Video: Can you believe it? Japan has been making animation for over a hundred years. Let’s see how things have changed!
As Japan Trends points out, the clip below begins with Namakura Gatana, a silent four-minute short made in 1917 but only discovered in 2008.
Other cartoons and stop motion animation follow for a total of 122 works that show how far anime has come.
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3 responses to “How Anime Has Changed Over The Past 100 Years”
I feel the business has got way more cynical and profit-driven. So many anime seem algorithm-designed rather than products of passion
I argue that the amount of “algorithm designed” anime nowadays is merely proportional to the sheer amount of anime produced in comparison to the past. However, roughly the same amount–if not more– of truly original, truly moving, truly awesome series and movies keep being produced, year after year.
Interesting selection. A few iconic, genre- or era-defining anime were missing, IMHO: Serial Experiments Lain, Evangelion, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Sword Art Online, K-on!, FLCL, Kill-la-Kill (and/or Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann) and Ergo Proxy.
It’s also very strange that not a single Ghibli production was included.