started with Walt Disney and his early animated comics. Heavily influenced by Disney's style of characters with large expressive features, Japanese animators copied …

…which is still true of cartoons today. One character would beat or kill another and by the end of the cartoon the victim would be fine. A big change came over the industry in the mid twenties: commercialization. Big studios took over the smaller cartoon industries and set standards for animation. Animators were given quotas on the number of drawings they had to produce a day. Cartoons now had to manufactured in quantity and cheaply.