Just wondering... why DO you even care where it was made? People in Japan don't.
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anime -- pronounced "ah-knee-may" -- is an abbreviation of the word animation. In Japan, the word's used to refer to all animation.
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Just wondering... why DO you even care where it was made? People in Japan don't.
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anime -- pronounced "ah-knee-may" -- is an abbreviation of the word animation. In Japan, the word's used to refer to all animation.
Nope, because it was simply outsourced by Americans to make production costs cheaper.
Who writes the show? Who directs it? Who decides what happens in the show?? What language is the show written for?? Thats what you need to look up. If all or most of those are "Japan" then its anime. If all or most of those are- America, Italy, Canada, Germany, etc then its that countries cartoon. People outsource things to other, cheaper, countries all the time.
Ok, let me ask you this-
What company is Apple? American? Chinese? Japanese? German?
I'm just wondering why there is this supposed difference. The styles the same, American cartoons are dubbed into Japanese the same way theirs are dubbed here, up until the 90's most people would have said there was no real difference. Yet everyone keeps finding reasons to act as if there's some line on the Earth where anime can not be made... and then making excuses like if it's made in Korea or if an american made it...
What about Ninja high school? It was made by an American.
Tenchi Muyo was based on "I Dream of Jeannie"
Ranma is based on an old TV show called" Turbo teen".
Megatokyo is sold on the manga shelves right along everything else... and did you ever see Van Von Hunter? Or the Rising Stars of Manga?
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51YPVPGKANL.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...of_Manga_1.jpg
Seriously, give me a list of the differences besides who makes it and where it's made? Some valid non-race based reasons.
Because so far all your reasons make you sound like Nazis. Silly Gaijin...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubt99WS2CFw
And? Lion King was based on a Japanese cartoon, its still an American Disney movie.
EXACTLY! The line is all in your head. It's like who owns Roger and Jessica Rabbit, Disney or Warner Brothers? Disney released the Miyazaki films in this country
And Tangled was given anime features for the characters.
http://images5.fanpop.com/image/phot...0-1024-768.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sr4meSFbO3I
Is "Kingdom Hearts" anime? If not, why not since that's the Final Fantasy cast int here. If so, what about all those Disney characters running around the place? Sora is a Disney original... yet he appears to be an anime character. Along with his friends.
http://images.wikia.com/kingdomheart...anga_cover.jpg
http://hq-wall.net/i/med_thumb/13/38...roxas_sora.jpg
http://www.anime42.com/Misc/Every_Anime_Character.jpg (Full Sized)
Warner brothers
No, she was given the standard Disney eyes, just in 3D
Again, a collaboration between a Japanese and English developers.
And the point I was making is just because "they got the idea from X" doesnt mean anything. Half of Disneys movies are based on childrens stories from OTHER countries, but its produced, written [for movie format with adaptions] and developed by Disney.
Cinderella? French
Bell too...in fact, the movie is based in France
Hunchback? Also French
Mulan? Chinese
Alice? British
The Black Couldron? Welsh
Little Mermaid? Danish
One day Disney will make a Japanese princess... or have they already and I am just forgetting? I think they still need Russia (Anastasia wasn't them) and Japan...
Disney said Rapunzel would be their last princess. But then they did Merida....
They also said the Frog Princess would be their first black one and forgot Atlantis
She was from Africa..l. or there abouts.
Also turns out Ben Dunn was Taiawanese
As for My Anime List.net.... look here
http://myanimelist.net/anime/1292/Afro_Samurai
Lol, what's going on here?
big thread drift?
anime-japanese animation
well america sucks' with shows so yeah
Powerpuff girls, MLP:FIM, Adventure Time, Ren and Stimpy, Rockos Modern Life...theyre all *terrible* shows [/sarcasm]
Edit- Dude, you just posted in the My Litle Pony thread talking about your favorite ponies. How can you turn around and then call it crap?? Cause its an American show o__O
Just about every Japanese person I went to school with refered to all animation as "anime".. Even Disney Movies.
Same with Manga and Comics. Spiderman was Manga to them.
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So if a Westerner living in Japan directs an Anime that was based off a Western tale (like Animes sometimes are) and he has a Japanese studio do the animation. It doesn't get outsourced to Korea or where ever is it still Anime?
Sort of along these lines, is Knack a Japanese Video game? It's director is Mark Cerny, but he's living in Japan and SCEJ is doing it and it looks very Western and Pixar like.