Name: アニメのスタイルの進化 (The Stylistic Evolution of Anime)
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Everything about animation in Japan today is the result of decades and decades of stylistic

Changes in technology, important cultural events, economic shifts, innovative practitioners,

they all contribute to the this flowing timeline.

And styles can change drastically in just a few years, triggered by something as small

There are really fascinating, clear patterns that emerge when you look into a medium in

Watching how these trends repeat and develop is something i'm really fascinated by.

Your favorite character design or animation cut will without a doubt have its roots in

It's both important and extremely interesting to see how everything links together in one

Firstly we need to track that web all the way back to it's roots, with the birth of

The first wave of japanese animation came at the start of the 20th century.

During the early decades, a number of anime films were produced.

It's an interesting period to cover because there wasn't a whole lot of animation being

made in Japan, and the stuff that was being made was propaganda material commissioned

Momotaro's Sea Eagles is a good example of this era.

Obviously black and white, very slow, simple movements with static painted backgrounds.

Lots of the animations in each scene are loops of the same 4-5 frames.

Movies like this were jam packed with political propaganda, pushing different idealisms from

Everything was directly correlated with the world war.

Hakujaden in 1958 is another good example, the film is almost completely flat in it's

It really took a long time before there was enough creative control and resources for

I mean the 30s, 40s and 50s moved at a snail's pace compared to the later decades.

The medium really struggled to find a stylistic identity.

But that definitely changed as we go into the 60s.

The 1960s was very much a stylistic kickstart for anime.

Multiple, long running series started to appear every year, with that came opportunities for

directors and animators to really express their own styles, this started the speedy

Certain titles started to influence each other and distinct trends started to emerge as more

The early 60s is a period that would essentially shape the whole medium, what happened here

A good starting point to observe this is Tezuka's Astro Boy in 1963, the catalyst for this anime

The characteristics of this show become a stylistic base point for almost everything

One of the most important being the show's smart, simple design.

Allowing both rich emotional expression while maintaining a realistic style of animation.

Obviously Japanese production studios weren't yet operating at the same level as other animation

studios like Disney at the time so movement had to be used resourcefully.

Astro Boy's character design was very intelligent.

Movable joints like elbows and knees had almost no detail, leaving any complexity for static

aspects like his belt or his hair, this allowed Astro Boy to look interesting but also made

Emotions were expressed through his hands and face, which leads onto another important

Astro Boy's eyes are very recognisable, because it's a style that's still very

They're big and bold, allowing animators to express a lot of information using very

Backgrounds were even more limited, they were expressive but lacked detail and never really

moved, sometimes block colours or gradients filled up the whole screen.

We see these characteristics continued and developed upon into the 60s with shows like

As the decade progressed, a number of stylistic changes started to take place, mainly influenced

by the revolutionary introduction of colour.

Kimba The White Lion in 1965 is a great place to look, you can see here the stark improvements

from Astro Boy and Tetsujin, the core style is still very simple but the backgrounds for

example are far more detailed and sometimes even dynamic.

Colour allowed them to be so much more expressive with their backgrounds, using large scale

Character design detail also improved, not only in details of elements like clothing

but allowing that detail to move with more fluidity.

From the quick, scarcely animated scenes in Astro Boy and Tetsujin, Kimba had a bigger

This allowed them to add a lot more emotion and weight into their action scenes.

These slight improvements continued throughout the 60s, highlighted even more so in 1967's

By this time we're seeing animation that we're more used to seeing today.

Where the other series of the 60s were very much for a younger audience, Dororo targeted

a more mature audience with more dark, violent imagery.

Lot's of death and fighting that was absent from a lot of it's predecessors.

Dororo also took a heavy influence from cinema, classic samurai films from the 50s and 60s

This is possibly one of the most important aspects, using cinematic techniques to push

the medium in it's own stylistic direction.

Lighting, composition and more complex animation all played a part in molding anime of the

And this regularity in TV anime caused an increase in development, more progress was

made in this decade than was made during the first 30/40 years of the medium.

Production teams began to grow and larger creative risks were taken.

Experimental productions are usually the catalyst for innovation.

In 1971, Osamu Dezaki proved this with Ashita no Joe, possibly one of the most progressive

It took the TV anime format that had been established and injected it with a cinematic

This could be a response to how prosperous and experimental the movie industry had become

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