Winter 1978 Anime

The year is 2977. Mankind has become complacent and stagnant. All work is done by machines, while humans spend all their time on entertainment. But when a mysterious invader from the stars catches Earth unawares, only the legendary space pirate Captain Harlock and the crew of the Arcadia have the will to stand against them.

(Source: Anime News Network)

Perrine travels across Europe with her mother, a photographer, in a cabin drawn by a donkey. They are heading to a small village in northern France, the home of Perrine's dead father.

Perrine doesn't know that they are unwanted in the village; Perrine's father left the village after having quarrelled with his father (Perrine's grandfather) and married in India against his father's will. After her mother falls ill, Perrine has to sell everything, including her beloved donkey Palikare, to pay for medicine.

Mother dies in Paris and before dying tells the girl that she has to make her grandfather love her before he knows who she really is. After a journey full of hardships, Perrine finally arrives in the village where she learns that her grandfather is the rich owner of the factory that feeds all the villagers.

Presenting herself under a false name, Perrine gets a job on the factory, searching for a way to the heart of her grandfather.

(Source: Anime News Network)

Against her insistence, Yūki is drafted by the Tokyo Mets as the first woman player in the baseball league.

On Chiiko's 11th birthday, her father gives her a special book. Inside the book is a trapped witch, Majokko Tickle. When Chiiko frees Tickle from the book, she uses her magic to pass off as Chiiko's twin sister.

(Source: Anime News Network)

A little lamb's life is turned upside down by the wolf that killed his mother. He seeks to avenge his mother, but in order to defeat the wolf, he must become one.

(Source: Anime News Network)

A stop motion adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen.

A short film by Okamoto Tadanari.

Released in Korea in 1978, Gold Wing 123, or Golden Wing 123, is an animated sci-fi superhero feature from Kim Cheong Ki, who also directed the classic Robot Taekwon V (1976) and created the popular Wuroemae series. Like Robot Taekwon V, Gold Wing 123 draws from Japanese genre themes and character designs to create Korea's very own world-saving transforming superhero, a young man who attains super powers and is tasked to defend earth from the evil plans of a galactic conqueror.

(Source: YesAsia)

A Furukawa Taku film

An animation documentary describing the tragic consequences of the A-bomb explosion in Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945. The flash of the A-bomb, 100 times brighter than the sun, is called "PICA", and the enormous shock wave which came right after the flash is called "DON". At the time this film was completed, it was the very first attempt in the world to deal with such a sensitive subject of Hiroshima using animation media. Because of this short film, the City of Hiroshima decided to establish the Hiroshima International Animation Festival in 1984, appreciating animation art as an effective medium.

(Source: flickerfest.com.au)

An anti-communist animation about a boy catching North Korean spies in South Korea.

A music video for the song by Youko Yoda that was featured on NHK's Minna no Uta program.

A little girl reminisces in winter of what spring will bring.

(Source: AniList.co)

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, in this case, it's a cat who loves milk cookies and sees the moon as a wonderful treat.

An official "Minna no Uta" music video for Saori Yuki's song Kana Kana ka na.

Music video for the song Onee-chan by Hitoshi Komuro, that was featured on NHK's Minna no Uta program.