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Originally Posted by relentlessflame
Yeah, there are interviews with Tezuka where he talks about his influences, and Disney is certainly right up there. I tend to think that, in those days, everything was influencing each other since the industry was in its growth phase. Patterns emerged and common styles formed, but I don't think anything is a copy of anything else. So I don't think "anime was invented in Russia" or anywhere else in particular -- it evolved from many inputs.
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It can be said that the origins of many things aren't very clear. Though since anime means to us "Animation from Japan" it doesn't really matter too much. Of course, anime to Japanese means just "animation", and thus they would be extremely confused on why we're discussing this.
