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The events of 1980 in anime .

Releases

ReleasedTitleTypeStudioDirectorNotesRef
January 6 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer TV series Nippon Animation Hiroshi Saitō
January 7 The Littl' Bits TV series Toei Animation Hiroshi Sasagawa
January 8 The Wonderful Adventures of Nils TV series Studio Pierrot Hisayuki Toriumi, Mamoru Oshii
January 9 Maeterlinck's Blue Bird: Tyltyl and Mytyl's Adventurous Journey TV series Tatsunoko Productions Masayuki Hayashi
February 2 Invincible Robo Trider G7 TV series Nippon Sunrise Katsutoshi Sasaki
February 2 Rescueman TV series Tatsunoko Productions Hiroshi Sasagawa
February 3 Back to the Forest TV film Nippon Animation Yoshio Kuroda
February 4 Monchhichi Twins TV series Ashi Productions Hiroshi Jinsenji
February 15 Lalabel TV series Toei Animation Masahiro Sasaki
March 8 Ashita no Joe: Gekijōban Film Tokyo Movie Shinsha Mizuho Nishikubo
March 15 Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur Film Shin-Ei Animation Hiroshi Fukutomi
March 15 Nobody's Boy: Remi Film Tokyo Movie Shinsha Osamu Dezaki
March 15 Phoenix 2772 Film Tezuka Productions, Kobayashi Production, Toho Taku Sugiyama
March 15 Twelve Months Film Toei Animation, Soyuzmultfilm Kimio Yabuki, Tetsuo Imazawa
March 19 Space Emperor God Sigma TV series Toei Animation Takeyuki Kanda, Katsuhiko Taguchi
April 2 Captain TV film Eiken Tetsu Dezaki
April 6 King Arthur: Prince on White Horse TV series Toei Animation
April 7 Tsurikichi Sanpei TV series Nippon Animation Yoshikata Nitta
April 15 Zukkoke Knight - Don De La Mancha TV series Ashi Productions
April 26 Toward the Terra Film Toei Animation Hideo Onchi
May 3 Ganbare!! Tabuchi-kun!! 2: Gekitō Pennant Race Film Tokyo Movie Shinsha Tsutomu Shibayama
May 8 Space Runaway Ideon TV series Sunrise Yoshiyuki Tomino
June 30 Space Warrior Baldios TV series Ashi Productions Kazuyuki Hirokawa
July 12 Magical Girl Lalabel: the Sea Calls for a Summer Vacation TV film Toei Animation Hiroshi Shidara
July 16 Ganbare Genki TV series Toei Animation Rintaro
July 19 3000 Leagues in Search of Mother Film Nippon Animation Isao Takahata, Hajime Okayasu
July 26 Makoto-chan Film Tokyo Movie Shinsha Tsutomu Shibayama
August 2 Be Forever Yamato TV film Group TAC, Academy Productions Leiji Matsumoto, Toshio Masuda
August 19 Dracula: Sovereign of the Damned TV film Toei Animation Minoru Okazaki [1]
August 31 Fumoon Film Tezuka Productions Osamu Tezuka
September 2 Kaibutsu-kun 2 TV series Shin-Ei Animation Hiroshi Fukutomi
September 7 Muteking, The Dashing Warrior TV series Tatsunoko Production
September 28 Ojamanga Yamada-kun TV series Nihon Herald Pictures Hiromitsu Furukawa
October 1 Astro Boy TV series Tezuka Productions Noburo Ishiguro
October 3 Taiyō no Shisha Tetsujin Nijūhachi-gō TV series Tokyo Movie Shinsha Tetsuo Imazawa
October 11 Space Battleship Yamato III TV series Group TAC, Academy Productions Leiji Matsumoto, Noburo Ishiguro
October 13 Ashita no Joe 2 TV series Tokyo Movie Shinsha Masayuki Akebi
December 13 Ganbare!! Tabuchi-kun!! Hatsu Warai 3: Aa Tsuppari Jinsei Film Tokyo Movie Shinsha Tsutomu Shibayama
December 20 Chō Ginga Densetsu Film Toei Animation Toshio Takeuchi

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References

  1. Justin Sevakis (4 June 2009). "Buried Garbage - Dracula: Sovereign of the Damned". Anime News Network . Retrieved 3 July 2014.