Sixty Years Since Mighty Atom: 1963

Having seen bits of animation from Japan antique enough to perhaps avoid a certain amount of the indignation churned up over the fans who conflate “old anime” and “whatever’s not hot at that very moment” has been something to post about here, but still not something to boast about. Depending on the generosity of a few “fansubbers” (or perhaps just one) is not the same as “learning Japanese and importing discs.” Still, one day I happened to accumulate enough “sample episodes” to have at least one or two of them from each year since Osamu Tezuka started adapting his Mighty Atom manga into animation and getting it on television. In that moment, I started thinking about marking the sixtieth anniversary of that premiere by watching a sample episode from each of those years, and now that anniversary’s arrived.
( The 100,000 horsepower robot )