Mmmkaaaaaaaay...
So I'm doing a term paper over anime and how it's applies to Appadurai's "scapes" theory. This part is kind of irrelevant... so I'm just going to ask you kids:
Could you name some American cartoons you can think of that "rip-off"/mimic/copy/borrow anime's particular style?
Here's some that I have thought of so far:
Teen Titans
Boondocks
Dexter's Laboratory
Totally Spies!
Powerpuff Girls
Avatar: The Last Airbender (Is it? I haven't seen it...)
Um, yeah... I'm a bit stuck. That's why I'm asking for your help. What did you think of?
That Xiaolin Showdown thing. God it was terrible.
Also I haven't seen any of it but my friend told me about this Jake Long american Dragon thing that sucked.
Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot is a possibility because Rusty was modeled after Astro Boy but Big Guy and Rusty was actually cool.
Also Biggs the Boondocks despite being an American show is animated the Studio Madhouse an anime studio. Probably most noteable for Black Lagoon.
GI Joe Sigma Six was animated by GONZO
Transformers Armada and Cybertron and whatever else from a few years back ran at the same time in Japan and America and were animated by GONZO.
Thanks for pointing that out, Smokie. I was kind of iffy about Boondocks and I have my suspicions about Avatar...
And the quality of the cartoon doesn't matter, you guys-- whether they're good or bad, it just has to show that there's a definite borrowing of animation styles. I'm not making that argument that one or the other is better, in fact, I like a lot of domestic cartoons...
My paper is just saying that Japan and the United States have been influencing each other in animation (and manga).
Oh jeez, what isn't any more? They're so intertwined, with Japanese studio animating American shows and things going on like HiHi Puffy AmiYumi... Pretty much everything released in the past 5 or so years has been influenced indirectly if not directly.
Batman Beyond and X-Men: Evolution are good examples of ones that look just like anime...