I was watching the Galaxy Rangers lately (sick intro) and there are 65 episodes, which is a lot!
Again, those 80s anime shows had amazing quality. Dozens of characters, hundreds of props and locations. No repeat.
In the DVD extras, they say that they produced those sixty-five episodes in eleven months.
Like, that’s unreal. I worked on a animated show in 2007. If we could get contractors to produce one episode a month, that was the best we could do. It might have been even worse than that.
Possible explanations:
- This is the heydays of animation’s money investment: millions of dollars are pouring in companies and production. Teams are huge and keep growing (200+).
- Shows are made left and right, competition is high, so are quality and creativity as a result.
- Lots of affordable cocaine.
- This is the first generation of people making a living working in animation showing that it can be a viable career. Just like the first generations of people doing well making games, their passion had absolutely no limits. They worked ultra hard.
TMS Entertainment, the Japanese company which made the episodes and a couple other shows if you look at their credits, is one of the most underrated company in the world.
They influenced the imagination of hundreds of millions of kids.