I decided to rate different animated television shows by their visual aspect. An explanation is offered for each score. Keep in mind that this is no rating of the show itself ( Read more... )

Note: I may rehash this review to meet anipike.com's strict reviewing standards. If you see a very similar review on that site, it should just be me.In the 1950’s and 60’s, Toei Entertainment attempted to become the Walt Disney of the East by producing animated musicals of Eastern and Western fairy tales with animal sidekicks. Their first film ( Read more... )

Originally written Sat May 20, 2006 I don't blame you anime fans. I really don't. I blame that hack writers that think by studying a skewed view of anime history they can write things like "Anime is more accepted in society that western animation." There are dozens of countries that make up the West and animation has a nearly 100 year history in ( Read more... )

Originally wirten: Wed Apr 19, 2006I can understand where anime fanatics are coming from. Anime fans clearly just want people to stop saying Japan is inferior at animating, which unfortunately is a wide spread opinion. I'm sure if I was in the same position I would feel the same way ( Read more... )

When you think of children's entertainer's do you think of warm, cuddly men that only think in child-friendly terms? You certainly shouldn't, seeing as how Walt Disney was a chain-smokeing, slave-driver that reported union leaders as communist, but let's face it, we do anyways. The experimental shorts Gábor Csupó, the Hungarian-born co-creator of ( Read more... )

American schools have a zero tolerance policy on violence. People gasp when they hear about kindergarteners that punched their teachers, eight year olds kill their siblings when wrestling and first graders bring in guns to school. Countless psychologist have proven they will model their behaviors on what they watch and anybody who watches ( Read more... )

I'm going to make this a regular feature from now on. This one will be the longest because I am backlogging several weeks ( Read more... )

You know Hayao Miyazaki, director of the Oscar winning Spirited Away, the nominee Howl's Movie Castle and others such as Princess Mononoke and Kiki's Delivery service. This is what he had to say about his favorite films:

Hayao Miyazaki Wrote:
...One filmmaker who really influenced me was the French animator Paul Grimault...Another film which had ( Read more... )

Creator of Samurai Jack Genndy Tartakovsky is an American citizen today, however he lived in Moscow, Russia until he was seven years old. Many of the elements in Samurai Jack are very common in Russian animation such as the sparse dialogue and borrowing from other cultures. Russian animators seem to use foreign countries and races to represent ( Read more... )

I will never understand what possesses people to make generalizations about all animation from a country. I really do not mind generalizations, so long as the person making them recognizes that they are generalizations. For example, if someone says, "All animation from (insert country name) is _____" then they are setting themselves up for ( Read more... )