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sonickid101
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 Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 11:51 am
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Studio 4°C gets around, this sounds interesting, I'll have to keep it in mind
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TitanXL
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Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 1:07 pm
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I honestly can' t think of a single West/Japan co-pro I found worth watching  They always seem to be lackluster and ride the gimmick of a Western thing having 'anime art' rather than utilize storytelling or anything
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Dagon123
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Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 1:37 pm
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| TitanXL wrote: | I honestly can' t think of a single West/Japan co-pro I found worth watching They always seem to be lackluster and ride the gimmick of a Western thing having 'anime art' rather than utilize storytelling or anything |
Um Wakfu? and Oban Star racers wasn't that bad, France knows how to do these thing ok, anybody else in the west usually fails
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Denys
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Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 1:49 pm
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Yuki_Kun45
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Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 2:54 pm
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| TitanXL wrote: | I honestly can' t think of a single West/Japan co-pro I found worth watching They always seem to be lackluster and ride the gimmick of a Western thing having 'anime art' rather than utilize storytelling or anything |
I kind of agree the co-ops have been gimmicky but even within the gimmicks there's been some nice stuff. Halo Legends had some nice segments though very short given the nature of it.
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TitanXL
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Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 7:43 pm
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| Dagon123 wrote: | | Um Wakfu? and Oban Star racers wasn't that bad, France knows how to do these thing ok, anybody else in the west usually fails |
Wakfu's not a co-pro (the reason it's done in Adobe Flash was so they could keep production mostly in France; unlike Totally Spies/Code Lyoko/Funky Cops/other French shows when were done overseas), not to mention it's a pretty bad show. Oban is okay, but, I'm referring to these DTV adaption they mentioned like Gotham Knight and Animatrix. Turning Western properties (in this case, a French comic) into anime (similar to Batman and Matrix). Oban was it's own thing and just some French guy's idea he got Japan to animate (since America and France refused him), which is probably why it turned out better than these things.
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jdnation
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Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2011 12:37 pm
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Animatrix was awesome!!!! But that's because the Wachowski brothers picked top anime directors and gave them freedom (their own written episodes excepted, which were still good)
Gotham Knight was mediocre, being half good and half bad. The half good stuff being too short. For that project they picked lesser known directors who'd accomodate the atrocious writing of DC's own comic book writers. The only really awesome short on there was the one of Bruce Wayne in India. Wish they could make an entire series like that with that kind of writing.
Basically the first 3 eps of Gotham Knight were boring. The last 3 were good. The best one being the Bruce Wayne in India one (can't remember the name), the other two just being stylistically awesome.
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writerpatrick
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Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2011 1:05 pm
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| Dagon123 wrote: |
| TitanXL wrote: | I honestly can' t think of a single West/Japan co-pro I found worth watching They always seem to be lackluster and ride the gimmick of a Western thing having 'anime art' rather than utilize storytelling or anything |
Um Wakfu? and Oban Star racers wasn't that bad, France knows how to do these thing ok, anybody else in the west usually fails |
Don't forget Rankin Bass' The Hobbit. That used the pre-Ghibli studio Topcraft. Although when it came out, nobody referred to Japanese animation as anime and few recognized the source.
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Sorce
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Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 5:53 am
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I'll probably give it a look; I liked their co-pro they did with a Russian company, First Squad: The Moment of Truth.
I've only met girls named Angelina though, no boys.
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fire_
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Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 8:40 am
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| Dagon123 wrote: |
| TitanXL wrote: | I honestly can' t think of a single West/Japan co-pro I found worth watching They always seem to be lackluster and ride the gimmick of a Western thing having 'anime art' rather than utilize storytelling or anything |
Um Wakfu? and Oban Star racers wasn't that bad, France knows how to do these thing ok, anybody else in the west usually fails |
oban star racers was mostly made in japan, by a japanese studio. only did the 3d race scenes were made in france
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I am a bit surprised to see this news today since I wrote the following exactly one year ago (it is in French but you may roughly understand its content) :
