Forum - View topicCan TMNT 2K be concidered a anime?
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Laruto
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I've been watching this series from the start and i have to say, It rocks the stories the twists and turns in it are anime like and set up sooo brilliantly. TMNT 2k even has fillers good ones, not to mention there fight scenes WOW. I think This show should be concidered an anime. What do you think?
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The Frankman
 Posts: 1160 Location: Binary Culture HQ |
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Just because a show is cool or is "anime-like" doesn't mean it is Japanese anime. Does it follow the style of /have the earmarks of it? I say no to both.
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NeoEllis
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By and large, a show is not considered to be anime unless it had originated in Japan (or Korea).
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The Frankman
Posts: 1160 Location: Binary Culture HQ |
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Watch the "anime" they did of Sammy Sosa's chase for the home run record and get back to me. What a travesty.
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slickwataris
 Posts: 1334 Location: Carol Stream, Illinois |
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I haven't even bothered to watch 2k. Well, okay, maybe an episode or two. Yes, its animated so its anime but don't even bother trying to use this reasoning on anyone...it doesn't work.
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The Frankman
Posts: 1160 Location: Binary Culture HQ |
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That's why I stick "japanese" in front of that word when I want to differentiate. Surprising the negative reaction to the application of simple logic. |
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Slayer
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Why do you care if its anime? would that make the show any better to you. Just so you know in Japan anime basically means animation not really japanese animation so you could count it as anime although it really isnt. If you love the show now it wouldnt make you love it anymore if it was actually japanese now would it?(actually it might if you do enjoy japan, which is a high possibility
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Tiresias
Posts: 353 Location: Illinois, USA |
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In Japan, any type of animation is considered anime, so yes, over there it would be anime. However, here it's just a cartoon. In the US the term anime is generally accepted to mean cartoons that originate and are animated in either Japan or Korea. Basically, if you're Japanese, then yes it's anime, but if you're from the States it's a cartoon.
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Slayer
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That about sums it in my opinion
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HITOKIRI BATTOSAI
Posts: 5 Location: Houston Texas |
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It is not considered an anime to me
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CCSYueh
 Posts: 2707 Location: San Diego, CA |
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Great melting-pot that we are, America "borrows" what it likes from other cultures. Words are regularly adopted into other languages with slightly different meanings from the original (witness otaku worn proudly here being something of a slur in Japan). So yes, America, seeing how popular anime is becoming, will likely work up anime-style animation(cartoons here), but they are, in the terminology of their originating land known as cartoons. The most I'll give you would be to stretch the term "American manga"(& they are comic books here, they're simply done manga-style) to "Americna anime", but even that really seems like too much of a stretch. I think considering them anime-style or anime-influenced would be the extent of calling them anything anime.
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spider-moose
 Posts: 137 Location: Ontario, Canada |
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well there is a japanese anime of TMNT out there, a 2 episode OVA
pretty fun to watch if you enjoy Ninja Turtles |
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SamRegal
Posts: 3 Location: Here. There. Everywhere. |
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It's drawn in Korea. In the style of Japanese anime. Based on an American comic book, that was a spoof of several other American comic books. What a melting pot TMNT is! |
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Tiresias
Posts: 353 Location: Illinois, USA |
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If you want to be really technical, it's outsourced to cheap animation labor in Korea. Based off of ideas and storyboards produced in the United States based off of a US comic book. Just because it's drawn and animated in Korea doesn't mean it originates from there nor does it make it anime. At best, it's an anime-styled/influenced cartoon.
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Emerje
 Posts: 7393 Location: Maine |
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Eh, I wouldn't even go that far with it. People try too hard to compare "styles". Why can't people just accept that America is capable of coming up with good original action cartoons without trying to pick them apart? I cringe every time I see someone talk about Jackie Chan Adventures' "anime style", when it doesn't even remotely resemble an anime! But none of that gets me fired up more than the phrase "anime style comic". *groan* Emerje |
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