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2006-02-22 China-Japan-Koreas

Now China Is Getting Excited About Cartoons

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Posted by Anonymoose 2006-02-22 17:43|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Super powers? No Anime then but there are other reason for that too.

Posted by Sock Puppet O' Doom 2006-02-22 17:48|| 2006-02-22 17:48|| Front Page Top

#2 Chinese government attempts to increase local production of Mandarin-language toons and cut the amount of foreign animated programming appearing on Chinese television.

How French. And we know how well it has turned out for them too. I know I can't wait till the next government subsidized film comes to our local cineplex.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-02-22 17:51|| 2006-02-22 17:51|| Front Page Top

#3 I get a strong feeling this is aimed at the mountain of Japanese animation currently swamping most of the rest of East Asia (and, for that matter, the US. I don't know about Europe).

Posted by Phil 2006-02-22 17:54|| 2006-02-22 17:54|| Front Page Top

#4 Five or ten years ago, anime was sweeping East Asia. Nowadays? Pfft. If the Koreans and Chinese could ever muster an ounce of originality or style, they could blow the current Japanese animation industry into the central Pacific. All the good writers & most of the talented animators went into video games years ago. About the only damn thing coming out of Japan these days is harem anime & bad pretty-boy girlbait.

The Japanese outsourced their animation gruntwork to the rest of East Asia ten-fifteen years ago, anyways. If the locals could just figure out how to write & manage a production, they could produce locally. The fact that they mostly haven't is a real shame.

Me, I just read manga these days. Nothing too spectacular going on *there*, either, but at least there's a respectable backlog of coolness from prior decades that's new to me, if not to those folks who can read the original Japanese.

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2006-02-22 18:15|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2006-02-22 18:15|| Front Page Top

#5 I'm always behind the times.

Yeah, I know, all this stuff travels across the internet at the speed of light, but once it crosses the border into Louisiana the speed of light drops precipitously.

Posted by Phil 2006-02-22 18:20|| 2006-02-22 18:20|| Front Page Top

#6 check out where the Simpsons are animated....you'll be saying "D'oh!", then get over it...

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-02-22 18:38|| 2006-02-22 18:38|| Front Page Top

#7 LOL Phil. The speed of Yat!

Posted by 6 2006-02-22 21:03|| 2006-02-22 21:03|| Front Page Top

#8 And yes, I do know lots of Japanese and American animation is outsourced to Korea.

Posted by Phil 2006-02-22 21:38|| 2006-02-22 21:38|| Front Page Top

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