Anime Museum Exhibit
Written by MarzGurl Wednesday, 10 February 2010 22:38
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Comments (41)
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02.10.2010 - 23:02 | Adrenal Lynn
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02.11.2010 - 22:18 | FullmetalNinja25
In my city last November there was an exhibit on comic books, I wish I could go to this one but I live on the opposite coast and lack the funding to buy a plane ticket....
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02.10.2010 - 22:56 | Spokavriel
[color=#bd527b] Don't really like the artistic style of Champloo but it does have an interesting narrative.
If I had the time and budget I'd go. Its not that far on Greyhound for me. Especially for the Evangellion and Wolverine parts.
Nice title card winner. Its one that I thought was well done but not my favorite. But Majority rule and it is still really well done.[/color]
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[color=green]Well this has been a good night for anime. Jo's FMP review, Prof. Otaku's Top 10 Anime Babes, and now some genuine respect for animation to top it off.
I couldn't voice a larger support for the notion of "cartoons being art" without sounding over-the-top crazy. The alterations in media need to be recognized for their strenghts, not nit-picked for their differences. I've always been partial to hand drawn works because it contains a touch of the artist's soul in every pencil line and brush stroke. If I was living on the west coast, I'd have to make a special trip just to check this out.
Although the focus on just sword drawing seems kind of limiting, it feels like a step in the right direction. I have no doubt that, sometime in our own future, we'll see a better acceptance of why animation is so awesome, and not just a servant of Disney's empire. Cause if not, who's to say that the art of moving illustrations will be able to survive.[/color]
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Wow, that is soooo cool. Too bad I live in New York. All we have is the Japan Society, Kinokuniya, The Museum of Comics and Cartoon Art, not to mention the New York Anime Festival and Japan Day in Central... You know what, I should probably stop talking.
Oh, P.S. I made another video for Anime For Dummies, but you probably won't like it since it's about Moe, and I tried to be as broad as possible with it, meaning fans of the genre are going to pick it apart horribly. Oh well, here is the video: [url]http://blip.tv/file/ 3203075[/url]
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02.11.2010 - 00:00 | Don EastTo answer your question Marzgurl, the reason why hand drawn/2-D animation is treated as the same as CGi is due to the dated perception that cartoons are for kids. It's a predictable answer but it's a sad fact.
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02.11.2010 - 00:25 | Moore
Good video, Marzgurl, and thanks for the heads up. Kind of sucks I won't be able to attend. Pretty cool that samurai jack is in it, I remember that show being awesome when I was younger. Gundam and Eva were an odd choice, I mean I can see Gundam being considered, but I'm lost with Eva. I mean, unless I misunderstood, this exhibit was based around showing the changes in the design of samurai in animation over the years. I just can't connect Eva with samurai.
By the way, you can consider me out of the "know" here, but what the hell was that anime-style picture of Wolverine from and why was he being considered a samurai? Considering the quality of the animation, I'm gonna assume that marvel gave a Japanese studio the rights to produce some-sort of wolverine and/or x-men anime recently? While I can't agree with their design of wolverine (looks nothing like him), the idea does sound like something worth checking out.
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02.11.2010 - 00:27 | Eric the Orange
I've never seen any of the anime/manga adaptations of western comic characters. But from that picture would I be correct in assuming that the Japanese adaptation of wolverine is a bishonen? If so I find that highly hilarious, that they would turn such a gruff and grizzled character into a pretty boy.
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02.11.2010 - 00:34 | RPGaholicI've known about the Gundam samurai connection for quite a while. The head and sword of the original RX-78 Gundam were definite homages to the samurai helmet and sword.
Compare...
Samurai:
http:// www.japaneselifestyle.com .au/culture/images/ samurai.jpg
Gundam:
http:// thecontaminated.com/wp- content/uploads/2009/07/ gundam-rx78-6.jpg
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02.11.2010 - 00:47 | otakudanI hope they cover the art of Goseki Kojima, the artist behind Samurai Executioner, Path of the Assassin, and Lone Wolf and Cub.
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02.11.2010 - 00:47 | Blotto
I'd love to see that show. I saw a little Lone Wolf...but my favorites has to be Musashi from Vagabond.
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02.11.2010 - 00:59 | De-Ji
:woohoo: That's so great that Garth's entry was chosen!
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[quote=Eric the Orange]I've never seen any of the anime/manga adaptations of western comic characters. But from that picture would I be correct in assuming that the Japanese adaptation of wolverine is a bishonen? If so I find that highly hilarious, that they would turn such a gruff and grizzled character into a pretty boy.[/quote]
Marvel is doing a Collaberation with MadHouse. There's a Wolverine (and an Iron Man) Anime in the works.
http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=sLYjywXyyDI
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02.11.2010 - 01:45 | atlas88
:woohoo: It's A GUUUUUUUUUNDAAAAAMMM!!!!!
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02.11.2010 - 02:13 | Stevie
aw, and i live on the east coast :unsure:
oh well, i completely agree with your opinion, Marzgirl. and nice title card entry :)
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02.11.2010 - 03:16 | FunkyM
Hurrah for a Cartoon Art Museum. And why not? Animated drawings *are* art. Even the drawings of a certain Mr. Kricfalusi have some merit to them.
But that's another discussion for another time. For now, I say Hurrah for the Cartoon Art Museum of San Francisco.
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02.11.2010 - 03:55 | LimecatDoes Samurai Jack count as anime?
I can understand Gundams being Samurai, but EVA? Last I checked, Samurai weren't whiny little bitches with Oedipus complexes.
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02.11.2010 - 05:04 | Shinigami
There is simple reason why animation dosen't have similar place next to live action movies in west. Thats becouse animation is considered to be kids. Of course in Japan this is not case and thats why there is so much different kind of anime.
Also I actually liked this weeks title card as it presented you well.
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02.11.2010 - 05:38 | Rainy29
I agree with you on the CG movies being almost like animation. I called Avatar a cartoon the other day and was almost lynched. I laughed and said what do you think CG is??
Anyway, great update. I wish I lived near there so I could check it out.
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02.11.2010 - 05:41 | Kallikanzarid
?????? ? :))))
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02.11.2010 - 05:43 | KallikanzaridEnable Unicode, admins!!!
*clears the throat while clearly showing his irritation*
mahazugahu? :)))))
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02.11.2010 - 07:25 | MomotaruMan, I've been saying the same about CG in films for years now. Glad I'm not the only out there. And, yeah, I can see Wolverine as a samurai, in the Marvel comics he's depicted as a samurai in some of the comics from the 80's and 90's.
But, dear God, the anime Wolverine? That's not Wolverine, that's Japan's revenge on us for Dragonball Evolution. Cool vid Marz, hope to see more.
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02.11.2010 - 09:25 | Nekoshema
congrats to Garth. i'm actually shocked [please don't get offended] with everyone i talked to saying how they liked 16 [i forget the other two...] i figured that would win. way to go Garth.
i would like to see who got second and third, be neat.
anyway, it would be so cool to check out that exhibit [i'd love to go back to San Fransisco] this makes me want to head to the Japan Foundation in my area and check out some books.
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02.11.2010 - 09:57 | ShadowWing Tronix
We have a cartoon museum in Connecticut (in Cheshire), but it's rather small and mostly dedicated to classic cartoons, at least when I was there years ago. I should go back next vacation.
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02.11.2010 - 13:31 | Code-E
There's a cartoon museum!? Dang, why is all the cool stuff so far away from were I live? Great editorial as always!
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02.11.2010 - 14:27 | Arike475Anime and Manga are considered childish by western Audiences because we dont have much anime here
Most americans and British people grow up watching regular cartoons so we just assume there teh same childish Shit
But if we give it a try we actually start tyo like it and really get into it
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02.11.2010 - 14:55 | Tlynn327
Cool stuff. One more reason I wish I still lived in San Francisco, CA and not Milford, CT.
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[color=red]Do you think anime falls into the cartoon genre or that cartoon and anime are different sub-genres of animation? i just find it wierd when people can compare stuff like gantz to spongebob just because its 2-D :0 [/color] (that sounded more smart than im used to typing :silly: )
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02.11.2010 - 18:15 | Lockesly L`Crit
I came for the cute title cards. :kiss:
I stayed for the intellectual editorial.
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02.11.2010 - 18:51 | Garth
lol im not the title card guy
but i kinda jumped when she said my name
i was all 0.0 wait wut
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02.11.2010 - 18:57 | TragicGuineaPig
I agree. Animation in general should get more credit as a story-telling medium than it does; it deserves it.
To this day, my favorite Batman movie of the 1990's - with all the Burton films and Schumacher moves - is "Mask of the Phantasm", the animated movie that managed to take itself and its audience more seriously than any of the live action movies.
As far as the distinction between "anime" and "cartoon", I don't know that there is much of a real distinction. Within anime (and by that, I mean distinctly Japanese animation), there are several sub-genres of settings and stories, just as there are within the framework of traditional western animation. You can't really compare something like Spongebob to something like Trigun, but you can certainly compare Trigun to Batman, IMO. To me, it's about using good artwork and visuals to tell a good story; the nationality or ethnicity of the artist is arbitrary. Though I will confess that Japanese animation does tend to show what serious story-telling can be, moreso than American animation at times. But Bruce Timm, Paul Dini, and others have proven that's not always the case.
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02.11.2010 - 22:16 | MyCanga
I know what you mean!
I work at a video store and there are so many people who are just avoiding animated movies, even pixar-made ones.
I even recommended a very adult animated film that requires the viewer to think and he rejected it solely for the reason that it's animated.
Wish we had museums like that around here. I'd totally go see that.
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Thanks for another great review, and happy V-Day weekend, M.G. ^^