One more hour-long special aired on January 2, 1995, as a New Years special, which contained four new shorts.Īltogether, 1,470 shorts were made, with two running during each half-hour (sometimes only one short was new, with the second half being a repeat).
On TBS the show had a more successful run, airing for 18 more years before finally ending its regular run on August 27, 1994. Not giving up, they moved the show to Tokyo Broadcasting Systems (TBS), which began airing it on January 3, 1976. However, this run was short-lived, only lasting until the following March after only 12 shows (24 segments). The show premiered on the NET (Nihon Educational Television, now TV Asahi) network in January 7, 1975. Among those well-known directors were Osamu Dezaki and Rintaro.
In addition, many well-regarded anime directors worked on this show, since it was reliable to get work in-between jobs, until they got assigned to direct on another series. It was one of the few TV cartoons where the directors get to be auteur. This is where the directors were allowed to do whatever they wanted, since they would typically draw their own layouts and even animate by themselves. Each episode were drawn and animated in different styles, taking advantage of the fact that the show had no recurring characters. The show retold Japanese folk tales in animated format. Founded in 1968 by former Mushi Production staff Susumu Aketagawa and Gisaburo Sugii, TAC initially kept themselves busy by taking in subcontract work from larger studios like Tokyo Movie and the aforementioned Mushi, but by 1975 they were producing their own shows, Mukashi Banashi being their first. Group TAC was one of the more artist-driven studios to thrive in Japan.
If I have to name an anime that was an exercise in what kind of different styles you can do with the animation medium, I’m going to have to pick Group TAC’s Manga Nippon Mukashi Banashi (Cartoon Japanese Folk Tales), a long-running animated anthology program.
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