A Review of the History of Japanese Television Animation in the 20th Century (III) - 1964-1965
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A young ninja of the Wind Demon Clan
Toei Animation continued to work after "Wolf Boy Ken", and in 1964 launched a ninja-themed anime "Shonen Ninja Wind のフジ丸(Shonen Ninja Kaze No Ōmaru)", which is an anime that combines the two works of manga artist Mitsuhei Shiraso, "Ninja Whirlwind" and "Kaze No Ishimaru", and since this group is sponsored by Fujisawa Medicine, the protagonist's name is changed from Ishimaru to Fujimaru, and the extremely hard and wide female chorus of "Fujisawa ~ Fujisawa Medicine ~~ " can also be heard in the OP. The film is still black-and-white because it has not yet been fully colored, but some of the initial episodes were made in color. Shiratori Mihei is known for creating a large number of ninja-themed manga, and his animated works include Sasuke, Ninja Martial Arts Tent, and Ninja Kamuji.
The story depicts the story of Fujimaru, who was still a baby in the chaotic world of the Warring States Period, who was snatched from his mother by vultures, picked up and cultivated by the Wind Demon Ninja Group led by the Wind Demon Ten Faqi, and grew into an excellent young ninja. However, the evil Ten Fa qi has always wanted to obtain a secret book called the Book of Dragon Smoke, which is said to record many methods of making lethal secret weapons, and the owner can obtain the power to dominate the world. Fujimaru, a teenager who possessed ninjutsu techniques such as "Kiba Invisibility" and "Fire Technique", fought with the wind demon ninja, Toyotomi ninja, Tokugawa ninja, Iga ninja, and the Nanban evil mages with the peace-loving girl Mika (renamed Little Green in the middle plate) in order to prevent the secret book from falling into the evil ninjas.
Those who have read the introduction of the "Flying Girl Criminal 3 Legend of the Girl Ninja" written by the author and have seen works such as "Wind Demon Kojiro" will definitely find that the Wind Demon clan has a high appearance rate in ninja-themed animation and film and television, of course, there is another person name in ninja animation, that is, "Sasuke", which is also a frequent interpretation of various versions of animation.
Atlas of "Teenage Ninja Kazeno-fujimaru"
The human flesh can also be huge!
Tokyo Film News Agency (the predecessor of TMS Entertainment) released the anti-war-themed SF anime ビッグ X (Big X Superman/ Big X) based on the manga of the same name by Osamu Tezuka in 1964. From the title of the film, it can be guessed that the protagonist should be huge and called "Big X", but in fact, the original "Big X" was only intended as a biochemical drug name in the play rather than the name of the protagonist Chao Yun Zhao's body, which can give Chao Yun Zhao superhuman strength, just like the Otter glasses are to the star clusters and the belt is to Hongo Meng, but as the audience gets used to it, it also defaults to the name equivalent to Chao Yun Zhao himself.
The story first goes back to World War II, when Nazi leader Adolf Hitler ordered the development of three powerful weapons (so what is the relationship between Shuka and you?). ), that is, rocket V2, killing light, drugs that can make ordinary human flesh huge into steel, that is, "Big X". Hitler invited Dr. Asabaun and Dr. Engel to work together to develop the miracle drug "Big X", but they deliberately delayed the development in order to prevent it from being used in the war, and it was not completed until the fall of Berlin. Dr. Chaoyun and Dr. Engel were then shot and killed by the Germans, and the documents related to the drugs were burned. But before his death, Dr. Chaoyun had already implanted a metal plate containing the confidential information of "Big X" into the body of his son Chaoyunmao in the name of cecum surgery. But Chao Yunmao had long been targeted by the Nazi remnants and sent a spy woman to approach him and marry and have children with him, just to find out the secret of "Big X". Then the couple had a child, and he was our protagonist, Chao Yunzhao. This is really the next big game, and it can't help but remind people of the Geralus star in Chargeman Research who spent fifty years cultivating killer butterflies but was killed by the speed of light.
Twenty years later, in Tokyo, the metal plate was found in Asahina's body due to X-ray examination. At this time, Dr. Engel's grandson Hans Engel gathered the Nazi remnants to form the "Nazi Alliance", because he had always believed that his grandfather's murder was because Dr. Chaoyun wanted to monopolize the secret of "Big X", so he went to attack the Chaoyun family, and Chaoyunmao was killed. Later, with the help of Asahina's former friend Dr. Hanamaru, asahine Akira, the son who regained the metal plate from the Nazi Alliance, successfully completed the research plan of "Big X", and used this drug to transform into a big X Superman to fight against the Nazi Alliance, and the feud between the two generations and three generations due to various misunderstandings finally led to a complete confrontation between the two sides.
The Great X Superman Atlas
In order to prevent Asayunaki from bursting his clothes when he was huge, Dr. Hanamaru developed a protective suit that can be freely retracted regardless of its size, which is now the same costume as the artificial man 009 plus the small winged hat like Captain America. When it was time to transform, Dr. Hanamaru used a syringe called the Wannian Pen to inject "Big X" into Chaoyun zhao, but this way of injecting through clothes was slightly subtle, so there was also a setting that the Wannian Pen was an "ultra-short wave magnet pen" that could emit electromagnetic waves and transmit the potion. With the injection of doses of different scales, the transformation effect also varies. When the scale is 1, the needle sticks out, and there is no potion to shoot out at this time; when the scale is 2, the body does not become very large but will become as hard as steel, and at the same time has a strange force; when the scale is 3, it gets three times the hugeness; when the scale is 4, it is ten times the hugeness; and when the scale is 5, it is actually fifty times the hugeness, and the original 180 cm Asayun Zhao can become about 90 to 100 meters tall, directly destroying the later 40 meters of Ultraman. Later, it was transformed into a change to make Chaoyun Zhao oral medicine transformed.
Screenshot of the opening credits of Big X Superman
Due to the long time span of the plot line, the setting is based on World War II and difficult to understand, coupled with the strange form of injection transformation that you ask people to imitate, so for the children who were accustomed to setting "Astro Boy" at that time, "Big X Superman" was not very popular, it is said that the children at that time were divided into "Iron Man 28" faction and "No. 8 Superman" faction and argued about who was strong and who was weak, but rarely saw the "Big X Superman" faction. But it is undeniable that Osamu Tezuka has amazing imagination and creativity in this work, and "Big X Superman" is also the originator of the huge transformation into a hero in tv animation, in which the setting of the Nazi remnant party regroup, as well as the setting of the red cape with six buttons, has also been imitated and inherited by the younger shotaro Ishimori. And two years later, the popularity of the Otter series in the field of close-up photography also made the children forget about this huge hero.
The black history of the worm Production is made
Fast forward to 1965, when there was a full-length TVSP anime from Bugs Production, New Treasure Island, and although Osamu Tezuka originally had a manga of the same name, this pure animal animation had nothing to do with the manga, but was based on the adaptation of Scottish novelist Robert Louis Stevenson's work on the pirate theme of Treasure Island, and the so-called adaptation was actually to replace all the characters in the novel with animals.
At that time, due to the opening of "Aspo Boy with iron arms", Bug Production began to plan to gradually adapt many of Master Tezuka's manga works, calling it the "Bug Pro Land" project and launching "New Treasure Island" as the first bullet, followed by the animation plan of "The Forest Emperor" and "Sapphire Prince". As for why "Treasure Island" was adapted from the original work of Osamu Tsuka, and why there was only one sentence, there was no following, and there were only various speculation possibilities. Since there is Astro Boy in the front and Leo the white lion in the back, this one-word work is sealed for black history and no one mentions it again.
Screenshot of the source of "New Treasure Island"
Teenagers from the future
In 1965, the science fiction giant TCJ launched an SF-themed animation with the full title of "Future からた Teenager スーパージェッター", which I translated as "Super Jetter from the Future", of which "Super Jetter" is in English as Super Jetter. Originally a black-and-white animation, the film was later re-painted in color for overseas broadcasting, and replayed in color in China. As an original anime without an original work, many new generation SF writers Such as Yuheng Toyota and Yasutaka Tsutsui were gathered to create scripts.
Super Jet Atlas
Jeter, who is from the 30th century as a time patrolman, accidentally falls into the 20th century while tracking down the wicked Jaga due to a collision with his companion's time machine. Due to Jet's time machine "Meteor", he can only live temporarily in the 20th century due to the failure of the time shuttle function, at which time he meets the Saigo governor of the International Science Search Bureau, decides to assist saigo chief in investigating various crimes, and partners with the female photographer Kaoru Mizushima to fight for peace in the 20th century. As a futuristic man, Jeter has a modern number of times the intelligence and physical strength, he has a watch called "Time Stopper", which can stop the time around him for 30 seconds, the function of calling the meteor and the walkie-talkie, as well as the anti-gravity belt that can make him fly in the air, and the "Paralyzer gun" that can temporarily paralyze the enemy, infrared perspective goggles, bulletproof clothing, etc. At the beginning of this OP, there is a famous line of Jett that was very deeply rooted in people's hearts at the time: "I am Jeter, from the future 1000 years later, traveling through time to come here, Meteor Please answer!" Meteor! Come on, Yosie, get up! ”
Screenshot of the opening credits of Super Jet
In the 60s, watches were a luxury commodity for adults, and jett's time-stopping watches were quite attractive to children. The use of watches as the core props in the play was also very groundbreaking at the time, and various types such as watches with communication and chain hammer functions in the animation "W3" produced by WormProduction, watches that can be used as monitors and video calls in "Otsevin", and watches that can be used as robot remote controls in "Iron Armor Flying Man" have appeared, which seem to be inspired by Jett's "Time Stopper". Jet's car Meteor is a hovercraft that can also be used as a wheeled sports car, and at the same time can dive into the water, through the electronic mind installed in the car can distinguish the voice of Jeter transmitted by the watch, which can be said to be a universal machine with artificial intelligence. New concepts such as the use of Mach to represent the speed of sound, the time patrol for cross-time crime surveillance, the nerve paralysis gun, anti-gravity, infrared perspective, etc. that appeared in the play also developed the brain holes of children in that era, and continue to this day, which is still a tried and tested SF terrier.
Screenshot of the source of the first episode of "Super Jet", Jet and the female companion Mizushima acquaintance
(To be continued)
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