×
  • remind me tomorrow
  • remind me next week
  • never remind me
Subscribe to the ANN Newsletter • Wake up every Sunday to a curated list of ANN's most interesting posts of the week. read more

Forum - View topic
NEWS: America's Kung Fu Panda Film Gets Manga in Japan


Goto page 1, 2  Next

 Note: this is the discussion thread for this article
Anime News Network Forum Index -> Site-related -> Talkback
View previous topic :: View next topic  
Author Message
Chrno2



Joined: 28 May 2004
Posts: 6172
Location: USA
PostPosted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 2:06 pm Reply with quote
Now that's interesting. Cool. I wonder what possessed them to follow through with it?
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message AIM Address My Anime My Manga
Onsokumaru



Joined: 26 Jul 2008
Posts: 71
Location: New York
PostPosted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 2:30 pm Reply with quote
What the helllllllllll???
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail AIM Address MSN Messenger
GATSU



Joined: 03 Jan 2002
Posts: 15574
PostPosted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 2:49 pm Reply with quote
I predict a U.S. release before the end of the year. Cool
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message AIM Address
Fronzel



Joined: 11 Sep 2003
Posts: 1906
PostPosted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 2:50 pm Reply with quote
So much manga with American source material. How interesting!
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
FireChick
Subscriber



Joined: 26 Mar 2006
Posts: 2488
Location: United States
PostPosted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 3:22 pm Reply with quote
A Kung Fu Panda manga? This never happened before. That's a first.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
GATSU



Joined: 03 Jan 2002
Posts: 15574
PostPosted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 3:51 pm Reply with quote
Firechick: You're wrong there. Wink
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message AIM Address
bleuster



Joined: 22 Sep 2005
Posts: 455
Location: Orange County
PostPosted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 6:10 pm Reply with quote
Quote:
Kadokawa published online a manga spinoff to Cloverfield, another American film, earlier this year. One of the first American movies to get a manga adaptation was the first Star Wars film, although a company is promoting its DVDs for Casablanca and other early classic Hollywood films by bundling new manga adaptatons with them.


I'd like to read those someday. Maybe one of those classic zombie or war films.

After hearing about Disney's Lilo and Stitch getting an anime I guess anything goes from here.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail Visit poster's website AIM Address
sanosuke32



Joined: 19 Dec 2007
Posts: 454
PostPosted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 6:32 pm Reply with quote
If it gets exploitation of the anime world to North America, so be it. Now if only they would do that for something that appeals to older audiences, although Kung Fu Panda appeals to people of all ages. But you know what I mean by older audiences.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail MSN Messenger
mistress_reebi



Joined: 07 Jan 2005
Posts: 735
Location: Canada
PostPosted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 7:39 pm Reply with quote
oooooo Lina and Gourry are going to be in the future. That sounds interesting. Hope they release it here!
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Siegel Clyne



Joined: 30 Apr 2006
Posts: 201
PostPosted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 8:00 pm Reply with quote
Kung Fu Panda director Mark Osborne, as well as Lilo & Stitch co-directors Dean Deblois and Chris Sanders, have acknowledged that Japanese animation, or anime, influenced the 2008 Kung Fu Panda and the 2002 Lilo & Stitch American animated features, respectively.

According to The New York Times, Deblois and Sanders cite the influence of writer-director Hayao Miyazaki and his 1988 Japanese animated feature My Neighbor Totoro (Tonari no Totoro) on Lilo & Stitch.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Viga_of_stars



Joined: 17 Aug 2006
Posts: 1240
Location: Washington D.C. in the Anime Atelier
PostPosted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 9:28 pm Reply with quote
I would read it. I loved the movie.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail Visit poster's website
BleuVII



Joined: 19 Sep 2006
Posts: 672
Location: Tokorozawa, Japan
PostPosted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 9:55 pm Reply with quote
I don't know. The movie, while excellent, has a very Western style of humor. I wonder how that will translate.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Proman



Joined: 19 Nov 2003
Posts: 947
Location: USA
PostPosted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 12:19 am Reply with quote
Only 5th place? Guess pandas just aren't as popular in Japan as they are in China.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message AIM Address
GATSU



Joined: 03 Jan 2002
Posts: 15574
PostPosted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 12:57 am Reply with quote
That's wrong, too.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message AIM Address
fighterholic



Joined: 28 Sep 2005
Posts: 9193
PostPosted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 2:59 pm Reply with quote
GATSU wrote:
That's wrong, too.

Boy, you're on top of everything, aren't you? I'm not surprised at this little outcome, but I'm not going to get hyped over it. Probably check it out some time in the future.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message My Anime
Display posts from previous:   
Reply to topic    Anime News Network Forum Index -> Site-related -> Talkback All times are GMT - 5 Hours
Goto page 1, 2  Next
Page 1 of 2

 


Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group