Anime

How many of you people reading this watch anime? Or have even heard of it? Right now, I'm going to tell you about some that I have heard of or watched before.

Firstly, anime is a bunch of cartoons made by the Japanese. But it's not just for kids. There are some anime for adults only and some for both too. There are a whole range of different topics and storylines for people to follow.

Another question you may be asking is what is the difference between anime and other cartoons? Well, say you are watching a cartoon that's not very realistic, say it has people and animals doing impossible stunts or something like that. That would probably not be an anime.

Anime charaters tend to have those big eyes and as someone once told me: "not dressed enough". Other than that, they have this different 'feel' from the other cartoons. They have these funny expressions sometimes; like if they are embarrassed they have this teardrop behind their heads. It really adds some humour to an otherwise weird story.

Some animes that are kind of famous are:

- Pokemon: Pocket Monsters. Ash Ketchem (main character) and his group of friends travelling with their Pokemon and battling gym members for badges.

-Digimon: Digital Monsters. It came out a few years before Pokemon, though some people think otherwise. A group of kids are on a camp when they are suddenly transported to a parallel digital world filled with monsters. They team up with some of the digimon to try and get home. This anime has 4 series.

- Naruto: The main character, Naruto, and his friends Sakura and Sasuke are ninjas in training. Before this, Naruto wasn't treated very nicely by the villagers in his village because the former leader sealed a fox demon into Naruto's body and whenever something bad happened, for example the crops weren't good or anything like that, the villagers would all blame it on Naruto because they thought he was the fox demon giving them bad luck. There's more than one story in this and you will have to watch to find out.

- Inuyasha: A schoolgirl from modern day Japan is somehow sent back to the Feudal Age, where there are demons all looking for something called the Shikon Jewel. At the beginning of the story, she finds out that she is the reincarnation of a priestess who guarded the Shikon Jewel. In fact the same priestess who told her followers to burn her with it to keep it safe from the wrong people. She also finds out that the Shikon Jewel is in her own body when a demon cuts her and it falls out. It breaks and now she has to find all the pieces before the bad guys do. With the help of the priestess' half-demon husband (ignore that part if you are going to watch this anime) and a bunch of others she starts on her journey.

- Yu-Gi-Oh: Yugi has a puzzle which has a spirit of a game king in it. This spirit helps Yugi in all his game challenges. The story starts when Yugi's grandfather loses a game of cards to the world champion Kaiba. Yugi challenges Kaiba and wins. Then, he is challenged by the inventor of the game Pegasus and loses so Pegasus steals Yugi's grandfather's soul and tells Yugi that if he wants to see his grandfather again, he has to join the Duelling Kingdom competition and win, even against Pegasus himself. So, Yugi, with a group of devoted friends, goes to the competition. And that's when things get interesting.

These are just some of many different anime. I hope you enjoy them.