Oh, The Ways Japanese Anime Has Changed Over the Years

These image of popular anime K-On! has been making its way through the Japanese internet.

They show K-On! as the anime actually appears now as well as how it "would" appear if it had been drawn in the 1990s, the 1980s, the 1970s, and even the 1960s.

K-On!, of course, is not a decades old anime. It debuted in manga form back in 2007.

While the images are hyperbolic and humorous, they do show how Japanese anime has evolved over the years.

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At the very bottom, there's a tongue-in-cheek image of how K-On! would have appeared in the Edo Period, before schoolgirls rocked out on guitars.

年代別で見る『けいおん！』の画像が進化してるｗｗｗｗｗｗ [がぞたん NSFW]