/kloc-The "bird and beast play painting" drawn by a school of Japanese Buddhism-Buddhist monks in the 20th century is usually regarded as the origin of Japanese cartoons. Birds and beasts behave like people and bodhisattvas in their relaxed and casual paintings.

18 14, a famous painter in the edo period in Japan created the word "manga" to refer to a group of paintings he painted with random brushwork, concise lines and prominent characters as the theme and myth, history and daily life as the content.

Contemporary Japanese cartoons have absorbed many expressions from traditional Japanese paintings such as Zen painting, ukiyo-e painting, crazy painting and spring painting.

/kloc-satirical cartoons criticizing current affairs and politics appeared in the 0/9th century. Punch, a British comic magazine founded by 184 1, has the greatest influence in this respect. The Japanese version of Punch appeared in 1862. Punched paintings were later used to refer to European-style satirical cartoons. 1877, the perforated publication Tuan Tuan Zhen appeared in Japan. These cartoons use balloon dialogs and some western painting techniques. 1902, the first four-grid cartoon with typesetting dialogue appeared in Japan.

Another major influence of Japanese comics comes from the explosion of American comics in the 1920s and 1930s. The appearance of cartoons such as Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse and Superman has influenced many Japanese cartoonists.

Japanese comics in a truly modern sense were born after World War II. Osamu Tezuka, the Japanese "God of Comics", has given comics a new meaning. He absorbed the characteristics of traditional art and tried to apply all kinds of impressive painting techniques to comic creation. He integrated the expressions of zoom, wide angle, bird's-eye view and other films into comics, which made comics feel like movies. Osamu Tezuka successfully brought Japanese manga into a brand-new field, making it have a distinct self-style, which laid the foundation for the rapid development of Japanese manga industry.

As for animation:

1942, the war cartoon "Vultures on the Sea in Momotaro" shot with the support of the Admiralty.

1956, The Legend of the White Snake, the first color feature film in Japan, was released.

196 1~ 1962, Osamu Tezuka experimental animation "The Story of the Corner" was released.

1963, the first Japanese TV animation Astro Boy was broadcast.