Most anime are for kids. Compared to American animation, it has a wide range of genres. True, there are mature anime titles like the ones you mentioned but Pokemon, Cardcaptor Sakura and YUuGiOh are examples of kid anime and existed in Japan, way before being dubbed.
No, you did not halucinate it. Here is a cite from usenet.
P.S. smiling bandit, it’s nice to hear there is another fan.
I think some pf the problems people in America have with the crappier anime, is that American importers took anime that was designed in Japan for little kids (3-10, or so) like Pokemon, Dragonball-Z, Digimon, etc… and marketed them towards a wicer, and many times odler, audience. FOr instance, Pokemon may still be considered a little kids cartoon in America, but Dragonball-Z seems to be marketed towards the same block of people as Justice League Unlimited, which seems to be the 15-30 crowd.
What has Gennady Tartakovsky been up to lately? For a few years he was all over CN and since the end of Clone Wars - nothing.
Dude, I own the manga that the two series are based on. Don’t go telling me they’re not anime. They’re original Japanese shows dubbed into English, just like Hamtaro and Magical DoReMi.
Anime = Cowboy Bebop, Duel Masters, One Piece
Not Anime = Teen Titans, Code Lyoko, Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi
Nothing? He’s been writing the script for the Astro Boy wide release film.
Nothing on CN, I mean. And is there a website for the movie? IMDB hasn’t updated the listing for it in over a year and there are about 1 million Astro Boy hits on google.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who thinks so. And I wouldn’t have guessed it was the voice, but DAMN! I just listened to some clips on that page you linked to, and I have to get her albums–she’s amazing! Thanks!
(Actually, maybe it isn’t the voice. She does Mandy on TGAoB&M, too. And Mandy’s just not my type. Of course if she were older…)
I thought you might like an update/elaboration on this.
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To Rayman:
Those image that you are showing are from the “3rd Season” Of Hector Con Carne. It’s kind of hard to clarify but here’s an explanation that I think should help set things straight.
Billy and Mandy in 2000 won the Viewer’s pick award for Cartoon Cartoon Summer, the first of only two officals picks (the other being Kids Next Door. Megas XLR won it unoffically next year) before CN discontinued the pratice. In 2001, The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy launched with Evil Con Carne, another series Maxwell Atoms (B&M creator) did. Although CN really liked B&M they didn’t care much for ECC and felt the later was drager B&M’s ratings down. After about one season (split into two pile of episodes, one in 2001 and one in 2002) B&M and ECC were offically seperated into two shows. Although B&M would go off to produce new episodes and became a top rated CN Original, ECC’s new eps were just holdoers from when “Grim And Evil” were paired up. The plan was for them to run the episodes and then be offically done with the show. However, when B&M premiered with a new style in 2004, someone at CN was generous enough to give ECC a similar plan. They commissed about 4 or so episodes to be done in the 11 minute style with different character designs and brighter colors. The episodes aired in October 2004 and didn’t do well enough to pick up more. In 2005, CN offically cut all ties to B&M and ECC being together by recutting B&M eps to only have “Grim” segments in them and no “Evil”. So nowadays the only chance you have of seeing any of the ECC episodes is on the new Cartoon Cartoon show. Hope that helps you out.
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If I’m wrong I’m sure someone will let me know, but I was under the understanding that Dragonball Z un-cut is a pretty violent, vulguar anime.
They changed the one guys name when they dubbed it because his name was satan or some such.
I’ve also been told that One Piece and Samari Champloo are good un-cut.
It’s not OUTRAGEOUSLY more violent and smutty, but it is somewhat. The characters get bloody when they fight and occasionally the camera will linger on a dead body or a wound, but we’re not talking entrails and gibs. There’s some cheesecake – Bulma taking a shower, for example – but nothing explicit. There’s a couple of storylines in Dragonball that revolve around Bulma’s panties and Master Roshi’s efforts to catch a glimpse of them. That’s about as far as it goes.
Oh, Hercule’s name was originally Mr. Satan. I think they realized this wouldn’t play well in certain American markets. But they didn’t change his character at all, just his name.
Nor did they change his daughter’s name (Videl), although the joke no longer made sense.
There’s a few scenes where the dub of Dragonball puts underpants on the nekkid little Goku (or puts a bush in front of him), 'cuz, apparently, his kinder-butt is going to insight people’s passions or something - but that’s just stupid editting, not the original being less-than-tame.
There is the Home For Infinite Losers, which was, actually, I think, rather clever, although completely transparent. (T-shirts reading HFIL with a gap between the i and the l…I’m sure everyone can figure out what they read before editting.)
I forgot to mention my post was in reguards to Bouv’s post about Dragonball Z being marketed to children.
Here yes, but there? And then you guys came in and cleared it up.
Yay!