The events of 1980 in anime.
Releases Released Title Type Studio Director Notes Ref The Adventures of Tom Sawyer TV series Nippon Animation Hiroshi Saitō The Littl' Bits TV series Tatsunoko Production Masayuki Hayashi The Wonderful Adventures of Nils TV series Studio Pierrot Hisayuki Toriumi, Mamoru Oshii Maeterlinck's Blue Bird: Tyltyl and Mytyl's Adventurous Journey TV series Academy Production Hiroshi Sasagawa Invincible Robo Trider G7 TV series Nippon Sunrise Katsutoshi Sasaki Rescueman TV series Tatsunoko Productions Hiroshi Sasagawa Back to the Forest TV film Nippon Animation Yoshio Kuroda Monchhichi Twins TV series Ashi Productions Hiroshi Jinsenji Lalabel TV series Toei Animation Masahiro Sasaki Ashita no Joe: Gekijōban Film Tokyo Movie Shinsha Mizuho Nishikubo Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur Film Shin-Ei Animation Hiroshi Fukutomi Nobody's Boy: Remi Film Tokyo Movie Shinsha Osamu Dezaki Phoenix 2772 Film Tezuka Productions, Kobayashi Production, Toho Taku Sugiyama Twelve Months Film Toei Animation, Soyuzmultfilm Kimio Yabuki, Tetsuo Imazawa Space Emperor God Sigma TV series Toei Animation Takeyuki Kanda, Katsuhiko Taguchi Captain TV film Eiken Tetsu Dezaki King Arthur: Prince on White Horse TV series Toei Animation Tsurikichi Sanpei TV series Nippon Animation Yoshikata Nitta Zukkoke Knight - Don De La Mancha TV series Ashi Productions Toward the Terra Film Toei Animation Hideo Onchi Ganbare!! Tabuchi-kun!! 2: Gekitō Pennant Race Film Tokyo Movie Shinsha Tsutomu Shibayama Space Runaway Ideon TV series Sunrise Yoshiyuki Tomino Space Warrior Baldios TV series Ashi Productions Kazuyuki Hirokawa Magical Girl Lalabel: the Sea Calls for a Summer Vacation TV film Toei Animation Hiroshi Shidara Ganbare Genki TV series Toei Animation Rintaro 3000 Leagues in Search of Mother Film Nippon Animation Isao Takahata, Hajime Okayasu Makoto-chan Film Tokyo Movie Shinsha Tsutomu Shibayama Be Forever Yamato TV film Group TAC, Academy Productions Leiji Matsumoto, Toshio Masuda Dracula: Sovereign of the Damned TV film Toei Animation Minoru Okazaki Fumoon Film Tezuka Productions Osamu Tezuka Kaibutsu-kun 2 TV series Shin-Ei Animation Hiroshi Fukutomi Muteking, The Dashing Warrior TV series Tatsunoko Production Ojamanga Yamada-kun TV series Nihon Herald Pictures Hiromitsu Furukawa Astro Boy TV series Tezuka Productions Noburo Ishiguro Taiyō no Shisha Tetsujin Nijūhachi-gō TV series Tokyo Movie Shinsha Tetsuo Imazawa Space Battleship Yamato III TV series Group TAC, Academy Productions Leiji Matsumoto, Noburo Ishiguro Ashita no Joe 2 TV series Tokyo Movie Shinsha Masayuki Akebi Ganbare!! Tabuchi-kun!! Hatsu Warai 3: Aa Tsuppari Jinsei Film Tokyo Movie Shinsha Tsutomu Shibayama Chō Ginga Densetsu Film Toei Animation Toshio Takeuchi
See also 1980 in animation
References
External links Japanese animated works of the year, listed in the IMDb