Forum - View topicTransformers the movie discussion.
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nightmarelord
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Some people say the movie is anime while others say it is not. I would say it is because it sparked the line of Takara Transformers line. Headmasters, Super God Masterforce, and Victory are the ones I believe.
What are your thoughts? Discuss. |
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Tenchi
 Posts: 4512 Location: Ottawa... now I'm an ex-Anglo Montrealer. |
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It was animated by Toei, but so were G.I. Joe, Muppet Babies, My Little Pony and Friends, and every other Marvel/Hasbro/Sunbow animated production of the era, so I'm in the "no" column on that one.
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omnistry
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I thought G.I. Joe was Sunrise; but wow! Muppet Babies was "anime"! |
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Tenchi
Posts: 4512 Location: Ottawa... now I'm an ex-Anglo Montrealer. |
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I don't know anything about that recent series, but the classic 1980s G.I. Joe was animated at Toei, like everything else from Sunbow.
But it, and Muppet Babies, were done for American television, so I don't call them "anime". |
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Steventheeunuch
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The Transformers movie had animation assistance from Toei, as did the initial 3 TV seasons, however it was not helmed by the japanese, nor directed, written or paticular worked on. It came out roughly six years after the US Theatre release, and did not entirely "spark" the Headmasters and such. Hell, they got the movie after headmasters and what not, so it doesn't matter.
But it's still something people like, so whatever. It's a great film, with pretty compotent writing and directing, once you take it as a piece of 1980's film and childhood nostalgia, and nothing else. I recently rewatched it with some friends who hadn't watched Transformers before, but could get into it once they realised the nature of the film. |
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Kruszer
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It's one of those hybrids neither American annimated or anime. Reguardless of who actually created it, it's completely awesome and one of the best movies ever made. I must have rented it like a hundred times from the video store as kid. I knew all the lines and could recite them from memory. I couldn't do that any more but I did buy it on DVD and it was even better with surround sound and the inclusion of the two deleted lines of cursing that weren't in the video version.
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AHZ
 Posts: 166 Location: Metro Detroit |
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One of my favorites when I was a kid. Some people do consider it anime, which I wasn't aware of until recently. But, that movie is definitely getting a place on my shelf--if only for the sake of nostalgia.
My favorite part is when Hot Rod turns into Rodimus Prime; just thought I'd throw that out there.
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