Anime vs. Disney
Yurl Q. Nazhenhazh
Everyone's talkin' about "this anime's done here," or "this cartoon's
done where." Of course, the main argument is, "is anime better than
cartoons?"
Hell, yeah!
It's not the artists, it's not the who, and hell no it's not the where,
IT'S THE MARKET. ANIME FANS. US. The BUYERS place DEMANDS on the
MARKET, and that determines the QUALITY of the GOODS. Japanese demand
more and thus better anime than Americans--and why shouldn't they;
public TV is monopolized by the government and the movie industry is
trash. They've nothing else to turn to--so they set very high standards
on anime. (It works this way: in such a huge market, the best anime
sell best. So everyone tries to make the best.) In the cutthroat
market, quality goods are produced such that U.S. cartoons can't hold
much of a thumb to them--regardless of where they are produced. 'Logic
is, if you were a U.S. cartoon co. CEO, would you spend millions of
dollars to crank out high-quality stuff even though the market wouldn't
change? Hell no! As far as anime goes, though, if you pump out trash
to save $$$--you're out of business. Quality's a requirement.
Yurl Q. Nazhenhazh
P.S. No, that's not my real name. The observant know who I am.
Roehl
figure, "151 anime fans in the United States, total" to emphasize the
relative proportions.)>>
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Invid fan
> "Yurl Q. Nazhenhazh" <ry...@umich.edu>: As far as "getting a clue..."
>
> Do you really think that the Japanese animators even know you exist?
>
> You are part of a teeny, tiny ancillary market to them. (I often use the
> figure, "151 anime fans in the United States, total" to emphasize the
> relative proportions.)
>
> Japanese animators are animating for the Japanese market. They don't even
> consider export to the United States or the world important. (American
> movies consider the foreign grosses when movies are made - that's why we
> have violent, stupid movies as our big films, because that's easy to
> translate.) They do animation for their own people first and foremost.
That's not completely true, especialy given the state of the Japanese
anime market. Macross II was produced for both markets, and the final two
episodes were only completed because of high American sales. Pioneer is
attempting to please both markets, and it's El-Hazard dub actualy has
better production work than the Japanese version. AIC asked for US fan
input while deciding on how to continue BGC. ME funded part of Ghost in
the Shell. The creators of 3x3 Eyes asked Streamline to do a dub to help
fund the sereis. Etc. While the number of fans over here is a small
percentage of the whole, and we're spread out, we are a consumer base with
money to spend. Expect more co-productions and shows designed to appeal to
us.
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