Pages

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Anime Random Curiosities

1. Disney had influence in anime.
The big eyes of the character of the japanese animation are due to the influence of Disney's characters in Osamu Tekuza, who's considered "the father of manga".

2. Dragon Ball, characters names:
At first in EE.UU the company Harminy Gold had acquired the anime Dragon Ball's rights. They decided to change some characters names Goku would be named Zero , Krillin, Kongo and Karin, Whiskers. However , UNimation bought rights later, fortunately.

3. Boy or girl?:
It seems that Akira Toriyama thought the main character of his masterpiece, Dragon Ball, would be a girl, at last he took the right decision.

4. The longer series:
 If you thought that the Simpsons are the series with more episodes of all times , you are very wrong , because it turns out the anime Sazae San counts with over 1,800 episodes and it is  transmitted from 1969.

5. Expensive anime:
The Afro Samurai anime is the most expensive one of history – each episode – , because each episode had a cost of one million dollars. Coming to cost a total of five million dollars, since there are six episodes.

37 comments:

  1. Interesting info I never would of thought it would take one million dollars to make one episode o.o

    ReplyDelete
  2. I never knew about these before, and a single episode that costs a million dollars each? Yikes!

    ReplyDelete
  3. Wow, Afro samurai is a beautiful anime :). Good stuff man!

    ReplyDelete
  4. I always assumed bigger eyes was out of admiration for the west, but I never knew it had to do with disney.

    ReplyDelete
  5. wtf how does an anime cost so much to make?

    ReplyDelete
  6. Very interesting informations!

    ReplyDelete
  7. Cool :P

    Coming to cost a total of five million dollars, since there are six episodes.

    5 x 1 = 6? lol

    ReplyDelete
  8. I love the old school mickey! good facts man :)

    ReplyDelete
  9. cool learnt some stuff here thanks

    ReplyDelete
  10. afro samurai was so awesome,now I know why,great blog following

    ReplyDelete
  11. nice piece of information man never even knew of this stuff! great work

    ReplyDelete
  12. Japanese can always seem to take things further.

    ReplyDelete
  13. I remember there was this dub, called the big green dub its hilariously bad, you should YouTube it.

    ReplyDelete
  14. Afro samurai definitely took it up a notch. Maybe that's why it's expensive.

    ReplyDelete
  15. Disney changed so many things... including copyright laws!

    ReplyDelete
  16. one million dollars per episode, wtf!!

    ReplyDelete
  17. Yeh, that'd be weird with a girl as the main character for dragon ball.

    ReplyDelete
  18. Weird thinking Disney could be the start of Manga. I don't like Anime or Disney for that matter but it's quite interesting to read into.

    ReplyDelete
  19. I've heard a ton of good things about Afro Samurai though, so that means each episode was worth it right?

    ReplyDelete
  20. I thought redline took the title for most expensive anime now?

    ReplyDelete
  21. My adult children are crazy about the Simpsons . to them they are almost real people.

    ReplyDelete
  22. Whoa I enjoyed the read. Disney has had an influence on much more than just anime. And in regards to the simpsons, I need new episodes bc I grew up with that family!

    ReplyDelete
  23. I've heard about the bigs eye's thing with disney. Apparently they have it down to a science how to draw something that is considered "cute".

    ReplyDelete