ANIMA INFO 469

Blade of the Immortal Anime's Promo Video Streamed

The official Japanese website for the anime adaptation of Hiroaki Samura's Blade of the Immortal manga has formally opened with a promotional video. The video first ran during last month's Tokyo International Anime Fair 2008.
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Este é um vídeo promocial de Blade, mangá lançado no Brasil pela Conrad. Para variar um pouco, o ideal é da net ser banda larga. Se não for, é bom ter fé! hahaha h haha hahahah

ANIMA INFO 453

Two Nine-Decade-Old Anime Films Discovered

Yoshiro Irie, a researcher at Tokyo's National Film Center, has announced that two of the oldest Japanese animated films were discovered in an antique shop in Osaka in central Japan. In 1917, anime pioneer Junichi Kouchi released the two-minute "Nakamura Katana" silent short about a samurai's foolish purchase of a dull-edged sword. Fellow animator Seitaro Kitayama released "Urashima Taro," an adaptation of a folk tale about a fisherman traveling to an underwater world on a turtle, in 1918. These films came soon after Oten Shimokawa's 1917 "Imokawa Mukozo the Doorman," which is considered the oldest commercially released anime film. Irie noted that these films relied heavily on gags and the novelty of moving pictures.
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Traduzindo: pesquisadores da Tokyo's National Film Center encontram duas animações feitas no Japão na década de 10 do século passado. Os anos exatos são 1917 e 1918. Interessante descoberta. Eu - pelo menos - gostaria de saber qual exatamente foi a primeria animação no mundo. Veja a nota original do ANN.