There are examples by Gurihiru listed in both straight examples and inverted ones... How should a Japanese artist (well, artists, they are a duo), whose style blends anime and cartoon styles, and often works in Western works, be labelled? A straight example or an inversion?
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aayero
I'm pretty sure Kappa Mikey counts as a parody. It takes place in Japan, and the main character who is American is drawn differently than the other characters, and the show is about actors in a Japanese TV series. I'm not sure how anybody could miss all that, so is there some reason it's not already listed there?
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Theamazingme
This is just minor nitpick (and I apologize if this isn't really the correct place to post this, although I've been using this site for awhile I've never actually posted anything), but I've noticed the various Canadian animations tend to be filed under various folders such as the Animation-Europe folder, the Animation-U.S.A folder, and even the Animation-Other folder (and I'm not referring to the Canadian/French co-productions as I can understand why those are under the Europe folder, I'm talking about the 100% Canadian shows). Forgive me, because I can be a little bit anal at times, but I find it a bit messy and unorganized especially if I'm looking to see if a certain show has been mentioned and I don't know which folder to look under. Would anyone object if I changed the Animation-U.S.A folder to Animation-North America, or just created a separate folder for Canada.
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Do you think that japanese video games in general kind a look like anime/manga!?
The Dream Soldier
I have seen video reviews for Rainbow Brite, and that cartoon's animation greatly reminds me of anime.
... How about Adventure Time? They're pretty much anime on their own but also in Chamber of Frozen Blades they're imitating Naruto and in Card Wars they're imitating Yu-Gi-Oh, including anime reactions.
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I suppose I see the behavioral resemblances, but I was always thought this trope dealt more with the artistic styles predominantly. And I was pretty sure that Card Wars was supposed to be like Magic The Gathering.
Slightly confused about the Dragonball influence in JLU thing. Batman Beyond clearly had anime inspirations, but does JLU fit the trope? I mean, Dragonball was influenced by Superman comics, so if there's similarities between the two shows, I'd think it would go back to those...
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It's the style of the fights that is being referenced, the camera angles, character movements and the collateral damage. Compare the fight between Superman and Darkseid in STAS "Legacy" versus the one in JL "Twilight" and it is a shocking difference in both the speed and pacing. Compare those to this DBZ fight and you can see the influence.
Does Invader Zim really count? Apart from having robots, I can't really see a single animesque quality about it.
And My Life As A Teenage Robot looks more like a hybrid of retro cartoons and Thick-Line Animation.
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I wonder if Cultist-chan qualifies? It is an affectionate parody of WH 40 K which has become quite popular in some circles. Short comics can be found at http://mr-culexus.deviantart.com/gallery/.
One might argue that the style itself is only remotely animesque, but the amount of anime references (like the name of the protagonist, obviously) more than makes up for this. I think.
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In at least one of the works on Culexus' Deviantart page noted that his character design his character design for Cultist-chan is a bit animeesque.
I don't exactly know if the Nintendo games deserve to be considered inversions because, at the end of the day, the character designs in most of them still look like they belong in a japanese anime series and thus a majority of the characters created by Nintendo are still essentially anime characters in video game form, with some more animeish than others (like The Legend Of Zelda and Fire Emblem, for example)! The only 2 real inversions would have to be Donkey Kong Country and Splatoon since they don't look like anime unlike most of the other Nintendo franchises!
Take Kirby and Mario for instance! They do not look out of place as characters that you would find in a bright, happy, colorful, lighthearted, and kid-friendly anime series like Ojamajo Doremi.
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