Chronological list of Television Anime
About the list

• This list is based in the ancient Curtis H. Hoffmann's "The 33-year History Of Television Anime: From 1962 to 1995", which last update was made on October 15th, 1995. Hoffmann could not update his list beyond this date since he moved from Japan (where he made that list) back to the USA. An old file with that list can be found in http://rody.uru.org/textes/tv-full.txt .
• I knew about the list by a version in Spanish that I found in 1998 in the homepage of a disappeared Mexican anime club, so I could save it to diskette some months before the list disappear from that page (because the members of the club could never find any source to update it).
• I could complete the list with the data found in the Richard LLewellyn's Animated Divots page, where he has listed all (or almost) the anime TV series transmitted in Japan since 1962 with the starting and ending dates of almost all of them plus more data for most series. Some weeks later I found some other very good pages about new anime (and broadcast schedules) in Japan, which are listed in my links to anime lists section (now the most important of them was Anihabara, especially for its TV Anime in Kanto Region) section). Those pages were very useful to me in order to fill some blanks in my list... and to update it with a good frequence. Thanks a lot to the creators of these pages!
• Hoffmann had added to his list some US cartoons that were imported from some Japanese TV stations between 1989 and 1995. He did like that because that series (just as any animation program, no matter where it was made from) are also considered anime in Japan. I moved that series to a separate list.
• The four titles written in darkblue boldface are the ones what many critics (including the director Noburo Ishiguro) have coincided in denominate "The Four Revolutions of Anime". These four titles were pioneers in their genres and influenced the conception of anime till nowadays. And besides their originality and artistic merit, these series also had a great commercial success, what produced expansions in the anime industry (note that in the year next to each title the quantity of anime series increase drastically, especially since the last of these series (Neon Genesis Evangelion)). But this data is not confirmed, so if anyone knows how to confirm it, please e-mail me.
  (On October 20th 2004, Lawrence Eng published in his website Internet an analysis about those four series, it's called "The Four Revolutions of Anime" and can be seen on http://www.cjas.org/~leng/revolution.htm).

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