Beginners Guide to Early Anime
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- Опубликовано: 29 июн 2024
- Today's video covers my beginner's guide to early anime, ranging from 1910 to 1959. It's less of a historical video and moreso recommending my favorites from these eras after watching everything available. Hopefully, this inspires you to strengthen your anime foundation and give some a try.
00:00 What makes early anime unique?
02:40 Yasuji Murata
4:20 Nobuhiro Oofuji
06:50 Yasuji Mori & Early Toei
13:10 Ryuichi Yokoyama
14:15 Recommended Titles
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animation.filmarchives.jp/en/...
cartoonresearch.com/index.php...
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I'm not really surprised about the whole animal thing. Anthropomorphic animals appear in all cultures throughout history
That animation in Koneko no Studio looks really good! It's really smooth at times. That smooth perspective shift animation reminds me of what Richard Williams is best known for. Also, I really like the cute design of the robots.
those robots are cute af, would love to see that and woodcutter in HD. If you're interested in other animation effects like that rotation at the end, check out Bari Bari Densetsu ruclips.net/video/RnA-l-NJxOg/видео.html loved seeing the camera rotate around a moving motorcycle
Long hair bob making a comeback 🙌
Thank you so much for making this era of anime more accessible!
This is an absolutely phenomenal crash course on this topic. Not many people take the time to delve into the details beyond saying something like "Astro Boy was highly influential" when it comes to the roots of anime history. This was a great way of framing the era and showing some of the progression and influence these early works had on the anime industry.
Thanks for your hard work and first-hand research/observations, as opposed to just reading Wikipedia/MAL summaries (if they even exist for half of this stuff).
Ironically Wikipedia is usually the furthest I'll read (though I read Japanese sites for this vid), and most of my opinions are just based on my experiences since that's what brings me the most joy. Watching it, and in this video seeing how the animation evolved. I'm not sure how long I can continue this since animation gradually becomes too complex to pick up by eye alone, but I'm going to be doing another one of these for the 1960s too in a few months once I finish Muumin, Judo Boy, and Tiger Mask. Also, I appreciate the compliment. All these videos are just shots in the dark that I assume will be novelties for a small audience
@@bobsamurai Glad you have fun with it yourself but man don't sell your work here short, I think its got value. History is important, small audience or otherwise. A lot of this isn't very well documented in an easily digestible way in English. Even if some of it is few would take the time to actually watch so much, compile clips, and share their thoughts/recs like you have here. Love your regular uploads too. Patiently looking forward to that 60s video👍
metal bob is back!
also 8:45 LOL
I literally went through and watched every single solitary one of these shorts from the early 1920's to 1950's several years ago and let me tell you, what a crash course in history, its pretty interesting to see where anime got its humble beginings and even more so, what even predated japanese anime, which was Kamishibai Street Theater in japan and was popular in the 1920's-1930's during the post war peroid. So you can say ANIME's entire origins date even back to the early 19th century. I honestly can't tell you how fascinating and such a wild experience it is to uncover the deeper evolution of this medium. Wait till you get to the 70's and uncover Mecha and Super Robot genre's. Man oh man, good stuff.
Glad you enjoyed them! Check out my GeGeGe no Kitaro BG because that was originally a Kamishibai play and it’s mangaka was a kamishibai artist previously
@@bobsamurai Its still such a travesty that something as popular as Gegege no Kitaro in japan still isn't fully watchable for each adaptation.
Good Video, even as someone who watches old anime I rarely look at titles made before the 70's, so this was really informative. Also have you heard of a film called Princess Iron Fan, it's a Chinese film that's generally considered to be the first Asian animated film. It was huge in Japan and inspired a ton of eventual Toei animators, and even Tezuka himself.
This was a really interesting video, especially the idea of using cutouts over traditional cells.
yea, it's actually something that anyone can do at home, would be cool to see a youtube channel that does it
Loved the watch Bob! Thanks for putting this out for us
Did you know that Osamu Tezuka and Leiji Matsumoto, friends in school attended a theater to watch the "Momotarou Sacred Sailors" and this very film is what influenced them to start there anime career's and established the landscape for what would be the very early conventional beginings in japanese anime during the post war era.
Yea I reviewed that movie on its own so that’s why it’s not mentioned more here, though I should have mentioned that I reviewed it at least. Idk how I forgot that
Love this content, Thank you! Keep up the great work.
Thank you for this fantastically informational video! I’m a huge fan of animation and its history, and it’s hard to come across concise information!
Rintaro began his career in Toei too!
Very fascinating and intriguing 👏 🤔 👍 The Black and White Woodcutter look great 👍
Thank you very much mr Bob. I appreciate you for catering to my ancient tastes
Awesome video man!
nice video man!!
Hey Bob, when's your next upload. We miss you! Have you stopped making RUclips video's? can't wait for you to return your anime guides have helped me a lot.
tomorrow, tetsujin 28. these videos take a while, but i'm glad you're anticipating them
While I respect these anime for what they accomplished and what the creators managed to pull off, I don't think at least as of now watch any anime that predates the 70s unless if I somehow in some way get through my entire MAL plan to watch list and I am craving for more.
Still, I get what TV Tropes meant by saying anime before the 80s had a "first installment weirdness" of sorts. Just looking at early anime feels so different to what it is now, it's fascinating.
The way anime used to have animal mascots as protagonists doesn't seem that different from the way video games started out.
I can't tell if this is what you are saying, but the dismissive position I often see that early [insert medium here] isn't good but IS influential, is normally coming from a preconceived mindset that the only value of early [insert medium here] comes from technical innovation, which is completely backwards. Animation from the 1920s is as much "art" as animation from the 2020's, just as silent black and white films are as much "art" as those created in the 21st century. The difference is we are in the 2020's and can easily slot the 1920's into some sort of historical narrative, whereas the 2020's are present and ongoing, i.e. "new". But the animation from the 1920's was created by people in the 1920's and their inclination towards technical innovation was not for innovations sake, but for arts sake.
Until this mindset is overcome (that of thinking the only value in the past is technical innovation and "influence"), then I would very much urge those with this mindset NOT to engage with the early stages of mediums and human thought. On the other hand, there is nothing wrong with simply being curious about those technical innovations. And perhaps enjoyment and aesthetic experience will be derived from exploring the history for this reason. But I'm not speaking to these people.
@@tjr930
You really are coming off to me as a rambling weirdo, it's not like I am saying they are bad, they just don't appeal to me.
Hayao Miyazaki said in an interview Hakujaden was his favorite Anime as a kid and what ended up making him pursue a career in animation.
That was extremely interesting. 🙂
Wow, some of those anime looked gorgeous
hell yea!
A nice collection of titles, do you know how they were shown back in the day? I know in America animated shorts were shown before Films, but I can't imagine Japan had a big enough Film industry back then.
I know later movies were shown in a theater-like setting, but a large amount of early anime were produced by the ministry of education, so they were also shown in school it seems.
Fascinating
It’s like you make these videos for me specifically
I think you know more about Japanese animation than Japanese people. great!🎉
Thanks! I feel like I don't know that much, I just watch more anime than the average person, and that's fine because I enjoy watching it. We have a website for tracking our anime, if you want to look at the anime I've seen myanimelist.net/profile/BobSamurai
The 1926 cigarette one is cute funny and short but heavy detail in live and 2d
Ryuichi Yokoyama was also a mangaka who created Fuku Chan.
the cold hard truth is that anime back then lol was more fluid then even some of today's animation LOL.
TRUTH!
Nice vid. you should put timestamps on the video to make it easier for viewers to watch.
damn i forgot. thanks!
I haven't visited this channel in a while and uh, whoa. When you'd grow your hair out?
Imagine creating a first ever hentai and getting arrested.
it was confiscated also, i think it's still shown in screenings? I just want to know if he had those fish bodies banging
3:50 Interestingly (to me anyway), these words are written in Katakana, the Japanese letters used typically to sound out foreign words. They're Japanese words though.
Naruhodo kore wa(ha) umai umai.
なるほどこれはうまい美味い。
I wonder if they did that because it was for kids, or maybe it was done because they used a limited typeset?
Just an observation as I'm learning.
that's a good observation, i never pay much attention to those cards, just the subs. I've seen a lot of silent Japanese movies too, though I can't remember how their cards were written either. I'll keep that in mind next time I watch one
I Love to see you to Be interesting washing Soyuzmultfilm that’s doodle is really in into reteigne and historical significant to Animation history
beginners guide to tetsujin 28 ?
いいね👍️
Do you even watch new anime anymore?😅
i watched some bleach and to your eternity s2, but mostly preoccupied with the vintage anime project. it's really jarring to switch back and forth. like alternating between Atari pong and 4k VR games
where are the cute anime girls?