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おとぎマンガカレンダー, or Otogi Manga Calendar, was the first anime series to be produced and the first to be televised. It ran from 1961-1964. Astro Boy first aired in 1963, making it one of the older anime series, but not the oldest. However, Astro Boy was the first 30 minute anime series as well as the first anime series that ...
The oldest anime I found after some research is Astro Boy. It originated from Japan and started airing in the US on September 7, 1963. This is two months after Calimero, but Astro Boy is of Japanese origin, which Calimero is not. I first looked through the wikipedia page on History of anime and the first title, "Astro Boy" looked familiar ...
In most likelihood it was Getter Robo which first appeared in 1974. The story goes that Go Nagai came up with the novel idea of machines combining together to make a single giant robot. He communicated this idea to his friend and fellow mangaka Ken Ishikawa, who went on to create the Getter Robo series (which is why Nagai is often credited as a ...
One Piece started airing in HD in episode 207. And again, according to Wikipedia, the original airdate is way back in October 31, 2004. The recent answer shows these 2 anime (Ghost in the Shell: SAC and Samurai 7) were the possible first anime to air in widescreen. Fun fact: Samurai 7 is aired just 4 months earlier than One Piece.
When companies in Anglophone areas outside the U.S., like Manga Entertainment (UK), Madman Entertainment (Australia) and Siren Visual (Australia), get licenses to broadcast outside of America, it would be a waste of money to re-sub/dub the series. This is why when you get DVDs/Bluray from somewhere like Madman, you see company logo animations ...
The list of countries is not exhaustive. However, I'd like to point out "Why most of the countries (western world, and to Japan that is nearly the rest of the world) Dragon ball Z aired first. Anime was an experimental thing in most nations outside of Japan. Dragonball was an exceptional manga and its first Anime adaptation did well in Japan.
12. His full name is Toshinori Yagi which is a Japanese name as you said and according to wiki his birthplace is Tokyo. Other evidences are: His mentor, Nana Shimura, is also Japanese. All Might also go to U.A. High School and his homeroom teacher was Gran Torino. Share. Improve this answer.
21. In Shirobako (an anime about making anime), they only make the first few episodes and then continue to finish the others while the anime is airing. This causes some problems when they can't catch up to the deadline, and also may affect the quality of an episode, too. In real life, there are some anime that do have this kind of trouble, like ...
In your eyes by Samantha Newark in Project A-Ko (1986). The earliest use of an English song as an opening in the Japanese version of an anime I can find is In your eyes by Samantha Newark in Project A-Ko (1986), however, English songs were fairly common in versions dubbed for North America and Europe, often getting complete song rewrites instead of translations.
14. The first 'magical girl' anime was Sally The Witch, who transformed with a wand into another costume - This was a simple animation though and performed in the same cut as the rest of the scene. Sally The Witch came out in 1966 and was in black and white. [Apologies for low-quality gif]