Lilo & Stitch Anime

[Dontebell]

Stitch return in a new Anime series
http://www.disneychannel.jp/dc/program/anime/stitch/

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[Ninjinister]

Well, you can't really call it Lilo & Stitch, can you? More like Yuna & Stitch, eh? I wonder if it will arrive here in the US at any point....

[VaughnMichael]

wow seriously..just wow randomness.

[ThirdMarioBro]

That is borderline sacrilegious. Seriously. I mean, there's good anime out there, sure. But Disney characters in crappy Japanese kiddy 5fps pan & scan animation? Yuck.

[Ra]

...wow.

I've heard about this awhile ago... but I'm still amazed they went through it.

:|

[ZariusTwo]

They had me intrigued all the way up until the "out of place stereotypical anime loli"

Lilo was hotter[/Pedobear]:lol:

[Ninjinister]

Screw you guys, it's all about 626.

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[Drtooth]

wow seriously..just wow randomness.

Oh really? It just so happens that Lilo and Stitch (specifically Stitch) is extremely popular in Japan. I remember the convention I went to, I saw a booth with all kinds of crazy Stitch crap. So, naturally, they'd make their own project at some point in time.


That is borderline sacrilegious. Seriously. I mean, there's good anime out there, sure. But Disney characters in crappy Japanese kiddy 5fps pan & scan animation? Yuck.

And that's different from Disney characters in 12 fps kiddy animation for television to be stamped with a TV/EI how? It's a shame that they didn't get TMS to animate this like they animated various American cartoons in the 80's and 90's... As long as no one goes super deformer for no apparent reason. (trust me... when you hear what Disney almost did to The Aristocats, this sounds like a great idea.... go ahead... ask me about it).

They had me intrigued all the way up until the "out of place stereotypical anime loli"

I'd be surprised if they didn't have to try to collect all of Jumbaa's experiments in this one as well... then it REALLY would be a stereotype.

But it's all worth it to hear Stitch say "Itidakimasu!!!!" (which isn't half as funny as the time I heard Cookie Monster say it)

[VaughnMichael]

Oh really? It just so happens that Lilo and Stitch (specifically Stitch) is extremely popular in Japan. I remember the convention I went to, I saw a booth with all kinds of crazy Stitch crap. So, naturally, they'd make their own project at some point in time.
I'm talking randomness as in the other typical anime character and that chicken thing....and the lack of any type of stedy flow in the animation or series snippits we're given in that blip.

[Dontebell]

And that's different from Disney characters in 12 fps kiddy animation for television to be stamped with a TV/EI how? It's a shame that they didn't get TMS to animate this like they animated various American cartoons in the 80's and 90's... As long as no one goes super deformer for no apparent reason. (trust me... when you hear what Disney almost did to The Aristocats, this sounds like a great idea.... go ahead... ask me about it).

What was they trying to do to The Aristocats?

[DrSpengler]

Eh, after Powerpuff Girls Z, its hard for anything to surprise me. Besides, news and character art for this thing have been available for about a year now, so I've tempered myself.

I recall reading an official Lilo (not Yuna) & Stitch manga that was published in some kiddy magazine over there. It was cute, but pretty bland (it was for reeeaaaal little kids and involved the characters baking a cake, if I recall correctly).

What with the setting being moved to Okinawa and the whole gimmick being 'Look! Stitch is in Japan!', I can't imagine this'll make it to the West. We just finished up our own Lilo & Stitch cartoon, and since American broadcasters think that new continuities "confuse children", this probably won't show up here for many years, if ever.

As for the loli....yeah. From the character art I saw a year ago, I expected her to be younger and with more of Lilo's build. But considering Disney keeps a pretty tight leash on all its properties, they'll hopefully keep the Japanese animators from going into super pedo mode with her.

Hopefully.

[Jelly Bean]

year I'll bite to.what where they going to do to the Aristocats?

[Drtooth]

I'm talking randomness as in the other typical anime character and that chicken thing....and the lack of any type of stedy flow in the animation or series snippits we're given in that blip.

I get what you're saying now. I guess the chicken's supposed to take over the role of the frog that kept croaking at him during the movie.

What was they trying to do to The Aristocats?

You don't want to know, but I'll tell you anyway.

Apparently, Disney wanted to do a cartoon series based off another movie... and their options were slim... Their choices? Robin Hood (which would have been amazing if they did it right), The Aristocats (I'm about to get to that), and Emperor's New Groove (which is what they wound up going with)...

However, in the Aristocats series, Marie and the other cats were no longer kittens, but (get ready for this) hip tweenagers, redesigned in some funky style that doesn't look Disney-esque at all. And they basically went on generic adventures, and did random hip things... I'd say, like a really bad version of Cattillac Cats with a random moral shoved into the series so they can put an E/I stamp on it. I can't remember any other specifics, but in no way, shape or form did it even resemble Aristocats. It was basically a shot in the dark at making Marie (that was the girl kitty, right? It's been so long since I've seen it) popular with girls the way the did with Tinkerbelle and Pooh.

I wish I could remember where the character designs were... they were just... Holy Crap terrible.

[Dontebell]

I get what you're saying now. I guess the chicken's supposed to take over the role of the frog that kept croaking at him during the movie.



You don't want to know, but I'll tell you anyway.

Apparently, Disney wanted to do a cartoon series based off another movie... and their options were slim... Their choices? Robin Hood (which would have been amazing if they did it right), The Aristocats (I'm about to get to that), and Emperor's New Groove (which is what they wound up going with)...

However, in the Aristocats series, Marie and the other cats were no longer kittens, but (get ready for this) hip tweenagers, redesigned in some funky style that doesn't look Disney-esque at all. And they basically went on generic adventures, and did random hip things... I'd say, like a really bad version of Cattillac Cats with a random moral shoved into the series so they can put an E/I stamp on it. I can't remember any other specifics, but in no way, shape or form did it even resemble Aristocats. It was basically a shot in the dark at making Marie (that was the girl kitty, right? It's been so long since I've seen it) popular with girls the way the did with Tinkerbelle and Pooh.

I wish I could remember where the character designs were... they were just... Holy Crap terrible.

I've found the designs

http://jimhillmedia.com/blogs/jim_hill/archive/2008/02/05/toon-tuesday-disney-s-the-aristocats-the-animated-series.aspx

http://www.jimhillmedia.com/mb/images/upload/Aristocats-TV-series-5-web.jpg
http://www.jimhillmedia.com/mb/images/upload/artistocats-drawing-wet-sin.jpg
http://www.jimhillmedia.com/mb/images/upload/piano-cats-web.jpg
http://www.jimhillmedia.com/mb/images/upload/aristocats-dude-cool-web.jpg
http://www.jimhillmedia.com/mb/images/upload/Aristocats-TV-1-web2.jpg

[Jelly Bean]

so...was this supposed to still take place in the same time period as the movie?

[Drtooth]

http://www.jimhillmedia.com/mb/images/upload/Aristocats-TV-series-5-web.jpg
http://www.jimhillmedia.com/mb/images/upload/artistocats-drawing-wet-sin.jpg

Those aren't as bad as I remember, however... Somehow I recalled them being more sharply angular... but definitely a style deviating from the movie.


so...was this supposed to still take place in the same time period as the movie?

Unless these cats somehow had access to a time machine....
http://www.jimhillmedia.com/mb/images/upload/Aristocats-TV-1-web2.jpg
... I'd say no.

[Cure]

It doesn't look bad. I'd watch it.

[Hannah]

This makes me sad. Stitch isn't Stitch without Lilo.

[Drtooth]

Okay, before someone B***hes me out for not liking the direction that Bob Igor took Disney, I have to say this...

This is a great idea... Disney producing localized cartoon shows fopr other countries. It's such a shame to see the same TV animation producers that started a real Renaissance for animation in the 1980's with shows like Gummi Bears and Ducktales fall to such a slump. Even if we don't get the shows, I want to see Disney Television Animation back making shows like they used to. Yeah, I like Emperor's New School and the Replacements is okay (though, I watch the ABC reruns that have half of the first seasons of both constantly rerunning for 3 years now with no new episodes).

All I'm saying, Disney was off its rocker not to make a Pirates of the Carribean show... that really could have put them through the roof.

That said, I want them to take this initiative to the next level, and make shows for Europe as well. I would love to see a European only Scrooge McDuck series closer to the original comics (E.i. no Launchpad, Bubba Duck, Mrs. Beakly, and Donald to be in every episode as Scrooge's least reliable nephew... and an actual role for Gladstone Gander) made at some point.