DAICON III Opening Animation
1981 • GAINAX
- Format
- MOVIE
- Aired
- 1981
- Episodes
- 1
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- GAINAX
- Genres
- Action · Adventure · Mecha · Music
A girl is visited by two men from a space ship. They give her water she needs to water her daicon (radish). On her journey to deliver the water, this girl has to fight demons and giant robots.
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The DAICON III Opening Animation was produced in 1981 by the amateur group Daicon Film, which would later evolve into the renowned studio Gainax. Created for the opening ceremonies of the DAICON III Nihon SF Taikai, the science fiction convention held in Osaka, the film was designed to showcase the immense passion and technical ambition of young anime enthusiasts who were determined to create high-quality animation that rivaled professional studio standards of the era.
Directed by Hiroyuki Yamaga and featuring key animation by Hideaki Anno, Takami Akai, and Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, the piece famously utilized an energetic, fast-paced sequence featuring a young girl battling various iconic science fiction characters. The animation was received as a landmark achievement in fan-made media, effectively demonstrating the immense creative potential of its young animators and setting a precedent for the industry-changing work the team would go on to produce throughout the following decades.
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