Anime All Star | |
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Title Card | |
Format | Anime series |
No. of episodes | 334 (50 seasons) & 5 specials 1017 shorts |
Run time | 30 minutes, 5-8 min. (shorts) |
English Network | Anime Network Netflix Bandai Namco + |
Anime All Star is a series of anime shorts and music videos (used in only selected episodes) featuring 31 anime franchises (21 more from the Animetoons series, and 8 more mini short series). The shorts are more reminiscent to the classic cartoons from the 30's to the 70's.
Formula[]
Each episode features an intro presenting 3 anime shorts (or 2 anime shorts with a music video or a mini short shown in between in certain episodes) with a rock band style theme playing (similar to the Cartoon Network series "What A Cartoon!). All the shorts only use title cards (the credits for the shorts are featured on the endings).
List of Anime All Star Animes[]
Animetoons[]
Animetoons would be the anime's attachment, where it would feature 20 more anime franchises as anime shorts.
List of Animetoons Animes[]
Mini Shorts[]
Mini Shorts is a series of 2-3 min. anime shorts shown in between 2 anime shorts in certain episodes.
Note: Characters from Warner Bros. Animation would later show up in anime shorts from seasons 47-50 of the series.
List of Characters[]
List of Anime All Star Characters
List of Episodes[]
List of Anime All Star Episodes
Sound Effects[]
The sound effects are heard differently in each series of anime shorts due to the different sound effects editors (except the anime sound effects are used in all of the shorts).
Sound production is mainly produced by Rakuonsha for seasons 1-46, containing:
UPA Sound Effects[]
- Cartoon Trax: The Hollywood Edge/Disney Cartoon Sounds
- Jay Ward/Rocky & Bullwinkle Sounds
- Sound effects editors would be Eiko Morikawa, and Yasuyuki Konno.
DePatie-Freleng Sound Effects[]
- Warner Bros./Looney Tunes Sounds
- Jay Ward/Rocky & Bullwinkle Sounds
- Some Hanna-Barbera Sounds
- Sound effects editors would be Ijo Okuda, Daisuke Jinbo, Shizuo Kurahashi, and Kiyotaka Kawada. Robert Hargreaves is the main SFX editor of these shorts.
Additions[]
- New Unique Sounds
- Series 1000-14000 (including all extensions)
- Live-Action Disney Sounds
- Classic TV Sounds
- 20th Century Fox Sounds
- Universal Studios Sounds
- New Gun Sounds (from Sound Ideas)
- Lucasfilm Sounds
- Jurassic Dinosaurs Sounds (from Sound Ideas)
- Thunder Sounds (from Sound Ideas)
- Underwater Sounds (from Sound Ideas)
While Half H.P Studio, Magic Capsule and Omnibus Promotion would only sound produce seasons 47-50, containing:
Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Sound Effects[]
- Small Portion of Warner Bros./Looney Tunes Sounds
- Small Portion of Hanna-Barbera Sounds
- Small Portion of MGM/Turner Entertainment Sounds
- The Premiere Edition Vol. 1
- Sound effects editor would be Hiromune Kurahashi (later replaced by Hiroki Nozaki), Kenji Koyama (later replaced by Naoto Yamatani), Toshiki Kameyama, and Paul Menichini. Ken Young is the main SFX editor of these shorts.
Controversy[]
Seasons 47-50 were heavily criticized for the sound effects since they don't fit with the shorts made during those seasons (although they have WB Animation characters like the ones from the Hanna-Barbera franchise), and many found most of them to be annoying and out of place for their overuse. But the reason for that change was because so it can mock on the Warner Bros.-Seven Arts era Looney Tunes from 1967-1969 with more sound effects added to be more modernizing on the mock. On a side note, one of the SFX editors Yasuyuki Konno quit by the end of the 48th season and was replaced by Naoto Yamatani, as well as Hiromune Kurahashi being replaced by Hiroki Nozaki.
When the controversy was at its worse by the 50th season, the show was cancelled not long after.
Theatrical Releases[]
Most of the shorts from this series would also have theatrical releases (these would be the only versions to have their own opening and closing titles) playing with both japanese live-action and anime films all distributed by Kadokawa Shoten in Japan.
In America, the shorts are mostly played in selected theaters as their own theatrical series with only anime films domestically for screening only (both english subbed and dubbed) all distributed by Sony Pictures' new distributing studio Columbia Tristar Pictures. The shorts from seasons 47-50 of the series would be co-distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures due to the use of WB Animation characters.
The shorts would also be released at most anime conventions. But the TV versions from the Anime All Star series would be used instead, and only the shorts from seasons 1-47 would be shown.
All the shorts are now owned by Warner Bros. entirely since Sony Pictures sold them.
Spin-Offs[]
With its success, it would later have spin-offs to the anime like Azumanga Tunes, The Pani Poni Dash Show!, and Aria Mini Shorts.
And would later inspire similar spin-offs made by other studios like Pop'n Tunes, and Hyperdimension Neptunia Tunes.
Broadcasts[]
The series would be aired on Anime Network and on Netflix, until Bandai Namco + added the series to its service, after its streaming rights to Netflix expired.
Notes[]
Love Live! School Idol Project and Sunshine!! were originally plan to be added to the series, but failed to get the rights, and instead had a crossover anime with Azumanga Daioh called Love Live! School Idol Stars. However, they are still seen in merchandising, theme parks, and other media with this series. That was until they were finally added as mini shorts for filler.