Anime’s age?

Hey Everybody!!!
Hey I havent posted stuff in a while now so I decided I might aswell post this.How old do you think Anime is? I personally think its quite old, like 50 years.
Tell me what you think.

There’s no definite answer. Some people consider the birth of anime as the propaganda cartoons of WWII Japan. It’s all up to the viewer and how he sees it.

Correct me if I’m wrong but didn’t it start with Astro Boy? My mom used to watch that show so it probably started in the 60s.

No kiddin�, I thought it was in the 70s with Speed Racer.

The earliest anime I know of was Astro Boy, which my parents used to watch when they were *wee* young ones. I can’t imagine my parents as kids sitting in front of the T.V. watching cartoons. They’re so…mature…now.

Yeah, it’s weird picturing your parents as little kids watching cartoons.

One time I was in a bookstore and I showed my mom an Astro Boy manga and asked "Isn’t this the show you used to watch when you were little?" She started singing the Astro Boy theme song in the middle of the bookstore. 😮

id say a few hundred years old cuz even before anime was in books and shows it was in paintings that the japaniesse made right? thats where it all came from and evolved in to the animes we love today ^_^ :uh?:

Yeah those paintings were Japanese art which were radically different from anime today. I own a book on East Asian art and believe me the two are nothing alike.

I can’t relate that to anything, can you?