DC and Warner unveil slate at the Annecy Film Festival, My Adventures With Green Lantern NOT beating the “We only know DBZ and Sailor Moon” accusations.

[Jman]

 

 

 

First off, doing a Green Lantern cartoon when you’re doing an adult GL show on HBO is really, really stupid, second, if you’re going to reference magical girls, AT LEAST watch Precure!  Don’t base all your shit on a nearly 40 year old manga!

 

A lot of this (not Creature Commandos or anything else canon to Gunn’s cinematic universe) is probably headed to Toonami, so get ready.

[Jman]

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Following two live-action projects going nowhere, the Powerpuff Girls and Thundercats are getting animated movies.  (Now that comic crossover they did makes more sense).

 

The next movie your really, REALLY annoying niece will be obsessed with.

 

And finally, JUST ANIMATE ABSOLUTE BATMAN!

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[Toonamiguy321]

I mean, in their interview about MAWS, they very explicitly, and strangely proudly, admitted that MAWG was gonna pull heavily from a Toonami show, and Sailor Moon was the only one that made much sense. 

They are completely shameless about this. And these type of people have never seen any anime that wasn’t spoonfed to them via Toonami, so don’t expect the inspiration to go outside that window. 

[Top Gun]

I don't get why you're so negative about this. MAWS has been fantastic, so if they want to go full Sailor Moon with this I'm all for it. 

[PokeNirvash]

It's Jman, it's par for the course for him to be selectively butthurt at DC's animated projects at this point.

[Jman]

4 hours ago, Top Gun said:

I don't get why you're so negative about this. MAWS has been fantastic, so if they want to go full Sailor Moon with this I'm all for it. 

I’ve made no secret I want this over and done so they can animate Absolute DC, which takes more cues from manga anyway.

 

Besides that though, I have issues when references are shallow.  If you’re going to do a magical girl motif (again, a bad idea when you’re making an HBO series with the same characters and mythos) shouldn’t you know what Precure is?  How about Nanoha?  Cutey Honey?  Anything besides this one nearly 40 year old manga?  It feels shallow and surface level, and that bothers me when it’s part of these characters with very rich histories.

[Top Gun]

I mean Sailor Moon is exponentially more well-known in the US than any of those other franchises you mentioned. Precure isn't really a thing here, Nanoha is extremely niche, and Cutie Honey is even older than Sailor Moon. When you have one franchise that transcended anime fandom to become a legitimate pop-culture phenomenon, that's seen as THE magical girl series by all but the most hardcore anime fans, of course you're going to draw most of your inspiration from it.

[Jman]

I have a lot of thoughts on it, but my issues stand with the same damn references being made over and over, like how everyone does the Akira bike slide, so having Absolute Batman reference Chainsaw Man made me very happy in comparison.  “Wow, something different than the handful of shows from the turn of the millennium.”

 

Anyway, Supermutant Magic Academy is showing its first look:

 

[Jman]

Trailer for the Batman: Knightfall Trilogy, an adaptation of the famous Batman comics:

 

[Toonamiguy321]

13 hours ago, Top Gun said:

I mean Sailor Moon is exponentially more well-known in the US than any of those other franchises you mentioned. Precure isn't really a thing here, Nanoha is extremely niche, and Cutie Honey is even older than Sailor Moon. When you have one franchise that transcended anime fandom to become a legitimate pop-culture phenomenon, that's seen as THE magical girl series by all but the most hardcore anime fans, of course you're going to draw most of your inspiration from it.

I do agree if they are referencing something, it’s needs to at least be somewhat recognizable. My issue is, why does the entire thing need to be anime references? Do they not have the ability to make their own product? A fun reference here and there? Sure that’s fun. “We based the whole show off Sailor Moon LOL!” Why? 
 

Also, isn’t this show aimed at a younger audience? Why is the inspiration a 40 year old series? Well, we know why, it’s what the staff watched when they were kids, but it just shows how out of touch they are. You would think if you wanted to heavily reference anime in your show geared at children, you would pick something children might have actually engaged with. 
 

5 hours ago, Jman said:

Anyway, Supermutant Magic Academy is showing its first look:

I don’t remember when I first noticed it,  but I feel like JG Quintel’s name has been completely wiped from this project. 
 

Still can’t tell if it’s something they would stick on Toonami. 

[Jman]

I wouldn’t TBH, not when they have Mashle,  which looks better anyway.

[PokeNirvash]

Twenty bucks say we get both Sailor Green Lantern and Mashle 3: Revenge of Innocent Zero.