From: michael@izumi.DIALix.oz.au (Michael Studte)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: CNN anime piece
Date: 11 Oct 92 05:57:05 GMT
Organization: JAFWA, Cal-Animage Zeta, Perth, Western Australia


In article <1992Oct6.164718.12714@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> gavigan@gn.ecn.purdue.edu writes:
 >  
 > Anime Newspiece on CNN Headline News
 >  

Thanks for the transcript, Ryan.

 > Dennis Michael : "To the uninitiated, this might look a little like
 >   Cabbage Patch Kids saving the universe, [ed. showing scenes from Gall
     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Cliches can be useful, but they can also be a nail in the coffin.


 >    this is a typical 'anime' sequence.  Stylized characters, and highly
 >    techincal equipment and lots of of loud, violent action."
                                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Well, it is an attention grabbing CNN segment, so it has to be
mentioned, I s'pose...

 > John O'Donnell: "Each year, some 30 to 40 feature films are released, over
 >     300 to 400 animations are relased each year directly to video, every week
 >     on prime time tv there are upwards of 20 continuing series.  So anime
 >     plays a much larger part of the Japanese entertainment universe than in
 >     America at this time."

Wow, not beating his own drum? I'm surprised. Nice, "useful" comment by
USMC for a change.

 > Carl: "If you like science fiction, if you like action and you like cartoons,

There he goes, advertising Akira like there's no tomorrow. I wish he'd
still admit that there's non-SF/violence anime like the Miyazaki's.
Simply because he doesn't have the right to them doesn't mean that he
should not promote them any more. <sigh>

 >       and many more have come out on home video.  Along with the heavy metal
 >       style science fiction, anime delves into a variety of genres, from
 >       high school comedy to the first animated adult horror film,
 >       Vampire Hunter D.  Right now the american audience for anime can be
 >       described as a cult.  But it's a cult that's growing."

So was Star Trek a decade ago... <snigger> Watch out, CNN, we're comin'
to getcha. :)

 > Carl: "Once people start to see it , and more and more people see it and more
 >      and more people talk about it, it can possibly become a mainstream item.
 >      The only way it can I think is if it gets on television in a prominent
 >      way."

Gee, and who is beating his own drum about being "hired to put anime on
TV by next year"?

 > DM: "and you may be surprised, and occasionally shocked at what you see...
 >      Dennis Michael, CNN entertainment news."   ^^^^^^^
 >  
 > {emphasis on 'shocked' when showing a scene as Doris fires at the creature
 >     from the beginning of Vampire Hunter D.  Actually I thought it would 
 >     have worked better with that line if a UY clip would've been used.} 

<snigger> And AnimEigo would have benefitted instead of the Macekist.

 > Quite a different treatment than nearly anything previously done in the
 > media about anime, and gee they actually called it 'anime' and actually 
 > did an informative piece rather than an exploitative 'Current Affair' type
 > tabloid story.

Hmmmm, without the pictures to back it up (since we don't get CNN down
here) it still sounds WAY too much like SF/violence promotion. But what
can we expect...

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