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Posted under General by TDI Guru on Sunday 14 March 2010 at 11:17 pm

Why Animenfo Rocks

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

Plenty of the most popular Playstation games in history have their origins in manga and anime.  Except for the most famed P and PG rated games like Mario, Pokemon and Digimon, many of the M and R rated games, too, have their sources in Japanese cartoon art, animated or alternatively.  Still other Japanese games such as the captive of Zelda, started as games and then were made into manga and anime.  Nevertheless, the style of the originals were in most cases obviously related to manga, animenfo and anime.

This has seemingly little to do with how anime has had an impact on the american film industry until you look at the dates when these video games were released in the U.S.  And understand that many of our best Hollywood directors were preteen and teenage boys when these games came out.  Their first intro to M and R rated anime would’ve been through these Playstation games and would naturally have led on to an interest in what else animenfo had to offer.

Just as the sixties produced a number of French impressed Hollywood productions, the end of the twentieth century and the 1st decade of the twenty-first century have seen Japanese anime-inspired films.

The spook in the Shell is one of the most highly commended anime productions in history.  Years ago, director James Cameron called it the single most literary and inventive adult animated film in history.  His contemporary production, Avatar, recently became one of the highest grossing film of all time.  The influence of Cameron’s exposure to the great anime features like spook in the Shell and animenfo is obvious across the film.

The Matrix, another ticket office blockbuster, also owes a big debt to spook in the Shell.  When the unknown directorial team, the Wachowski siblings, gave their pitch to producer Joel Silver, they asked him to look at the anime and told him that was what they needed to create on the screen.  The Matrix trilogy went on to become not only a ticket office success, but retains a large cult following to this day.

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

The list doesn’t stop there, either.  Animenfo and anime have captured the imagination of Hollywood giants and audiences alike and doubtless we will be seeing much more of it in the future. Find Anime Toplist.

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