Crud...turned into a double post....(DELETE THIS)

~Zoo

How about She-Ra? I remember watching Scooby-Doo all the time when I was kid. It was one of my favorite shows.

Odd you brought up Gundam. Mobile Suit Gundam (1979) was initially a failed series that got its episode alottment cut by its advertisor after some bad ratings. It's on re-run and the compilation that it became the institution that it is. Last year, Bandai and Sunrise decided to re-work the original story structure for modern animation with additional elements from the sequels. Quite a few ole time Gundam fans were rather put off by the candy colored mobile suit (all mecha were rendered by computer). But Gundam SEED is a hit in Japan, and currently on air in Cartoon Network. (The original Gundam was made by an undiagnosed depressant nicknamed "Kill 'em All" Tomino, the new remake is no less bloody).

Samurai Pizza Cats.

Nuff said.

BAM!!!

I thought that Battle of the Planets was excellent.

Hey Q003! Can you explain to me some of those last shows? The only one that I knew right off the bat was Cowboy Beebop.

Samurai Pizza Cats

Actually, I would really like more said. What is this Samurai Pizza Cats you speak of?

Thanks for giving us the history of Gundam, BigFire. I honestly did not know some of those things. I knew Gundam was more of a flop in Japan, except for Seed, but most of the other stuff was new to me.

Capt. over and out!

Remaking a cartoon is usually a bad idea. I can't think of any cartoon that was better in its "new and improved" form.

Isn't that what a lot of anime cartoons become...that's also why it became so popular...

That's so true. Really, cartoons such as DBZ (which doesn't consist of school girls with panty shots and demons) are in the minority.

However, I liked Sailor Moon. It was good, until after Sailor Moon S, when the writers were fired because Sailor Moon S was so violent that parents complained about it, and this is Japan we're talking about!

Actually, I'll have to disagree with you on the current state of anime, Zoo and Joseph.

You have to understand that anime is to Japan as hollywood is to America. Anime is a staple in the Japanese culture, coming from the ancient art of manga, which is now produced en masse in magazines like Shonen Jump, Magazine Z, or Gekkan Dengeki Comic Gao!. The unfortunate side effect of american reproduction is the fact that there will be spill over from different genres of anime. So you can have an awesome action thriller (Chrono Crusade, Gundam SEED), a love story ( Marmalade Boy, Urusei Yatsura), a horror classic (Demon Lord Dante: Dante Resurrects, Devilman), and porn all placed in the same category at your local FYE or Tower Records.

Actually, Captin, Gundam is a staple of the anime variety in Japan. Currently airing is a show called Mobile Suit Gundam SEED X ASTRAY, a kind of plot expanding type of sequel to Gundam SEED. There are plenty of Gundam productions that mainstream America has never have even heard about (Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam, Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ, Mobile Suit Gundam 0080- War In the Pocket, Mobile Suit Gundam 0083- Stardust Memory, Mobile Suit Victory Gundam, Mobile Suit Gundam: 08th MS Team, After War Gundam X, and Turn-A Gundam) to name just a few. In fact, Gundam Model making is so mainstream in Japan that they've come up with a word to describe it's easy building snap-on process. The word is Gunpla.

I read the American version of GTO, Qoo3, and personally I didn't like it much. It's interesting, of course, but not really my type of story. RoD (Read or Die), is one of the animes that I want to get a hold of. Even though the premise is far-fetched, the story seems to be an excellent one. If you want a good example of an anime that might help your views of it as being fighting and porn, check out KaleidoStar or Azumanga Diaoh. These two animes defy the american definition of anime.

Geek to the 5th power! Of course, that's not saying much, considering my username has to deal with a Magic the Gathering card.

Peace

Beebes

Actually, I would really like more said. What is this Samurai Pizza Cats you speak of?

OMG!!! Capt. you mean you've never heard of the Samurai Pizza Cats????? You know of every other cartoon, but not this one?? Gosh I thought I was the only one who's ever seen it untill Muggaz brought it up. I haven't watched for a really long time. And when i say really long time, i mean like when i was at least 7 or 8. But i guess if i remember right, it's kinda like TMNT. But it's different in ways. I can't really say a whole lot about it but that's because i have vivid memories about it.

Ok, lets talk about CareBears!! . Even though I'm a really big fan of CareBears, i haven't really watched it lately. For one, they don't air it on T.V. anymore.

The older CareBears were a lot better than the newer ones. I mean sure you still have all the same characters and everything, but it's not the same anymore. In the newer ones the added a crap load of new characters and it's harder to keep up with which one's which and what powers they have. I mean why can't they just keep it simple?! Especially for slow people like myslef! . Stupid people!! hehe.

~carebear~

Hummmmm..... i didn't know it only ran for one season, so maybe i was younger than 7 or 8. .

~carebear~

Actually they were translated to english in 1991 but were screened in America in 1996. And Agro's Cartoon Connection in Aus was playing them in grade 6....(1993 - muggaz correct me) or grade 9....
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Polly: I was so worried about pizza toppings, I never realized the spice of my inner feelings for him... and now, he's heading straight into the deadly comet, and I may never have the chance to tell him how I feel... oh, to stroke his fuzzy whiskers... I love him so!

Pseudo~ I have to hand it to you. You seem to like your cartoons (comic ones) as much as I do. Maybe a bit more. I just might not have enough to even compete with you, but this is my subject so I need to comment.

Were you saying He-Man is the same thing as Popeye? That's crazy. Crazy but, strangely, very true. I never thought of it like that. I mean I always thought that He-Man, Hercules, Superman, and Mighty Mouse were insanely alike. Just not Quite as much Mighty Mouse as the others.

I don't really have any way to show you any old shows that you don't remember but I am pretty sure they exsist. I may have the wrong names for the shows, but I'm pretty sure I got them right too.

Yeah, I'm glad that they are atleast using similar characters, all around, in most of the new shows. There's a few exceptions but not much.

As for my choice of Green Lanterns. I think that just about any of the other Green Lanterns would be better because they are just about all more experienced. But it's being displayed like there's only one Green Lantern, and that he is the best guy around...

Capt. over and out!