Sixty Years Since Mighty Atom: 1968

As it turned out it was back to black-and-white for at least one more series, the first anime version of Cyborg 009. The five monochrome TV anime I’ve sampled this year aren’t quite everything of that ilk I’ve watched, and I have just a bit more black-and-white anime still unviewed. A part of me has already begun contemplating “the black-and-white anime aesthetic”; another part of me wants to split that lump and acknowledge different styles and staffs within it, if only because of certain thoughts of being told to remember that by hypothetical others. I suppose I want to contrast this black-and-white animation to American works from the 1930s and the beginning of the 1940s, even if a few of the anime I’ve sampled had enough wavering brightness to their existing prints to get me thinking of “before the 1960s” anyway.
( Count the cyborgs with care )