What Animes Japanese People Like Half A Century Ago?

Every year, numerous new animations are released in the Japanese animation industry, but old classic animes are still some people's favorites. Recently,  Japanese company CMSITE Inc. invited 7414 Japanese men between the age of 30 to 69 to vote on the popularity of anime that aired from 1970 to 1979.

Let's talk about it today!

First, the fifth is the 1979's anime Doraemon.

I believe Doraemon has brought a lot of laughter time to many people in their childhood. The main character Nobita Nobi is weak, timid, not good at studying, and almost cannot do everything well, but accompanied by a Doraemon who always pulls out a variety of almighty props from the pocket - when I was a child I also wanted to have a friend like him.

It is said that the story of Doraemon was created under the state of low inspiration of the author. With the name "Doraemon", "Dora" has two meanings: one is "dora neko", which is a corruption of nora (stray), meaning "stray cat", and the other is "dorayaki", which means " Yummy-Buns", the favorite food of Doraemon.

The author Fujimoto Hiroshi signed a long-term cooperation contract with the publisher Shogakukan Inc. He cannot suspend the serialization while in the contract. As a new idea is not easy to catch, when he is lacking inspiration, he caught fleas for the nearby stray cat to pass the time. But after catching fleas there is still no inspiration, this time he happened to see his daughter's roly-poly toy, then he got inspiration from it - A Dora Neko (stray cat) looks like a roly-poly toy who can pull out various magical props to help the loser. The story of Doraemon so out.

But I've always been curious. Doraemon is obviously a child-rearing robot, but why does he is owning some dangerous props like Earth Obliteration Bomb, Passport of Satan, and Dictator Switch?

Fourth on the list is also from 1979: "Mobile Suit Gundam."

Since its debut in 1979, Mobile Suit Gundam has become the most famous, the most enduring, the largest, and the most profitable series in Japanese animation. Mobile Suit Gundam 0079 is even with the Space Battleship Yamato and Neon Genesis Evangelion known as the three major milestones of Japanese SF animation.

In one sentence, it's the romance of men.

Third on the list is the 1971 classic "Lupin the Third."

This is one of the first seinen manga (comic for young adult men), with a style that is cold, hard, and dark but with some light-hearted joy.

And since I am talking about this series, I have to mention Miyazaki Hayao, whose debut is The Castle of Cagliostro. In this work, Miyazaki Hayao successfully builds Lupin both good and evil chivalrous image who hoes the power and helps the weak. It also won some awards for Miyazaki, such as the Ofuji Noburo award from the 1979 Mainichi Film Concours and other domestic and international awards.

Unfortunately, the film won a lot of awards, but the box office is not very good, which also makes the series had been silent for a long time. I feel pity for it.

Second on the list is the 1970 classic "Tomorrow's Joe."

I believe everyone will never forget the classic line from the story: "After burning everything to ashes, it turns into pure white."

This is really a very tragic story. The main character Joe Yabuki falls into the lowest level of human society several times, but he overcame the cowardice of wanting to escape or let himself sink. He wields his fists and fights fate's trick. Unlike the "dreams' in some fast-food work, the work digs deeper into the persistence and hope for victory. Through the work, we can revisit the "wolf nature" that has faded away in today's society.

Lastly, taking the first spot is the 1974 classic "Space Battleship Yamato."

This story is not well known in the country out of Japan. It is normal because the work is considered a common historical memory of Japanese people in that era.

The Space Battleship Yamato in the anime was salvaged and transformed from the Japanese battleship Yamato which sunk during World War II. The actual Yamato in history, with the last hope of that generation of Japanese, sailed. At that time, the old Japanese Empire is playing the last madness. They want to build the largest battleship and giant guns with the power of the country, to use in a war to set the world.

The largest class of battleship in human history - the Yamato, is made in such a background. Only the construction took almost four years when it went to war, the war had almost finished. Yamato as the last hope of the United Fleet went to war, with the hope of saving the day with giant guns.

Unfortunately, when it went into battle, times changed. The enemy has already used aircraft carriers and fighters, but no guns anymore. Yamato carried the last hope, and was buried at sea with almost no shot fired. The strongest "national treasure warship" in the story soon became a joke.

The anime Space Battleship Yamato is also this kind of mentality. The Yamato in the anime is also the last hope of humans. If it does not succeed, humans will be extinct. I think the success of the Yamato in the anime is somewhat Japanese create to meet the regret of the fiasco in history.