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The 1st time anime and manga were released was in the 1940's, and the first anime was Tetsuwan Atom, or known here in north America as ASTRO BOY. Oh yeah, and the first artist was Osamau Tezuka, who made astro boy, and is known today as "The Godfather of anime and manga", because of the fact that he pretty much invented manga and anime. And then from there, it took off and has become an extremely successful industry in the animation world ever since...

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Believe it or not, but it all started in 1912. Although, nothing was a huge hit at that time, the first generation of anime was born by the animator Oten Shimokawa who was hired by Tenkatsu. He could only do five movies due to health problems. One of them was called Imokawa Mukuzo Genkanban no Maki.

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