Watching ever¡y anime of every year and every season catalogued on MAL and deciding
BEST ANIME
and maybe other categories such as:
BEST OP
BEST ED
BEST GIRL
BEST BOY
I'll also try to find the most influential "people" of each year or decade and research them a bit
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DECADES:
For these first decades, I'll just write about what I watched and learned :]
Not much to say about this era. I only found very few of these movies and watched most of them on low quality youtube videos, and I think it's expectedly a skippable decade. Shimokawa ลten is kind of a GOAT of this era though. This guy was making anime by drawing pictures on a blackboard with white ink, and then filmed it with a camera shot by shot. Seitarou Kitayama also deserves praise.
What I watched in order:
- Imokawa Mukuzo: Genkanban no Maki
- The Dull Sword
- Saru to Kani no Gassen
- Urashima Tarou
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Noburou Oofuji and Yasuji Murata are this decade's two big figures, especially because everything catalogued on MAL was made by one of them, therefore, everything I watched.
They both used and mastered the "cut out" style of animation, which is made by creating 'cut outs.' These were individually cut figures that were drawn and cut to represent successive movements. They were then photographed sequentially, against a contrasting background (stop-motion). When projected at a given speed, they become animated.
Personally I prefer Yasuji Murata's works, despite Noburou Oofuji's style being maybe more impressive and complex. To me, it seems like Murata is really trying to experiment and have fun with animation. The passion for making movies is really apparent, despite his later movies being a bit preachy. I liked "The Animal Olympics" and "The Octopus Bone", altough, again, I probably wouldn't recomend. In terms of sheer objective quality "The Stolen Lump" is probably the best this era has to offer, although I found it kind of unconfortable to watch.
What I watched in order:
- Burglars of Baghdad Castle (1926)
- A Ship of Oranges (1927)
- Yasuji Murata's Monkey and the Crabs (1927)
- The Octopus Bone (1927)
- The Blossom Man (1928)
- The Animal Olympics (1928)
- The Golden Flower (1929)
- Taro's Toy Train (1929) (dropped)
- The Stolen Lump (1929)
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What I watched in order
1930:
- The Bat
- My Ski Trip
- Our Baseball Match
- At the Border Checkpoint
- Entotsuya Peroo (uncredited) (dropped)
- Harvest Festival
1931:
- The Black Cat
- Nonsense Story, Volume 1: Monkey Island
- The National Anthem Kimigayo
- Momotaro's Sky Adventure (not bad)
1932:
- Momotaro's Underwater Adventure
- The Plane Cabby's Lucky Day
1933:
- The Larks' Moving Day
- Three Brave Frogs
- Private 2nd Class Norakuro: The Training
- Private 2nd Class Norakuro: The Drill
- General of the Swamp
- Ugokie Kori no Tatehiki
1934:
- Sankichi the Monkey: The Storm Troopers
- Corporal Norakuro (dropped)
- Omocha Bako Series Dai 3-wa: Ehon 1936-nen
- Hyoei and Heibei's Tengu Hunt
- Sankichi and Osayo: A Genroku Romance
- Spring Comes to Ponsuke
1935
- Ta-chan's Underwater Adventure
- Tiny Chibisuke's Big Adventure
- Ninja Fireball in Edo
1936:
- Over a Drink
1939:
- Benkei tai Ushiwaka
I think somehow almost every show I ended up watching of this decade is just Steamboat Willie. They all feel the same because they are inspired by steamboat willie. Which just speaks to the influence that show had over animation as a whole. Kenzou Masaoka started making anime in this era. He's the first one who used cell animation and sound. It's a big big jump in terms of quality from the 1st generation anime. I'm actually excited to see his 1946 film called "Sakura" because it was deemed "too artistic for the public". I don't know what that means, but I guess I'll find out.
Despite that, it's still Yasuji Murata and Noburล ลfuji running the show. Murata's educational stuff is booring, but his animation style is cartoony and fun, so for its time, its impressive.
I really would like to see what Noburล ลfuji would do if he had been born at a later era. His style is the recognizable, and out of the 4 animators I talked about so far, he's the one who feels the most like he was born in the wrong era. Dude literally made frogs bizare adventure. Still, in this era, he does make enjoyable shows (considering what was made at this time). I enjoyed Hyoei and Heibei's Tengu Hunt. (again, wouldn't recomend). Mitsuyo Seo and Ooishi Ikuo also started in this decade. I very much enjoyed Sankichi and Osayo: A Genroku Romance and Ugokie Kori no Tatehiki, the latter being maybe the best thing I watched so far in this project. Unfortunately, Ooishi died in the war, which kinda also put things into perspective. Kon Ichikawa apparently was an animator, but I couldn't find any of his stuff :(((
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10.
This is
not a mastapiece,
but it's my mastapiece.
Made me sick in a good way.*
9.
show that resonated with me in a
deeper way than every other show.*
8.
Show that is brimming with quality &
I would consider a classic or an essential
7.
I have very little to complain about this show,
However, it was missing that extra bit of quality
and polish to make me consider it a classic anime
6.
Show with a lot of pottential and interesting ideas
but also some "flaws" that diminish its merit. want more
5.
Show that I enjoyed despite having some major problems
in my eyes. Or its highs are very high and lows are very low
4.
I acknowledge the show's quality but don't connect much to it
3.
Shows that had some good moments but took forever to get to them
2.
Show that I watched for a very specific reason despite not liking it the rest
1.
WASTE OF TIME. this is like a trash can of shows I didn't enjoy and don't know
why I finished. There is close to nothing or actually nothing I like about them &
Also It's the score I give to Golden Time (this anime actually gave me physical pain)
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9's are the kind of shows I'm looking for when I think about why I watch anime. 9 is also a score I give to shows I need a little more time to process and often end up lowering most 9s to 8s if I no longer feel as strongly about them as when I first watched them, or move them up to 10s if I feel even more strongly about them and their ideas are even more prevalent in my life than when I first experienced them.
A 10 is a show that makes me see anime as a hole in a different way and defines my tastes going forward after encountering it. It feels like I have found a long lost piece of myself I didn't know existed and remeniscing and thinking about them makes me very happy. These are my favourites. I also try to give only one 10 per 100 shows I watch.
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-I don't review movies, shorts or one episode OVAs
-Anime with the "NEED A REWATCH" tag have outdated scores
-At the end of the day, it only matters if I like a show more than the ones scored bellow and less than the ones scored above it to earn its score, but I had fun trying to identify the patterns of my scoring system so yeah... sorry to whoever reads this
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