Thoughts of Japanese culture usually include references to traditional words such as Kabuki, sumo, samurai or ninja, according to Amelia Newcomb, author of "The Japan breaks the hegemony of American pop culture. This is no longer true, in fact, without realizing it, Japanese culture has seeped under the door and invaded American culture. Roland Kelts, author of the book Japanamerica, wrote of these ideals: The terms anime, manga, and otaku have become common parlance in American media, no longer explained or defined parenthetically. Anime conventions take place almost every weekend somewhere in the American chain, and independent book, video, and DVD stores devote ever-larger plots of valuable space to products shipped from Japan. Public and school libraries fill their shelves with paper-backed anime and manga DVDs. (69) Japanese culture has invaded America through cartoons, movies, television, cooking, Hello Kitty, video games, and other aspects. Anime is a significant factor in the influence of Japanese culture in America. Dragon Tamer Luna (DTL), pseudonym of a person who wrote an article titled Anime: The American Influence provided the definition of anime: "Whenever someone hears the word 'anime,' they immediately think to Japanese or at least Asian animation. cartoons. Really, even though the word “anime” is derived from the word “animation”. And the definition of animation is the making of films by filming a sequence of slightly varied drawings or models so that they appear to move and change when the sequence is shown. » (par. 1) The first cartoon that defined anime was Astro Boy or The Mighty Atom, directed by Osamu Tezuka and was originally shown in the 1960s. (DTL, par. 4). Cartoons have also been described... middle of paper ......ists, some even in their original language. This includes computer-synthesized Vocaloids for the likes of Utada Hikaru and BoA. Anime, cosplay, movies, and video games all show the invasion of Japanese culture into America. Japanese as a language is becoming more and more popular. The number of those studying the language increased from 127,000 in 1997 to approximately three million in 2006 (Kelts 179). Characters like Pikachu, Hello Kitty and those from other cartoons have graced our presence in public advertising, and children around the world are able to recognize these faces. Japan is much closer to the Americans than in the past. A lot of these ideas add up to the idea of ​​what is originally American or what is originally Japanese. American culture is rapidly evolving toward what other countries show us. Japanese culture truly seeped under the gate and invaded America.