<P> The first anime short - films were made by three leading figures in the industry . Ōten Shimokawa was a political caricaturist and cartoonist who worked for the magazine Tokyo Puck . He was hired by Tenkatsu to do an animation for them . Due to medical reasons , he was only able to do five movies , including Imokawa Mukuzo Genkanban no Maki ( 1917 ) , before he returned to his previous work as a cartoonist . Another prominent animator in this period was Jun'ichi Kōuchi . He was a caricaturist and painter , who also had studied watercolor painting . In 1912 , he also entered the cartoonist sector and was hired for an animation by Kobayashi Shokai later in 1916 . He is viewed as the most technically advanced Japanese animator of the 1910s . His works include around 15 movies . The third was Seitaro Kitayama , an early animator who made animations on his own and was not hired by larger corporations . He eventually founded his own animation studio , the Kitayama Eiga Seisakujo , which was later closed due to lack of commercial success . He utilized the chalkboard technique , and later paper animation , with and without pre-printed backgrounds . The works of these two latter pioneers include Namakura Gatana ( `` An Obtuse Sword '' , 1917 ) and a 1918 film Urashima Tarō which were believed to have been discovered together at an antique market in 2007 . However , this Urashima Tarō was later proved to most likely be a different film of the same story than the 1918 one by Kitayama , which , as of October 2017 , remains undiscovered . </P>
<P> The first anime short - films were made by three leading figures in the industry . Ōten Shimokawa was a political caricaturist and cartoonist who worked for the magazine Tokyo Puck . He was hired by Tenkatsu to do an animation for them . Due to medical reasons , he was only able to do five movies , including Imokawa Mukuzo Genkanban no Maki ( 1917 ) , before he returned to his previous work as a cartoonist . Another prominent animator in this period was Jun'ichi Kōuchi . He was a caricaturist and painter , who also had studied watercolor painting . In 1912 , he also entered the cartoonist sector and was hired for an animation by Kobayashi Shokai later in 1916 . He is viewed as the most technically advanced Japanese animator of the 1910s . His works include around 15 movies . The third was Seitaro Kitayama , an early animator who made animations on his own and was not hired by larger corporations . He eventually founded his own animation studio , the Kitayama Eiga Seisakujo , which was later closed due to lack of commercial success . He utilized the chalkboard technique , and later paper animation , with and without pre-printed backgrounds . The works of these two latter pioneers include Namakura Gatana ( `` An Obtuse Sword '' , 1917 ) and a 1918 film Urashima Tarō which were believed to have been discovered together at an antique market in 2007 . However , this Urashima Tarō was later proved to most likely be a different film of the same story than the 1918 one by Kitayama , which , as of October 2017 , remains undiscovered . </P>
who was the first person who made anime
who was the first person who made anime
Ōten Shimokawa
Ōten Shimokawa