Forum - View topicAre there any Asuka and Nara Period Anime?
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SunTrip
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Hey everyone, I hope even just one of you would answer my question: There are thousands of Anime out there, but How come there's no Anime that took place in Earlier Ancient Japan, particularly the Asuka and Nara Periods, or the Eras before them, and very few set during the Heian Period (not the Sengoku, Edo, or Meiji, as there are a lot) Did Anime creators thought that Earlier Ancient Japan is Uninteresting or they just thought that Audiences won't be interested?
If you know an Anime taking place during the Asuka and Nara Periods, or the Eras before them, please tell me 
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Spastic Minnow
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You might want to check the Historical anime thread for recommendations. Not that there's much around.
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horseradish
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Rekishika
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Sugii Gisaburô's "Genji Monogatari" film (anime#3270) has just been published on DVD and Blu-Ray in Germany. |
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horseradish
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shosakukan
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In the 80s, Nippon Television broadcast Manga Nihon-shi (Manga History of Japan), and in some early episodes, it dealt with the Yayoi period, the Kofun period, the Asuka period, and the Nara period.
Since it is an educational anime series aimed at children, it may seem to grown-ups who want 'entertainment' to be 'boring' in a sense, however. |
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SunTrip
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Maybe the Japanese People are, in my Opinion, more interested about Ancient China, evidenced by Yasuhisa Hara's Successful 'Kingdom' Manga, which had Excellent Sales, Decent Audience, and an Anime Adaption. The Story is set during the Warring States Period of China (476 BC-221 BC), a time much earlier than Kofun, Asuka, and Nara (Japan's equivalent of The Warring States is sometime within the Yayoi Period [900 BC-250 AD]). Hara, a Japanese, managed to Craft a Good Story set during that Early Chinese Dynasty, and the Audiences/Readers liked it, so... I think that the Japanese are more interested about Ancient China than Ancient Japan. I don't have any other samples but I think that the Kingdom sample is enough. This is just my Opinion (Sources are from: Wikipedia).
Thank you for your lists and Opinions about this Question. And to you all, many thanks as well 
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Rekishika
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Just remembered "Doraemon: Nobita and the Birth of Japan" and its 2016 remake, which are set in Japan 70.000 years ago: anime#1904 and anime#18475. |
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yuna49
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The 2009 adaptation entitled "Genji Monogatari Sennenki" ran on noitaminA but was never licensed in the West. For English speakers, there are only fansubs as far as I know. This adaptation was created as part of the millennial celebration of the novel's publication and was directed by the famed Dezaki Osamu. It's quite beautiful, but a bit slow at times. (It also has one of most discordant OPs I've ever heard, a rock number from Puffy.) Sadly the emphasis on poetry in Murasaki's novel does not carry over to the adaptation. Kurozuka begins in the Heian period, I believe, but it soon has a time skip to the future. Episode nine of Abenobashi Mahou Shoutengai also concerns the Heian period, and Abe no Seimei in particular, in its own screwball fashion. Abe appears in a number of anime though typically not in his historical context. Though it's more recent than you're asking about, my favorite show from the Sengoku period is Hyouge Mono. |
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