American Anime

[BakerMan]

I find it really annoying that America is "taking over" Anime.(at least some pathetic attempts) Like this new show on Nick there's Kappa and on Cartoon Network they have Xiaolin Showdown, Teen Titans, (possibly)Pokemon. They are all pitiful attempts at Anime. First off most of they have horrible voice acting, second they all hardly any basis on Anime, and third they all usually have a stupid story line. If you ask me I think pretty much all of the above, and more, should be taken off air. What do you think?

[Sylvie]

I agree with most of them besides Xailin showdown. I don't think that was ever intended to be anime (or at least, I hope not). Pokemon is Japanese, and its mostly intended for children. Teen Titans isn't very good though, and thats American. I beleive Anime shouldn't be American made unless its good.

EDIT: Oh, and that Kappa Mikey show needs to die a horrible death.

[Azure Chrysanthemum]

I'd like to point out that most of anime was spawned from a Japanese guy copying Betty Boop.

Anyway, it's just American companies trying to capitalize on the demand for it right now. Which they're free to do. I'd say the quality of the copy speaks for itself.

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

It does bother me the way the creators of these shows pander to anime fans with superficial staples of the medium like huge sweatdrops and superdeformity. It's just a really cheap marketing tactic, saying, "Hey, kids, you like that Pokemon stuff? This show we've got going here is just like it! Check it out, the protagonist has a huge mouth and everything! Backgrounds dissolve into speed lines during action sequences! Kawaii neko baka!!!"

But I couldn't care less as to whether the shows themselves are good or not. It's not like there isn't plenty of anime that's total garbage.

[Sylvie]

Yeah, I know about the Betty Boop thing. But his "copy" actually turned out to be good. Now we take anime and produce terrible, terrible crap.

[Cloudstrife4003]

I hate american anime!!1 I like the regular japanese anime-I like the japanese ppls art style-the americans just screwed it up..I agree with u genji..

[ShunNakamura]

One thing to note is that we don't see the sucky Japanese animes since they fail before they ever reach our shores. Likely there is a similar percentage of american made stuff that fails as there is japanese anime stuff that fails. We just don't see it.

Of course I could be wrong(I haven't tallied up the totals for each side).

Anyways as for those mentioned. I didn't mind teen titans too much. A bit kiddish but those are the people that watch anime*.

*at least here anime is seen as child'ish by all but those who watch it. Personally I like to introduce them to Kimi Ga Nozomu Eien and see them call *that* childish .

[AdVenT]

American anime sucks

[edczxcvbnm]

These shows are pretty unoriginal anyways so it isn't like they would have been any better had they used a different style. Why can't we get some more good shows like Invader Zim or Cat Scratch?

[Dynast-Kid]

I watched this one anime on Nickolodeon called "Avatar".I thought it was kinda good.

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

Avatar isn't anime.

[Hambone]

Didn't America make Full Metal Alchemist? That's a cool anime.

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

No, we didn't.

[Zeromus_X]

FMA was most assuredly made in Japan.

And yeah, it's a trip.

Edit: Kishi got to it first...

[Hambone]

Wow. We must really suck.