A forerunner of today's comic strip can be found in an Egyptian wall decoration circa 2000 B.C. In successive panels, it depicts the actions of two wrestlers in a variety of holds. In one of Leonardo da Vinci's most famous illustrations, he shows how the limbs would look in various positions. Giotto's angels seem to take flight in their repetitive motions. The Japanese used scrolls to tell continuous stories. Since the beginnings of time, human beings have tried to capture a sense of motion in their art. From the eight-legged boar in the Altamira caves of Northern Spain to paintings alongside the remains of long-dead pharaohs, this quest for capturing motion has been a common theme throughout many of mankind's artistic endeavors. The development of the motion camera and projector by Thomas A. Edison and others provided the first practical means of making animation. Even still, the animation was done in the simplest of means. Stuart Blackton issued a short film in 1906 entitled Humorous Phases of Funny Faces where he drew comical faces on a blackboard, photographed them, and the erased it to draw another stage of the facial expression. This "stop-motion" effect astonished audiences by making drawings comes to life.
             Anime is a form of entertainment whose origins lie outside of the United States, originally was not aimed at the kiddy market. Once these anime was released, it became a culture shock for Americans and challenged the animation market and drawings related to style, stamina and dramatic introduction of characters involved within these films. The culture of anime originates in a Japanese arena of foreign films. Once released this film determined if animations need to be rated because of the explicit content, and the broad imagination anime brings to the screen. In Japan, anime is translated to animation according to the United States language. It refers to all animation including Disney and other western films, however in the...