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1927-28: THE MOUSE AND MURATA MURATA Yasuji joins the dance to start a long series of animated fairytales, fables and folklore cartoons. Meanwhile, Walt DISNEY has changed the world. Is it hammer time? douglaswatchesanime.co.uk/2026/01/26/1...

DOUGLAS WATCHES EVERY ANIME 1924-1926: KŌUCHI & OFUJI As one career ends, another begins: Kōuchi Jun’ichi goes into politics, and OFUJI Noburo starts his genre-defining career in Japanese art animation. Join me, won't you? douglaswatchesanime.co.uk/2026/01/23/1...

DWEA: 1924-26 Yamamoto Sanae How does the career of early Japanese animation icon YAMAMOTO Sanae begin? An argument with his family, over the future of their kimono-selling business. Some people need to go to art school, moooooom! douglaswatchesanime.co.uk/2026/01/21/1...

1924-1926: Kimura Hakusan Following the wrecking of the entire Japanese animation industry in the Great Kanto Earthquake, how did Japanese animation come back, and who was responsible? Now with audio! douglaswatchesanime.co.uk/2026/01/20/1...

AMERICAN ANIMATION AND A REGENCY (1919-1926) Today on #DouglasWatchesEveryAnime, I look at American technical innovations and Japanese regal upheaval. Sometimes you have to get some backstory out of the way first. douglaswatchesanime.co.uk/2026/01/16/a...

By the time the story of Japanese animation began, Japan itself was larger than it had ever been before. Under the celebrated Emperor Meiji, her Imperial status had truly been earned. Today, #DouglasWatchesEveryAnime sets some background. douglaswatchesanime.co.uk/2026/01/15/j...

DWEA: THE ANIMATION BUBBLE (“1907”-1923) There were three dominant Japanese film studios at the start of 1917. There were exactly zero frames of animation. Who would be the first creators, and what would be the First Anime, to emerge? douglaswatchesanime.co.uk/2026/01/08/j...

Drop some anime www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dry3... @douglaswatchanime.bsky.social January 5 2026 #DouglasWatchesEveryAnime

About 12 years ago, I was living with some good friends and watching anime with them. That was the first time I saw "Cowboy Bebop" and "Trigun". A small bee crawled into my bonnet that day, and suggested an article in the old "compare and contrast" essay style of my A-level youth. 1/2

This blog launches on January 5th, and it's starting to feel real now. I need a better logo.

An Operation Sealion joke, GATCHAMAN? Really?

Two successive episodes of "Science Ninja Team Gatchaman" that couldn't be more different. Ep 35 is an inexplicable dip into an Arab-coded civil war that would have meant the ISO was meddling in global politics, where no-one knew Galactor was actually involved until the third act. But then!

it's always amusing to watch football animated by someone who has clearly never seen it.

I thought I was going to play some Elite Dangerous tonight. But as I was walking down the stairs, my brain sang "Kagaku ninjatai, Gatchaman! Gatchaman" at me. So it's Battle of the Planets instead. Oh well. How sad. www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7Bl...

Anyone speak Japanese?

Back on the DWEA and watching "Kagaku Ninjatai Gatchaman" [“Science Ninja Team Gatchaman”], better known as Battle of the Planets. 1/3

This is the first attempt by SUZUKI Toshimichi to get an idea out of his head. The next two would be "Bubblegum Crisis" and "A.D. Police", which would be a lot bloodier and lingerie-clad. At some point I'll be reviewing both those titles on probably YouTube? Keep this frequency clear.

I just sent an email off to a certain YouTube railway historian after finding a 1932 "animation" that was really a collection of live-action railway clips. It's rather more his part of the Venn diagram than mine, but he's famous enough to have been in a Jay Foreman video. So I'm surprised I did it.