Youth & design annimé.

Heh, I remember in high school, my friend Kirk and I used to go right to my house after school to catch Bugs Bunny. School got out at 3:00, Bugs came on at 3:30, and my house was close enough to catch it. It was high school, and I guess, at the time, (early 70's) we thought it was cool. We did enjoy it though. My mom always stocked up on diet ginger ale, some no name brand, and we drank a lot of it.
 
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Well.....

We had: (link Wikipedia) (In States: Star Blazers - "English language") - (In Japan: Space Battleship Yamato - "Native Japanese Language") on American TV and barely edited ! :cool:

We're off to outer space
We're leaving mother Earth
To save, the human race
Our Star Blazers

I still think Space Battleship Yamato (cartoon) "sounds better" in the original Japanese ... I have NO IDEA what they are saying in the original Japanese, but rock on !

In States they renamed the Battleship Yamato to the "Argo" (obviously a "Greek reference" not pertaining to WW2)

FIRE THE WAVE MOTION GUN !

Desslock, Desslock, Dessock
Desslock, Desslock, Desslock
Desslock, Desslock, Desslock
 
AlfredoLlaquet said:
I don't know this cartoon, but the name is fantastic: Space Battleship Yamato
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The IJN BB Yamato was a real Japanese "super" Battleship in WW2 - (Link Naval Encyclopedia): Yamato Class Battleship

These were the "largest" battleships of their time during WW2 and carried huge 18-inch main guns capable of wiping out other battleships and supporting ships. There was also a "sister" Battleship named IJN BB Musashi - (Link Wikipedia) Japanese Battleship Musashi. Both were lost during WW2. Later the USA created a new class of WW2 Battleships called the "Iowa Class" battleships - examples "BB Iowa", "BB New Jersey".

The Space Battleship Yamato cartoon is about pulling the old sunken WW2 IJN Yamato battleship from the bottom of the sea, and rebuilding it as a "space battleship" in order to travel through space to the planet Iscandar to get the "cosmo dna" which will be used to save planet Earth from dying of radiation poisoning..

But now... I have spoiled the plot for you :-).

Star Force !
 
Well, limited with "youth" (excluding "childhood"), Super Dimension Fortress Macross (in Japanese, 超時空要塞マクロス), Heavy Metal L-GAIM (重戦機エルガイム, Neon Genesis Evangelion (新世紀エヴァンゲリオン), Tekkaman Blade (宇宙の騎士テッカマンブレード), ... and others.

In my childhood, Space Battleship [mostly the term cruiser is used officially, but not precise for 戦艦 in Japanese] Yamato (宇宙戦艦ヤマト), Captain Harlock (宇宙海賊キャプテンハーロック), Steel Jeeg (鋼鉄ジーグ), Galaxy Express 999 (銀河鉄道999), Gundam [first and Z] (機動戦士ガンダム), Combattler V (超電磁ロボコン・バトラーV), Voltes V (超電磁マシーンボルテスV), Reideen the Brave (勇者ライディーン), Zambot3 (無敵超人ザンボット3), Mazinger Z (マジンガーZ), Great Mazinger (グレートマジンガー), Grendizer (UFOロボグレンダイザー), and ... uh, countless. 😅
 
I think that, at this point, humanity has generated so much audiovisual material that every human could spend their life continuously watching something different without the same thing ever being shown to more than one person.
 
This isn't really 'manga', but it is a wonderful piece of hand-painted animation. This famous little movie is from the shanghai animation film studio, released in 1960. Lovely artwork, and of course nothing computer generated. I think every frame must have been painted by hand, in fact it looks like watercolours or perhaps inks, or a mix.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p0Qn2iSpzs

I just discovered... there is even a wikipedia page about this animation.

Where is Mama - Wikipedia

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The technique used to make the film was called "ink wash animation",

It was created by the Chinese animator Te Wei, who also has a wikipedia page; he set up one of the very first animation studios in China.
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Te Wei - Wikipedia

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Tu Wei's own mentor was the Japanese animator, Tadahito Mochinaga.

Tadahito Mochinaga - Wikipedia

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