Nippon animation

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Nippon Animation KK ( Japanese 日本 ア ニ メ ー シ ョ ン 株式会社 , Nippon Animēshon kabushiki-gaisha ) is a Japanese animation film studio based in Tama , whose anime series are also known outside of Japan.

history

Forerunner Zuiyo Enterprises

Today's Nippon Animation emerged from the animation studio Zuiyo Enterprises ( 瑞 鷹 エ ン タ ー プ ラ イ ズ ), which produced various animated series in the 1970s. One of these series was the first anime series Heidi, created jointly by Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki and produced by Zuiyo Enterprise, based on a novel by the Swiss writer Johanna Spyri , which was shown on Japanese television in early January 1974 and on German television in 1977. The series was very popular first in Japan and later in Europe and was even released on VHS in the USA in the mid-1980s . However, Zuiyo Enterprise soon found itself in financial difficulties due to high production costs. 1975 Zuiyo Enterprise was split into Zuiyo , which retained the rights to the series, and Nippon Animation, under whose name the productions continued.

New start as Nippon animation

The Nippon Animation KK was officially founded in June 1975 by the company's boss Koichi Motohashi . In the days of Zuiyo Enterprise, the studio also tried the first international anime cooperation, but it was only crowned with short-term success. Directed by Hiroshi Saitō and on the initiative of the then head of the ZDF children's program, Josef Göhlen , three series were created from 1972 to 1979 with the participation of the German ZDF , the Austrian ORF and the Kirch group , which were based on classic children's books: Wickie and die Strong Men (1974) (Author: Wickie and the Strong Men by Runer Jonsson ), Maya the Bee (1975) (Author: Maya the Bee and Her Adventures by Waldemar Bonsels ) and Pinocchio (1976) (Author: Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi ) . From 1983 to 1985, Alice in Wonderland (1983) (based on the book Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll , director: Taku Sugiyama) was another co-production before this form of direct collaboration was abandoned.

The success of Heidi prompted the studio, renamed Nippon Animation in 1975, to found the World Masterpiece Theater (WMT for short) project. From 1975 onwards, a television series based on an international literary work was produced every year under this name, such as Niklaas, a boy from Flanders based on a novel by the Englishwoman Marie Louisa de la Ramée , Marco based on a book by the Italian Edmondo De Amicis or Anne mit the red hair based on a novel by the Canadian Lucy Maud Montgomery . Hayao Miyazaki left Nippon Animation in 1979 while producing Anne with the Red Hair, but the studio continued to thrive without him. Until 1997, new cartoon series based on children's and youth books were created every year. Although many outstanding animation artists worked on these series and their international popularity continues unabated today, Nippon Animation had to discontinue the WMT project in 1997 due to financial problems and declining audience ratings. In early 2007, Les Misérables: Shōjo Cosette ( レ ・ ミ ゼ ラ ブ ル 少女 コ ゼ ッ ト , Re Mizeraburu: Shōjo Kozetto ) started another series under the World Masterpiece Theater label.

On December 28, 2009 a YouTube channel was opened on which the WMT series are to be published successively.

Productions

Productions published in German are listed under their German title.

TV Shows

More anime productions

This list is generated from the entries in the list of anime titles . Entries can and should be added there.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/user/NipponAnimation

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