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Aug 16, 2009 2:44 PM
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Ummm, I still don't have any idea as to what even happened in this. :/
Oct 22, 2009 6:26 AM
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OK....I think this is meant to be an advert about flights to Brazil from Japan (or vice versa). But the pic for this anime is not actually present in the one I saw.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lT3iJfzhAiw&feature=related

The link above is for the coloured version of Urashima Taro advert for VARIG.
Nov 2, 2009 5:16 AM
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JCDRANZER said:
OK....I think this is meant to be an advert about flights to Brazil from Japan (or vice versa). But the pic for this anime is not actually present in the one I saw.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lT3iJfzhAiw&feature=related

The link above is for the coloured version of Urashima Taro advert for VARIG.

No, that link is not the short we are talking about.
Urashima Taro legend is one of the oldest one in Japan and it is born long time before planes were invented LOL
Feb 10, 2010 2:00 AM
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Aug 16, 2013 12:25 AM
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That moved pretty damn fast and the art was pretty bad. The octopus danced funny though.
Feb 14, 2014 8:06 PM
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That story so rare.
Sep 5, 2014 3:35 AM
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strange little video O_O
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Feb 28, 2015 6:45 PM
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I liked this short. I'd read the original story somewhere so it seemed familiar from the start.
Jan 13, 2016 3:24 AM
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Not bad for an old premature medium. Anime just got started on that age.
Jan 1, 2017 2:17 PM

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Pretty interesting short to be honest, good for its year!
Mar 25, 2017 5:24 PM
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I am so very confused. To my knowledge there is three versions of this anime. 1918, 1931 and 1952.

I am only guessing my you but was 1918 the plain silent version? while 1931 just gained background music? and the 1952 gained color? And if so how do explain the two different cover pictures seen when you look up all three versions?

Someone who knows about this please explain this to be me.
Apr 16, 2017 9:10 PM

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I'm a bit confused on how to rate this, it's incredibly lackluster compared to something like Kubotori which it predates but It seems to be a remake of something far older, so maybe this was some ground breaking shit in its time.
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Aug 7, 2017 6:48 AM

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it was make more sense than the older version, but visually even weaker than older version...
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Apr 15, 2019 7:55 PM

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I think I like the older version better, but I do like that fact that this version has music.

The animation was terrible in this one compared to the original 1918 version

"What has two arms, two legs, and is alive? Not your favorite character lol! xD"
Jul 4, 2019 12:23 PM
Jul 22, 2020 11:29 PM

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i like the hazy transitions and the puppetry, but it feels less impressive than it's decade older counterpart

a bit disappointing

May 22, 2021 11:39 AM

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Another primitive animation from Japan. Honestly, it is good to see what quality the first half of the 20th century offered, but Urashima Tarou is a content inferior to more striking things. The represented folklore is really the only possible thing to extract positively, but it does not add ... Japanese culture recommended only as a symbol, that's all.
Jan 15, 2022 9:37 AM

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Pretty good for its time ngl. Had some crazy animation, quite liked this.
Jan 5, 2023 3:57 AM
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liked the older one more ngl

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Mar 24, 2023 12:31 AM

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I really like the music, but it's worse than the original in my opinion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLYLiFYkMsw
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Not sure what is up with some of these old 1 minute episodes. I get that there was a tight budget and restrictions for animation at the time but they are too densely packed to make anything of it.
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