anime or not?

Shirik Of Dazed Dreams · Post by **Shirik Of Dazed Dreams** » Thu May 04, 2006 7:31 am

This film has been annoying me for YEARS in regards to wether or not it is classed as anime. I have been told both - both by individuals and my movie stores.

The movie in question is The Last Unicorn

I am convinced this movie is NOT anime yet I am constantly told otherwise.

Any opinions?

bobbarker31 · Post by **bobbarker31** » Thu May 04, 2006 8:30 am

This movie was animated in Japan by Topcraft, the studio also responsible for earlier Rankin-Bass productions of The Hobbit (1977) (TV) and The Return of the King (1980) (TV), and was their final collaboration. Topcraft was then hired by Tokuma Shoten and Hayao Miyazaki to make his 1984 landmark Kaze no tani no Naushika (1984) (Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind). In 1985, when Miyazaki and Isao Takahata formed Studio Ghibli, most of the major talent at Topcraft was brought on board.

Infer what you will. The story was by Peter S. Beagle and it was created primarily for an American audience.

amvwizard · Post by **amvwizard** » Thu May 04, 2006 8:44 am

bobbarker31 wrote:This movie was animated in Japan by Topcraft, the studio also responsible for earlier Rankin-Bass productions of The Hobbit (1977) (TV) and The Return of the King (1980) (TV), and was their final collaboration. Topcraft was then hired by Tokuma Shoten and Hayao Miyazaki to make his 1984 landmark Kaze no tani no Naushika (1984) (Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind). In 1985, when Miyazaki and Isao Takahata formed Studio Ghibli, most of the major talent at Topcraft was brought on board.

Infer what you will. The story was by Peter S. Beagle and it was created primarily for an American audience.

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