I guess Japanese anime turns out their share of drek too; what I don’t understand is why anyone thought Cyborg 009 was worth the cost of dubbing in English. Maybe if they’d substituted sarcastic dialog like Samuri Pizza Cats did, it could have been a comedy. Instead, we have:
[ul]The hero, 009 and the token girl are the only human looking ones. Everyone else is a geekoid.[/ul]
[ul]The token girl has no battle skills (she has x-ray and telescopic vision) and so must find a place to hide when they’re all attacked, and Our Hero gets to rescue her constantly. Her only other contribution is to serve as nursemaid to genius baby 001.[/ul]
[ul]Their enemies seem to be able to mobilize enough men and firepower on a moment’s notice to storm Omaha Beach.[/ul]
[ul]Savage racial caricatures that no American production would dare get away with.[/ul]
their share? Heh they turn out their share and Hollywood’s share and I’m quite sure most of Africa’s and part of Russia’s too. I love seeing Anime b/c I like the art style but 99% of their movies are unwatchable crap. For awhile I tried to tell myself that there must be translation problems or some concepts just don’t cross oceans but no. Most Anime is packaged and booted out the door with no concern for quality at all. For every Vampire Hunter D:Bloodlust there’s a 1,000 Cyborg McDeath #231. The movies are usually so predicable I had to invent a drinking game around it so my friends would watch with me.
Unfortunately I haven’t seen the movie you talk about, but it sounds typical.
Darkhold is so right about the average level of quality in anime. There is an unbelievable amount of crap out there. Not to put too fine a point on it, but PokeMon (which my 22-year odl self quite enjoys) is well into the top 5%. For some ongodly reason they even recently put out a major release of… an 80’s show in the vein of Voltron. Now, Voltron was good… for an 80’s show. Saint Seiya is crap in the 90’s.
I hear that. Its amazing how blatant they do this.
funniest thing was, for the couple of episodes i could stay awake for, all i could think of when watching was: “this is just a recycle of AstroBoy”.
seriously… is or is not the big-nosed doctor almost a direct recycle of Dr. Pachydermis J. Oliphant??? except for the slightly-updated anime-style eyes, the whole thing felt like a dressed-up version of the old shows.
or maybe the old animators’ team just found a new lease on life or something
Heck, if you want recycled Astroboy, you can watch that Saturday mornings on the WB network. See this Sony page.
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For every Vampire Hunter D:Bloodlust
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If that was an example of good animation, we’re doomed. Fortunately, it’s not. (We had fun making fun of it, though.)
Saint Seiya is wonderfully campy. Cyborg 009’s problem is that it’s hard to take it seriously, but hard to enjoy the cheeze as well. 90% of everything is bad; usually we get a lot of good anime just because what we’re getting is already filtered. Of course, that’s “good” in the eyes of those who import it, possibly not in your eyes.