# Doctor Who receives the anime treatment **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 3, 2011, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-receives-the-anime-treatment/584204 "2011-06-03T15:55:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Headrush042](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a5b964/32.png) [@Headrush042](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Headrush042)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-receives-the-anime-treatment/584204/1 "2011-06-03T15:55:44Z")
As a side project by a fan. [Paul “OtaKing” Johnson’s anime Dr. Who](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePtj3z8rSq4) Want more! ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-receives-the-anime-treatment/584204/2 "2011-06-03T16:11:00Z")
Before I watch this, can you tell me please, are there spoilers for Season 6? I haven’t seen it yet and won’t for a while. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-receives-the-anime-treatment/584204/3 "2011-06-03T16:15:46Z")
Nah, it’s old school. Pretty cool! ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-receives-the-anime-treatment/584204/4 "2011-06-03T16:24:48Z")
Thank you! I’ll watch it this weekend! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-receives-the-anime-treatment/584204/5 "2011-06-03T17:17:55Z")
I thought it was wonderful, and the use of the original voices was great. ---
**Author:** ![Alan\_Smithee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-receives-the-anime-treatment/584204/6 "2011-06-03T17:57:50Z")
Wow! Whoever did that is really incredible. This it the sort of thing that makes the Internet awesome. For those not sure about watching it, it’s a 13-minute animated film done as a “trailer” for a non-existent 80s anime Doctor Who featuring the third Doctor. It looks absolutely professional and gets everything spot-on. I’m not a fan of 80s-style anime, and this encapsulates everything I don’t like about it, but it’s so well done, it’s a joy to watch. I am a Doctor Who fan, and this really shows what Doctor Who would have been like if it’d been done by a Japanese animation studio in the 80s. Jon Pertwee really works well as an anime character! ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-receives-the-anime-treatment/584204/7 "2011-06-03T23:07:55Z")
I could have sworn I’d seen that anime version the Doctor before. And 80’s anime had the token character who spoke in Japanese but was understood by everyone? ---
**Author:** ![Leiko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Leiko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leiko)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2011, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-receives-the-anime-treatment/584204/8 "2011-06-04T05:32:01Z")
I’ve only seen about two minutes and that was AMAZING. Thanks for the link! ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2011, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-receives-the-anime-treatment/584204/9 "2011-06-04T06:13:32Z")
Pretty damn cool! ---
**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2011, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-receives-the-anime-treatment/584204/10 "2011-06-04T08:40:15Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > I could have sworn I’d seen that anime version the Doctor before. You very likely have. OtaKing’s been working on it for four years, and posting sections of it as a work-in-progress in various places over that time. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2011, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-receives-the-anime-treatment/584204/11 "2011-06-04T10:51:15Z")
Someone needs, needs, NEEDS to give this man a blank check and licensing rights and let him make a full series of this. I wouldn’t even mind original voice actors playing the Third Doctor, the Brigadeer, etc. as long as they got the characterization down pat. You can see elements of a story arc in there (The Two Masters join forces with the Cybermen in order to lure the Doctor into a trap, which works out well for them until the Daleks and Sontarans take notice) and i’d love to see how it would play out. ---
**Author:** ![TPWombat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbce88/32.png) [@TPWombat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TPWombat)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-receives-the-anime-treatment/584204/12 "2011-06-07T01:14:28Z")
Are there tentacles? ---
**Author:** ![Candyman74](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Candyman74](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Candyman74)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-receives-the-anime-treatment/584204/13 "2011-06-07T01:23:04Z")
Really? I thought that was pretty dire. The artwork was cool, but that’s about it. ---
**Author:** ![Alan\_Smithee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-receives-the-anime-treatment/584204/14 "2011-06-07T03:36:02Z")
> [@Candyman74](#): > > Really? I thought that was pretty dire. The artwork was cool, but that’s about it. Kind of like the last concert I went to. It sucked except for the music. 😛 Seriously, what were you hoping for? Plot? It’s done as a trailor, which I spelled out early in the thread precisely to let people know that it wasn’t a mini-episode. And 80’s anime is all about flashy art and ridiculously huge battles over anything of substance (IMO). That’s why I said it encapsulates everything I dislike about that kind of anime, but it did it perfectly while keeping it very recognizably Doctor Who. Too bad Pertwee’s not around to do new voiceovers. It just wouldn’t work as well with Tom Baker. ETA: > [@TPWombat](#): > > Are there tentacles? Yes. Just a few, briefly, but yes. ---
**Author:** ![GameHat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ed655f/32.png) [@GameHat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GameHat)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-receives-the-anime-treatment/584204/15 "2011-06-07T05:32:09Z")
link is dead ---
**Author:** ![Alan\_Smithee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-receives-the-anime-treatment/584204/16 "2011-06-07T05:45:20Z")
> [@GameHat](#): > > link is dead That sucks! All I see on the tubes is speculation that it must be a cease-and-desist order from the BBC. It _should_ be because they made him take it down as a condition of the exclusive multi-year contract they gave him to produce animation for the BBC Doctor Who website, but I fear the world is not that just. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-receives-the-anime-treatment/584204/17 "2011-06-07T06:07:05Z")
Well, at least I managed to show it to a couple of fellow Doctor fans, including one whose Doctor of choice is Pertwee. They were torn between laughter and “awesome”. Or perhaps it was simply a combination of both. ---
**Author:** ![Candyman74](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Candyman74](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Candyman74)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-receives-the-anime-treatment/584204/18 "2011-06-07T06:09:56Z")
> [@Alan\_Smithee](#): > > Kind of like the last concert I went to. It sucked except for the music. 😛 > > Seriously, what were you hoping for? Something I liked, I guess. :shrug: ---
**Author:** ![akrako1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@akrako1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/akrako1)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2011, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-receives-the-anime-treatment/584204/19 "2011-06-08T22:26:47Z")
try some non-fanboy animated Doctor Who - Scream of the Shalka [http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/webcasts/shalka/](http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/webcasts/shalka/) Didn’t realize this even existed! I guess it was shelved when the reboot happened.