The Miracle of CGI
I recently received a copy of Tom Sito’s Moving Innovation: A History of Computer Animation (The MIT Press, April 2013) to review for Animation World Network. It is a very…
Category Archives: FUNNY ANIMALS AND MORE
Zootopia and Other Animal Worlds
The third Disney D23 Expo for the studio’s fans, this August 9th, included an “Art and Imagination” presentation that showcased previews of Disney’s planned theatrical features through 2016. At the…
The “Teenagers From Outer Space” Genre
This, roughly speaking, is the other half of my “Anime Fandom in North America, part 3”. The first half was the column on the “real robot” anime TV serials. The…
The “Real” Giant Robots
Those waiting for my column on Anime Fandom in North America, part 3, can take this as half of it; the half on “real robots”. The other half, on teenagers…
More Giant Robots!
Don’t think that all of the giant robot TV cartoons were created by Go Nagai. He may have invented them, but others quickly jumped onto the, er, giant robots. The…
The Many Programs of Go Nagai
It was the giant robot TV cartoons on Japanese-community TV channels that introduced Japanese anime to American fandom in 1977. Yuushu Raideen, UFO Senshi Dai Apolon, and Getta Robo G…
Anime Fandom in North America – part 2
Organized anime fandom, or at least the Cartoon/Fantasy Organization in Los Angeles, was formed in 1977 around the giant-robot superhero TV cartoons shown in Japanese with English subtitles on Channel…
Anime Fandom in North America
Anime fandom in the U.S. and Canada began when the Japanese animated TV program Raideen (Yuushu Raideen; Brave Raideen) began to be broadcast on American Japanese-community channels, in February 1976….
“Reynard the Fox” in Animation
One of the oldest talking-animal fables, as opposed to short parables such as Aesop’s tale of the frogs that wanted a king (a.k.a. King Log and King Stork), is the…
Anime Adaptations of American and British Lit
Japanese animation has introduced many Japanese historical events and cultural concepts to American popular culture. Contrariwise, many American, British, and other concepts have been introduced into Japan through animation. For…
