Hello all, so as I imagine a great many of you know or will be somewhat familiar with, after the devastation of World War 2 a new art form emerged from Germany, i.e 'Lebhaftigkeit' or Animation. This was simply Cartoons made in Germany and usually targeted at a majority German audience, but whilst the initial cartoons were similar in style to American 'Disney' animation, they began to take on a more Germanic theme, with German customs and behaviour. It should also be added that Lebhaftigkeit tend to have more adult themes, and story telling than contemporary cartoons of the west, the art forms tends to be more realistic with a darker colour pallet and 'human' looking characters, though not all stick to this rule.
By the 1970s it was an art form in its own right with a large german audience for new shows, it was around this time that the United States began to take notice and the first subtitled and later fully English dub Lebhaftigkeit made their way over. Today there is a large and diverse community of Lebhaftigkeit fans across the globe, with a wide variety of shows on offer, there is a definite movement behind the medium and it's style has started to leak into contemporary American and British shows.
So I must ask, who else if not Germany could have developed its own form of Lebhaftigkeit, what would it look like and what would it be called? And what is your favourite 'Lebhaftigkeit'?
Yours
Luath
OOC: basically what if Germany invented Anime?
By the 1970s it was an art form in its own right with a large german audience for new shows, it was around this time that the United States began to take notice and the first subtitled and later fully English dub Lebhaftigkeit made their way over. Today there is a large and diverse community of Lebhaftigkeit fans across the globe, with a wide variety of shows on offer, there is a definite movement behind the medium and it's style has started to leak into contemporary American and British shows.
So I must ask, who else if not Germany could have developed its own form of Lebhaftigkeit, what would it look like and what would it be called? And what is your favourite 'Lebhaftigkeit'?
Yours
Luath
OOC: basically what if Germany invented Anime?
