Someone help me with the name of this animated Japanese cartoon from the 80s? I saw this when i was about 7. There was a wizard or some bad guy who put everyone into glass squares. I think the good guy was cat of some kind. I think there was also some sort of dragon / machine that the bad guy controlled, and it would make some sort of high pitched grunt when it attacked.
I know it all sounds absurd. like i said its a 20-something year old Japanese cartoon ( i think it was japanese, it was in english but my memory of it says it was likely produced in japan and probably originally made for japanese guys). |
The first things that come to mind:
1) Gatchaman (aka Battle of the Planets or G-Force), the bad guy makes mecha robots and one of them was a dragon. He was no wizard and the good guys resemble birds not cats.
2) Defenders of the Earth- The bad guy (Mink the Merciless) has a dragon-like pet and he is a sorcerer. I'm quite sure this is the one. This is an american cartoon but like all of them were done by Asian animators.
3) Thundercats- The enemy (Mumm-Ra) is a wizard, but i don't think there was a dragon on it. |
Japanese animated cartoon lovers, what do you think of the movie "I love my little sister"? Saw it on Yube Tube and can't believe what some people will wright. |
| i was surprised too... i didn't know what the english name was because it was posted with the japanese name. So i watched it and i really didn't like it. However, i have seen a lot worse than that. on a scale of 1 to 10 i would probably give it a 5. |
What do Japanese people call cartoons? What do Japanese people refer to western cartoons/animated drawings as? Do they call them Anime as well or do they just call them cartoons? |
In Japan, the term "anime"(which is short for animation) refers to all types of animation around the world.
Tom and Jerry is anime, Shrek is anime, South Park is anime, an so on.
If they want to differentiate domestic animation from global animation, they'll call Japanese animation "Japanimation" |
Watching Animated Cartoons? There is a animated cartoon i love but it aint on Australian Tv because it is a Japanese cartoon i have found a feuw shows in English on My space and youtube. i have looked in Googe and googelvideos and yahoo, do any of u know a site were i can download or watch this show it is called:
Inuyasha
THanks
(i cant sepll propaly sori) but i do know how to Spell Inuyasha
look at photos of him on Goggle images. |
| search youtube |
An old japanese animated film on cartoon network.? It has a giant boar, and some black tar looking stuff is on it. I can remember a girl with a wolf mask trying to save it, and she runs into a guy who gets injured or something and she chews up his food and feeds him. It is really irritating because i can't figure it out so if you can help please do! |
Princess Mononoke
myanimelist.net/anime/164/Princes… |
Hi Can Anyone help me in Free Animated Movies download most Japanese cartoon like Shadow Skill, Avatar etc? I have once found this website called 4tvb.com where i can download most of the items, but it seems the link have been broken and it is hard to access and damn slow. Could anyone refer me any genuine and good website where i can download this free videos. Those Japanese cartoon are cool and awesome. Please help i will appreciate it |
www.realitylapse.com/
www.veoh.com/ |
Animated movies better than real movies? For some reason, I just can't "immerse" myself into real movies. When I watch a real movie, I'm watching it strictly as a spectator, nothing more. I don't feel like I was part of the story or the world that the movie was representing. As the movie is finished, I just empty my mind and that's it.
With animated movies or "anime" (japanese animated cartoons) however, it's the complete opposite. I just finished watching avatar yesterday (I know, I know, I'm late) and I was mind blown. When the movie ended, I felt like avatar was the real world and in my home it was the dream. I felt like I was part of the movie, the story and the world... I got totally immersed into it like never before. I couldn't stop thinking about the movie, as if it was a part of my life. This type of feeling also happens when I watch anime.
Does anyone feel the same way or am I just weird? haha. What is the psychological reason that real actors fail to captivate me but I get sucked right into animated worlds? |
| I like watching live action better. Animation can do what live action can't do, but lacks the realness. I like realness. I like watching Japanese live action and see how Japanese people really talk. Anime is just retarded, with all those nosebleeds and fighting. |
Is it weird that I have an animated imagination? I don't know why... I've just always been like that. Whenever I daydream about something it always comes out animated like a japanese cartoon o.o Does anyone else have a mind like that? |
| There is nothing weird in that.. It seems you are interested in animations and cartoons... What we are doing in our presence... What we are thinking and What we are seeing in our presence will be stored in our subconcious mind and it reflecting as an Imagination, Dreams etc., Everyone haves the same aspects in their life.. You are normal.. |
Why do i cry over cartoons/anime but not over movies? Here's something I realized a while back. I never cry when i watch movies or TV series, never. I don't even feel sad. Maybe it's because I know everybody is an Actor and it's scripted and it's hard to separate reality and fantasy.
However, I started getting into anime(japanese animated cartoons) a while back, and discovered that i OFTEN cry when watching these. I've cried to the point where my shirt was SOAKED (literally), it really gets me emotional.
Why is it that I don't cry over "real movies"? I have one theory, but I could be wrong. I believe no matter what movie i watch, seeing real actors subconsciously reminds me what this is "fake" and "acted"; it's hard to get into the fantasy bit of a movie.
However, when watching an anime, my mind is 100% concentrated on the fantasy itself. Other than that, I have no idea. |
I'd agree with your theory. Its probably because your mind does not need to spend time convincing you that cartoons are not real people and instead it can focus on the character development and story line.
I think I feel more connected with animations because it seems like a more relate-able medium. I can find myself identifying with an abstract character from a cartoon easier because they tend to be a little less specific and more personified. It just seems more natural to me.
While watching actors I tend to be simply watching, but watching animations I feel like I can participate. |
What do native japanese people think of American cartoons like "Family Guy" or the "Simpsons"? I know it doesn't compare to the seriousness in most anime, but do the japanese in general like american animated films? |
This is actually a fairly complex subject. The simpsons is very well known here but family guy is all but unheard of. The main problem has to do with making a series that makes contant refences to contemporary American culture accessable to a non-American audience. All are dubbed. No exceptions. So while there may be multiple jokes (misquotes, direct quotes, off colour remarks, references to old movies or political situations), these will fall on deaf ears when translated into J. Compounding the problem is the fact that the sitcom as a genre does not exist in japan. If a program is a comedy, then it is character driven, not situational.
So, watching the simpsons in English may provide a laugh a minute due to script content, when translated it can only provide humour based on a much slower scale based on situational absurdity.
Take for example, spider pig from the simps movie:
for a western audience the main gag is the reference to spiderman, including the spidey song and homer's horrible rendition of it.
To the Japanese audience this is simply a bizzare situation of a pig walking on the ceiling with a random song being sung.
Hence most of the jokes are lost intranslation. The simps are still popular and have appeared in many different media, but do not hold the same status as a comical reflection on the modern family and synical comentary of American life.
Family guy? Personally I love it, but the humour is too grounded in non sequitor randomness to garner a significant audience in japan. Unfortunately the very nature that makes it funny to Americans makes it very inaccessable to non Americans. And while we love it in the uk, many jokes go unnoticed. |