June 1 is approaching, although I believe that most people have long been unqualified for this festival, but it does not prevent us from looking back at our childhood, those names that belong to a certain generation: smart One Hugh, Robot Cat, Cat and Mouse, Transformers, Saint Seiya, Dragon Ball...
From the early 1980s to the mid-1990s, it was the golden age when domestic translators and producers of foreign animation began to be introduced. From Japan to Europe and the United States, hundreds of excellent works from all over the world have appeared on the TV screens from the central station to the local stations. For children at that time, it was the happiest thing to regularly stay in front of the TV every Sunday night and enjoy a short twenty-minute cartoon, even if you can see the latest anime works at any time now, it is impossible to reproduce the beauty of that time.
So even if it is a cliché, we still want to awaken the memory of that time and look back at the foreign cartoons we have watched over the years.
Japan
(The works mentioned in the atlas, I believe you will not be unfamiliar)
Atlas
1980 is the year when CCTV began to introduce foreign animation films, in this year there have been two works "Astro Boy" and "Ryuko Taro" have appeared successively, and the subsequent works such as "Little Flying Dragon" and "The Forest Emperor" are almost the first batch of works that opened the memory of Japanese animation for domestic audiences.
The first few works of the 80s, such as "Smart One Break", "Robot Cat", "Flower Fairy", etc. are considered to be classic representatives of Japanese animation, and the introduction of Chinese dubbing and theme songs have brought a strong sense of identity, and many people subconsciously do not regard these works as "outsiders".
After 1984, Japanese robot animation began to flourish on a large scale, and a number of works other than Gundam, such as "Six Gods Ensemble" and "God of War King Kong", were reflected. Another feature of translated cartoons at that time was that the first choice was not the Japanese original, but the American side's own edited and even adapted version, such as "McLenn One", which was also called "Star Wars" at that time. Of course, the most representative example of this aspect is "Battlestar Galactica". The US version edited two other works that had nothing to do with the original "Chrono Fortress" into a trilogy, but instead gave birth to a new brand, and for domestic audiences, only "Battlestar Galactica" has a specific meaning.
In the late 1980s, a number of Japanese juvenile manga that were at their peak at that time were successively adapted into animations, and then entered the country in different ways, from "Alare", "Football Boy", "Big Dipper God Fist" to "Saint Seiya", "Dragon Ball", "Baseball Heroes", etc., laying the foundation for the later market prosperity of pirated manga to varying degrees.
In addition, it is worth mentioning that in 1988, the first Japanese close-up film "Dinosaur Express" that domestic audiences were exposed to was broadcast, and the same name is also the memory of a specific generation, and before Ultraman became popular, it first experienced the characteristics of this work, although this is not an animation, but at the time it seemed that both close-up and animation were for children to see...
In the 90s, a new batch of names such as "Crazy Horse", "Sailor Moon", "Slam Dunk Master", etc. became the memories of later generations, while "Cherry Maruko", "Crayon Shin-chan", "Ninja Shotaro" came to everyone from another side, of course, there was "Evangelion" born in 1995, but it entered the domestic TV station in the way of "Aquila Warrior" many years later is a typical black history...
With the popularity of VCD, pirated discs and the original network, the Japanese animation broadcast by the TV station gradually lost the reason to attract most people, and everyone was more willing to contact the original works for the first time, with the 1999 "One Piece" TV animation, it is also on behalf of the Japanese anime into a new era, many names in the last century have become classics, and the era of relying on TV broadcasting to see new animation has long been in the past.
Europe and the United States
(For many people, this part of the atlas is more representative of childhood.)
Looking back at the memories of European and American animation broadcast on domestic television, it is far more difficult than Japanese animation, the latter at least has a clear chronological order, and the former from the time span to the region and country is really all-encompassing, so here can only briefly say some places where everyone's impression is more consistent.
It is generally recognized that the earliest European and American translated animation films seen by Chinese audiences are "Cricket Jemini" broadcast in 1981, but everyone's memory of this is probably mostly faint. The work that really impressed everyone in the sense of the word was 1982's Tale of the Mole, a Czechoslovak animation.
Different from Japanese animation, the early choice of animation in Europe and the United States can be said to be a hundred rivers, and works from different countries in different eras have been selected, which has also caused many works to be classics in the world, but domestic audiences have specific traces of appreciation because of cultural barriers or differences in age or even broadcast time. And those works from different countries include "Wait and See" in the Soviet Union, "Baba Papa" in France, "The Adventures of Strange Ducks" in Britain... And many more works from Germany, Poland, Spain, Hungary.
Of course, the most numerous and most representative is definitely American animation. The Smurfs, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Zorro, Seaman, Sheriff Bresta, Detective Gagitt... Any name can trigger the feelings of countless elderly people. And "Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck" and "Tom and Jerry" these two classics, needless to say, even if not the audience who experienced that era, will not have any doubts about them, perhaps the only flaw is because of the broadcast agreement of that year, resulting in "Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck" did not continue to broadcast after the 90s, so that "Tom and Jerry" occupied the TV screen in most parts of the country for a longer time.
As for another name that influenced an era, and of course" Transformers, as the most successful animation in The country at that time (absolutely not one), the charm of Transformers toys was popular all over the country, no less popular than the popularity of later game consoles, so that many years later, when the movie version reawakened the memory of a generation, everyone found that the name of Transformers had never disappeared in our hearts.
As with Transformers, many European and American works may not be enough for children at that time, and after many years of their return to the public eye in different ways, such as live-action movies, everyone suddenly remembers that they have long been so familiar, and even did not carefully feel the excitement of them. For domestic audiences, one of the names that should be mentioned when talking about European and American animation is the former Little Dragon Club, when Japanese animation began to prevail in the 90s, this program brought a large number of unique European and American animations to become the most understood channel for audiences at that time, such as classics such as "Night Dragon". And as domestic television stations began to ban the broadcast of foreign cartoons in prime time, the Little Dragon Club finally lost its significance.
In today's Internet age, it is not difficult to find various ways for animation, whether it is nostalgic or new, and television has lost its meaning to many people. It's just that for those of us who have lived through certain times, these stories are still so familiar, there are always some names, and once they are said, they burst into tears, and one day if anyone asks about the value of the classics, we can proudly declare to anyone that we have lived in such a wonderful time.
Author: Masaru Yamanoji