Mole's Adventure

Mole's Adventure
もぐらのアバンチュール
(Mogura no Abanchūru)
GenreScience fiction
Anime television film
Directed byHiroshi Washizumi
Music byNaozumi Yamamoto
Original networkNTV
ReleasedOctober 15, 1958
Runtime9 minutes

Mole's Adventure (もぐらのアバンチュール, Mogura no Abanchūru) is the earliest surviving Japanese anime broadcast on television.[1] Originally airing on July 14, 1958, on NTV and again on October 15, 1958, the nine-minute animation was the first televised Japanese animation and the first example of a full color broadcast.

  1. ^ "Oldest TV Anime's Color Screenshots Posted". Anime News Network. June 19, 2013. Retrieved July 17, 2013.