Anime is a short word for "animation" which is a genre that was very popular in Japan in the early 1900's with it's most famous anime called Astro Boy that aired in In 1963 which was inspired by Akira Shoten. Before the popular use of TV animation, animation was use for mostly proaganda around 1917 but after 1945 Anime was influenced by the United states. With the growth of techology and war between the 1930's and 1940's the elements of anime was growing despite the low fundings and and hardship of a work space, Kenzo Masaoka was able to rise up in the world of anime with the intention of bringing anime to an advanced setting on television.