From: Kevin.Kline@ofa123.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: rec.arts.animation
Subject: Re: Japanimation reviews con't (may contain SPOILERS)
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 16 Dec 92  04:35:32

 BB> Also, you still persist in your claims that bad 
 BB> anime will hurt the animation
 BB> industry.  Bad anime may hurt anime here in 
 BB> America, but I don't see how
 BB> any other animators, especially Disney, would really give a damn.
  Well too much bad anime (i.e. the stuff targeted for teenage-fanboys) will
hurt the animation industry in that many people will go back to thinking
animation is for only those college age and under and we will be looking at a 
bunch of kiddie Saturday Morning stuff, constant reruns in syndication (i.e.
Tom &  Jerry), and Disney will start to make films just for little kiddies
once again.
 People only now are beginning to realize that animation isn't just for kids, 
the last 3 Disney films reflect that and the trend should continue in terms of 
Disney feature films IF people continue to realize that animation isn't just
for kids, teens, college people.  
 But if we can show more of the good anime (i.e. Miyazaki) more people will
take animation seriously, and that WILL lead to more mature animated features. 
 And I don't consider "girls with guns" or porno anime as mature.  That is
teen-age stuff and will only hurt animation in general in terms of trying to
get more mature stuff.
 BB> [Happy CD-ROM owner browses through video games.  SUDDENLY! his eyes
 BB> bulge out as they graze across a cover!]  "Good lord, what's this?!
 BB> They look like...like...cartoons!  With big eyes!  With funky white
 BB> specs in them!  AIIIIIIIEEEEE!!!"  [His brain twisting spastically,
 BB> the CD-ROM drive owner promptly sells off his CD-ROM drive in order to
 Don't believe me, eh? :)  Seriously, I have seen a lot of angry TURBO CD
users who are tired of all the saucered-eye cartoons they get for animation on 
their games.  And tired of girls who fight in battle in junk like "Valis".
Many of them who are selling their Turbo unit and CD!!!
 Put it this way, many people are happy with what is coming out so far with
the SEGA CD (they did put that chip in to prevent playing games made outside
the US) and for good reason.  This is to allow the development for more better 
quality games (i.e. Batman REturns, Adventures of Willie Beamish) that have
better animation and/or live action.  This in turn will get more people to buy 
the SEGA CD instead of the TURBO CD.  But if you fill CD-ROM games with
nothing but saucered-eye characters and "Valis" clones, you are going to kill 
of CD-ROM games and eventually the video game industry.  Remember a lot of bad 
games (and at that time they weren't because of saucered-eye characters, but
rather too many poor games that weren't worth anything) killed off the video
game industry in 1983-1984!!  And these CD-ROM games that claim great
animation but give you poor quality crap may lead to the same disaster if it
doesn't stop.
 Of course the same thing can happen in terms of animation if this fanboy junk 
doesn't stop!!!  And believe me, I don't think any of you want to see THAT
HAPPEN and live to regret it when you see no goo animation coming out at all
and we are back to crud like in the early '80s (no good syndicated product, no 
Disney films, no nothing!).

--- Maximus 2.00