Thinking about Japanese culture typically includes references to traditional words such as Kabuki, sumo, samurai, or ninja according to Amelia Newcomb, author of "Japan Breaks the Hegemony of American pop culture". This is no longer true, in fact, without realizing it, Japanese culture has crept under the door and invaded the American one. Roland Kelts, author of the book Japanamerica, wrote about such ideals: The terms anime, manga, and otaku have become common parlance in American media, no longer explained or defined in parentheses. Anime conventions are held almost every weekend somewhere in the U.S. chain, and independent book, video and DVD stores devote ever-larger swaths of valuable space to products shipped from Japan. Public and school libraries stock their shelves with anime DVDs and manga spines. (69) Japanese culture has invaded America through anime, movies, television, cooking, Hello Kitty, video games, and other aspects. Anime is a major factor in the influence of Japanese culture in America. Dragon Tamer Luna (DTL), a pseudonym of a person who wrote an article titled Anime: The American influence stated the definition of anime: "Whenever someone hears the word 'anime' they immediately think of Japanese animation or mostly less Asian." cartoons. Actually, although the word "anime" comes from the word "animation". And the definition of animation is the making of films by filming a sequence of slightly different drawings or patterns 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, made by Osamu Tezuka and originally shown in the 1960s. (DTL, par. 4). Anime have also been described... in the middle of the paper..., some even in their original language. This includes computer-synthesized Vocaloids from people like 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 learning the language rose from 127,000 in 1997 to approximately three million in 2006. (Kelts 179). Characters like Pikachu, Hello Kitty and those from other anime 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 it was in the past. A lot of these ideas add to the idea of ​​what is originally American or what is originally Japanese. American culture is rapidly transforming into what other countries show us. Japanese culture really got under the door and invaded America.