Just on this whole cartoon thing I landed in the land of waifus...... Now I need a good lie down this can't be real.
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Why are anime people not drawn like you know regular adult people?
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Interestingly, the stereotypical anime style was actually originally based on American cartoons that featured characters with larger eyes and more abstract features. Astro Boy would have fit right in with Felix the Cat and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. Anime just took those traits and stylized them further.
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Wow! Someone else who remembers "Prince Planet"! Back in the 90s, I began to doubt I had seen it, as I could find no information about the series. Had I possibly distorted the memories of watching "Astro Boy" in the mid 60s? But while perusing the aisles of Dragon*Con's dealers' room, I stumbled across a box of "off the air" recordings of various shows. Among that collection I found a VHS cassette of "Prince Planet" episodes! I had NOT imagined it! I also found another "forgotten" series from that "first wave" of anime, "Marine Boy". I bought both "collections", yearning to see what episodes they held.
I had another pleasant surprise once I returned home and loaded the "Prince Planet" tape. It contained the last four episodes of the series! As young as i was when I first saw the show (I was probably 4 or 5), I recalled something fascinating, the series had a conclusion! Admittedly the majority of the episodes were self contained and could be aired in random order without too much confusion, but unlike most American based cartoons, "Prince Planet" had something of a narrative arc. The first few episodes dealt with his arrival upon Earth and fitting into society, but it also depicting him finally vanquishing his foes (they got killed!) and returning to his home world! A cartoon series with a beginning, a middle and an end? What a novel concept! That stuck with me over the years.
Of course, with the internet and streaming services like YouTube, it's relatively easy to rediscover forgotten "gems" from our youth, but in the early 90s, I had just about decided I imagined the whole thing until I found that cassette.
Not all of them. Yaoi, for instance, is geared more toward adults, as are the characters portrayed in them.
No I fondly remember Prince Planet and Marine Boy. That theme tune just stays with you..
Another one I liked was Galaxy Rangers and it had a beginning and middle and end but got cancelled before they could do the final arc..
This was an unusual show in that characters actually do die, and get injured and there is blood.
Probably one of the first attempts of a "realistic" human character design in a American cartoon was in Gulliver's Travels.
It was creepy.
The characters of Gulliver, the Prince of Blefuscu and the Princess of Lilliput were all rotoscoped, meaning they were filmed live-action and then animated over. Disney did this with Snow White, the Huntsman and the wicked Queen in Snow White before figuring out how to animate regular people without using this method. This was Ralph Bakshi's primary animation method as well.
That's interesting to know........ Isn't Bakshi the guy that made Cool World?
Now that's a proper weird movie.
Yes, Bakshi made Cool World. And it was one of the final nails in his studio's coffin. Unfortunate. My favorite of his films is Wizards. I need to see that again.
I've seen wizards a couple of times but to me Cool World is just plain weird. It's an OK film, just it's weird
Oh, so that's where "Attack on Titan" came from!Probably one of the first attempts of a "realistic" human character design in a American cartoon was in Gulliver's Travels.
It was creepy.
Max Fleischer's "Gulliver's Travels" has some absolutely beautiful animation. Gulliver himself is pretty obviously rotoscoped over footage of an actor, with his monstrous uncanny form moving through a more exaggerated animated world. The effect is really very successful IMO and having him as stylized as the Lilliputians wouldn't have worked nearly as well.
Now I remember, for an Anime with more realistic drawn characters there is the old Crying Freeman OAV.
I think I have seen that
I have seen it, but it isn't particularly good.
The same reason real actors in live performed shows don't look like regular adult people.
The theme tune to Marine Boy still haunts me. haha
As far I know in America young viewers saw a lot of anime (obviously adapted, because all that sex and violence can run ruin the frail kids). Some examples:
The chances that an American kid didn't see at least one episode of an anime are really low.
- Star Blazers
- Battle of the Planet
- Astro Boy
- Voltron
- Kinba the White Lion
- Robotech
- Gigantor
- Speed Racer
The chances that an American kid didn't see at least one episode of an anime are really low.
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Because the freedom of animating means not having to adhere strictly to one style, or level of realism.
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