[QUOTE=Acid Lamp]
Hey now i’m no prude! I’m all for more unedited animation and freedom of expression. I mas merely confused at the nipple-less solution. Frankly, heavy Metal WAS about being both artsy and shocking. It was a different and far cry from the children’s fare Americans considered animation to be at the time. I doubt very much that the nudity in the shorts that composed the film were integral to the plot at all.
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Hell, half the stories weren’t integral to the plot! Grimaldi, Harry Canyon, Den and the finale all revolved around the Loc-Nar, but in the rest it was just a random plot device shoehorned in to justify whatever change took place in the story. I laughed myself silly over the interlude scenes in particular: here’s the Loc-Nar trying to sound menacing, when in the previous scene its only power was the ability to make a robot built by cokehead aliens pop a boner and try to bang the secretary. Hell of a fun movie, though.
[QUOTE=kaylasdad99]
Possibly, I suppose. I’ll decide whether I think it likely once I’ve seen Heavy Metal play on Cartoon Network.
'Course, unless somebody who watched Lupin in Japan during the '70s wants to weigh in.
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The video store near my place has a large selection of anime, including the Lupin series. I could see if they have anything resembling the episode you describe.
In the pilot of the Ranma 1/2 series, I recall bath scenes with nipples. I don’t think there were any after the first episode, though.
I neve heard of Roger Rabbit having a frame with a topless Betty Boop, but there is a single frame where you can see Betty Boop’s boob from the side, unholstered, in one of the original Fleischman films. It’s a compilation film from the mid 1930s, and Leslie Cabarga reproduces the relevant frame in the second edition of his The Fleischer Story.
Incidentally, there apparently is a brief, almost subliminal view of a nude woman in one of the city windows during Wilbur’s flight at the beginning of the Disney film The Rescuers Down Under.
[QUOTE=kaylasdad99]
Possibly, I suppose. I’ll decide whether I think it likely once I’ve seen Heavy Metal play on Cartoon Network.
'Course, unless somebody who watched Lupin in Japan during the '70s wants to weigh in.
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I don’t lnow about the Lupin TV show, but I noticed they edited out the nipples when they showed Tenchi Muyo on Cartoon Network. (In one of the early episodes they all go to a bath house, casual nudity ensues, followed by fanfics)
Several of the Lupin movies also show Fujiko partly naked.
[QUOTE=CalMeacham]
…Incidentally, there apparently is a brief, almost subliminal view of a nude woman in one of the city windows during Wilbur’s flight at the beginning of the Disney film The Rescuers Down Under.
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No Down Under, just plain The Rescuers, and it’s a photograph.
[QUOTE=EJsGirl]
Anyone else remember Heavy Metal? If I remember correctly, there was quite a bit of sex and nudity in that animated feature…
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I don’t recall it as an animated feature, but I can’t imagine it could be very good, considering the concept of the magazine. It sounds like it would be very disjointed. By the way, I got a chance to work with some really old comic books, and one of them was an original first issue of Heavy Metal. I had struck special collections display gold with that and other impressively busty cover pages.
[QUOTE=nashiitashii]
I don’t recall it as an animated feature, but I can’t imagine it could be very good, considering the concept of the magazine. It sounds like it would be very disjointed. By the way, I got a chance to work with some really old comic books, and one of them was an original first issue of Heavy Metal. I had struck special collections display gold with that and other impressively busty cover pages.
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“Disjointed” is putting it charitably. It’s more of an anthology of shorts with only the barest effort to connect them together. Still, the individual ‘episodes’ were quite good.
[QUOTE=CalMeacham]
I neve heard of Roger Rabbit having a frame with a topless Betty Boop, but there is a single frame where you can see Betty Boop’s boob from the side, unholstered, in one of the original Fleischman films. It’s a compilation film from the mid 1930s, and Leslie Cabarga reproduces the relevant frame in the second edition of his The Fleischer Story.
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Ah, yes. I’d forgotten that one. I can’t remember the name of the cartoon in question but it was a combination live action/animation one where (Dave?) Fleischer produces various backgrounds and Betty sings and dances in them. One is a Hawaiian luau scene. She ducks behind an ink bottle to change, but leans over topless to pull on her grass skirt. There’s a strategic lei around her neck when she does her rotoscoped hula.
[QUOTE=Sublight]
In the pilot of the Ranma 1/2 series, I recall bath scenes with nipples. I don’t think there were any after the first episode, though.
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The version of Outlaw Star that Cartoon Network ran actually had bikinis/bathing suits added to every scene that would have shown breasts. They actually skipped an episode–I think the title is something like “Hot Springs Planet Tenmei”–because they couldn’t afford/didn’t have time to go through and paint bikinis in nearly every frame.