March 24, 2010

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When anime and made its debut in America, it was typically considered a quirky Japanese style of cartoon made for children.  A little later, when manga and anime electrified characters like the Mario brothers began to dominate the computer game market, folk started to take more notice.  Many of the first generation of American and western european game players became charmed by the style of art in their games and wanted more . Who could blame them?  Just look at .

Lots of the hottest video games of all time have their origins in manga and anime.  Except for the most famous P and PG rated games like Mario, Pokemon and Digimon, plenty of the M and R rated games, too, have their sources in Japanese cartoon art, animated or otherwise.  Still other Japanese games such as the prisoner of Zelda, started as games and then were made into manga and anime.  However, the style of the originals were in most cases obviously related to manga, bleach hellsing and anime.

This has apparently little to do with how anime has had an impact on the North American film industry until you look at the dates when these Playstation games were released in the U.S.  And notice that many of our greatest Hollywood directors were preteen and teenage boys when these games came out.  Their first introduction to M and R rated anime would have been thru these computer games and would naturally have led on to an interest in what else had to give.

The best anime sites “style” has spilled out into our culture in forms that are far removed from a simple drawing style.

Just as the sixties produced a number of French inspired Hollywood productions, the end of the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty-first century have seen Japanese anime-inspired films.

The spook in the Shell is one of the most highly acclaimed anime productions of all time.  Years back, director James Cameron called it the most literary and creative adult cartoon in history.  His recent production, Avatar, recently became one of the highest grossing film in history.  The influence of Cameron’s exposure to the great anime features like spook in the Shell and is apparent across the flick.

The Matrix, another ticket office hit, also owes a huge debt to spook in the Shell.  When the obscure directorial team, the Wachowski siblings, gave their pitch to producer Joel Silver, they asked him to watch the anime and told him that was what they wished to create on the screen.  The Matrix trilogy went on to become not simply a ticket office success, but retains a massive cult following to this day.

Another of the most well known directors of the past two decades is Quentin Tarantino, who harked back to manga and anime in his Kill Bill films.  Tarantino is an avid anime fan and there are substantiated rumors that he plans to make anime prequels to Kill Bill in the future.

The list doesn’t stop there, either. and anime have caught the imagination of Hollywood giants and audiences alike and no doubt we will be seeing much more of it in the future. Find the top anime sites.

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