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The first anime adaptation of Shotaro Ishinomori's manga Cyborg 009 was created in 1968, following the film adaptation two years prior. 1969's "Attack no.1", the first shoujo sports anime was one of the first to have success in Japanese primetime and was also popular throughout Europe, particularly in Germany under the name "Mila Superstar."
Osamu Tezuka (手塚 治虫, born 手塚 治, Tezuka Osamu, () 3 November 1928 – 9 February 1989) was a Japanese manga artist, cartoonist and animator. Born in Osaka Prefecture, his prolific output, pioneering techniques and innovative redefinitions of genres earned him such titles as "the Father of Manga" (マンガの父, Manga no Chichi), "the Godfather of Manga" (マンガの教父 ...
Three Tales (1960) was the first anime film broadcast on television; [34] the first anime television series was Instant History (1961–64). [35] An early and influential success was Astro Boy (1963–66), a television series directed by Tezuka based on his manga of the same name .
The first erotic OVA release was the ロリータアニメ (Lolita Anime) series from February 1984 to May 1985, soon followed by the Cream Lemon series (August 1984 – 2005). The genre became internationally known as hentai and is infamous for often containing perverse subject matters, including underage sex, monster sex, and tentacle sex ...
Katsudō Shashin. Katsudō Shashin consists of a series of cartoon images on fifty frames of a celluloid strip and lasts three seconds at sixteen frames per second. [1] It depicts a young boy in a sailor suit who writes the kanji characters "活動写真" (katsudō shashin, "moving picture" or "Activity photo") from right to left, then turns to the viewer, removes his hat, and bows. [1]
Basic cable provided a frequent broadcast outlet for juvenile-targeted anime during the 1980s, in particular Nickelodeon and CBN Cable Network (now as Freeform).. In the early 1980s, CBN aired an English dub of the Christian-themed anime series Superbook and The Flying House, as well as the female-aimed drama series Honey Honey and an uncut, Honolulu-dubbed version of Go Nagai's super robot ...
1983 – He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Golgo 13: The Professional, The Wind in the Willows, Crusher Joe, Inspector Gadget, Henry's Cat, Abra Cadabra, The Biskitts, Rock & Rule (first animated feature film to use computer graphics), Katy, Fire and Ice, Mrs. Pepperpot (TV series ...
[27] 1900 saw the debut of Rakuten's Jiji Manga in the Jiji Shinpō newspaper—the first use of the word manga in its modern sense, [28] and where, in 1902, he began the first modern Japanese comic strip. [29] By the 1930s, comic strips were serialized in large-circulation monthly girls' and boys' magazine and collected into hardback volumes. [30]