AniWorthAnimal Treasure Island
Introduction
When Jim suddenly comes into possession of a map with directions to the legendary Treasure Island, he wastes little time before jumping into a tiny boat with his friend Gran in search of adventure and fortune. It is not long, however, before they are captured by the infamous Captain Silver and the Pork Sauté pirates. After barely avoiding death, the pair is taken to Pirate Island, where many crews are organizing a search for the legendary treasure. Together with Kathy, the rightful heir to the map, Jim and Gran must use all of their wit if they are to seize the gold.
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Audience ratings
MyAnimeList / Tenrai : 6.45/10 · 1323
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Audience reviews
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The last great entry in the Toei Doga series of animated films, Animal Treasure Island is a fun and visually sumptuous kid's adventure film.
The film's animation is some of the best I've ever seen, full of lively and snappy movement, and bolstered by simple and appealing designs, bold, crisp colors (in the animation cels and the background art), and good, if simple layouts. The narrative is an extremely loose adaptation of Treasure Island, basically keeping the treasure hunt aspect and some characters names, and the initial setup and nothing else. The standout original character among the cast is Cathy, a tough, fierce, no-nonsense girl that feels inspired by the bandit girl in the Soviet animation The Snow Queen. The film maintains a light atmosphere throughout, high on slapstick and hij…
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Animal Treasure Island turned out to be quite a nice little adventure, and for something made in 1971, it holds up really well.
The story follows the rough outline of the original novel it's based on with obvious liberties taken around every corner. I haven't read the actual book but I've seen 3 or 4 different adaptations by now and it's been fun to spot the similarities along the way. The only major departure seems to be a boy meets girl element when Jim meets Kathy. Can't really complain about it cause it's added in quite naturally and their relationship is rather cute. This kind of stuff is also pretty common in anime when dealing with this type of story.
The presentation is where this adaptation really shines though cause its relatively short runtime for a movie is chock full of va…
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Based on the popular classic young boys novel by Robert Stevenson, only with animals added! All of the characters (save two) are anthropomorphized, although it really doesn't mean anything with respect to the story itself (as in, the animal characteristics do not really play a role in how the characters act). It's really just to make the story a little more palatable to a wider (and a bit younger) audience.
The story is pretty straight-forward. Young Jim Hawkins gets his hands on a treasure map, and heads out to sea in search of his fortune. He ends up on a pirate ship, where the captain tries to take the map and find the treasure himself. Along the way they run across Kathy, the granddaughter of the map's original creator. And the keep fighting as they make their way towards Treasure Is…
Read at the sourceTyumace
In 1958 Toei Animation came out with their first feature length film, Hakujaden. This film was such a big success that throughout the 60s and 70s they kept making a film like it every year. Generally these films tended to be high in production quality and in particular 1968’s Horus, Prince of the Sun wouldn’t be outshone as a sakuga showcase untill well into the 80s. Horus was a commercial failure, however, and Toei decided to change their business model and started making two films a year: one expensive and the other cheap. This change, together with the fact that a lot of talent working at Toei left around this time, led to the slow decline in quality of these films.
Now, I'm telling all of this because I want to paint a picture of the anime industry in the 60s and 70s when Toei animat…
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