Animerama

Animerama (アニメラマ) is a series of thematically-related adult anime feature films originally conceived and initiated by Osamu Tezuka and made at his Mushi Production animation studio from the late 1960s to early 1970s, perhaps intended as animated counterparts to the then-emergent pink films (a direct connection being Shigemi Satoyoshi being the scenarist for Cleopatra). As well as the erotic themes, they are also defined by mixing more typical traditional animation with sequences of UPA and Yōji Kuri-influenced experimental use of modern design, limited animation and still paintings akin to Tezuka's experimental short films and like those largely were are all directed, sometimes sharing the billing with Tezuka, by Eiichi Yamamoto. The...