It wasn’t right up until just after WWII—in 1948, to be exact—that the 1st fashionable Japanese animation production organization, one particular devoted to entertainment, came into becoming: Toei. Their 1st theatrical options were explicitly in the vein of Walt Disney’s movies (as common in Japan as they have been everywhere https://www.evernote.com/shard/s649/sh/dd82ddc4-7818-c2dd-3779-730ba6ba0c8e/29bbc69b4af6946699a47aac153d9814