Challenge: Make Anime the dominant Animation form in America

Your challenge is to, with a POD after 1950, to make Anime make up a majority of American animation by present day.
 
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Considering that almost every element of Japanese animation is already found in your average American Saturday morning cartoon all I can say in response is mission accomplished.:rolleyes: It took about 30 years and some landmark series such as Transformers or Astroboy to do it. I mean look what they're doing to the new Thundercats for crying out loud!:eek: Also many of the notable animated movies garnered a strong cult following for being almost direct adaptations of manga were able to cover subjects and content many North American studios for fear of what the MPAA would do to them. Some tried such as Heavy Metal I & II and Rock & Rule, but many felt those lacked enough of lacked a sophisticated story arch and characters.

The only way to make it happen even sooner is if somehow cable TV reached countless homes earlier. Seriously, Japanese studios were turning out animated series like Chinese sweatshops as late as about a decade ago. It was only a matter of time before some American TV exec figured out how much they can save through importing and dubbing during the days of ink and celluloid.:rolleyes:
 
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To be fair, some of those classic WERE tied to Japan one way or other. Look at Thundercats of old, and the fact it was made by anime japanese artists is.. visible plainly.

Is it anime-ation when it was already quite anime ? ;)
 
From the underground distribution perspective:

US media currently animates with an entirely different system to Japan, the cost per minute is massive at market-point per market-point and it isn't a labour related cost, it is a production technique and environment related cost.

A wide variety of Japanese shows produced never hit US television because they don't match a "cartoons are for kids" demographic, and are imported by specialist market groups or fan communities.

Most telling of all is that most Japanese cartoons include a deep concept of story-arc, even when at their most repetitive and serialised, whereas US cartoon production maintains a dramatic setting which it doesn't vary from week to week.

yours,
Sam R.
 
To be fair, some of those classic WERE tied to Japan one way or other. Look at Thundercats of old, and the fact it was made by anime japanese artists is.. visible plainly.

Is it anime-ation when it was already quite anime ? ;)

Interesting, I did not know that. But considering Transformers was too quite an international collaboration with Japan and South Korean artists doing most of the rendering while production, distribution, merchandising; ect was based in the US it should not be that surprising.

It just go to show how much the rise in popularity was a global phenomena that was driven primarily by production cost that eventually caught on in the US culturally with aspiring many animators. :D
 
It just go to show how much the rise in popularity was a global phenomena that was driven primarily by production cost

Much classic US animation was animated overseas in first world sweatshops, Australia, for example, with the Flintstones. Where the animators live, and what production techniques are used in animating between tweens, aren't as relevant perhaps as artistic style, story telling, genre, mis-en-scen, costume, theme, reception culture, marketing, fan culture?
 
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Much classic US animation was animated overseas in first world sweatshops, Australia, for example, with the Flintstones. Where the animators live, and what production techniques are used in animating between tweens, aren't as relevant perhaps as artistic style, story telling, genre, mis-en-scen, costume, genre, theme, reception culture, marketing, fan culture?

Much like how Canada was a hub for "affordable" animators too due to government subsidies? The latter you are dealing with is an entire cycle of those youngters being influenced by the latter and building up their portfolio to help them get the job they aspire for.;)
 
A wide variety of Japanese shows produced never hit US television because they don't match a "cartoons are for kids" demographic, and are imported by specialist market groups or fan communities.
Even in Japan, most non-H anime is directed at kids or teens, it's just considered acceptable for it to conatain more sophisticated concepts than equivalent American animation along with the more obviously kiddy elements.

A similar attitude developing in the US (towards what kids can be exposed to) could go a ways to fulfilling the challenge.
 
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I wonder if Tesuka or some other legendary figures would move to USA, and DEEPLY influence local art of animation..

Does Tesuka have had children, and any of them folowed the father's lead?
 

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I'll have to ask what kind of anime you're talking about. There are huge differences between manga and comics, but anime and cartoons are really not that different except for say, the topics.

That's just my opinion, but then, maybe I've had too much of both to really be in a neutral position.
 
Well, isn't it already?
Though I, like the fellow above me, have to agree that the main themes in Japanese animation are more adult than its American counterpart.
 
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