What are some good examples of Western characters in japanese

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>>88583095

>JJ dressed up as Cartman
Worst boy dressed up as worst boy, fitting.

I also wonder if it was intentional, since pic related happened.

>>88583095
pulp fiction guys were in kill la kill

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FLCL makes several references to South Park.

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>>88584499
Kenny shows up here and there, too.

inb4 psg

>>88583095
>>88584499
>>88584525
Another question is why is southpark, Steven universe and Adventure time so popular in Japan?

>>88585692
because they are good shows

>>88585692

South Park and Adventure Time because there's nothing like it in Japan. I don't think SU is that popular in Japan, at least like those two.

>>88585757
There was a studio a couple years back that considered doing a japanese version a-la powerpuff girls z, and Studio Trigger Worked on part of season 3 apparently.

>>88585757
Japan may have a thing for simple-looking animation full of violence and crude humor.

Same reason why Happy Tree Friends was a huge hit there (plus the cute characters and whatnot).

>>88585839
Jesus fucking Christ that's horrid.

>>88583431
omg all of these results

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>>88585839
This quality animation took a team of 20+ Koreans 10 months and $200,000 to complete.

South park does their work in 5 days, for about tree fiddy

How do other companies even compete?
and why don't more studios try to adopt this style?

>>88583095
What anime is this?

>>88586113
Because it sucks and you hate effort. They don't even move their legs in South Park why would they use that for action?

>>88585757
why do people think western cartoons are popular in japan?
aside from a few stuff, they really aren't.

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obligatory

>>88586113
Because doing it in a matter of days means you sacrifice actual quality for polish, like shining a piece of shit

>>88586138
Nevermind, I'm retarded

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>>88586159
not every show is an action show

>>88586249
Well, what if that show looks like teen titans go?

>>88586169
t. anime pro

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>>88586113
Because South Park's animation is all crappy

Its almost unfair posting gainax/trigger stuff. They are massive westaboos.

>>88586652
i liked western stuff too though

>>88586169
Why do people think cartoons are popular at all in Japan? There's pretty fucking good reason why otaku is basically a derogatory term.

>>88586907
Because comics are popular in Japan.

>>88587361
But that doesn't mean cartoons are.
Only a few are like Tom and Jerry and Wacky Races.

>>88587379
Most people don't separate anime and manga as two separate things. "Anime is much more popular in the west, so it obviously is in Japan, right?"

>>88586907
Probably because the all time Japanese box office is full of anime, including 1st place.
Otaku doesn't mean people who watch anime, it means people who have an unhealthy obsession over it (and other nerdy things), with the loli figurine collections and the body pillows and whatnot.
And even then I'd say they're better accepted than they are in the west. Check out "that Japanese man Yuta" on YouTube, he has a video of him going around asking Japs what they think of weebs.

>>88587522
>and other nerdy things
There is no such thing as "nerdy" things. Otaku literally means the same thing as nerd. The two have very different connotations, though that's largely because of mis-use like yours.

>>88587379
I don't know if this equates exactly to western cartoons being popular in Japan but I remember a Japanese user on deviantart and she basically exclusively drew pics of the angry beavers (they were pretty good too), and there are a lot of Japanese artists like that for some reason.

There's also a fairly well known guy who only draws HTF art, some girl who draws Phineas and Ferb shota, and someone else who draws Ruby Gloom stuff. There are like a ton of Japanese artists who are just obsessed with a certain cartoon characters

>>88586113

"South Park" does not require the same level of detail in its animation as the average animated series. It gets away with its limited animation because of a conscious decision to use limited animation for a specific effect.

>>88587597
>There are like a ton of Japanese artists who are just obsessed with a certain cartoon characters
In general there's like a bunch of Japanese artists who usually fixate themselves on one character or a bunch of characters.
It's not really surprising honestly, especially if they're pretty good at drawing said character(s).
A lot of my favourite Pixiv artists are like this.

>>88587556
Yes, I'm sure Westerners misusing "otaku" is the reason it has a negative connotation in Japan. You asshat.
Go get some fresh air or something.

>>88585757
Cartoons arn't popular in japan, but american cartoons do get noticed from the fact that we don't follow a formula when making a cartoon. We can make it anyway shape or form, while japan is mostly constrained to making anime from manga and it does get really boring watching a show knowing theres no tension because the manga is 200 issues ahead of the show.

I actually worked in japan as a consultant for cartoon network and it was pretty fun. A lot of people really enjoy our cartoons due to the no formula rule though, we can make anything happen on a whim. But being an anime artist pays 10x better then american artists on cartoons.

>>88586495
What's this from?

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>>88588889
Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt I think.

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>>88586490
>implying

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>>88586490
Are they ren and stimpy?
>>88588941
Thanks

>>88589073
probably not
but it looks like it was just a specific scene

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>>88583095

>>88586113
There were South Park clones. They all died.
If you want to succeed with shitty art, you better have great writing or you better cater to otaku who don't care about either

>>88589181
why did this happen.

>>88589251
Because of the AVGN Japan fandom is surprisingly large.

That's what another anon told me anyway.

>>88589149

Excel Saga did a bunch of references to American cartoons. It was basically just a slap-stick reference anime.

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>>88589251
You'd be surprised how many Westaboos watch them. I've watched some Japanese sub AVGN's on YouTube and they even have fan art on Pixiv, although James is called The Angry Video Game Otaku there. As far as I am aware, Japan appreciates how informative AVGN can be, like video game history documentaries.

Where were you when The Nard was confirmed for Smash?

>>88589183

What's worse is the Family Guy clones.

I rarely use the word "cringe", but...

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>>88589361
Last one, don't wanna hijack the thread.

>>88589389

Those controller guns...

... too sexy.

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>>88589299
I honestly think that EVERYONE should watch this episodes subbed and dubbed to get the full effect of it.

>>88589114
I looked a little into it and it seems they are supposed to look like ren and stimpy, I could be wrong though since I didn't spend alot of time looking into it. Either way they definitely had a reference to it.

>>88589181
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciMFxipOehE

>>88589641
Bambi's Mom!!!!!

>>88583095
Negima had a south park short.

>>88590077
Quick, get the rifle!

>>88589114
its ponchi and konchi from Shaman King, they are tanuki and fox based on Ren and Stimpy (as creator has said in interview in english shonen jump, he is a fan of the show)

>>88589641

Yeah, Excel Saga is easily one of my favorites from the early 2000s.

>>88589114
They are absolutely based on Ren and Stimpy. Look up color drawings of them; the resemblance is undoubtable

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Why does Japan like making western characters gay for each other?

>>88589183
>There were South Park clones
like what?
I'm sure they were shit, but I wanna see what they looked like

>>88583431
>Yuuri on Ice
>Undertale

Jesus Christ, Ike. Stop being such a little faggot.

>>88585716
>SU
>Good

>>88585839
>magic force
>not some needlessly complicated incantation full of ridiculous demon names
I don't know what this is, but it's shit.

>>88592825
I don't understand how they're still popping up

I thought normal people started hating family guy years ago

>>88592669
Because the fujo is strong is Japan. And fujos will make ANYTHING gay.

bless them

>>88592907
cuck

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mom!

If you guys read the Watamote manga, you would see a familiar tiny colorful horse on one panel.

>>88594442
you do realize that my little pony was originally a Japanese import right?

>>88594624

bullshit.

>>88589251

because they were both still funny at the time

>>88589339

AIN'T I A FUCKING STINKER

>>88594777
Bonnie Zacherle, growing up in japan devloped a major horse fetish, then created a toy line of pony themed toys.

Hasbro then bought and rebranded the toy line and lauched it along with the other other lines like transformers, then the t.v. specials were developed after the toy line.

>>88583431
>Japanese fujos love south park
>tons of fujos in south park staff/crew
Yes it was intentional.

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>>88589326
They are all South Park clones since in reality, Family Guy itself became a South Park clone itself and all the Family Guy clones are trying to ape what the show's post-season 4 self.

>>88586159
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>>88586249
The thing that is most upsetting to me is that deep beneath the on model and literal cardboard exterior of South Park's art style lies a suprisingly dynamic style that feels very uniform yet expressive. This is best expressed when comparing the storyboards of the show and the final animation which often sucks much of the life out of the former in order to meet deadlines (pic related).

I sometimes wish that Matt and Trey would just allocate one episode to be made using traditional animation designed to look much closer to the storyboards in a nine month schedule instead of the show's usual one week schedule.

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>>88585692
Creative types generally like art from all different kinds of cultures. Same reason why we have so many weeaboos in the animation and games industries in the west.

For every Rebecca Sugar and Gennedy Tartakovsky, there's a Hideo Kojima and Hirohiko Araki.

It's not difficult to understand.

>>88583431
I thought their grandma was dead?

>>88589181
>>88589311
>>88589339
>>88589361
>>88589389
Based japs giving James some love.

>>88589339
this is misogynistic

delete this

>>88589311
https://youtu.be/XPHUbzjRYlw

>>88592669
Oh God...

>>88595008
> Transformers is Japanese
> MLP is Japanese

Next you're gonna tell me GIJoe is Japanese, huh!?

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>>88598595
GENPAI JOE

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>>88598635

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>>88598647

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>>88589311
>The Angry Nintendo Nard

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>>88598688

>>88588568
>we don't follow a formula when making a cartoon

You mean when making an episode of a cartoon. There's a hell of a lot of shit that anime does that western cartoons don't do in general.

>>88586113
>watch dogs 2.jpg

>>88593926
's are people who watch SU

>>88589311
I'm surprised AVGN's humor translates well. I guess there's a lot of physical comedy which is universal, but a lot of his shtick is wordplay.

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Suppaman is an obvious Superman reference, he's shown up in basically everything Akira Toriyama has done (Dragon Ball et al)

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Not sure it really counts, but Dogwelder has some fans in Japan.

>>88592879
He's Canadian, he can't help it.

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>>88598647
FUCK YOU

>>88596321
They messed up several lore bits this season. I assume the guys block out most of the 1st 3 seasons mentally.

>>88600049
nigger

>>88585839
What's that from?

>>88585869
the former was an april fools joke, and the latter was an animator that has worked with studio trigger in the past doing guest animation

>>88583431
>Reminder that, as a >2 year old toddler, Ike can be excused for having shit taste.

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>>88583095
It always seemed like he had a western personality and possibly an american accent on the cartoons

>>88593896
>shaft thought up the inkling design and concept before Nintendo even started on trying to make a new ip

>>88596299
>Hideo Kojima
>creative types

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>>88600173

http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2013/11/22/little-witch-academia-creator-draws-my-little-pony

>>88605805
why is yoh yoshinari such a hack

>>88604658
I always thought he was supposed to be an american Bruce Lee wannabe.