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1940s
Japan was hit again by a major catastrophe, but this time man made. During WW2 a lot of works were destroyed. In total there are more creations from before 1945 lost than preserved. While so far nothing made it to my PTW list it still pained me as I would love to have all the music, video games, books, anime and so on to be archived and available. Anyway, when the war raged not much was produced, only a few propaganda works. Afterwards not much has been created either. Worth being mentioned is that the first full length film has been produced and the first studio with works being attributed to it was established. All the prior stuff had as information regarding the studio unknown written down, as they rarely founded studios so far. Regarding the source it was either original, book, or other with folktales and fables being very popular to adopt. Unfortunately the mentioned studio was only a short-lived propaganda studio, but familiar studios start to appear soon. At least the paper cut outs from the last three decades have been replaced with cel animation now. Besides this China entered the stage with its first work, which surprised me, because I didn’t expect to see them this early. What makes me doubt a little was the fact that other sources say that China has done animation even before that, namely a few commercials, then some short films and later propaganda during the war with Japan. The title of pioneers have the Wang Brothers and they started doing so in the 1920s. Overall this made me question if MAL is any good regarding Donghua. Given the fact I do that for anime I hope nobody is upset that I didn’t dig deeper there. Honestly, I don’t really like Donghua too…
1950s
Not much is being done, but Toei and Eiken are around now, two studios that are still active today. Somebody may now think that Toei was already founded in the 1940s, but I decided to put them in here, when they released their first anime. Another mention is the first time anime was seen on TV, a short special. Else the first anime has been shown in movie theatres outside of Japan. China is doing what China does, producing stuff like crazy. A lot of puppet animations and stop motions are among them, else propaganda. I also had a hard time finding the Chinese productions, until I started to search them in Chinese instead English. This was something I couldn’t let it be how it was and I went back to search for anime I didn’t found in Japanese. As it turns out it didn’t matter much. All those creations from the 1910s – 1950s have not copyright and are even made available by Japanese institutions itself, who otherwise are very hard about that due to Japanese laws.. Exceptions are only the works from studios that still exist today. Still, this realization regarding searching made it much easier for me later.
1960s
The first anime series is reality, it’s called Instant History. Several hundred episodes, but only a few minutes each. As it is about history I would be interested to watch it, but it’s almost entirely lost. Astro Boy aired around 2 years later and the first popular anime was born. Instant History got a sequel too. Important occurrences would be Tezuka Osamu starting to produce anime, bringing Mushi Productions with him and anime being in colour now. To save money a few years after the introduction of colour black and white coexisted alongside of it, before it was scrapped as it couldn’t compete. This is not all though, as the craze for sci-fi and space began, which lasted decades. The first mahou shoujou came along as well., same goes for the first shoujou. Sazae-san also started airing, which is remarkable as it does so to this day. What makes it even more interesting is that there was were never any physical media released for it. Perhaps nobody ever saw everything from it. For some reason this remembered me of the refusal of the author of Yotuba-to to make an anime adaptation. At last there is Korea joining in and creating their first work. Again there are sources saying Korea already made commercials and propaganda before, but MAL does not have them. Makes me wonder why they don’t, either go all in with documenting stuff or let It be. Hopefully this doesn’t mean they are also lacking when it comes to anime and olny Dongua and Aeni, which is the Korean name for anime.
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