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The first animated film released in Japan
Made by Shimokawa Oten, by chalk!
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First anime film commercially released
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. -
First anime studio, Kitayama Eiga Seisakujo
didn't survive the decade, since, at the time, it was hard to earn money in the anime industry. -
Sumikazu (2nd anime studio)
Kouchi followed the footsteps of Kitayama, although even this studio didn't survive the decade. -
First anime with pre-recorded, synced voices
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. -
First anime made entirely with cels
Masaoka‘s Chagama Ondo (The Dance of the Chagamas) -
First full-length anime film
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) -
Japan Animated Films is founded, also known as Toei
They release Hakujaden (The Tale of the White Serpent) in 1958.
-the first feature-length color anime film -
Hakujaden (The Tale of the White Serpent) is released in America
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One of the first robot themed anime
Mobile Suit Gundam -
Toei animated Akira Toriyama’s Dragon Ball
Dragon Ball is now one of the most famous anime known to exist -
Sailor Moon
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 -
Period: to
CGI and Computer Based animations
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.
