The Korean company behind it got hosed on this, btw. Their contract with 4Kids entitled them to zero royalties and they only got a small fee for the show. That's probably why it stuck around on TV for so long.
The studio went defunct and some of its founders would later create Tobot, which is still pumping out slop 15 years later.
The Koreans didn't get any of the merch revenue either. All of that went to 4Kids and the toy manufacturer.
I know this shit’s nothing new, but does anyone in showbiz ever care for mutual benefit, or is at all about screwing each other so you can get the biggest slice of the pie to yourself?
Sure isn't Cinemaphile, I miss this strange show. I would always catch it on Vortex on Saturdays. Frick I miss Saturday morning cartoons. Sex with Hela and Abby
who cares. the distinction bewteen Cinemaphile and Cinemaphile is stupid >but eastern and western animation are very different
you could say the same thing about video games but we don't have /jv/ and /wv/.
Man, I remember watching this when I was a kid. I forget when it came on, but all I remember was that I just wanted it to get the frick off my screen and for the blue sarcastic hedgehog to come back and wreck Eggman's shit and then for whatever shitty Yu-Gi-Oh sequel series to come on so I could see what new cards I'd have to beg my mom to buy (she never got any)
I remember watching this when I was at that perfect age to be old enough to care about kiddyshit being embarrassing but too young to "get" anything more mature than shonen and YA novels. I was also a massive graphics prostitute. Is that even the right word for animation? I just remember being super into well animated shonen and seinen like Naruto Shippuden and Afro Samurai (when they were trying, I mean), and I was so fricking embarrassed by how cheap most of the non-Yugioh anime on 4Kids looked. I liked the artstyle of Sonic X, but it was animated so pisspoorly that I couldn't stand it (probably my first real exposure to "QUALITY"). This was the absolute worst. This was downright embarrassingly bad, and I was at the perfect age to call it all sorts of homophobic slurs, like "homosexualy babyshit for the zero IQ morons who ride in the back of the short bus"
Hot DAMN this looked like ass and wasn't saved by the writing either because that was also hot wet ass. Robots were designed pretty well, though. I still remember them at least. Everything else looked like one of those Vídeo Brinquedo bootleg fake Disney movies.
Yeah but Dragon Ball aired there before than in the US, on public TV channel Canal 5. It didn't run in toonami until the 00s, like the american feed.
And even before that, France was the first country outside of Japan to have Dragon Ball. So definitely, toonami isn't the reason "the west" knows Dragon Ball, only the US, assuming "the west" encapsulates Europe and Latinamerica and not just the US itself.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
The US is just the most prolific in media and marketing. You ALSO have to remember that film and animation is a VERY young medium compared to other forms of Western works, about ~100 years old, and the US did have substantial and influential work in pioneering animation and film for larger audiences.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
That doesn't negate, however, that Toonami didn't introduce DBZ to "the west" only to the US. And even then, the US was really peculiar about it, skipping the entirety of the original Dragon Ball while everybody else began from the very beggining.
2 weeks ago
Boco
>skipping the entirety of the original Dragon Ball
It's crap either way.
The Korean company behind it got hosed on this, btw. Their contract with 4Kids entitled them to zero royalties and they only got a small fee for the show. That's probably why it stuck around on TV for so long.
The studio went defunct and some of its founders would later create Tobot, which is still pumping out slop 15 years later.
Maybe they thought the merch would pull through
The Koreans didn't get any of the merch revenue either. All of that went to 4Kids and the toy manufacturer.
I know this shit’s nothing new, but does anyone in showbiz ever care for mutual benefit, or is at all about screwing each other so you can get the biggest slice of the pie to yourself?
This show was ROUGH
looks likes acceleracers
His dad is a robophobe, you guys.
Robots killed my wife!
>Archie Andrews hanging out with May and Max from Pokemon
The dub was a gem.
Yes.
Kino Design.
I like his first form as well. Dr. K was cooking when he designed him.
The robots look cool but goddamn those are some fugly humans
Hela Nemo is still cute to me There's a few pics of her on paheal including one by NitroTitan
Sure isn't Cinemaphile, I miss this strange show. I would always catch it on Vortex on Saturdays. Frick I miss Saturday morning cartoons.
Sex with Hela and Abby
Certain stuff from the "pitch" didn't make it into the show so Raska ended up being a huge wtf moment.
Man this show looks like shit. Cubix is a fun design for a robot though.
>That's probably why it stuck around on TV for so long.
That and its apparently E/I. For the life of me I can't recall why.
who cares. the distinction bewteen Cinemaphile and Cinemaphile is stupid
>but eastern and western animation are very different
you could say the same thing about video games but we don't have /jv/ and /wv/.
Man, I remember watching this when I was a kid. I forget when it came on, but all I remember was that I just wanted it to get the frick off my screen and for the blue sarcastic hedgehog to come back and wreck Eggman's shit and then for whatever shitty Yu-Gi-Oh sequel series to come on so I could see what new cards I'd have to beg my mom to buy (she never got any)
I remember watching this when I was at that perfect age to be old enough to care about kiddyshit being embarrassing but too young to "get" anything more mature than shonen and YA novels. I was also a massive graphics prostitute. Is that even the right word for animation? I just remember being super into well animated shonen and seinen like Naruto Shippuden and Afro Samurai (when they were trying, I mean), and I was so fricking embarrassed by how cheap most of the non-Yugioh anime on 4Kids looked. I liked the artstyle of Sonic X, but it was animated so pisspoorly that I couldn't stand it (probably my first real exposure to "QUALITY"). This was the absolute worst. This was downright embarrassingly bad, and I was at the perfect age to call it all sorts of homophobic slurs, like "homosexualy babyshit for the zero IQ morons who ride in the back of the short bus"
Hot DAMN this looked like ass and wasn't saved by the writing either because that was also hot wet ass. Robots were designed pretty well, though. I still remember them at least. Everything else looked like one of those Vídeo Brinquedo bootleg fake Disney movies.
Actually, how come korean animation and european animation all get thrown into Cinemaphile if none of them are neither american nor japanese?
Usually because Cinemaphile doesn't want em.
What I mean is, why is there no /ko/ and /eco/ for Korean and Euro comics and cartoons? Cinemaphile mainly only cares about american shit anyway
Korean cartoons, I don't know, but Cinemaphile is mainly for western comics and cartoons, and Europe is "the West"
I could swear "The West" is only the US given how much I read shit like "Toonami introduced Dragon Ball/anime to The West!"
Pretty sure Toonami also ran in Mexico
Yeah but Dragon Ball aired there before than in the US, on public TV channel Canal 5. It didn't run in toonami until the 00s, like the american feed.
And even before that, France was the first country outside of Japan to have Dragon Ball. So definitely, toonami isn't the reason "the west" knows Dragon Ball, only the US, assuming "the west" encapsulates Europe and Latinamerica and not just the US itself.
The US is just the most prolific in media and marketing. You ALSO have to remember that film and animation is a VERY young medium compared to other forms of Western works, about ~100 years old, and the US did have substantial and influential work in pioneering animation and film for larger audiences.
That doesn't negate, however, that Toonami didn't introduce DBZ to "the west" only to the US. And even then, the US was really peculiar about it, skipping the entirety of the original Dragon Ball while everybody else began from the very beggining.
>skipping the entirety of the original Dragon Ball
Well, they did try.