Anime & the Economic Miracle | The History of Animation & Japan

With the release of Astro Boy in 1963 Anime in Japan experienced an unparalleled boom period. This coincided with the Japanese Economic Miracle, a time in which Japan rose to become one of the most dominant economic players in the world. Both events are legendary in their importance, but, as with all historic events, they have become shrouded in myth and fallacy. This anime documentary attempts to explore the truth behind Japan's rapid growth period and the monolith that is Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy and Mushi Productions.

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Resources used:

Adapting Anime: Transnational media - Brian Ruh

Adult Manga - Sharon Kinsella

Animation a world history (I, II, III) - Ginnalberto Bendazzi

Anime: A History - Jonathan Clements

Animetudes - https://animetudes.com/

Anime Explosion - Patrick Drazen

Anime's Media Mix - Marc Steinberg

A Brief History of Manga - Helen McCarthy

A Companion to Japanese Cinema - David Desser

A Companion to Japanese History - Glenn Hook

A history of Modern Manga - Insight Editions

A History of Japan Revised Edition

A Nation of a Hundred Million Idiots - Jayson Makoto Chun

A Short History of Japan - Curtis Andreseen

An Introduction to Japanese Society - Yoshio Sugimoto

Asian Comics - John Lent

Astro Boy and Anime Come to the America's - Fred Ladd, Harvey Deneroff

Beautiful Fighting Girl - Saito Tamaki

Behind the Pink Curtain - Jasper Sharp

Building a Modern Japan - Morris Low

Cinema Anime Critical Engagements with Japanese Animation - Steven T. Brown

Cinema at the Crossroads - Hyon Joo Yoo

Classical Japanese Cinema Revisted - Catherine Russell

Consuming Life in Post-Bubble Japan

Debating Otaku in Contemporary Japan -

Deleuze - David Dreamer

Directory of World Cinema (I, II, III) - John Berra

Discovering autonomy in protest- Anpo 1960 and 1970

Fissenting Japan - William Andrews

Embracing Defeat - John W. Dower

Floating Worlds - Maria Novielli

Frames of Anime - Hu Tze-yue

God of Comics - Osamu Tezuka and the creation of Post- World War II Manga - Natsu Power

Industrial Development in Postwar Japan - Hirohisa Kohama

Interpreting Anime - Christopher Bolton

Japan at the Crossroads - Nick Kapur

Japan, the System That Soured - Richard Katz

Japanese Animation - Masao Yokota, Hu Tze-yu

Japanese Cinema Between Frames - Laura Lee

Japanese Language and Soft Power in Asia

Japanese Shoolgirl Confidential - Brian Ashcraft

Japanese television as a window on other cultures - Shigeru Hagiwara

Japanese Visual Cultural Explorations - Mark Wheeler

Laughter, Comedy and the Television Cultures of 1970s, 80s and 90s Japan - David Christopher

Miraculous Growth and Stagnation in Post-War Japan

MITI and the Japanese Miracle - Johnson Chalmers

Mobilizing Japanese Youth - Christoper Gerteis

Modern Japan - Johnathan Clements

New History of Japanese Cinema - Standish Isolde

Nippon Modern Japanese Cinema - Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano

Postwar Japan - Michael Gree, Zack Cooper

Pure Invention - Matt Alt

Recreating Anime History - Helen McCarthy

Recasting Red Culture in Proletarian Japan - Samuel Perry

robot anime history

Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams

School Girl Milky Crisis - Jonathan Clements

Terror in Japan - Meredith Box, Gavan McCormack

The Anime Ecology - Thomas Lamarre

The Anime Encyclopedia - Jonathan Clementa, Helen McCarthy

The Anime Galaxy - Herlander Elias

The Art of Censorship in Postwar Japan - Kirsten Fischer

The Astro Bot Essays - Freerik Schodt

The Cold War Context of Japan's Postwar Economic Revival - Aaron Forsberg

The History of Hentai - Kimi Rito

The Japanese Mafia - Peter Hill

The Soul of Anime - Ian Condry

Toxic archipelago : a history of industrial disease in Japan - Brett Walker

Zengakuren Japan's Revolutionary Students - Stuart Dowsey

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Introduction: (0:00​)
xii - Contrasting Images: (1:50)
xiii - Drawing Funds: (10:08​)
xiv - Stretch & Crunch: (16:35)
xv - Composite Sources: (26:57)
xvi - Broadcast Quality: (37:41)
xvii - Reel Consequences (46:51)
xviii - Special Defects (54:44)
xix- In the Pink (1:06:51)
xx- Scene Breakdown (1:16:15)
xxi - Stop Motion (1:26:58)