Anime is not just kids' cartoon to the Japanese audience. This genre of TV show caters to a wide range of age groups and includes mature adults amongst their loyal fanatics. It is more like a much celebrated mainstream entertainment product in Japan that has long been embedded into the rich framework of the people's cultural identity. It's a part of life, a part of one's daily conversational content, a trend to keep pace with, and an engaging story to fantasize over. It's hard to imagine how Japan would be this day without ever producing 'anime', or rather, how else the Western world would look up to the country should such revolutionizing product has never been created nor delivered to the other end of the globe. Is anime of a necessity so that Japan can be deemed a 'well-developed' modern nation with its existence? What if 'cartoons', as its predecessor, were never born to begin with? Will there still be anime to stock up the shelves of our video stores today? The thing is, no one can underestimate the creativity of the Japanese from the way they ambitiously take on an original raw product that wasn't theirs to begin with, reshape it, restyle it, 'reblend' it with other ingredients exclusively from their end, even if they're just a small portion of the whole thing, then add that unique finishing touch of 'umami' flavour, and there you go, a complete reinvention that can even supersede the formerly bland building blocks. In this respect, such master skill they have not only apply towards animation, but in other industrial sectors as well, and no wonder the world could not do without the Japanese...What they painstakingly provide for us all this while, has become our necessity...
