The following events occurred in the field of anime in the year 1981.
Accolades Ōfuji Noburō Award: Gauche the Cellist
Releases Released Title Type Studio Director Notes Ref The Swiss Family Robinson: Flone of the Mysterious Island TV series Nippon Animation Yoshio Kuroda Hashire Melos! Film Toei Animation Tomoharu Katsumata Yattodetaman TV series Tatsunoko Productions Hiroshi Sasagawa Golden Warrior Gold Lightan TV series Tatsunoko Production Koichi Mashimo Beast King GoLion TV series Toei Animation Katsuhito Taguchi Hello! Sandybell TV series Toei Animation Hiroshi Shitara Ohayō! Spank TV series TMS Entertainment Shigetsugu Yoshida Doraemon: The Records of Nobita, Spaceblazer Film Shin-Ei Animation Hideo Nishimaki The Fantastic Adventures of Unico TV series Madhouse Toshio Hirata Mobile Suit Gundam Film Nippon Sunrise Yoshiyuki Tomino Ojamanga Yamada-kun Short film Nihon Herald Pictures Hiromitsu Furukawa Swan Lake Film Toei Animation Kimio Yabuki Natsu e no Tobira Film Toei Animation, Madhouse Mamoru Masaki, Toshio Hirata Ai no Gakko Cuore Monogatari TV series Nippon Animation Eiji Okabe Dotakon TV series Kokusai Eiga-sha Takeshi Shirato Belle and Sebastian TV series MK Company, Visual 80, Toho Company, Ltd. Keiji Hayakawa Little Women TV series Toei Animation, Kokusai Eiga-sha Kazuya Miyazaki Dr. Slump - Arale-chan TV series Toei Animation Minoru Okazaki Furiten-kun Film Toho Taku Sugiyama Jarinko Chie Film Tokyo Movie Shinsha, Toho Isao Takahata Queen Millennia TV series Toei Animation Nobutaka Nishizawa Tiger Mask II TV series Toei Animation Kozo Morishita GoShogun TV series Ashi Productions, Studio Z5 Kunihiko Yuyama Ashita no Joe 2 Film Tokyo Movie Shinsha Osamu Dezaki Mobile Suit Gundam II: Soldiers of Sorrow Film Nippon Sunrise Yoshiyuki Tomino Dr. Slump and Arale-chan: Hello! Wonder Island Short film Toei Animation Minoru Okazaki The Sea Prince and the Fire Child Film Sanrio Enchanted Journey Film Studio Korumi Hideo Nishimaki Kyoufu Densetsu Kaiki! Frankenstein TV film Toei Animation Kentaro Haneda Adieu Galaxy Express 999 Film Toei Animation Rintaro New Dokonjō Gaeru TV series Tokyo Movie Shinsha Tadao Nagahama Ninja Hattori-kun TV series Shin-Ei Animation Fumio Ikeno, Hiroshi Sasagawa Superbook TV series Tatsunoko Productions Masakazu Higuchi Six God Combination Godmars TV series Tokyo Movie Shinsha Tetsuo Imazawa Jarinko Chie TV series Tokyo Movie Shinsha Isao Takahata Dash Kappei TV series Tatsunoko Production Masayuki Hayashi, Seitaro Hara Galaxy Cyclone Braiger TV series Kokusai Eiga-sha Takao Yotsuji Honey Honey no Suteki na Bouken TV series Kokusai Eiga-sha, Toei Animation Takeshi Shirato Miss Machiko TV series Studio Pierrot Masami Anno Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds TV series BRB Internacional, Nippon Animation Ulysses 31 TV series DIC Audiovisuel, Tokyo Movie Shinsha Urusei Yatsura TV series Studio Pierrot, Studio Deen Mamoru Oshii, Kazuo Yamazaki Fang of the Sun Dougram TV series Nippon Sunrise Ryosuke Takahashi Shunmao Monogatari Taotao Film Space Warrior Baldios Film Toei Animation Daicon III Short film Hiroyuki Yamaga
See also 1981 in animation
References
External links Japanese animated works of the year, listed in the IMDb