Daicon Opening Animations (2024)

AnnoKano

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The Daicon Opening Animations are two short films that were created for two Sci-fi conventions. They have gone down in history as the first and second titles produced by the infamous Studio Gainax, which at the time was little more than a group of students from the Osaka University of Arts.

Though they may be fairly humble origins for one of the most influential animation studios of the past 30 years, the Daicon films still demonstrate the tremendous potential of the Gainax staff. Both Daicon III and Daicon IV have essentially the same premise; a single girl fighting a battle royal against the Sci-Fi ...

brandotendie

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This is history. This is art. This is the passion and love of a medium encapsulated and condensed into 5 minutes with the care and effort of three men who would change the face of anime forever.

In just over 5 minutes, this opening animation to the 1981 DAICON sci-fi/anime convention, DAICON III tells the simple story of a little girl's quest to water a radish. Along the way, however, she is assailed and chased by popular pop culture icons, forcing her to utilize her full power to get to her goal.

It's a simple plot, yes. Also, the animation looks very dated and low-budget, yes. But ...

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This entry represents Gainax's two short films made for the science-fiction conventions, Daicon III and Daicon IV. But that's not exactly true. The truth is is that this wasn't made by Gainax in name, but rather a group of young animators that would go on to form that of one of anime's most prolific and influential studios of all time. These seemingly little things birthing such a giant of Japanese animation would come as no surprise to anyone who'd watch them. These music videos are full of fluent, active animation as mascot girls jump between absurd scenes and battles featuring science-fiction icons such as Darth ...

YoungVagabond

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I came across this anime in an unusual manner. Recently, I lost some files on my computer, including a number of music albums.

That included ELO's (Electric Light Orchestra) phenomenal 1981 concept album "Time", which I consider one of the finest of the decade. Luckily, there was a complete playlist on Youtube. Out of curiosity, I decided to check out the comments and noticed a number mentioning "Daicon IV". "The fuck is that?", I wondered.

Turns out that it was a series of specially made intro videos to several anime conventions during the 1980s (who knew they even existed ...

Krav40

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EVERYTHING started here, well, in terms of Gainax at least.

Daicon is a two-part entertaining yet unintentionally educational OVA released by Gainax with the first part being released in 1981 and the other one in 1983. What makes Daicon Opening Animations so interesting and different than any other OVA I’ve ever seen is the extraordinary context that it fits in, this little two-part OVA will give you all the necessary knowledge that you will need to know about the foundation and early history of Gainax since this was their very first show. Gainax was founded by a group of three otakus in the early ’80s. They ...

bigunderscorepp

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I'm not at all biased. Anime is worth watching after all! I'm a boomer named Booms Mcgriddle and I gotta say this changed my mind almost immediately. My son Bartholomew is a crazy person who will not stop jerking off to bunny girls, and I thought he should be put to death, but he showed me this video and my mind is completely not the same anymore, because now I can't stop jerking off to Bunny Women. So there it is, it is, what it is, I love anime!!!

Additionally, I have now discovered my fetish for Daicon. Live long and prosper.

lethargilistic

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Daicon III:

It's endearing to know that the otaku in charge of that convention understood even then that the essence of anime is "cute gorl; also fetishistic referencing and remixing." I liked her design and I liked the ersatz monsters and mechanical stuff. It's not like I was expecting a story, so I wasn't really disappointed in any regard. If there's not enough here, it's just because they would go on to do bigger and better stuff as professionals. As a community, we should be and are glad that they did.

Daicon IV:

Everything that Daicon III was, but, like, more of it. And topping it in ...

The_Cmoose

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This was a guerilla team of otaku's tribute to everything they geeked out over. Made with a fast and loose approach to copyright laws, and using Electric Light Orchestra's music without permission these opening animations are a hallmark of GAINAX's love of big cool nonsense.

Star Wars, Ultraman, Kamen Rider, other old sentai properties, bunny girls, booba, huge explosions animated by Hideaki Anno himself, these shorts have everything befitting a science fiction convention in the late 80's.

Massive copyright infringement, fair use in limbo, and made for free in their spare time these projects are an essential part of understanding Gainax and all of their ...

CaptainSalty

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