Cartoon Cliches

I don't expect your normal everyday TV writer to make fun of something that's only well known on the Internet.

In any case, by the time those came along, the stereotypes of anime were in place largely due to the lack of variety we got.

I dunno, more than a few of them seem to like throwing in memes or internet lingo more times than is necessary.

Let me amend that... Well-known to a certain variety of Net dweller.

Maybe things will change in 30 or so years when creators are old enough to have seen less of the anime that gets parodied so much.

Then the tropers of the future will say that their anime parodies are pretty shallow, too.

I'm not asking for well researched anime parodies.I'm asking for something different than the typical jokes nearly every American cartoon makes about anime.

They're parodies.

I don't really except people in American animation to have accurate knowledge on anime. Especially older ones (before the 80s)

edited 27th Jan '15 4:17:42 PM by Teddy

What he said.

Anyone remember the Speed Racer and Dragon Ball parodies in the Fairly Odd Parents special "Channel Chasers".

They got those head on, really, and at least weren't supposed to be generic anime parodies.

Yeah.Those are pretty good parodies of anime.Along with the mock old Mecha anime in TMNT 2012.

Actually, I'd say pretty much everyone who works in American animation has at least a working knowledge of anime. I think it's safe to say a LOT of American animators have a very thorough knowledge of anime. They generally do start as fanboys and fangirls, after all.

Well, mostly the generation who made shows after the 90s.

edited 27th Jan '15 7:34:52 PM by Aldo930

Avatar is pretty much a Western Animation equivalent of anime.

Teen Titans has the anime style design to it.

I also remember Dexter's Lab doing a Speed Racer parody.

I have to admit, I didn't like how action cartoons pretty much tried to ape anime during the 2000s. It didn't help that the anime they were trying to imitate... Well, wasn't very good.

There's a reason that Toonami was moved to Saturdays, folks; people like me who watched Nick every afternoon.

"Mock 5" was hilarious though. It apes Speed Racer really well.

Teen Titans I know mostly just used the animation style of anime.

Avatar, while one of my top 5 favorite cartoons, I can see where you're coming from.

You're gonna need to be a bit more specific with that.

By the time I started watching CN, Toonami was pretty much anime. It wasn't always like that, though; I have some old comics from the late 90s featuring the Toonami name but with stories about the old Hanna-Barbera superhero cartoons. Birdman, the Herculoids, and so on.

A lot of the anime just wasn't very interesting, I didn't like the visual style, and overall I just plain hated it. Nick was my afternoon destination for years, until CN put Toonami on Saturday evenings.

I'm convinced the reason for that is because there were people like me out there who wanted more Courage and Ed, Edd n Eddy and Dexter's Lab and so on, instead of anime...

Wait, when was this? Because as I understand it, anime of the 70's-mid 90's generally looked more or less the same, then it changed somewhere along the same, and now anime of the late 90's-present generally looks more or less the same.

The 90s was when Anime gained it's popularity thanks to Dragon Ball Z, Sailor Moon (which I actually like), and later Pokemon. The 2000s getting stuff like Inu Yasha, Full Metal Alchemist, and especially Naruto, One Piece, and Bleach exploded Anime popularity. The fact that anime is usually more serious than most of our cartoons helped (or didn't, in your case)

edited 27th Jan '15 8:33:10 PM by powerpuffbats

Early 2000s.

If you see it that way, so do I! I have always noticed a sort of change in anime starting in the mid-90s; I guess I'm not the only one who noticed.

edited 27th Jan '15 8:34:15 PM by Aldo930

Seconded on the anime parody thing. I believe I can sum it up thusly:

"I'm gonna do a movie parody!" "Which one?" "Aren't they all the same?"

that's funny. While anime still has some good things technically and artistically, I think they that they lost their individuality styles earlier than that.

I know young anime fans who hate early anime (Tezuka's works, Sally the Witch, Lupin etc) because they look more like "cartoons"..even though anime is Japanese cartoons! They really should revert back to the term "Japanimation".

If it weren't for those American cartoons, Tezuka, and some other early animes they dislike, I believe that they wouldn't have such "works of art" like Naruto, bleach, Azmunga Dioh, Cowboy Behop, etc.

Not knocking the latter 2.

edited 28th Jan '15 3:50:44 AM by Teddy

Early anime, from at least until 1995, is so much more visually appealing.

Some of it is just for how "80s" the character designs look.

But then you have stuff like the original Macross that, while good, the animation gets worse and worse with each episode after a point. Plus, I've seen some pretty nice-looking stuff from today's anime.