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Japanese Government Study on Robot Anime Now Available in English
posted on by Bamboo Dong
Thanks to the patient translation efforts of AltJapan Co., Ltd. co-founder Media Arts information, hosts symposiums, conducts surveys, and works on archive projects.
The first chapter focuses on the cultural history of robot anime and documents the rise of genre in the early 1960s and its ebb in the mid-1980s. The second chapter discusses the relationship between anime studios and toy makers, while the fourth chapter features descriptions of all of the cited robot anime shows and movies in chronological order, starting with the 1963 anime TV series Tetsujin 28-go.
The translated document, as well as the original Japanese version, is available to from Media Arts Current Contents as a PDF.
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