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dRoy Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar from Most likely from my study Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just high on the world
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#1: Jul 31st 2011 at 10:34:23 PM

The only ones that pops in my mind, usually from the appropriate page, are Avatar and Teen Titans. Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if the latter was a cartoonish anime. Any other cartoon that is pretty indistinguishavle from animes? Just curious.

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#2: Jul 31st 2011 at 10:40:03 PM

Code Lyoko, The french version of Fantastic Four, Martin Mystery, Totally Spies, WITCH, Arguably Winx Club if you want to really stretch it.

edited 31st Jul '11 10:41:22 PM by MousaThe14

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#3: Jul 31st 2011 at 10:41:05 PM

[up] Oh yeah, I remember that show.

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#4: Jul 31st 2011 at 10:42:21 PM

Which one? I named like six.

Oh, also Oban Star Racers, and arguably Super Robot Monkey Team Hyper Force Go

edited 31st Jul '11 10:44:36 PM by MousaThe14

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#5: Jul 31st 2011 at 10:44:12 PM

Ah, sorry. CL.

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#6: Jul 31st 2011 at 10:45:47 PM

I loved that show, CL. I can play the theme song on the piano now.

And in case it wasn't clear I've sort already been on a bent for finding these things.

Oh yeah, his Wakfu thing everyone's talkin' aboot.

edited 31st Jul '11 11:02:34 PM by MousaThe14

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#7: Aug 1st 2011 at 4:44:03 AM

Was My Life As A Teenage Robot supposed to be based on some Japanese art style? I just remember that a lot of it made me go "Looks like some kind o' new Astroboy!"

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#8: Aug 1st 2011 at 5:18:04 AM

[up]Yes, more or less Astroboy, and very retro types of comics.

As for anime like cartoons, well, Thunder Cats 2011 just premiered, and it practically is anime, since it is animated by a Japanese studio, using very anime art style.

Other than that, The Boondocks is also animated by a Japanese studio, at least from season 2 and onward, and uses an anime art style as well.

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#9: Aug 1st 2011 at 6:52:01 AM

[up][up]The style of Teenage Robot was more based on the 1920's avant-guard, sci-fi movie posters in the United States. The characters looking like anime characters were more because that's what's "in" with kid's programming today.

... Avatar: The Last Airbender, Oban Star Racers, anything by Marathon Media, and Teen Titans. Kappa Mikey, and Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi = sort of.

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#10: Aug 1st 2011 at 7:57:09 AM

The GOVERNATOR!

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#12: Aug 1st 2011 at 11:23:39 AM

Jackie Chan Adventures if anyone remembers it. and lol for the Governator. that actually seems like a decent watch.

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#13: Aug 1st 2011 at 12:08:15 PM

Code Lyoko only looks like anime when it's not in motion, i.e. on a poster or banner or something. Its art style and animation style pretty much do their own thing.

Also, Transformers Animated.

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#14: Aug 1st 2011 at 2:01:43 PM

Ah nice, Transformers. Wasn't the original transformers cartoon animated in Japan as well. Weren't they based on ban dai toy products? I could be mistaken, but I think that's how it was.

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#15: Aug 1st 2011 at 2:14:35 PM

The Transformers was an idea from the States. The shows were initially animated in Japan.

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#16: Aug 1st 2011 at 4:03:49 PM

oh ok, lol, I guess I was mistaken, but I guess you can chalk up the original transformers as being anime-like since the animation was done in Japan.

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#17: Aug 1st 2011 at 5:03:27 PM

The new GI Joe and Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandeago

And The new show My Life Me -.-

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#18: Aug 1st 2011 at 5:32:03 PM

Thunder Cats 2011. Helps that a chunk of it was Japanese animated.

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#19: Aug 1st 2011 at 5:33:19 PM

Jackie Chan Adventures didn't strike me as anime-like.

Avatar, Shaolin Showdown (to an extent), Teen Titans, and My Little Pony, kinda.

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#20: Aug 1st 2011 at 7:36:05 PM

Erm... I'm still confused how something is "anime-like".

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#21: Aug 1st 2011 at 9:15:03 PM

In terms of visual style primarily. Obviously anime simply means "cartoon made by and for the japanese" but for those who don't have the mind to pay attention to that sort of thing they will identify "anime" solely by how it looks. I was just writing about this today actually.

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#22: Aug 2nd 2011 at 7:37:49 AM

But if that's the case, anime-like was originally meant to mimic Western style of the old.

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Personally I'm sticking to Western cartoons and Eastern cartoons.

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#23: Aug 2nd 2011 at 4:17:35 PM

The evolution is highly divergent, though. Tezuka's style really evolved into its own thing over time, and other works evolved from that.

While "anime style" is a single style you can pin down, the point remains that there are numerous visual tropes employed by the East and West that make it fairly easy to pin down a work's origin, and when one tries to emulate another.

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#24: Aug 2nd 2011 at 7:06:23 PM

If we're counting old cartoons as well, I'd say some of Di C's shows qualify as well, especially The Littles and The Mysterious Cities Of Gold (both of which were outsourced to Japan). I'm trying to remember another cartoon or so.

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#25: Aug 2nd 2011 at 7:07:40 PM

But the thing is, anime-esque already existed decades ago. I mean, didn't some old 80's toon evoke 80's style anime?


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