Toei Doga Fanboy

Road Blaster FX 1985

2009-05-08T14:51:00.001-07:00

The intro to the video game "Road Blaster FX"

Saturn Version

Sega Cd Version (different Music)

Magne Robo Gakeen (Magnetic Robot Gakeen) (1976–1977)

2009-04-06T06:59:00.001-07:00

Ikkyū-san (Master Ikkyū) (1975–1982)

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Captain Future (1978)

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Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon intro (1995)

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Better quailty version, But no japanese text.

Majokko Megu-chan Opening/Ending 1974-1975

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Hokuto no Ken 2 1987

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Cutey Honey (original TV series) (1973–1974)

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Mahou Tsukai Chappy (Apr. 1972-Dec. 1972)

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Kick no Oni (The Kick Demon) (1970–1971)

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Ge Ge Ge no Kitaro (intros various)

2008-07-14T18:58:00.001-07:00

Tiger Mask (1969–1971)

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Himitsu no Akko chan

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Rainbow Sentai Robin (1966–1967)

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Devilman

2008-05-12T23:34:00.000-07:00

Devilman (デビルマン, Debiruman),July 8, 1972 – April 7, 1973

(Devilman opening + closing)

Cyborg 009

2008-03-31T04:51:00.000-07:00

Cyborg 009 (サイボーグ００９, Saibōgu Zero-Zero-Nain)(Apr. 1968-Sept. 1968)

(Cyborg 009 opening)

(Cyborg 009 closeing)

Ken the Wolf Boy

2008-03-30T04:12:00.000-07:00

Ken the Wolf Boy of Ookami Shonen Ken (1963-1965)

(Ken the Wolf Boy episode one)

Animal Treasure Island Shots 1-100

2008-03-28T17:29:00.000-07:00

Animal Treasure Island (Dōbutsu Takarajima) (どうぶつ宝島) 1971

A few months ago, i decides to branch out into new depths and try to learn storyboarding. I started taking screen shots of my fave films shot by shot to study. and with hundreds of screen grabs, i thought i would start up this blog as well.

Animal Treasure Island is one of the few early Toei doga film to actually get a proper release in the west through Discotek media and is easy to get super cheap on ebay for a few bucks.

I think the film is fantastic with great staging and fabulous simplistic color backgrounds. Along with a few other Toei films is also an inspiration for Nintendo's Zelda: Windwaker and Phantom hourglass style (the pirate island spring to mind) which I'll do a post on soon.

(Animal Treasure Island Preview)

Official Site

IMDB Stub

Magical Witch Sally

2008-03-26T18:07:00.000-07:00

Mahōtsukai Sarī or Magical Witch Sally, 1966 – 1967

One of the first examples of magical girl (mahō shōjo) manga and anime in Japan. Check out the kid designs at the end of the opening video, Awesome! And i love the first ending video! :)

(Opening 1)

(Ending 1)

(Ending 2)

(Ending 3)

Magical Witch Sallt DVD's can be purchased from CdJapan!

Welcome!

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Hi all!

Welcome to my Toei Doga Fanboy Blog!

I'm not particularly one for words, theory and historical information about Toei animation is best left to the people with bigger mouths and larger vocabularies. I'm simply using this space to post imagery from Toei cartoons to hopefully entice viewers into tracking down copies for them selves and maybe encourage popularity into getting some more official UK/US releases.

Wikipedia pretty much sums up the history of the studio:

Toei Animation Company, Limited (東映アニメーション株式会社, Tōei Animēshon Kabushiki-gaisha?) (JASDAQ: 4816) is a Japanese animation studio owned by Toei Co., Ltd. The studio was originally founded in 1948 as Japan Animated Films (日本動画映画, Nihon Dōga Eiga, often shortened to 日動映画 Nichidō Eiga). In 1956, Toei purchased the studio and was reincorporated under its current name. Over the years, the studio has created a large number of TV series, and movies, many popular worldwide. Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata, Go Nagai, and Yoichi Kotabe have all worked with the company in the past. Toei is a shareholder in the Japanese anime satellite television network, Animax, along with other noted anime studios and production enterprises such as Sunrise, TMS Entertainment and Nihon Ad Systems Inc.

Until 1998, Toei Animation was known as Toei Doga (東映動画株式会社, Tōei Dōga Kabushiki-gaisha?) (although even at that time the company’s formal English name was indeed “Toei Animation Co. Ltd.”), with “dōga” being the native Japanese word for “animation” which was widely used until the 1970s. Their mascot is the cat Pero, from the company's 1969 film adaptation of Puss in Boots.

Toei Animation produced the anime versions of works by many legendary manga artists, including Go Nagai, Akira Toriyama, and Shotaro Ishinomori. In addition, the studio helped propel the popularity of the magical girl and Super Robot genres of anime; among Toei's most legendary and trend-setting TV series include the first magical-girl anime series, Mahoutsukai Sally, and Go Nagai's Mazinger Z, which set the standard for Super Robot anime for years to come.

Anime created by Toei Animation that have won the Animage Anime Grand Prix award have been Galaxy Express in 1981, Saint Seiya in 1987, and Sailor Moon in 1992.

In addition to producing anime for domestic consumption in Japan, in the 1980s, Toei Animation also provided animation work for several American-made television series and feature films (for Amercian animation studios such as Marvel Productions, Sunbow Productions, Rankin/Bass, Hanna-Barbera and Murakami-Wolf-Swenson, Inc among others), such as Muppet Babies, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Adventures of the American Rabbit, Dungeons & Dragons (TV series) and Sunbow Productions' My Little Pony, Transformers and G.I. Joe. These series' producers outsourced animation production work to Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia and other Asian countries because of cheaper labor costs.

A more more indeapth view of the studio can be read on Ben Ettinger webblog AniPages

Anipages - Toei Doga, part 1

Anipages - Toei Doga, part 2

Hope you enjoy this blog!

J.