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| Bright Bart posted:I don't watch enough anime to know whether the liberties in linear plot and dourness are making fun of traditional anime or just in the style of traditional anime and its tropes. Now I'm kinda curious as to which it is. I thought her reveal is going to be that she is Jessica. Jessica already is a time child from Mr. Nimbus's first episode. |
| #?Aug 18, 2024 19:58 |
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| #?Aug 19, 2024 20:18 |
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| Would a Japanese audience find that stuff funny? |
| #?Aug 18, 2024 20:03 |
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| TBH I really don't have any idea. Is there anime in the style of American animated comedies like Rick and Morty, Family Guy, Bob's Burgers etc.? |
| #?Aug 18, 2024 20:06 |
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| Get in the Eva, Meg, its freaking sweet. |
| #?Aug 18, 2024 21:24 |
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| gurragadon posted:TBH I really don't have any idea. Is there anime in the style of American animated comedies like Rick and Morty, Family Guy, Bob's Burgers etc.? This is the most American comedy-aligned anime of all time. But it's more Ren & Stimpy + Adult Swim and less Bob's Burgers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzVXWwNcNi8 AlternateNu f*cked around with this message at 23:25 on Aug 18, 2024 |
| #?Aug 18, 2024 23:23 |
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| gurragadon posted:TBH I really don't have any idea. Is there anime in the style of American animated comedies like Rick and Morty, Family Guy, Bob's Burgers etc.? There are comedy animes, but they're usually centered around either school (Azumanga Daioh, Nichijou) or work (GinTama, Mr. TONEGAWA: Middle Management Blues). Can't think of one that's built around a nuclear family unit, that may be an American culture thing. |
| #?Aug 18, 2024 23:47 |
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| AlternateNu posted:This is the most American comedy-aligned anime of all time. But it's more Ren & Stimpy + Adult Swim and less Bob's Burgers. Anime, uh, really living down to expectations there |
| #?Aug 18, 2024 23:47 |
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| Takes No Damage posted:There are comedy animes, but they're usually centered around either school (Azumanga Daioh, Nichijou) or work (GinTama, Mr. TONEGAWA: Middle Management Blues). Can't think of one that's built around a nuclear family unit, that may be an American culture thing. Spy x Family?  |
| #?Aug 19, 2024 00:25 |
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| Takes No Damage posted:There are comedy animes, but they're usually centered around either school (Azumanga Daioh, Nichijou) or work (GinTama, Mr. TONEGAWA: Middle Management Blues). Can't think of one that's built around a nuclear family unit, that may be an American culture thing. Osomatsu-san? |
| #?Aug 19, 2024 00:36 |
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| Im morbidly curious - does Rick and Morty have a big Japanese fan base? |
| #?Aug 19, 2024 00:45 |
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| Venomous posted:Osomatsu-san? Oh yeah, a gag anime about 6 brothers based on a manga from the 60s is probably the closest we're gonna find. |
| #?Aug 19, 2024 06:39 |
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| PostNouveau posted:Anime, uh, really living down to expectations there Panty and Stocking was reportedly inspired when a bunch of Gainax crew were on a trip to America to learn from Disney, and saw Drawn Together on TV in a hotel room. (And I presume the unspoken part is they were all drunk) It's definitely crass and ridiculous on purpose, though I dunno if Rick and Morty fans in particular have much room to throw stones here. Half the fun is watching American cartoon references getting gleefully mangled in transit. Also pretty much everything about Panty is designed to piss off lovely nerds as the opposite of their idealised waifu. A lot of the time it helps to imagine what things like South Park, ATHF, American Dad etc look like from a Japanese perspective, and sometimes you find yourself in the mirror. |
| #?Aug 19, 2024 07:16 |
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| Konosuba maybe? I mean it's a fantasy isekai but it's about as gag filled as you're gonna get while still having likeable characters. |
| #?Aug 19, 2024 08:33 |
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| gurragadon posted:TBH I really don't have any idea. Is there anime in the style of American animated comedies like Rick and Morty, Family Guy, Bob's Burgers etc.? They have several long-running comedies, but they are usually more kid-friendly so western audiences are less interested https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crayon_Shin-chan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintama_Rantar%C5%8D https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sazae-san https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ojarumaru For more traditional anime, maybe Gintama? The differentiating factor here is... The Simpsons. Most of the current adult cartoons, like Futurama, Family Guys, American Dad, Bob's Burgers and etc are all cartoons that were clearly inspired by the Simpsons, and we can imagine their budget approved to thanks to the Simpsons. The Simpsons literally spawned this entire 'genre' in USA. |
| #?Aug 19, 2024 13:53 |
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| Ghost Leviathan posted:Also pretty much everything about Panty is designed to piss off lovely nerds as the opposite of their idealised waifu. Yeah. This is what confuses me. As a concept she fits in pretty well with the sensibilities of a Western audience who either think a bad-rear end, thirsty, lazy bad angel is cool or at least have seen enough of these tropes that they don't register it as being out of the ordinary. The same audience who if into Westerns would watch a show about a woman gunslinger anti-hero with a heart of gold who likes to get laid and shoot guns at the bad guys while firing off quips. But the show wasn't made to appeal to those people in the West. So who is she for? Japanese viewers who share the same sensibilities? Japanese viewers who want to laugh at white Japanophiles who are stereotypes as in turn stereotyping Japanese women as demure and honourable? Those same Japanophiles who are able to laugh at themselves? |
| #?Aug 19, 2024 14:15 |
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| I'm aware that the art styles can get pretty broad for anime and that it was even produced in Japan, but something about the Rick and Morty anime doesn't even really feel like anime. Like even doing the double frame thing makes it seem less like an anime and almost like what an American animations studio would do if they were trying to parody anime. |
| #?Aug 19, 2024 16:08 |
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| TGG posted:Konosuba maybe? I mean it's a fantasy isekai but it's about as gag filled as you're gonna get while still having likeable characters. Konosuba is more Always Sunny than American Dad or Family Guy. |
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| #?Aug 19, 2024 20:18 |
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| Bright Bart posted:Yeah. This is what confuses me. As a concept she fits in pretty well with the sensibilities of a Western audience who either think a bad-rear end, thirsty, lazy bad angel is cool or at least have seen enough of these tropes that they don't register it as being out of the ordinary. The same audience who if into Westerns would watch a show about a woman gunslinger anti-hero with a heart of gold who likes to get laid and shoot guns at the bad guys while firing off quips. It was kind of made for all those groups. Gainax of all studios (other than Ghibli) is aware of how popular anime actually is in the West. P&S was their attempt at spinning the American crude comedy style into an anime. The director of the show, Hiroyuki Imaishi, is a huge Anglophile, and there is a big western bent to most of his shows like Gurren Lagaan, Inferno Cop, and the Cyberpunk anime. Flip your question, and ask who shows like Avatar TLA or The Boondocks are for. AlternateNu f*cked around with this message at 19:23 on Aug 19, 2024 |
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