257: How Walt Disney Created Manga

[bluechujelly]

Bluechujelly:
Why reply?

Because I felt like it? Maybe I like poking holes in flawed arguments?
Yeah yeah, internet is serious business etc.

 

[Brackets]

All the life scarring tentacle rape, Disneys fault?

You don't even want to know what Disney animators got up to in their spare time....

On the other hand, the oldest piece of Japanese tentacle porn is from 1820, so they've been at it a fair old while.

The story behind that's actually kind of interesting. In the smaller villages by the sea, while the men were out working the rice fields, the young girls would go and dive for pearls. It was incredibly dangerous but if they actually found any then they'd be able to sell them for a chunk of money and life would be peachy for a good while.

This didn't exactly seem to occur to the men, who wondered to themselves why on earth these girls would do something so dangerous and came up with the answer that they were getting it on with the tentacled residents of the ocean because they weren't satisfied with the single appendage of their men back home. And thus, tentacle porn was born.

Also I think there was a ban on male genitalia so they needed substitutes.

Well yeah, that too. The octopus helped.

 

[olicon]

Whatever the case, half of the avatars on this thread are that of Japanese style drawing.

And..Twilight didn't sell because it sucks, not because people "don't get it". The Japanese teenage girls most likely already have a male idol that they throw themselves at. Just admit it--Twilight is nothing but softcore male porn. If someone else already have their own porn, they wouldn't give a crap about it.

 

[Quaidis]

I'm surprised you can go through an entire article informing people about culture differences and mixbreeding in comics and cartoons, yet completely leave out Barefoot Gen. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barefoot_Gen (Or Grave of the Fireflies, for that matter).

Cute-looking characters put in some seriously fucked up situations with horrid imagery to first-hand emphasize loose historical fact.

(Random rambling ensues.)

That or express the racist cartoon version of how Americans thought of Japanese (and Asians) in American comics. Or Japanese thought of Africans for that matter. (though that would be a fun future one.)



On another note, reading this article reminded me of WW1 comics. Buck Rogers is a good example, along with other cowboy comics. Nothing to note here. It's just that oldschool WildWest comics were loved all over the world, to whom could import them.

 

[Biodeamon]

Yes, I have heard about this. In fact i believe it was donald duck comics that actually created this along with modern science. weird, yes. true, yes.

 

[Rpgamer]

Utter Bullcrap. I'll give you "Influence", like a very minor influence. But influence is way different from "creating."

 

[Axyun]

Influenced? Most definitely. I think most people that give two damns about anime know this.

Created? No way. If Disney invented anime then Mickey Mouse might actually have a story worth watching it for. And Minnie would show some panties for once.

 

[Squilookle]

How Walt Disney Created Manga

It's a little known fact that American animators at Disney were great inspirations for Osamu Tezuka, creator of Astro Boy and the "God of Manga." Tiffany Martin believes that Americans would be enriched by understanding and appreciating the cross-pollination between our two cultures.

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I thought this was common knowledge?

Yeah I kinda always thought so too.

And by the way- who exactly touted The Lion King as an original story? Source, please?