Animation industry before war

Quantity of animation movies produced before war

Showa 5 (1930) : 24 titles

Cited from "Astro Boy's era" (book by Hisateru Furuta).

A Lady don't want to watch kiddy show like this... like...

Even though most are short features, they sure made a lot

The military ordered a lot of animation production

And because military have money, the quality of military backed animation is quite high

According to interview by Tokyo Shinbun

It seems that the Navy-produced "Momotaro : Divine Soldier of the Sea" touched and formed Osamu Tezuka's future earlier than Disney's animation

Finally Japan can also make a splendid work like this

Young (Osamu Tezuka)