#mushi productions

[fujikosouvenir]

[cartoonbrain]

Tezuka at Mushi Productions drawing the Manuscript for “The Amazing 3” surrounded by Astro Boy and Uran

Taken in the 1960s

[diehardgngfan]

I rewatched the first two episodes of Kimba the White Lion (1965). I have a new appreciation for the original anime and the Jungle Emperor series as a whole. It’s just so good!

[haveyouseenthismovie-poll]

[astroboyart]

Source: Mandarake Auction

All 28 issues of Mighty Atom Club magazine listed in chronological order (August 1964 to November 1966).

The Mighty Atom Club magazine, also known as Mushi Production Friends of Astro Boy (Tetsuwan Atom) Club magazine, was a magazine produced by Osamu Tezuka and Mushi Production during the 1963 Astro Boy anime’s airing. The magazine existed from August 1964 to November 1966.

[mondonguita]

Belladonna of sadness (1973, Eiichi Yamamoto) by Mushi Production.

[habibisagi]

shoujo isagi........................... almost maybe.......................

[starcrossedscreams]

Belladonna of Sadness (dir. Eiichi Yamamoto, 1973)

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Princess Knight (1967)

[bitchapalooza]

Thinking about the transponder snails and thinking about the potential market of baby monitor snails. But like. It’s way too cursed to imagine in full color. Can you imagine the first night you and/or your partner uses the thing and all of a sudden this damn pocket sized weird snail-technologically-thing just takes your newborn’s face— in the dead of fucking night, PITCH BLACK, mind you— like you can’t tell me that wouldn’t traumatize a person who’s had less than 3 hours of sleep at most the past week or so. Hell, imagine you’re just trying to familiarize the snail’s presence with your kid so when they see it in their room they aren’t completely losing their shit over it. Except they do. They always do. Because you showed them how it worked, it taking your face/likeness, even tho you knew their 3 week old minds wouldn’t even comprehend the technological understanding or literally anything about it. There you go, you just scared the literal piss and shit out of your baby. But at least you’re getting a full refund, shipping included, for your set of cursed baby monitor snails 😭

[fujikosouvenir]

[pinguinodirovere]

𝒜𝓅𝓅𝑒𝓃𝒶 𝒻𝒾𝓃𝒾𝓉𝑜 𝒹𝒾 𝓋𝑒𝒹𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝓈𝑜𝓉𝓉𝑜 𝒸𝑜𝓃𝓈𝒾𝑔𝓁𝒾𝑜 𝒹𝒾 𝓊𝓃 𝒶𝓂𝒾𝒸𝑜, 𝓆𝓊𝒶𝓁𝒸𝓊𝓃𝑜 𝓁𝑜 𝒽𝒶 𝒹𝑒𝒻𝒾𝓃𝒾𝓉𝑜 𝓊𝓃 𝑜𝓅𝑒𝓇𝒶: 𝓂𝒶𝓈𝒸𝒽𝒾𝓁𝒾𝓈𝓉𝒶 𝑒 𝓅𝒶𝓉𝓇𝒾𝒶𝓇𝒸𝒶𝓁𝑒, 𝒾𝑜 𝓅𝑒𝓇𝓈𝑜𝓃𝒶𝓁𝓂𝑒𝓃𝓉𝑒 𝓁' 𝒽𝑜 𝓉𝓇𝑜𝓋𝒶𝓉𝑜 𝓉𝓊𝓉𝓉𝑜 𝒾𝓁 𝒸𝑜𝓃𝓉𝓇𝒶𝓇𝒾𝑜. É 𝓊𝓃 𝑜𝓅𝑒𝓇𝒶 𝒹𝑒𝓁 𝟷𝟿𝟽𝟹 𝒸𝑜𝓃 𝓉𝓊𝓉𝓉𝒾 𝒾 𝓈𝓊𝑜𝒾 𝓁𝒾𝓂𝒾𝓉𝒾 𝓂𝒶 𝒾𝑜 𝓁' 𝒽𝑜 𝓉𝓇𝑜𝓋𝒶𝓉𝑜 𝓈𝓅𝓁𝑒𝓃𝒹𝒾𝒹𝑜, 𝓁𝒶 𝒸𝑜𝓁𝑜𝓃𝓃𝒶 𝓈𝑜𝓃𝑜𝓇𝒶 é 𝓈𝓉𝓇𝒶𝒷𝒾𝓁𝒾𝒶𝓃𝓉𝑒 ( 𝒹𝑒𝓋𝑜 𝒶𝓈𝓈𝑜𝓁𝓊𝓉𝒶𝓂𝑒𝓃𝓉𝑒 𝒸𝑒𝓇𝒸𝒶𝓇𝓁𝒶) . 𝒱𝒾 𝓁𝒶𝓈𝒸𝒾𝑜 𝓆𝓊𝒾 𝓈𝑜𝓉𝓉𝑜 𝒾𝓁 𝓁𝒾𝓃𝓀 𝓅𝑒𝓇 𝓋𝑒𝒹𝑒𝓇𝓁𝑜, 𝒸𝑜𝓈ì 𝓅𝑜𝒾 𝓂𝒾 𝓈𝒶𝓅𝓇𝑒𝓉𝑒 𝒹𝒶𝓇𝑒 𝓁𝒶 𝓋𝑜𝓈𝓉𝓇𝒶 𝑜𝓅𝒾𝓃𝒾𝑜𝓃𝑒. ℬ𝓊𝑜𝓃𝒶 𝓋𝒾𝓈𝒾𝑜𝓃𝑒

[define-fluorescent]

Sigh. I just took my ADHD pills and now want to go out and take pictures of some bugs but I cannot,,, because of personal responsibilities,,, that I take the ADHD meds to perform

[madhogthymaster]

Brain Bubble: Monkeys Violating The Heavenly Temple (My Mind is The Temple)

On occasion, my mind wanders back to that Tails solo-game on the old SEGA Game Gear system. You do know the one, right?

When I do so, I think about the lad himself. His jaunty walk cycle, to be specific. His jolly, not-a-care-in-the-world, confident yet adorable, serotonin-producing strut. That walk.

The memory of such occurrence brings me back in time even further, back to a period when I would sit in front of the television, tune in on a future defunct channel that would constantly play older Japanese animated series imported to my country a decade before my birth. On occasion, I would see a certain jolly, not-a-care-in-the-world, confident yet adorable strut.

And I would get my serotonin.

But enough of me deconstructing my own autistic brain! What you just witnessed was the closing sequence for Gokū no Daibōken, a TV adaptation of Xiyou ji (also known as Saiyuki or Journey to the West), one of the most renowned Chinese literary works. The anime was produced by Osamu Tezuka's Mushi Production in 1967 and then localized for the Italian market by SINCROVOX in 1980. What you just watched (and heard) was indeed the Italian sigla, an original composition played over the end credits sequence. We've had plenty of those, back in the day.

As an aside, this show was simply known as The Monkey during our local TV run. It came to us during the Anime Boom of 1978-83, along with hundreds of other series. Many of which would include plenty of Tatsunoko IPs, Doraemon and its many clones, other Tezuka series and every Super Robot anime under the sun. If you are more curious about the subject, there is an ancient podcast of mine in which I go into more detail on the key figure responsible for it. Spoilers: the whole story somehow involves that infamous animated Titanic film. No, not the rapping dog one, The Other One.

Anyway, I simply wanted to share with you a primordial memory of my childhood, a weird random thought that spiraled out of control - as it's wont to do. Indubitably, you must be feeling enriched by the experience. I might post more of these unstructured brain bubbles in the future as a way to get my mental juices flowing if I can't be bothered to write full articles or essays. To summarize: this monkey lives in my head and he does not pay rent.

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[astroboyart]

Source: @oshiken1125 (X)

Unused Note Mushi Production Star Parade notebooks from over 50 years ago, featuring original Astro Boy artwork with Leo (Kimba) and Tink from Princess Knight included.

[homunculus-argument]

The thing about dog temperaments is, labradors are playful and happy-go-lucky kind of creatures that don't really take anything too seriously, they're just jolly and mushy, cheerful creatures that are chill with everyone and eager to please. Poodles, however, have zero chill, highly intelligent, need a job to do or they will invent one, take everything dead seriously and are the only dog in the "top 10 dogs most likely to fight god" list that isn't a terrier.

And now, it may seem tempting to think "hey what if we could get a dog that's as chill and cheery as a labrador but as dutiful and law-abiding as a poodle." Just like it was tempting to think "hey what if we could get a bee that's as honey-productive as an african killer bee, but human friendly like domestic bees?"