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unusual facts about Japanese animation



Banimon

The style of the comic combines Japanese animation and Manga approach with Eastern Europe and 1920s woodcuts and colorful backgrounds/patterns.

Mad Scientist Toon Club

Each one-hour program (including commercials) mixed live action segments hosted by the scientist character "Dr. Pi" (Michael Sorich) and pre-existing Japanese animation, including Saban's Tic Tac Toons.

Peter Keefe

Keefe's work on the series is credited with introducing American audiences to Japanese animation and influenced later children's programs like Dragon Ball Z, Pokémon and Power Rangers.

Shinichirō Watanabe

After joining the Japanese animation studio Sunrise, Watanabe supervised the episode direction and storyboards of numerous Sunrise anime, and soon made his directorial debut as co-director of the well-received Macross update, Macross Plus.


see also

Helen McCarthy

Helen McCarthy (born February 27, 1951) is the British author of such anime reference books as 500 Manga Heroes and Villains, Anime!, The Anime Movie Guide and Hayao Miyazaki: Master of Japanese Animation.

HnG

Hikaru no Go, a Japanese animation centred around the game Go

Junji

Junji Nishimura (純二, born 1955), Japanese animation director and producer

Kuwabara kuwabara

It has also been used in various Japanese animation; including Inuyasha, Urusei Yatsura, Sekirei, Aku no Hana, and Yu Yu Hakusho.

Manxmouse

The Japanese animation studio Nippon Animation adapted this tale into a feature-length TV special in 1979, directed by Hiroshi Saito.

ThunderCats

The show was created by Tobin "Ted" Wolf and animated by Japanese animation studio, Pacific Animation Corporation.

Toyota Sprinter

Fame was brought to this model by its appearance in the Initial D Japanese animation.

Welcome to Dongmakgol

Park had been a big fan of Japanese animation director Hayao Miyazaki's work since he watched Future Boy Conan as a child.