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Nintendo May Do Anime
Thanks to GameSpy for the news that former Nintendo President Hiroshi Yamauchi is planning to present a plan to the Board detailing Nintendo made anime series. The move is intended to provide diversification and increase earnings by linking their characters more closely with the anime market. The company also pleased investors by adjusting higher their profit forecast by almost 20 percent for the year. Nintendo now expects to report almost US$758.9 million for the year.
I believe the Pokemon TV series spawned the games, and not vice versa.
Actually, all animation is anime to the Japanese. Ask many older Japanese what their favorite "anime" is, and you will VERY often hear "Tom & Jerry" as the response. It was broadcast in Japan after the war, and was enormously popular.
To non-Japanese, "anime" normally means Japanese anime. If you refer to Korean animation or things like Kaena or Adam Warren stuff or MegaTokyo as "anime" to non-Japanese anime fans, they will correct you.
I'm not sure how this all happened, but there you go.
Also of note is that "manga" is the word that Japanese use for comics and comic-style art. In the U.S., you can refer to something being drawn in comic style or in realistic style. The Japanese have the same distinction, not because comic-style art can't be realistic, but because there are obvious differences regardless of where you grew up. They just use the term "manga" instead of "comic-style." And just to confuse the issue, most Westerners are in the habit of referring to "Japanese comic-style" art as "anime-style." That's the point where I give up on trying to understand those of my countrymen who would misundersand simple things that they're presumably so enthusiastic about.
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your belief is wrong.
Nintendo, like many other game companies, has partnered with animation companies to produce weekly TV shows, movies, videos, etc. Yamauchi wants to pull all of that in-house and reap 100% of the benefits.
I honestly don't remember the Mario and Captain N cartoons very much. Blasphemy, sure, but there you are. They were from my childhood, and I remember them sucking pretty much.
Zelda was made in the U.S. If you think anyone in Kyoto had anything to do with "Well excuuuuuuuse me, princess!" you're as mistaken as the guys who blame Nintendo for the crappy CD-I Zelda games.
Kirby's Japanese produced, that's for sure. It's not something I enjoy watching now, so I can't really comment on it. However, I've seen it, and the production value seems infinitely better than the old cartoons must have been.
I remember it! It was in 1989.
Go here for details. Yahooligans has the episodes online. Sheesh!
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