Authored by : Gabriella Wibisono I 25 Januari 2021

The word anime, a term derived from the English word animation. In 1917, anime was used for the first time as an advertisements in local television. Anime actually means all animated works, regardless of style or origin. However, people outside of Japan think that anime refers specifically to animation produced in Japan.

In 1960, Osamu Tezuka a manga artist and animator try to adapted Disney animation style with a simplified version to reduce cost and limit the frame counts. The first anime that caught people’s attention is Astro Boy. Since then, not just anime but comic books caught people’s attention too, that’s why there are are a lot of anime based on comic books. In 1990 till 2000, Sailor moon and the melancholy of haruhi suzumiya is a big hit and get attention from people around the world.

To produce an anime, there is an animation production process, involving storyboarding, voice acting, character design. These 3 factors are absolute to produce an anime. Unfortunately, there are a lot of great animators who feels uneasy to work as professionals because the salaries of these animators aren’t big enough and not worth their hard work.

Anime airing for the first time in local television in Indonesia since 1970. There are a lot of anime that is popular in Indonesia, which is doraemon, dragon ball, naruto and hamtaro. These anime got special places in Indonesian hearts. Since then, anime lovers in Indonesia keep increasing, unfortunately as time goes by, Indonesian local television shows little interest to broadcast anime, but this doesn’t put down anime lovers passion.