Forum - View topicAnime Screenwriting
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Lucidius
Posts: 2 Location: Atascadero, California |
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This is a question for anyone who can help. I've been an Anime junkie for as long as I can remember...(at least ten years or more). I have also been working on various Anime Screenplays for about the same amount of time. I have a finished script for an Anime Series, but do not know how to get it to the hands of a producer, or how to find an agent that deals with Anime Scripts. If anyone has any advice, I would greatly appreciate it.
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king_micah
 Posts: 994 Location: OSU |
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Learn Japanese. Become a published writer and sell millions of copies of your books/manga/american movies/etc. Then you might have a chance to pitch it. Unknowns don't get chance to sell scripts unless they have pull. If your uncle is the head of TV Tokyo, or you have moolah to bankroll a series, then you can skip those steps.
My advice is if you are truely serious is to develop a portfollio and find a serious literary agent who will take you on. Then you can develop as a proffesional writer and make a reputation. That will make it possible to get taken seriously as a writer. Every studio I have heard of gets unsollicated scripts from people looking to get in the 'biz'. They generally mail them straight back unopened with a letter thanking them and telling them not to send any more scripts. Anime studios also don't generally advertise that they need a story idea. Every one in the studio has the 'perfect' idea that can be made, and the directors usually have a line of projects they are working on for a few years in advance. It's very very unlikely you could ever get it done. So much so I would say to you that it will never happen. However, if you really are as talented as you think, and you work for years to this goal by growing thru the american industry, it might, just might, be possible. |
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Aaron White
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Posts: 1365 Location: Birmingham, Alabama |
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Why not try to get your work produced in your own country? You live in California-there are more production and animation studios in your own state than there are in Japan.
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Tiresias
Posts: 353 Location: Illinois, USA |
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Just to expand on something King Micah said. Yes, learn Japanese, learn to speak, write, and read it fluently. That's including katakana, hiragana, and kanji.
Go to school for a few years and learn it, then move to Japan and spend many years, maybe a whole decade, immersing yourself in the culture and language to get it as close to perfect as you can. Maybe then you'll have a slight chance of being able to get it looked at by a company, but remember that you'll also probably need to work at the company you propose the idea to, higher than mailboy or inbetweener. Not trying to be condescending or mean, just trying to give you a bit of an idea on just how hard it is for a non-native to get an idea to the Japanese anime companies. Now if you happen to be Japanese and just over here for work of school or the like, that's a different story. Then you might be able to skip ahead a decade and jump right to the end, finding a job at the company you wish to propose to and work there a few years, working your way ever higher. It actually might be easier to just work your way into the literary society here and if your idea is really that good, try and pitch it to a US based animation studio. It might not be anime then, but maybe it would be useful for raising our own standard of animation. |
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jsyxx
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I think it would be pretty imposible for you succeed. Of course sometimes westerners such as the guy behind Reign, succeed, but he had a past portfolio of work in the animation industry as a bargaining piece. Honestly, your best chance of getting your series off the ground may be using the US independent comic book scene. Getting your story into the US animation scene may also be quite a feat, seeing as how that market is basically situated around advertising. It would be easier though becuase there is no language barier, but I would say you would need to have graduated from the proper classes at the right schools to get into the industry.
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Nagisa
Moderator
 Posts: 6128 Location: Atlanta-ish, Jawjuh |
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The guys behind Alexander Senki were Japanese. Yoshinori Kanemori directed, Sadayuki Murai wrote it, and it was based on a novel written by Hiroshi Aramata. Peter Chung only did the character designs. Of course, it's easy to get confused since the people in the actual creative nucleus of the show dropped the ball almost as badly as Chung does in all of his works, but regardless it wasn't him this time. 
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Lucidius
Posts: 2 Location: Atascadero, California |
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Thank you very much for your replies. I see that its going to be as hard as I thought it was. But nothing is impossible if you give it everything you got and then some. Most appreciated...
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Aaron White
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Posts: 1365 Location: Birmingham, Alabama |
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It's so much easier to do good work in your own country than to do it in a country you don't live in that it's downright silly to go to all the bother of learning a foreign language, changing your residency and all that just to get started when you could stay home and get started. Don't worry about making anime. Just make good stuff.
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Tempest
 I Run this place.ANN Publisher  Posts: 10456 Location: Do not message me for support. |
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Hi Lucidius,
You might want to take a look at this: animenewsnetwork.com/columns/answerman.php?id=162 -t |
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Zac
ANN Executive Editor
 Posts: 7912 Location: Anime News Network Technodrome |
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This is really, really, really, really, really good advice. Thank you Aaron. |
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Aaron White
Old Regular
Posts: 1365 Location: Birmingham, Alabama |
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Now I have to post something stupid and nasty to reestablish the balance.
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