Doubutsu Olympic Taikai


The Animal Olympics

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Synonyms: Animal Olympic Games
Japanese: 動物オリムピック大會
English: The Animal Olympics
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Type: Movie
Episodes: 1
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Sep 4, 1928
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Source: Original
Genres: ComedyComedy, SportsSports
Duration: 13 min.
Rating: G - All Ages

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Score: 5.491 (scored by 715715 users)
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Ranked: #119312
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Popularity: #12716
Members: 1,422
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Synopsis

Animals gather to compete in Olympic games. This animation was inspired by the 1928 Olympic Games held in Amsterdam.

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Murata, Yasuji
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Chuuzou, Aochi
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Reviews

Aug 12, 2024
You can't go wrong with animals doing funny stuff. It's a concept that transcends time and culture because it's fun to think about. The Animal Olympics is a short movie from 1928, and that's all I knew going in. I recommend it for the novelty alone, but the short is surprisingly funny and well made. The bits with the Elephant doing discus and Pig doing hurdles were hilarious. The chimp kept participating and messing with everything, not taking the games seriously. There is so much charm packed into 13 minutes, and I imagine if I watched this in 1928 I'd be thoroughly entertained as I ...
Feb 9, 2024
Now this is how you do animal lympics the right way. Way better that the american Animalympics. It was cute, sweet, adorable, animated perfectly. I do miss the voice acting, and I know I complain a lot about missing voice acting in the first animes, but it is a bit annoying that some do have voice acting, or music, and then the next is complete silent film. The animation is quit beatiful, although a bit janky at time. There is also a bit of a weird cut. And I guess they wanted to capture the feeling of one of the earlier modern Olympic games, ...
Apr 8, 2017
Mixed Feelings
Rate a 6
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NOTE: This anime is more than 5 minutes long. This runs for roughly 13 minutes in length

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Overall a great job. However, it was a tad contradicting. The wording used showed they wanted to be spot on with the truth. As indicated by "sportMANship" was replaced with sportBEASTship. However, they decided to go with a cartoonist approach. Which meant taking in realism like reality was out of the question. That was a slight issue on contradicting. The main one was the ending. Without much in terms of spoilers it involved was could be seen as a balloon but turned shortly into an anvil. ...

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