Japanese Animation By Nick Clarke WhereWhen it Began
Japanese Animation By Nick Clarke
Where/When it Began • Obviously, originated in Japan. • The oldest anime generated in Japan, that has been recorded dates way back to 1917 and the film was called “Blunt Sword”. Referred to as a film, but would be more like a GIF to us in modern society.
Cont. • Japanese Anime/Manga didn’t really become popular in it’s country until after WW 2, when a man named ‘Osamu Tezuka’ release the first ever novel-length manga comic, and he became known for his unique character design, which is pretty much the face of Japanese anime today. What was so different about his character design was the bigger, bulging eyes and the over-exaggerated facial expressions. You can thank him for influencing the looks of popular anime characters like Ash Ketchum from Pokemon, characters from Sailor Moon, and many more.
Some Early Japanese Companys, Producers, and Influences. • Toei Animation (Actually Influenced by the Productions of Disney) • Yasuji Mori (Toei’s earliest lead Animator) • Fuji TV (First Anime TV Network, founded in 1957) • Osamu Tezuka (Early Manga Writer, later anime producer) • Mushi Productions (Actually was created by Osamu Tezuka)
Toei Animation is one of the first Animated Movie company’s to be founded In japan(1948). It was created by Hiroshi Okawa, and in 1956 they released their first ever animated film ‘The Tale of the White Serpent’ or ‘Panda and the Magic Serpent’. Although being one of the first Japanese anime company’s to exist, Toei’s films weren’t getting big enough to turn a profit until around the late 90’s
Toei Cont. The titles that Toei Animation started to turn profit on, and that were starting to becoming big in the western part of the world was The ‘Dragon Ball’ series(Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, and Dragon Ball GT) and Sailor Moon. They later went on to make some of the animated cartoons you most likely watched as a kid, which are Yu-Gi-Oh, which was produced in the late 1990’s, and Digimon, which was produced in the early 2000’s. Also, Why I revolved a lot of this presentation around Toei is because I think since they were an early animation company, they had to have at least some influence on most of the Japanese animation company’s there is today, they’re still producing anime to this date.
Example Clip • FMA • This show was published by Square Enix in 2003
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