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Made by Shimokawa Oten, by chalk!
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Dekobo Shingacho - Meian no Shippai (Dekobo’s New Picture Book
- Failure of a Great Plan)
1917 saw the release of approximately 20 more animated short films, this was during WW1 and sparked a lot of curiosity for this new film industry.
Manga artists Oten Shimokawa and Junichi Kouchi and painter Seitaro Kitayama were in awe of this new uprise and were immediately hired to work with small teams in order to start producing animated films.
These three were soon to be known as the fathers of anime. -
didn't survive the decade, since, at the time, it was hard to earn money in the anime industry.
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Kouchi followed the footsteps of Kitayama, although even this studio didn't survive the decade.
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Chikara to Onna no Yo no Naka (Within the World of Power and Women) - a story of a man who is having an affair with his secretary after growing tired of his wife.
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Masaoka‘s Chagama Ondo (The Dance of the Chagamas)
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Momotaro: Umi no Shinpei (Momotaro, Sacred Sailors)
this was a propaganda film commissioned by the Japanese army and it featured anthropomorphic animals, hoping to send out an underlying message of hope for peace - moves a young manga artist to tears named Osamu Tezuka to tears, an important figure for the evolution of anime. (He is eventually known as the god of manga) -
They release Hakujaden (The Tale of the White Serpent) in 1958.
-the first feature-length color anime film -
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Mobile Suit Gundam
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Dragon Ball is now one of the most famous anime known to exist
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This anime did super well while the Japanese economy had one of it's biggest crashes. Then Neon Genesis Evangelion followed sailor moon's steps, by doing really well itself in 1995
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This is where the anime industry blossomed the most to other parts of the world, the amazing animations that were being developed started to show interest in different countries and most people took there start from the widely known shounen anime Naruto, One Piece, and Bleach.
