《Space Battleship Yamato》

...In particular, Mushi Production's works promoted the rise of television animation, and 30-minute television animations gradually shifted from comedy to story-based, and eventually children's literature works such as "Heidi, Girl of the Alps" appeared, which ran for a year in a row. Alongside the animation of this children's literature masterpiece, the sci-fi space war story "Space Battleship Yamato" was made as a six-month consecutive series in the same year in 1974, and established the two major lines of television animation thereafter. A compilation of "Yamato" was released in theaters in 1977 and became a huge hit, which sparked a competition to produce feature-length theatrical animations, and produced masterpieces of adventure animation with content and technology that satisfied adults as well, such as "Galaxy Express 999" (1979), based on an original story by Matsumoto Reiji and directed by Rintaro, which took advantage of the beauty of the visuals by taking advantage of the large screen of the theater, and "Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro" (1979), directed by Miyazaki Hayao and animation director Otsuka Yasuo, with its flexible plot, exciting animation, and bizarre comedy. ...

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…とくに虫プロ作品はテレビアニメの隆盛を促し，しだいに30分のテレビアニメはギャグからストーリー中心に移行し，やがて《アルプスの少女ハイジ》など，一年連続の児童文学ものが登場。この名作児童文学のアニメ化と並んで，同じ74年にSF宇宙戦争もの《宇宙戦艦ヤマト》が半年連続シリーズとして作られ，その後の連続テレビアニメの二大路線を築いた。《ヤマト》の総集編が77年に劇場公開されて大ヒット，これが劇場用長編アニメ競作の口火となり，松本零士原作，りんたろう演出の《銀河鉄道999》(1979)のような劇場の大画面を生かした映像美をたんのうさせる作品や，宮崎駿演出，大塚康生作画監督の《ルパン三世･カリオストロの城》(1979)のような緩急自在の作劇，痛快なアニメート，奇想天外なギャグなど，おとなも満足させる内容と技術をそなえた冒険アニメの快作も生まれた。…

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