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UFO ROBOT / GRENDIZER (1975-1980) - ANIME CLASSICS OF OUR CHILDHOOD (Part 1/10)

This week’s Blog focuses on the early Japanimation / Anime TV series that were broadcasted in japan but also and most importantly in Europe and the US, exposing millions of kids/teenagers like me to the wonder of Japanese animation, known as Anime (or Japanimation)

The Japanese Animation school started in the early 1910′s, influenced by French and Russian animated shorts before producing its own style with trademark pointy nose and big eyed characters, diverging from the Disney lines.

Many Anime were adapted from successful Mangas (Japanese Comic Books) and it was only around the early 60′s when Astro Boy (see Part 5) was broadcasted in the US that the Western hemisphere gained notice of this incredible genre, once again so different from Disney or Hanna-Barbera cartoons. Since then Anime has become a massive money making machine all around the world with hundreds of Anime series and also movies recognized as masterpieces (Akira, Studio Ghibli productions...)

However the true breakthrough of the Anime genre came with the release of Go Nagai‘s Anime, first with the super robot Mazinger Z then Great Mazinger. yet the biggest of them was UFO ROBOT / Grendizer also known as Goldorak in France and Goldrake in Italy, where its success went beyond any expectations, prompting distributors to release several theater releases as shown by the very rare Italian and French posters above (click on each image for details).

Director: Go Nagai Actors: Masako Nozawa

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