Hey, otaku boys and girls! With Japanese anime officially a phenomenon in the West for over 30 years and a new generation of anime nerds giving rise to the next generation of amazing Japanese animation. Celebrate one of Japan’s greatest cultural exports with these awesome anime graphic tees from Nerd Kung Fu. These t-shirts feature anime and manga classics like Astroboy, beloved series like One-Piece and Neon Genesis: Evangelion, and new phenoms like Attack on Titan, all printed in full-color on 100%-cotton. Available in a multitude of sizes and styles.
Anime Shirts
“Anime” is a Japanese word used for computer or hand-drawn animation. Outside of Japan, anime refers specifically to animation actually from Japan or a Japanese animation style. It is often characterized and portrayed by fantastical themes, colorful and clever graphics, and vibrantly portrayed characters.
T-shirts are the Perfect Platform
The above is very descriptive of artistic and unique anime shirts as there are thousands of designs available for adults and for children that are officially licensed and can continue to expand buyers' wardrobes on a regular basis for those who are devotees. Many of the more than 430 production studios and many manufacturers will even allow you to create your own designs to put on your anime shirts, whether for you personally, for family or friends, or for a group such as a bowling team.
What is Featured?
There is a never-ending supply of such anime shirts to satisfy those who are looking to wear characters and funny and comical sayings from pop culture, movies, television, comics, super heroes, slang expressions, animals, Disney characters, Harry Potter and other popular characters, cartoons, music, pop culture, celebrities, and even if you are a geek fashionista! Artists and designers have had a “heyday” with being able to create these shirts in a huge variety of styles and colors.
What is a Typical Anime?
Just one example is a Sloth Party Animal T-Shirt for children. A cute sloth hangs from a tree with headphones covering the ears while a radio plays. The T-shirt is complete with the message "Party Animal.”
Production
Computers have made it affordable to produce such shirts even in small amounts by distinctive production methods and technology techniques and using imaginative graphic art characterizations and sayings. Being hand-drawn, anime often separates from reality with its proportions and features such as larger-than-life eyes. The shirts can then easily be shipped anywhere in the world.
A Bit of History
The earliest Japanese commercial animation dates back to 1917, and the anime-influenced production has increased steadily. The more characteristic anime art style that we are familiar with came about in the 1960s. It spread even to a greater degree internationally in the late twentieth century as it developed a large domestic and international audience through television broadcasts, over the Internet, through a majority of Japanese films and DVD sales, English-dubbed programming, and other methods.
