History Of Anime Timeline. From 1962 to 1995 shows an excellent list of all anime that has been shown in the u s. Otogi manga calendar the first televised anime series was an educational program where the main characters would talk about what happened on that day in history.
Before the advent of film japan already had a rich tradition of entertainment with colourful painted figures moving across the projection screen in 写し絵 utushi e a particular japanese type of magic lantern show popular in the 19th century. The history of anime began around the end of the second world war when japanese animators were hired to make animations for the military. Anime was actually just a word for japanese animation.
What really pushed animation to the fore in japan was the shift to tv in the sixties.
Mitsuteru yokoyama s sally the witch and the kid with his giant robot story tetsujin 28 go was adapted for tv by toei and tcj eiken respectively. While the west began with its. What really pushed animation to the fore in japan was the shift to tv in the sixties. This anime was the first series that was actually popular among the people of japan and once it was brought to the rest of the world a year later the world got a taste of japanese animation.
