Mini-Anime: 1961-1970
Most TV shows air once a week, that’s a fact just about everywhere. However, schedules can be flexible if channels desire them to be, and that includes Japan as well….
Category Archives: LOST PLANET ANIME
“Jungle Kurobe” (1973)
Move over, Paula Deen! In the early part of the 20th century, blackface was a staple of stage and screen comedy. It was prominent in American cartoons and comic books….
Rampoo the Flying Warped Boy (1984)
As we all know, the early 1980s was a dark time in made-for-TV animation in the ‘States. Everything had to be talked down to the audience so as it doesn’t…
The Most Idiotic Anime Ever Made
As I wrote earlier, Fujio Akatsuka pioneered the gag manga genre in Japan. He showed what it means to do a funny comic for the mainstream circulation, and he did…
Tatsunoko’s “Hakushon Daimao” (1969)
Tatsunoko Productions was unusual as far as a TV animation studio in Japan was concerned. Most other companies produced shows based on pre-existing comics, which was the norm in Japanese…
The Strange Case of the 1973 “Doraemon” Series
I talked about Japanese cartooning team Fujiko Fujio in my previous post, so I won’t dwell too much about them here. But I figure now would be a good time…
Q-Taro The Ghost (1965)
Cartooning team Fujiko Fujio, a joint pseudonym of Hiroshi Fujimoto (1933-1996) and Motoo Abiko (b. 1934), are famous for their children’s comics, having created numerous series throughout their career. Their…
“Dame Oyaji” (1974)
In the 1970s, Japanese broadcasters were blessed with studios such as Toei Doga, Tokyo Movie, Tatsunoko, and Nippon Animation supplying them cartoons for their viewers to tune into. Not all…
“Little Lulu” Anime
Cartoonist Marjorie Henderson Buell (“Marge”) made it big when she created Little Lulu in 1935. What was originally a magazine cartoon that appeared in Saturday Evening Post spawned a franchise,…
Osomatsu-Kun
Cartoonist Fujio Akatsuka (1935-2008) is a household name in Japan. He pioneered in “gag manga”, Japanese comics that are based around jokes and humor. Fujio made comics with outrageous characters…
