Dekobou Shingachou: Meian no Shippai

This is the oldest anime known to man, im honored to be the first to review it.

This anime is about Homer Simpson and his adventures swinging around a sword at blind monks. After that, we get a nice clip of him fighting some guy with a yellow background.

This anime has no sound, but the emptiness where sound would have been still fills your heart with joy.

The final scene is what i call the "step on me" ark, this ark consist of this guy he was fighting with the yellow background stepping on Homer Simpson.

Over all i would give this anime a 10. Its almost as ... sad as Boku No Pico, your guaranteed to cry at least once while watching this show.

Link to watch: https://animation.filmarchives.jp/en/works/view/100183

This is a quick an interesting watch especially if you are into the history of animation. It's a completely silent short film. (That's why it is 1 on sound which isn't really a fair score since it was the limit of the technology of the time, but i clicked it and can't take it back bc idk how) The animation is really strange and the character designs are ummm unique? The way their eyes move is kind of unsettling in my opinion, but I mean what do you expect from the literal oldest existing anime?

Spoilers I guess?: It begins with a ... samurai purchasing a dull sword from a swordsmith. Then shown through text on screen he decides he wants to try it out. So he approaches a blind man to pick a fight and gets his ass handed to him (rightfully so). The last scene is done in a shadow puppet-like style and features the samurai approaching another person (apparently the person is a courier) and trying to start another fight and losing. The courier walks over him and the samurai calls him a murderer (like ok sir not as if you were the one out here looking to slice and dice somebody).

And that's it. Not really much to say, not sure what the point of the story is, I guess there's a lesson here. Like "don't buy a sword for only 4 coins, cheapskate, it's dull and you will lose" or oh I don't know maybe "don't attack a person unprovoked, nutjob". I don't really care for the samurai character, he's ugly and rude lol.

But anyway this is the first time I've ever reviewed something but I had to add something here because there is not enough info on here for this piece of history. So I hope it maybe was helpful to someone out there and definitely give it a watch if you're bored and want something interesting to check out for 5 minutes.

Blew me away. The soundscape was really something. It was really heartwarming when he got stepped on. Best Samurai movie to date!! I cried when I saw the sword he bought for three whole coins get bent, but that really developed his character and brought the whole experience to a ten. The googly eyes are able to really depict the time this anime was created. Overall I think nothing here can be improved upon. this is truly the peak of anime. Each aspect builds upon itself to create a beautiful world where the viewer is placed in the center of it to get an amazing ... experience. After going through this experience it really made me want to do more with my life. I couldn't help but compare myself to the powerful story of this man yearning to be a samurai and through obstacle after obstacle. This story has a magnificent theme of failure and what it means to persevere.

This is the first (and maybe the last) review I've ever written so don't expect it to be written well.

Story: 7/10
The story feels pretty original. Samurai buys sword, tries to beat up people, gets beaten up.

Art: 6/10
The art is so weird that it looks good. Weird eyes, EXTREMELY weird head shape and weird teeth.

Sound: 1/10
Wait, there's sound?
...
Character: 6/10
There is one reason I gave 6 for characters to this. Blind expertly-kicking guy.

Enjoyment: 4/10
Though it was exciting and I liked it, I'm giving 4 for enjoyment because it felt very long to me.

Overall: 7/10

For an anime that was first released over a century ago, only a couple of months before America entered the first world war, it really isn't that bad.

The story has a very basic premise, but stop reading if you want to watch it because I'm about to spoil the entire thing.

It starts with a not so bright individual buying a sword from a merchant after playing around with it for a bit. The man with his newly acquired sword then decides that his best course of action would be to attack a random stranger on his way home using his new sword. This obviously ... does not go to plan, and the man gets his ass handed to him, and in a shocking turn of events, accidentally bends the sword when he tries to use it to pull himself up.

10/10- cinematic masterpiece, brought a tear to my eyes.