mtwinny wrote:Just saying. He showed up in Japan, the land of animation, and doesn't like anime. How is that possible?!
I don't follow your logic, surely America - home of Walt Disney, the man who revolutionised animation and influenced many areas of the genre (including Osamu Tezuka, the man widely credited with being the father of manga and anime) and companies like Pixar and Dreamworks that churn out delightful animation films like nothing else - is more deserving of that title? Yes, Japan has Ghibli but only animation/film fans - not your average joe on the street - give a damn about Ghibli outside of Japan. Disney, Pixar, Dreamworks, etc are known the world over.
Anyway, besides kids shows and the big, big popular franchises like One Piece normal people in Japan don't give much of a damn about anime. Manga? Yes. Folks will pick up their weekly, monthly or quarterly anthology read it cover to cover on the train to work then chuck it away. Anime? No. That's a geek-y territory like sci-fi to us Westerners.
Kaito-kun wrote:I don't follow your logic, surely America - home of Walt Disney, the man who revolutionised animation and influenced many areas of the genre (including Osamu Tezuka, the man widely credited with being the father of manga and anime) and companies like Pixar and Dreamworks that churn out delightful animation films like nothing else - is more deserving of that title? Yes, Japan has Ghibli but only animation/film fans - not your average joe on the street - give a damn about Ghibli outside of Japan. Disney, Pixar, Dreamworks, etc are known the world over.
Anyway, besides kids shows and the big, big popular franchises like One Piece normal people in Japan don't give much of a damn about anime. Manga? Yes. Folks will pick up their weekly, monthly or quarterly anthology read it cover to cover on the train to work then chuck it away. Anime? No. That's a geek-y territory like sci-fi to us Westerners.
Wooow, all this due to a joke about Justin Beiber?
mtwinny wrote:Just saying. He showed up in Japan, the land of animation, and doesn't like anime. How is that possible?!
Yess.... and England is the land of fish and chips.
It's quite a turnaround if kids actually think that though. I mean, my dad's generation seem to think of the place of the land of cold hearted, dog eating psychopaths hell bent on world domination - as the only stories they knew from japan were the ones their parents told them of their hellish experiences in WW2 work camps. Maybe this anime comic industry is all some ruse for to soften us up before the next attack? But you just don't go from kamikaze bombers to ash catchum that easily. I'm keeping an eye on them.
Killer French Bread wrote:Maybe this anime comic industry is all some ruse for to soften us up before the next attack? But you just don't go from kamikaze bombers to ash catchum that easily. I'm keeping an eye on them.
I dunno, a couple of US delivered Atomic Bombs resulting in the devastation of two cities and continued US occupation would put me off the whole "war" thing. Heck, the Yanks are still in Okinawa.
Edit: And it's Ketchum. Although in Japan he's called Satoshi, with apparently no surname.
Ah well, I was quite pleased with myself that I even remembered his name was catchum tbh. I haven't seen or heard of the manga since before ant and dec were kidnapped from SMTV by simon cowell.
Uh.....there's Beiber talk, anime, and 'this generation' talk all in one. Interesting.
Killer French Bread wrote:Ah well, I was quite pleased with myself that I even remembered his name was catchum tbh. I haven't seen or heard of the manga since before ant and dec were kidnapped from SMTV by simon cowell.