I am so glad this came up in my suggestions today as I was just talking last night with someone about the history of anime. Thank you for the timing & the well put together video. Ill def check out what other videos your channel has to offer.
Great video, but I feel you missed a lot of anime that appeared in Western Europe, if not in the US. 70s/80s series like Vicky the Viking (a German/Japanese coproduction), Spoon Obachan, Arupusu no Shōjo Haiji (Heidi), Arabian Naitsu Shinbaddo no Bōken (Sinbad the Sailor), Cubitus, The wonderful Adventures of Nils, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Pinocchio: The Series, The Swiss Family Robinson and my personal favourite, Maple Town, were all shown during the 80s/early 90s in European countries. They don't show the traditional story beats and character tropes of Shonen anime and are often overlooked because of this, but I think they definitely played an integral part in opening up the west for acceptance of the art style. A lot of them were adaptations of classic stories, which made them easier to sell to a European market. It also shows that there was more to see than just Action-adventure anime in those days.
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I am so glad this came up in my suggestions today as I was just talking last night with someone about the history of anime. Thank you for the timing & the well put together video. Ill def check out what other videos your channel has to offer.
Great video, but I feel you missed a lot of anime that appeared in Western Europe, if not in the US. 70s/80s series like Vicky the Viking (a German/Japanese coproduction), Spoon Obachan, Arupusu no Shōjo Haiji (Heidi), Arabian Naitsu Shinbaddo no Bōken (Sinbad the Sailor), Cubitus, The wonderful Adventures of Nils, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Pinocchio: The Series, The Swiss Family Robinson and my personal favourite, Maple Town, were all shown during the 80s/early 90s in European countries.
They don't show the traditional story beats and character tropes of Shonen anime and are often overlooked because of this, but I think they definitely played an integral part in opening up the west for acceptance of the art style. A lot of them were adaptations of classic stories, which made them easier to sell to a European market. It also shows that there was more to see than just Action-adventure anime in those days.
Hell yea FLCL
The history / evolution of Manga and Anime in the USA* You guys got anime way later than literally everyone else on the planet.