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Japanese Legends and Their Favorite Animation

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Welcome! It’s a new edition of the Animation Obsessive newsletter. Here’s what we’re doing this Sunday: 1) Greats from Japan on the animation they loved. 2) Newsbits. Now, let’s go! Anime is dominant right now. It’s hard to find animation anywhere that isn’t influenced, at least a bit, by ideas from Japan. That’s the case in character design, acting, pacing, staging and more. And it’s been the case. Last year, a Disney veteran recalled the pitch for Ariel’s look in The Little Mermaid (1989). “What if we did our own version of an anime girl character?” Glen Keane reportedly asked. Hayao Miyazaki’s work helped to inspire her design. But Japanese animation didn’t appear in a vacuum. When its creators came into their own during the ‘60s and ‘70s, their ideas had reference points as well. A Japanese magazine, Manga Shonen, revealed a few of those reference points in 1978.1 It surveyed Japan’s animation scene, asking people about their favorite animated works from across the globe. Miyazaki,

Japanese Legends and Their Favorite Animation Plus: news. Oct 14, 2024 188 12 15 Share A still from The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep (1952) Welcome! It’s a new edition of the Animation Obsessive newsletter. Here’s what we’re doing this Sunday: 1) Greats from Japan on the animation they loved. 2) Newsbits. Now, let’s go! 1 – The favorites of your favorites Anime is dominant right now. It’s hard to find animation anywhere that isn’t influenced, at least a bit, by ideas from Japan. That’s the case in character design, acting, pacing, staging and more. And it’s been the case. Last year, a Dis

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