Audience reviews
20 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
Tunwinotaka01
This is what so called the first "anime"
Let me review it
Plot/story - 0
Just a boy writing Japanese characters.
(No "story" for me)
Sound - 0
No sound was record, since it's silent film. Art - 4
Ima be honest, it's very very very simple art, it does fit the era but sometimes things are missing like the thing that the boy use to write the board.
Enjoyability - 6
it's enjoyable for people who want to watch something short, but for people who wants to watch something long (like me) it's not enjoyable.
Overall - 5
Uh, as a person who likes anime that airs about 24 minutes, It's pretty average.
Read at the sourceYuksMeNow
Ahh, the first ever anime. This seems very impressive in 1900s standards.
STORY: -/10
Dude. This is literally only 5 seconds, how would there be a story for 5 seconds?
ART: 7/10
Not a bad art, it's a nice art style, actually. Its animations are also pretty good despite minor mistakes (One example, the pen disappearing)
SOUND: -/10
Sound doesn't exist. CHARACTERS: 4/10
Uh huh, this anime has one character.
ENJOYMENT: 6/10
It's pretty good, I'm impressed, well, for a few seconds.
OVERALL: 6/10
For the first anime ever that's still intact, it's not bad. This rating used to be a 3. Recommended for people who likes very old anime or people with short attention span.
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Sure it was short anime but to be honest for the year it was made it it was quit a fantastic short film. The animation is quit smooth, it's quit beatifully drawn. Again pity it's short. It reminds me of when you quickly flip the book pages to make it like a moving picture, but again this one is really smooth and fluidly moving. And to despite the short running time the story can be interpretated anyhow you wish to interpetrate it. Think of it as make your own adventure. Even doesn't need any music in the background.
So just sit back, enjoy and quickly sip whatever beavrege you have.
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I don’t understand why people rate this based on things like sound, characters, or plot. That completely misses the point. Katsudou Shashin isn’t something you compare to modern anime. It’s possibly the first anime ever made, and it dates back to somewhere between 1907 and 1912. That’s before the Titanic sank. Over 100 years old. That’s insane.
I’m giving it an 8, not because it’s entertaining by today’s standards, but because of how iconic and historically important it is. It’s just a few seconds of animation, but it represents the beginning of an entire art form. This is the kind of thing that belongs in a museum.
Read at the sourceKyleTheDonut
An insightful glimpse into the Japanese zeitgeist of old. Biting and poignant, the unnamed protagonist clearly symbolizes the conflict between the Ego and the Superego, actualizing the subconscious desire for societal rebellion. Though some may say the animation is lackluster, I would argue that it is a stylistic choice. Akin to James Joyce's clever wordsmithing, the frames here mash and collide in a bombastic display of eccentricity and phlogiston. But, as much as it pains me to admit, the pacing is a bit on the wandering side. The protagonist's arc is lethargic, albeit satisfying. But that is nowhere near as egregious as the changes that Bones made during adaptation. The manga's ending was much different and I think more thematically appropriate, but they did an alright job here. The voi…
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It's easy to fall into the trap of considering the beginning of an artistic tradition as an "Adam and Eve" of an entire movement, to paint the history of a national institution as one flat timeline that has a well defined origin point from which everything else sprung from. Reality is usually far less simple.
Japanese animation, moreso than most cinematic traditions, has much of its early history shrouded in mystery, due to the devastating Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 and the nature of censorship, both foreign and domestic, in the years leading up to, and just after WWII. Katsudou Shashin, a tiny three second fragment of animation painted directly to celluloid, made quite a splash around animation historian discourse when it was discovered in 2004 and subsequently dated as "being up to…
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Katsudou Shashin is the oldest known anime in Japan. An essential historical document for learning about the history of Japanese animation. It was created at the beginning of the last century, becoming the first step in a rich timeline.
About the anime, in three or four seconds, the boy in the red cap writes the word "Katsudô Shashin" (Moving Picture) in kanji characters, and bows to the viewer. It's a silent work without story but with a very special meaning. The written message presents Japan with a new artistic manifestation.
(It is necessary when analyzing anime to take into account the richness of artistic production in an unfavorable historical context.)
Read at the sourceNaughtyLink
The subtle animations in this masterpiece brought me to tears. Every time I think back to that silly little red hat, my heart melts and I'm filled with such joy. I love every single part of this movie. Seeing this film in theaters when it first aired is also a once in a lifetime experience that I'm sad most peons would be able to see for themselves. You can clearly see the influence this perfect masterpiece has had on the likes of Studio Ghibli (Who's first 6 films were all attempts to recreate this beautiful story) and also in the manga world in works like Berserk and Steel Ball Run. Truly ahead of it's time. Japan has been living in the colossal shadow of Katsudou Shashin, and probably still will be forever.
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You have to cut this show some slack, ease up and get a massage, go educate yourself, or learn to perceive time like a good boy, if you think that this anime deserves below a 6 star.
To put it simply, this IS the OLDEST anime released to the public, speculated to have been released in 1907, so putting it to any sort of high standards is just nit-picky and stingy, so don't be that guy, it's also hard to believe this show even tried to accomplish anything more than to be a test for future reference, which I believe may have just been leaked to public on accident. So if you want to be the harsh all-mighty all-powerful critique to pass judgement on this show and slap the all-mighty 1 upon it's corpse, you were definitely the kid who played 'god' with ants on the park bench, so y'know what, yo…
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So let's start.
Story: 10
The plot is chock full of plot twists, comedy and romance that gives it a nice flair.
Art: 10
The art looks beautiful and fluent and the colors just pop right out of the screen.
Sound:
The voice acting is pretty decent, with a few flaws here and there.
Character: 10
The boy is made just perfect, the creators tried to make a hero that everyone should emulate
Enjoyment: 10 I'm really enjoy this anime. The anime was very suspenseful that after watching the first episode, you just need to watch the next one, and so on for the rest of the season.
Overall: 10
Some words for the end:
I know the fandom is just terrible but that doesn't change the fact that I highly recommend this anime
Read at the sourcefr1edmango
It's quite obvious that there's not much to say about this anime because it's so short but I thought I might as well give it a review. Katsudou Shashin is what is currently considered to be the first anime ever made. It was made as early as 1907 so there's no sound and the art isn't any good. For the time this came out it looks great seeing that there were only a handful of other animations. Overall, I thought it was interesting to see the first anime and one of the first animations. If you're interested in the history behind anime I would recommend this.
Read at the sourceKiyoshix99
The truth is that it is the first anime in history and it does not have to be criticized much, despite the lack of sound and history, I was quite surprised how the Japanese animation of this short could evolve to what we have today , we have to thank you :9.
The drawing is simple, but for the time it is very good, excellent I would say, it has no sound, so you can take it as a silent movie, although these have a soundtrack, which this animation lacks.
It doesn't have a story itself, (SPOILER) is just a kid writing on the board, so there isn't much to watch, other than it is only 3 seconds long.
In general, this short has encouraged to promote Japanese animation and the basis of the Japanese style
Read at the sourceCrunchy-Cactus
Obviously it isn't fair to review this in the same way that you'd review most other anime. As of the writing of this review, it's the first anime we know of. It's only a few seconds long, and because of that it doesn't have any plot or anything. It's impressive because of it's historical significance, so I think a 7/10 is a fair score.
I'd just suggest for anyone reading this review to watch it yourself. You've spent more time reading this review than you would have spent watching it.
In conclusion, it's very well made for it's time, it is one of the earliest pieces of animation that we know of, and it's very fortunate that we still have it today.
Read at the sourceK0m0rebi07
it's stupid to evaluate history, characters or music. This was certainly an experiment. It is also just a fragment, so we cannot know the rest of the work. I want to evaluate it for its importance in history, therefore only for graphics. Also because it makes no sense to evaluate for the sounds, the sounds synchronized with the animation arrived in 1939!
then, I don't mean that you have to love and look at an anime only for its historical importance, but if you are here it means that you are interested. Sorry for my English, I am Italian and I am using google translate ... I hope it was useful, bye!
Read at the sourceTuturuChan
The oldest known anime to have originated from Japan.
Made in the year 1907, that is the estimate. The creator? Unknown.
Found among old films and projectors acquired from an old Kyoto family in 2004 is a short filmstrip animation titled Katsudou Shashin also known as "Matsumoto fragment" is a short anime of two to three seconds of a school boy writing the words "活動写真" on a blackboard which translates roughly to "Moving Pictures", he then proceeds to take his red hat off and bows. And that's it.
I can give you the technical aspects of it, but I don't really care. There's nothing special about it. You can read up on it on Wikip*dia if you want. I want to express my feelings on this work and what I though about it.
I'm awed by it. By the history of it. This marked a great moment in Japa…
Read at the sourcePokeFan2112
Made in 1907 (and possibly as early as 1905), this may be the first anime ever made. Thus, it is a fascinating historical document.
It's only 3 seconds long, so there's not much to say. There isn't any story or dialogue. However, I like the art style. It looks pretty neat and given the time of it's release it's an impressive effort.
But it's very interesting nonetheless. It's neat to see these sort of firsts, like Roundhay Garden Scene (possibly the first film ever), or Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (possibly the first animated film ever). I find it interesting to see what started it all.
Overall, I guess it's good but since it's so short there's not really much to say. But i'd definitely recommend it to anime fans if they want to see where it all began.
Read at the sourcekhattikeri
Obviously the conventional rules for reviews aren't going to apply here, since there isn't a story, sound, or characterization to speak of. The art is cute, and my enjoyment was high since I personally like history a lot.
Katsudou Shashin ("Moving Picture") from 1907 is the oldest "anime" ever. Over a hundred years ago... it really leaves you in awe.
I love seeing bits and pieces of history like this, so even if this is only about three seconds long and has no real story elements to it like modern anime, I do think it's a masterpiece, especially given the time period it was made in.
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At only three seconds long, the shortest anime ever made, this was intended to be short and sweet, but not because the story didn’t need to be long. This was created around the year 1910 when the concept of animation had only been recently introduced to Japan and so as a still experimental storytelling style they hadn’t developed a cheap enough way to create more animation than this. With 50 frames in total this was as much as they could muster and the end of it doesn’t even look like it’s complete, but considering its age this is acceptable. After all, this wasn’t intended to be treated as an anime since anime didn’t exist at the time, this was just meant as both a project and a feat; a mark that animation was possible and a feasible way to show stories.
This doesn’t have so much of a st…
Read at the sourceAX3M
Story: 1/10
..'cause there's no story..
Art: 5/10
..it's very very old but still doesn't even look like one of the best art of its time..
Sound: 1/10
..I can't put 0, so let's settle for 1. Would be 2 if there were subs (dubs would be fine too!)
Character: 1/10 ..amazing, give me any character that develops in 2-3 seconds.
Enjoyment: 7/10
..I really enjoyed watching the supposedly first anime ever created, it's like anime history is lifting her skirt a very tiny bit herself revealing a birthmark on one of her thighs for you to see for yourself.
Overall: 5/10
My formula -> (1+5+1+1+7+([8]*4))/9
Inside [] is my bias, it's the score I think it deserves.
This formula is designed so that my bias weighs much of the overall rating.
TL;DR
I liked it, feeling like I'm witnessing the birth of…
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This could very well be the first anime. Some say it might be from 1907! So i'm going to be lenient, super lenient.
story - 0
There is none, it's just a 5 second long clip of a boy writing.
art - 8
very good! At least, I like it. It's also very interesting, showing the style of the time
sound - 0
its a silent film so... character - 1
there's a dude, he writes, bam done
enjoyment - 7
I love older stuff and history so this was super cool and interesting. Also, it was cute.
overall - 7
ya gotta forgive it, its from 1907! Overall, its the first and its good.
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