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Jun 12, 2020 · The grand saviour of Japanese feature animation was supposed to be The King’s Tail (Osama no Shippo), a fairytale loosely inspired by Hans Christian Andersen, in production at Toho under Seo Mitsuyo.
- The Dawn of Japanese Anime
- The Start of Tōei Dōga
- Tetsuwan Atomu: The First Japanese Television Anime
- The Wilderness Years and The Appearance of A Blockbuster
- The Proliferation of “Japanimation” Fans
Japan began producing animation in 1917—still the age of silent films—through trial-and-error drawing and cutout animation techniques, based on animated shorts from France and the United States. People started talking about the high quality of Japanese “manga films.” But Japanese anime were costlier to produce than Western animations and were overs...
It was during these years, as Japan began to recover from the disastrous war, that Ōkawa Hiroshi, president of the Tōei film company, saw Disney’s Snow White (1937). He was overwhelmed by the gorgeous color of the film. In 1956, he built a modern studio—a white-walled palace with air conditioning, as people called it—and founded Tōei Dōga (now Tōei...
On January 1, 1963, Fuji Television broadcast a 30-minute animated television series called Tetsuwan Atomu (better known in English as Astro Boy). The show became a surprise hit, starting an anime boom and a period of intense competition for TV audiences. The success marked the beginning of a new kind of anime industry. The low franchise fees paid ...
Merchandising became entrenched as part of the basic business model for all the television anime that followed. The most popular genre dealt with science fiction and space, followed by shows about girls with magical powers. In 1968, the popular baseball-themed Kyojin no hoshi (Star of the Giants) began, followed in 1969 by the first episode of the ...
Meanwhile, Japanese television anime began to become popular among young people overseas. In some countries, adults rejected it, calling it “Japanimation” and criticizing it as cheap, violent, and sexually explicit. When Kyandi kyandi(Candy Candy) was broadcast in France, young girls were glued to the television screen. Some parents resented this, ...
May 7, 2018 · Takahata was a humanist at heart and, through his animation work, he showed deep consideration of Japanese people’s life and destiny, of how they could respect their country’s heritage and history, and ultimately, of how all of us as humans can live realistically in touch with our past, present and a peaceful, meaningful future that we can ...
Katsudō Shashin. According to Natsuki Matsumoto, the first animated film produced in Japan may have stemmed from as early as 1907. Known as Katsudō Shashin (活動写真, "Activity Photo"), from its depiction of a boy in a sailor suit drawing the characters for katsudō shashin, the film was first found in 2005.
Apr 12, 2018 · Isao Takahata died last week at 82. He created some of the most influential and poignant films in the history of Japanese animation.
Apr 9, 2018 · In 1988, three years after they founded Japan’s celebrated Studio Ghibli, Isao Takahata and his friend Hayao Miyazaki unveiled one of the oddest double bills in animation history: “My...
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The oldest surviving example of Japanese animation, Namakura Gatana (Blunt Sword), dates back to 1917, though much of the earliest animated movies were lost following a massive earthquake in Tokyo in 1923.
