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NEWS: GDH Animates G.I. Joe

Actually, G.I. Joe was animated by Hasbro Sunbow, a subsidiary of Marvel. Japan had nothing to do about it. In fact, Transformers was also done by them.

It's well known that the pre-movie G.I. Joe series was animated by Toei, as was Transformers, and it's in the credits for both series and is on the resume of a number of former Toei animators. It wasn't, however, produced by Toei, but they did all the animation for it, key and inbetweens.

The production of the series was done by Sunbow and Marvel, with the designs and writing being in-house, but all the animation was handled by Toei. Sunbow was the media division of Hasbro, and had nothing to do with Marvel, except for the co-production of a few Hasbro related properties. Kent Butterworth, one of the producers of both series, has gone on at length about the colaboration between the two production companies, and their glowing relationship with Toei.

Marvel Productions was the subsiduary of Marvel, but it was closed down when Roger Corman bought the company and New World took over all productions. Hasbro folded Sunbow directly into its corporate structure, while keeping the name for a time.

I made a thread about the TMNT anime, and we all agreed that it sucked. Let's hope this doesn't.

http://www.scary-crayon.com/spectare/tmntova1/

There were several decent Japanese Transformers shows back in the 80's. It's argued that their Season 4 "The Headmasters" is far superior to our Season 4 "Rebirth."

Still, it's far more accurate to call TF anime, since they've had Japanese connections since Day 1. Japanese partner (Takara), based on Japanese toy lines, and continued in Japan after it ended in the U.S.

You think they'll japanamize it or something?

I think that the point Double-O was trying to make is that it wouldn't be accurate to call the original Transformers or GI Joe "anime" because they were essentially Hasbro licenses (GI Joe moreso than even Transformers) and, as you have said, were designed and written pretty much in-house by Hasbro Sunbow/Marvel.

No, he made it pretty clear that he thought that no Japanese companies were involved ("G.I. Joe was animated by Hasbro Sunbow, a subsidiary of Marvel. Japan had nothing to do about it.") which, of course, was wrong. So far no one has made the claim that G.I. Joe was anime or that this new project will be in this thread.

As for Transformers, that one goes both ways. There have only been 3 purely North American TF series (G1, BW, BM), however while the original started with Hasbro it ended closer to a co-production.

Of the remaining 3 series that we've seen broadcast over here, RID was purely an import that Hasbro decided to go with to save money after an overwhelming fan reaction; Armada and Energon are both co-productions (and the 2005 series, Cybertron, will be as well) with Takara handling the majority of the animation production on their end. BTW, Cybertron will be using a new animation studio, I wonder if Gonzo could be that studio...

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Does that mean we'll be reading a lot Flint/Shipwreck yaoi fanfics on the net now?