#boop boop chibi robot

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I have surveyed my realm and found it to be good.

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Chibi dot. Inspired by Cermrnl on twitter. This was pretty easy. Maybe I'll do more...

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A bunch of beep boops I grew fond of + Arkon to fill in the empty slot

(From left to right)

Row 1: Scarmouche (Samurai Jack), Canti (FLCL), Jenny/XJ9 (My Life as a Teenage Robot), NOS-4-A2, (Buzz Lightyear of Star Command), Raymond (OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes), Soundwave (Transformers Prime), EVE ,Wall E)

Row 2: Robot Jones, General Grievous (Star Wars), Robotboy, Arkon (Original Character), Chibi Robo, Heart (Heart & Slash), Jack (Ghostrunner)

Row 3: Neon J (No Straight Roads), Zero (Mega Man), Rokusho (Medabots), V1 (Ultrakill), Samuel Hayden (Doom), R.O.B. (Nintendo), Pathfinder (Apex Legends)

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Can- can you make a scenario where reader plays fnaf ar but the animatronics are real and when they like successfully get them they turn into little chibi animatronics that stay with the reader— I just need some teeth rotting fluff please 🥺

Omg that’s actually an ADORABLE concept. I’d like to think you could switch the animatronics between normal and chibi modes (bc you can’t send the poor things out to salvage when they’re all tiny ;w;)

I’ll make one for Golden Freddy bc I’ve tried fighting him and he is absolute PAIN so this teeth-rotting fluff will help me too <3

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Of all the animatronics you’ve encounter thus far, nothing could’ve prepared you for the one called “Golden Freddy”. 

You figured it was just another shiny skin for the iconic bear, given that you didn’t receive any email on how to properly defeat him.

But oh dear....were you horribly, horribly wrong.

The encounter ended up being a nightmare. Not only did he corrupt your phone with ominous “it’s me” messages, but he could also apparently alternate between three different attack mechanics--ones used by previous animatronics. And you quickly learned that you had to successfully counter him in all three stages.

Fortunately you recognized the patterns and managed to subdue him as he charged at you for the last time. But as the electric sparks finally disappeared, you were stunned to see that Golden Freddy had turned into a...smaller and cuter version of himself. 

All the animatronics acquired that feature in the recent update--which allowed them to mimic the “chibi” style you often saw in art and anime--and the apparent reason was that users complained about the designs being too “creepy” and not “kid-friendly”.

There wasn’t anything kid-friendly about these murderous robots to begin with, but you didn’t mind the update.

“Huh..so it affects you, too, huh?” You chuckled, smiling as you scooped the golden bear up and looked at him. “I can just stick you in my bag no problem, haha.” 

He just stared back at you, trying to speak, but all he could emit was garbled static. Though you can tell he didn’t like being held--nor what you said--so you put him on your nightstand. “I’m kidding, but..welcome to the family.”

“F-Family..?”

You blinked in surprise, hearing him speak more clearly, though you nodded. “Yes. Your new family is--”

"̸H̵o̵w̵ ̷a̵d̴o̵r̶a̴b̶l̵e̷.̶.I c̵o̵u̵l̵d̸ ju̷s̵t̷ ̷e̴at y̸o̷u̷ u̴p̶, y̷o̷u̶ litt̵l̷e̵ ̵s̷h̵i̴n̶y̴ ̵th̵i̴n̶g̵..”

Recognizing the raspy voice, you saw Jack o’ Chica return, holding a mod she managed to salvage. You gasped dramatically and shielded Golden Freddy from her view. “Absolutely NOT!! I’ll turn you back into a chibi, too, if you come any closer.”

“...I̵'̴d̷ rat̵h̶e̴r k̶eep̶ ̸m̵y d̴i̴g̶n̶ity̴.” She huffed, giving you the mod before briefly glancing at the bear. Then she left without another word, thank goodness.

You got her from the Halloween event, but...she managed to stay scary even during Christmastime. 

After hearing more warped garble, you turned back around and sighed, gently booping Golden Freddy’s nose. “It’s okay, you’re safe with me.” You took note of how jerky his movements were. 

No normal animatronic was capable of moving like he did, so it was unusual, indeed. Something must’ve happened while he was being added to the service. It was probably just another glitch they’ll happily ignore.

But you’ll be sure to take good care of him from here on out.

[paulisweeabootrash]

2020 mini-review pack

Di Gi Charat (1999)

Episodes watched: 7

Platform: VRV (Hidive)

Di Gi Charat (pronounced like “carrot”) is a series of fast-paced 4-ish-minute shorts nominally about Dejiko and Rabi-en-Rose, rivals trying to be Earth’s greatest idol.  Who are, respectively, a catgirl and a bunnygirl.  Oh, and also they’re aliens?  That’s... uh... certainly a premise, I guess.  The actual show consists of self-contained gag-filled episodes with no ongoing story, in almost a sitcom kind of way, throwing the characters into situations without context, but with a stable “baseline” situation (unlike, say, Pop Team Epic, where the characters serve more as stock personalities playing different roles in different sketches).  Dejiko is a snarky schemer.  Rabi-en-Rose is a snarky schemer whose main activity seems to be bothering Dejiko at work.  Puchiko is a small and quiet child and behaves accordingly.  And Gema is... something?  I have no clue, honestly, and neither does the fan wiki.  Other recurring characters fill stock roles such as “manager” and “otaku”.  A lot of the humor centers around poking fun at fandom.  It’s a show by, for, and about otaku from an era before our current internet culture, and since I’m a millennial and not from Japan, that makes it unusually hard to evaluate.

W/A/S: 8/2?/5?

Weeb: Chibis.  Catgirls.  Idols.  Kappas.  Kawaii verbal tics.  Akihabara.  Low-detail background characters who look like blobs or thumbs with faces.  Kanji left on-screen but untranslated.  Particular sorts of highly-exaggerated facial expressions we may have become familiar with through emoji, but which still haven’t made their way into American media generally.  This is ludicrously Japanese.

Ass: This really isn't that kind of show.  Although it is certainly designed for adults, as evidenced by the presence of phrases like “naughty doujinshi”.

Shit: The art is fun.  It has style shifts from comic strip to watercolor painting to mainstream 90s anime, and looks better than some of its contemporaries that were, uh, “real” shows.  The opening takes up about a quarter of the total runtime and gets annoying quickly (but that's because it’s clearly designed for being part of a broadcast block, not binge-watching).  Still, unless I’m missing hidden cleverness on account of not having the background knowledge, there’s not much to it.  It’s just okay.

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First Astronomical Velocity (band, active 2011-present)

Platform: Spotify, surprisingly

Okay, this one is a bit different, and I’m jettisoning the whole format for it.  Remember how I said the music-centered episodes of SoniAni were actually pretty good, even though the modeling-centered episodes were so offputting I never finished the show?  Well it turns out that First Astronomical Velocity, Sonico’s band, has released several IRL albums.  Physical copies may be a little hard to come by, but official uploads of a lot of their music can be found on Youtube and Spotify.  Do your musical interests include at least two of: string arrangements that would be at home in a particularly sappy movie soundtrack, 90s-00s alternative rock, synthesizer beep-boops, and that constricted cutesy Japanese women’s vocal style (you know the one I mean)?  Then this is for you.  They’re a pretty good... uh... alt-pop-rock band, I guess is what I’d call them.

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Interspecies Reviewers (2020)

Episodes watched: the entire 12-episode season

Platform: I plead the 5th.  But it’s getting a video release soon, so it will finally be legitimately available in English!

I started this year with a plot-light fanservicey animal-people show, and now I’m ending the year with... a plot-light fanservicey animal-people show.  But unlike Nekopara, this show had me cracking up, eagerly clicking “next episode”, and not complaining about the premise.  I’m sure a lot of people do have a problem with this show’s premise -- which centers almost entirely on various forms of sex work -- and I understand and respect that they will want to skip this show.

But for the rest of you: Interspecies Reviewers is a wildly-NSFW comedy about a group of fantasy world adventurers who gain fame and fortune reviewing brothels of different species.  I expected excessive nudity and fantasy tropes, but I didn’t expect to also get serious thoughts.  Like showing, in the golem and Magic Metropolis episodes, some of the unsettling problems that are looming IRL as deepfakes and sex robots are in development -- note especially the contrast between consensually and non-consensually basing automata on real people in those episodes.  Or the discussion in the last episode of how much riskier sex would be in a world without magic (i.e., ours).  This is a much smarter and more interesting show than you’d expect, considering that it has so much sexual content that it got dropped by two of the networks airing it and even its US distributor.

W/A/S: 5/10/4

Weeb: Although heavily influenced by the Western fantasy media canon of European mythology and Tolkien and tabletop RPGs, familiarity with the tropes of fantasy anime will help you “get” this too, as will familiarity with the -sigh- character dynamics and censorship practices of hentai.  Especially because it’s a comedy, there are probably also instances where I have completely missed topical references or wordplay that a Japanese person would get, but I can’t think of any specific instances right now of “there was clearly supposed to be a joke but I missed it”.

Ass: Look, this could not possibly have more sexual content without unambiguously becoming porn.  Genitals are (almost) always carefully hidden by viewing angle or conveniently-placed glowing (something lampshaded in one episode as an actual feature of one of the species they review), but otherwise, expect lots of nudity and almost nonstop crude humor.  Do not watch this with children.  Do not watch this with your parents.  Do not watch this with friends you don’t know well enough to know how they’ll react to something like this.

Shit: This show is better-made than it deserves to be.  It’s pretty dumb at points, but it’s fun enough to make up for it.  The art is consistent and pleasant, and the opening and ending themes are extremely fun, but it’s not a serious standout in any of those departments.  Also, I swear the background music is stock music, but I don’t remember what other show(s) I’ve heard it in before.

Stray thought: Crim is a precious and relatable cinnamon roll and I love them.

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OreSuki OVA (2020)

Platform: Crunchyroll

So, I know I didn’t cover the whole season in my initial review, but I still want to mention the hour-ish-long finale of this show, which was released straight to streaming.  Short version of the rest of the season: Joro starts to actually fall for Pansy, but a new challenger, Hose, appears.  He is irritatingly attractive and effortless at maintaining the right persona for the situation, leading Joro to describe him as “the main character”.  Hose is the sociopathic manipulator Joro wishes he could be, and Pansy, who has a bad past with him, clearly wants nothing more than for Joro to stand up to him.  But, since this is OreSuki, it’s not going to be handled simply.  No, instead, strap in for a grand finale of Joro and Hose competing in, and trying to manipulate through rules-lawyering, an absolutely ludicrous competition to win the right to date Pansy.  And, on top of it, we also get to finally see how Sun-chan got to be the way he is and what happened at that pivotal baseball game that set off the whole plot.  What has Joro learned from the experiences of the past season?  You’ll see!  And you’ll facepalm about it!

Really, you must watch this if you watched the regular season.

W/A/S: 6/5(!)/4ish

Weeb: Basically the same as I said before.  Gags referencing other Japanese media, anime and otherwise, and it's better if you’re familiar with the high school romcoms and harem comedies Joro thinks in terms of.

Ass (and slight content note): -sigh- Why does the camera need to be there?  Also, Joro, you just committed a little bit of sexual assault for the sake of this contest.  Stop.

Shit: I want to rate this overall better than I did the regular season because I think it’s an excellent finale overall because, even though it ends in a very “let’s leave everything unresolved” way that’s common in media that rely on absurd relationships to propel the plot, it does so in a way that makes sense in character.  I personally think it would’ve been stronger if it had, well, confirmed its title, and at least some of the other “challengers” had lost interest in Joro, but I guess they probably want a Season 2, since they have so much more source material to work from.  There are... oh god 14 light novels?!  That is too many.

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Your Name. (2016)

Platform: DVD

Two high schoolers -- small-town girl Mitsuha, from Itomori, and big-city boy Taki, from Tokyo -- find themselves in each other’s bodies for a day.  They both think at first it must be a very vivid dream, but when it happens again, and they start finding clues like notes they don’t remember writing and comments by friends and relatives about their out-of-character behavior, they realize the body swap is real.  This begins a relationship of mutual understanding that nobody else can really understand -- or would even believe (except Mitsuha’s grandmother, who is... familiar with this phenomenon) -- and the plot then pivots to a tense adventure where they use their connection, some crucial information Taki has, the skills of Mitsuha’s friends, and the intervention of Itomori’s patron deity, to save the town from an impending disaster.

And that’s all I’ll say about that, because I really do think this is something you should go into blind.  My only remaining comments are that (1) the red string of fate is critically important imagery, and is particularly interesting to me here because, if I took a particular scene correctly, Mitsuha made her own red string of fate from sheer necessity, which is a very different twist on that trope, and (2) I am now curious about the history of the body-swapping phenomenon in-universe.

W/A/S: 4?/2/2

Weeb: As mentioned above, symbolism of the Red String of Fate shows up throughout the movie, as do the occasional distinctly Japanese quirk like a wildly out-of-place vending machine or a café with dogs, and but for the most part it’s a cross-cultural story of understanding and dealing with someone else’s life, and of forming a connection other people don’t -- can’t -- truly understand, and to some extent of divides between urban and rural and modern and traditional that I think could play out in any country with just the local symbolism tweaked.  The significance and content of Shinto beliefs and practices depicted, particularly kuchikamizake, are made pretty explicit, so although foreign to the vast majority of the non-Japanese audience, I feel like this movie also has nearly no barrier to entry for people not familiar with the cultural context, so I don’t want to rate it very high on this scale.

Ass: Look.  It involves teenagers switching bodies.  What do you think they do?  Especially Taki?  But it’s played for laughs, not titillation.

Shit: This movie is beautiful and punched me in the feels and was very satisfying.  The closest I have to a complaint about any aspect of it is that the musical breaks that I guess are supposed to mark acts of the movie almost make it feel like binge-watching a short series instead of watching a single self-contained movie.

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Chibi stickers, anyone?

Are you into Japanimation/anime and manga style? Looking to decorate your school binders, lunch boxes, or whatever smooth-surfaced itmes you have? Ever wanted stickers with a wide variety of characters from WOY? If your answer is “yes” for all three, you’re in luck. @topoconsombrero’s side blog, @onewoydrawaday, has a decent number of chibi stickers with “save WOY” on them. As you will see, this colorful collection is still growing and not fully complete, but there’s quite a bit of detail added to each sticker illustration.

You’ve got the important characters: ⦁Wander ⦁Sylvia ⦁Lord Hater (the eye structure might be a little off, but oh well) ⦁Commander Peepers ⦁Lord Dominator (who, as we all know, officially debuts in season 2)

And a whole lot of others you might be looking for… Notes: * = sketched but not yet finalized ** = might be taken into consideration ~ = variant of existing character

⦁King Bingleborp ⦁A Doom Dragon** ⦁The Butterfly-Whale-Like baby and its mother** ⦁Emperor Awesome ⦁A Fist Fighter ⦁The Celestial (Star) Being* ⦁Any certain significant characters from The Fugitives** ⦁Any certain significant characters from The Good Deed** (like Fleeblebort** for example - he has his own picture in The Tourist) ⦁The Fortune Teller** ⦁Captain Tim (the arachnomorph, not the deceased captain) ⦁Badlands Dan ⦁Oink** ⦁Papa Doom* ⦁Prince Cashmere ⦁The Troll** ⦁A Lord of Illumination* ⦁Westley the Watchdog ⦁Rongruffle ⦁Killbot 86 (there were also 85 other predecessors - the 85th was obliterated during a fight with Sylvia over a bounty in the past) ⦁The Potted Plant ⦁Beeza ⦁Buster ⦁Brad Starlight ⦁King Dracor (that’s how the credits spell it, apparently) ⦁Princess Demurra (since she’s married to aforementioned king, she could be queen) ⦁The Pit Monster** (from The Birthday Boy) ⦁The Cashier ⦁Olive** (name unknown in The Nice Guy, known in The Fremergency Fronfract) ⦁Harvax and Stok* ⦁Sourdough the Evil Sandwich (Originally a spirit that inhabits anyone or anything every thousands years - previously inhabited Queen Entozoa before winding up in a sandwich. New name revealed in The Axe) ⦁A Beefeater** (they happen to be Entozoa/Sourdough’s underlings) ⦁Kragthar (first shown in suit in S1, then shown normally in S2) ⦁The Black Cube of Darkness (featured look inspired by ending of his own episode in S2) ⦁Trudi Traveler* ⦁Planet Janet** ⦁Maurice** (Janet’s moon) ⦁The King of Flendar ⦁Huckleberry Knucklehead ⦁The Lost and Found Guy (that’s what the credits call him) ⦁The Intergalactic Guru ⦁Destructor ⦁Thrax* (he has the most dialogue of the five tough guys shown in The Buddies) ⦁Electric Bird and Three Chicks** ⦁Little Bits ⦁General Outrage ⦁Brainz ⦁Wild Card ⦁Clipper ⦁The Restaurant Manager** (from Okeydokia, the planet where inhabitants don’t need any help) ⦁Michelle** ⦁A Cluckon** ⦁A Mooplexian** ⦁Ryder (I’m pretty sure his pants were reddish-brown last time I checked; the rest of him is still accurate, though) ⦁The Scuzzbuckets** (four of them together) ⦁Frederick ⦁Dr. Scrivellix** (the dentist in The Fremergency Fronfract) ⦁Gelatinous Bob** (animatronic) ⦁The Curator of MOGA (Museum of Ginormous/Giant Antiquities)** ⦁Dr. Screwball Jones ⦁Helpless Wander*~ ⦁That one alien queen** (from The Axe - the storyboard refers to her as “Alien Queen”) ⦁Stella Starbella (in her off-duty robe) ⦁Mittens ⦁The King of Sherblorg 7 ⦁Mandrake the Malfeasant ⦁General McGuffin (as he appears before getting zapped into a bucket of chicken pieces in The Battle Royale) ⦁Something the So-and-So ⦁Major Threat/Jeff ⦁A Schmartian* ⦁Stacy* (No colors officially shown, but this could be interesting if this gets made. Also, I wonder what the Black Cube’s new girlfriend, Tracy, heard in the credits animatic, looks like.) ⦁The Three Teens* (leader in the middle, weaselly one on the left, obvious one on the right) ⦁Andy the Watchdog (It’s possible his first appearance was in The Gift) ⦁Clancy and Nancy Schmancy** (they’re supposedly the characters who “have been talked about since Season 1”) ⦁That Camera Family** ⦁The Hat Shop Owner** (the Mad Hatter-esque fellow, complete with an Ed Wynn-esque voice) ⦁Cartoon Lord Hater~ ⦁Cartoon Commander Peepers~ ⦁A Cartoon Watchdog~ (fun fact: I once mistook him for Moose) ⦁Cartoon Wander~ ⦁Cartoon Sylvia~ ⦁Bot 13/Beep Boop (as portrayed after crashing on Seacironicus 12) ⦁Bill, Gil, Phil** (if it’s true what @wanderin-over-yonder’s calendars suggest, this arrangement is set as it is no matter where they are) ⦁Dorothy ⦁Gram** ⦁Angela** ⦁Melodie** ⦁Jamie and Hank** ⦁David** ⦁Giant fuzzy Wander plus Hater*~ (Hank’s portrayal of the legend) ⦁Radical Wander*~ (Jamie’s portrayal of the legend) ⦁Anime Wander with Silver 7*~ (David’s portrayal of the legend) ⦁Cursed Wander*~ (Melodie’s portrayal of the legend) ⦁The Butler** (he and the following two names shall have censored faces) ⦁Gluteus Maximus/Todd** ⦁Rear Admiral Keister Von Derrière** (since he’s the one who speaks for the High-Gnee council) ⦁Admiral Admirable** ⦁Orbble Wright and Wilmur Wright** (when viewing them from the front, Orbble’s the taller on the right and Wilmur’s the shorter on the left) ⦁Chad** (Brad’s cousin, in case you haven’t guessed) ⦁The Slug Boss** ⦁Ripov (first appeared briefly in The Waste of Time, sources show first name to be Emily) ⦁The Arachnomorph Queen** ⦁A Phantomime* ⦁Ms. Myrtle the Eternal Turtle* ⦁Neckbeard* ⦁Robomechabotatron* ⦁Dominator Mecha*~ (Dominator’s ship in robot fight mode)

Quite a big list, isn’t it? Maybe as an added bonus, there could be the space ape**.

If you should decide to have them printed as stickers, make sure you keep topoconsombrero’s signatures intact. Whenever new ones come up, you can be sure this post will be updated. Also, there might be a few I left out. A lot of characters have no offical names - sometimes I think of coming up with some, but that’s another post for another time.

To topoconsombrero: Yes, I am the one you call Coach Anon. I’m sure this list will be enough to inspire you and many other artists looking to draw WOY characters in their own special way. Some will do Funko POP! variations, Disney emoji variations, and what have you. If I had my own way to portray the characters, I’d go for the style of one of my favorite animators, Eric Goldberg (who works at Walt Disney Animation Studios).

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How Disney And Anime Influenced Modern Animation

Anime has been around for a few decades, and Disney even longer than that. While these two styles may be different in various ways, anime has influenced many animators today. Additionally, modern anime was also influenced by early Disney cartoons.

Anime, or Japanese animation, began to develop in the early 20th century alongside animation from other nations. The oldest-ever anime, a two-minute film about a samurai warrior, appeared in Japanese theaters in 1917. By the 1930s, the animation industry in Japan was thriving, although animators were forced to cut costs by using less expensive cutout, rather than celluloid, animation.

-: How Disney Influenced Anime :-

Anime exists in its form today thanks to a man known as Osamu Tezuka who is known as the “Godfather Of Anime“. He is responsible for pioneering techniques in anime that are used to this day, such as the large eyes look. As a child, Tezuka would watch old Disney cartoons and movies and emulate them in his own design. The large eyes were inspired from characters such as Betty Boop and Mickey Mouse.

As a child growing up in the 1930s and 1940s, Osamu Tezuka adored Walt Disney. He is said to have watched the 1942 Disney film “Bambi” more than 80 times. He also enjoyed “Dumbo” and the post-WWII “Uncle Scrooge” comics drawn by Disney animator, Carl Bark.

Tezuka made a ton, a ton, of stuff. Like really. A whole lot. Seriously. Over 500 anime episodes and more than 700 manga volumes. That’s crazy. But some of his works definitely stand out more than others. His most iconic work is without a doubt, Astro Boy. Along with this, I’d say Black Jack, Kimba the White Lion, and Phoenix are probably his top four.

The WWII era in Japan saw the government use anime as a propaganda machine. The first feature-length anime film, “Momotaro’s Divine Sea Warriors,” was one such propaganda piece. It was released in 1945.

-: How Anime Influenced Disney And Other Studios :-

In the early 1950s, Osamu Tezuka wrote a manga series called “Jungle Emperor,” commonly translated to “Kimba the White Lion” in English. He made it into an animated television program in the 1960s.

When Disney released “The Lion King,” in 1994, fans of Tezuka’s work pointed out a number of similarities between the “The Lion King” and “Kimba the White Lion.” These similarities include the protagonist and several other characters, as well as some remarkably parallel scenes.

Many artists and animators attribute anime as an influence, most notably the works of Hayao Miyazaki. If you don’t know who he is, just know that he is the only Japanese animator to win an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature (for his film Spirited Away). He is a founding member of Studio Ghibli, whose movies have been celebrated worldwide.

Miyazaki is known for his recurring themes that can be seen in many of his movies, and many animators have gone to incorporate those themes into their own projects. For example, one of Miyazaki’s signatures is his use of flight in his movies. Kiki’s Delivery Service had a young witch flying around on a broom, Howl’s Moving Castle had a wizard fighting planes as a large bird and My Neighbor Totoro had a large cat creature flying around like Mary Poppins with an umbrella. Movies like The Rescuers Down Under, Pixar’s Up, and Dreamworks modern classic How to Train Your Dragon have had their creators use Miyazaki as an influence. Each one of these movies have their own ways to take to the skies with Up’s flying house, the dragons in How to Train Your Dragon and The Rescuers Down Under has a scene where the heroes travel to Australia on a bird.

Another staple of Miyazaki is how he portrays good guys and villains. No one in his movies are inherently good or evil — everyone is a person with flaws. In Princess Mononoke the “villain” is Lady Eboshi. She burns down a forest and kills its creatures so she can mine the iron found in the sand, however she also finds those cast out by society such as brothel girls and lepers and gives them a place to stay and work.

Many modern animated movies have followed this kind of thinking as well. Looking at Monster’s, Inc, Mr. Waternoose is the perceived bad guy of the movie because he wants to kidnap children and suck out their screams. Looking at the situation through his point of view, there is a shortage of power in the monster world and he runs a company that is doing all it can to keep society from falling to pieces. Not only this, but children aren’t able to be scared as easily anymore so you need a way to get more power. He’s not doing this because he is inherently evil, he’s doing what he feels is necessary.

-: How Anime Has Influenced Modern Cartoons :-

In the early 20th century many nations had begun creating short animated shorts – anime was no exception. In 1917, Japan created a short two minute animated film about a samurai warrior. This film appeared in theaters in 1917 – however, animated shorts had been around since around 1900, however, the the artists of these shorts did not identify them as animation.

The influence of anime is not just felt with big movie studios, even the small screen has embraced anime by emulating its art style and themes. Three shows that perfectly symbolize this are Dexter’s Laboratory, Teen Titans and The Powerpuff Girls.

Dexter’s Laboratory was released in the ‘90s around the time that anime was becoming mainstream in America. The part of anime that Dexter’s Laboratory emulated was giant robots, which was being introduced to American audiences through shows like Neon Genesis Evangelion. In a few episodes of Dexter’s Lab we see him use giant robots, whether it’s to help him win a dodgeball game or to enlist the help of his parents to fight a kaiju or giant monster. Dexter’s creator Genndy Tartakovsky also created Samurai Jack, which took a more anime-inspired stylistic approach in its design.

Teen Titans is a great example of western cartoons embracing the anime art style. Instead of looking like their realistic comic book counterparts, they were drawn with a cartoony and exaggerated look. The show even had moments where the characters were drawn purposefully deformed to emulate the cute chibi look in certain comedic situations. Avatar: The Last Airbender is also famous for this, and has some anime fans arguing whether it should be considered anime.

Although it could be argued that The Powerpuff Girls are drawn in the super cute chibi style, what makes it different is that it had its own anime adaptation in Powerpuff Girls Z. This is an example of an increasingly common occurrence of western cartoons and even comics being turned into anime. Batman, Wolverine and Iron Man have all been given the anime treatment. Even Deadpool makes an appearance in Marvel Disk Wars: The Avengers, where they do a pretty good job of nailing his character.

There are plenty more examples that have been seen throughout the years of Disney and anime’s overall influence, but to go through it all would also take years. It’s just amazing to look at so many examples and see how they can be influenced by the same thing.

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