Japan s leading private broadcasterTV Asahi and Shin-ei Animation, TV Asahi s wholly owned subsidiary and its production arm for animation,havecollaborated with Reliance MediaWorks to create all new episodes ofNinja Hattori, the comedy action animation franchise that has garnered a strong following in India and many other Asian countries.
January 19th, 2014
Japan s leading private broadcasterTV Asahi and Shin-EI Animation, TV
Asahi s wholly owned subsidiary and its production arm for
animation,have collaborated with Reliance MediaWorks to create all new
episodes of Ninja Hattori, the comedy action animation franchise that has
garnered a strong following in India and many other Asian countries.
Shin-ei s experienced team of writers and directors, in collaboration with the team of 100 animators at the Reliance Media Works animation
studio, is creating the new Ninja Hattori episodes in 2D-HD through a
digitally mastered process. Reliance MediaWorks has also done the post
production and Sound Effects for the series.
A new animated version of Ninja Hattori-kun will be made in India, where the series has been a major hit, TV Asahi Corp. said.
The series will be aired in India beginning in May and possibly in Japan as well by the end of the year, TV Asahi said.
The new Ninja Hattori-kun, based on gag manga comics by cartoonist Fujiko Fujio (A), will be the first in around 25 years.
After the cartoonist draws 26 new stories, TV Asahi s subsidiary
animation studio will do some basic work on the material and an Indian
production company will create the animated series, according to the
broadcaster.
The previous series aired in Japan from 1981 to 1987 and in India starting in 2004.
TV Ashai is aiming to boost profits from its content business,
including animation, in India, in cooperation with Hakuhodo DY Media
Partners Inc.
Ninja Hattori-kun features a child ninja who befriends an elementary school boy in contemporary Tokyo.
Phenakistoscope (1831) A phenakistoscope disc by Eadweard Muybridge (1893).The phenakistoscope was an early animation device. It was invented in 1831 simultaneously by the Belgian Joseph Plateau and the Austrian Simon von Stampfer. It consists of a disk with a series of images, drawn on radii evenly spaced around the center of the disk. Slots are cut out of the disk on the same radii as the drawings, but at a different distance from the center. The device would be placed in front of a mirror and spun. As the phenakistoscope is spun, a viewer would look through the slots at the reflection of the drawings which would only become visible when a slot passes by the viewer's eye. This created the illusion of animation.
