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ikillchicken
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 1:13 am Reply with quote
zetsuie wrote:
ikillchicken wrote:
In fact, they are probably smart enough to realize that even if they do have a good idea, it just isn't plausable to get it actually made. The only thing close to possible is to try and make a career for yourself as an OEL Manga artist.

[sarcasm]or they could, dun dun dunnnnnn,

write a book.

I know, I know,
seems like some crazy nonsensical idea(probably right up there with trying to make an anime..oh wait) ,but they did make an anime based on The Count of Monte Cristo,which I think might just have been based on a book.[/sarcasm]


Yeah...and you could also write a North American comic or a screenplay or a regualar play for that matter. There are a lot of options but once you move past anime or manga it really doesn't have anything to do with this topic.
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 1:29 am Reply with quote
Zac wrote:

Personally I think people in general just like End of Evangelion more than they publicly admit, but maybe that's wishful thinking.


Or maybe people just realized that writing about how they hated the Eva ending would be a good way not to get their answer printed since (theoretically) there would be tons of people doing the same. Plus there are the new movies coming out. Basically, the reasons already mentioned in one of the answers that you did show.
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 1:38 am Reply with quote
KamenRiderFaiz555 wrote:
Hey, I had an idea for a story. The characters all had American names because I'm, you know, American. The villian wasn't emotionally scarred, just evil. the hero wasn't emo, he just did what he had to. I've proposed it to nobody, because I have no idea where I would and I'm pretty sure nobody wants it. But if I did, it'd be, you know, an AMERICAN company. Closest thing I'd do to submitting it to an anime/manga company would be to submit it to Tokyopop as an OEL manga.

in other words, some people should just keep their ideas to themselves, rather than make asses of themselves.


But if people don't make asses of themselves, then where would we get our amusement? Or, when would they learn? I mean, sure, most people can't write (Myself included.), but the ones that can have to work at it. Not everyone can create a hit their first time
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 4:20 am Reply with quote
I'm amazed no one has callled on Gurren Lagann's end for stuff what needs changed.

Now, before everyone jumps on me, I'm not aiming to change spoiler[the death of Nia]. Rather, I aim to nagate the downright downer point of spoiler[ Simon having nothing to show for his strugles and basicly being a hobo ].

Maybe I don't get the hyper elusive meening to Lagann but I was under the impression of it being a super robot show and most of them arn't exactly thoughtbird training.
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 8:50 am Reply with quote
Tamaria wrote:
Mohawk52 wrote:

I thought the bunny was chucking its dinner at yet another budding Miyazaki waiting for that multi million Yen production budget. Razz


Random bunny fact #19876: Bunnies can't vomit.

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There's always got to be one.
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 12:56 pm Reply with quote
irishninja wrote:

For those who want to make manga or anime, you really need to at least learn the language and move to Japan.


Exactly. And that right there would weed out a lot of these wannabe's.

To this date, the first and only American to have directed an anime production is Michael Arias. And that production, 'Tekkonkinkreet,' was very recent.

Moreover, that project was based on his own pitch, his own passion for adapting the manga. It didn't come about because some kid in the U.S. sent a letter to a studio in Japan saying, "You know what would be a great idea ...."

And for that matter, even the fact that 'Tekkonkinkreet' was based on an existing work went a long way to getting it adapted in animated form. We've all seen how many anime are based on manga; it's so often a safer bet than pitching a new storyline.
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 1:26 pm Reply with quote
In regards to the Answerfans, I enjoyed how MoonPhase ended but I hated how obvious the unanswered questions were. Not just about spoiler[Hazuki's father, either. What was the purpose of the Luna personality, especially since it seemed that Hazuki/Luna was the only vampire to be locked up the way she was? How doesKouhei's mother fit into the story? That plot point got dropped very early in the story. ]

-Murph
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 5:28 pm Reply with quote
Zac wrote:
FlamingPinecone wrote:
Hey answerman have you considered my new anime project pitch?

basically this dude named gaaya is like a guy with a short fuse and a bad childhood and he is thrown into a house with 5 gorgeous women who all love him but he's so mean to them and they have to chase after the (adjective)(noun) together so they have to be together which is hard because gaaya is mean and cold. he also has a year to master his powers or else the world will explode.

also gaaya can transformer into shin gaaya where he is poorly drawn and ass dances all the time.

SO WHAT DO YOU THINK!!???


I'mma call up Sunrise on Monday and hand over this masterpiece! Get ready for superstardom!

As for Evangelion replies to last week's question, I got - I think - one, and couldn't find it again in the pile of emails I got so I may be misremembering. Although a lot of the emails I got started out with some variation on "I bet you thought I was going to write about Evangelion!!".

Personally I think people in general just like End of Evangelion more than they publicly admit, but maybe that's wishful thinking.


I'll admit I liked The End of Evangelion, but I still don't think it made any sense. I'm really looking forward to seeing the new EVA movies.
Oh and on a completely unrelated note, I really want to see There will be Blood and No Country for Old Men.
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 7:11 pm Reply with quote
Alexander Morou wrote:
What would be required to get your work actually transitioned from unsolicited to approved and in the works (or at the very least, not thrown in the garbage can.)


Check the Answerman archives as there is an entire article written in 2003 or 2004 that does exactly what you ask for.

Since I just noticed someone has already said this I'll add the link to the article I mean. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/answerman/2004-02-07
Answer Editor Feb 7 2004
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 8:20 pm Reply with quote
Conan-san wrote:
I'm amazed no one has callled on Gurren Lagann's end for stuff what needs changed.

Now, before everyone jumps on me, I'm not aiming to change spoiler[the death of Nia]. Rather, I aim to nagate the downright downer point of spoiler[ Simon having nothing to show for his strugles and basicly being a hobo ].

Maybe I don't get the hyper elusive meening to Lagann but I was under the impression of it being a super robot show and most of them arn't exactly thoughtbird training.


But, Simon spoiler[ did did all he could and should do. Thats why he gave the core drill to Gimmy, and wandered off to be the greatest hobo ever, beating out even Steam Train Maurie. He would have been so manly, and awesome, that he would have KILLED THE UNIVERSE. I mean, you saw what he and Viral did to those Mugens. They blew them up by being AWESOME at them.
Besides, he seemed happy, and to be honest, if you save the world\ ENTIRE UNIVERSE, you can live any way you damn well please.]
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 9:20 pm Reply with quote
I actually have to say that I would love to change the ending of Escaflowne. It's always bothered me that spoiler[Dilandeau was a girl in the anime for some reason, and the fact that Hitomi just goes home and everything goes 'back to normal'. Like WTF? I dunno. Maybe that's what made it different, but it still kinda ticked me off Anime hyper!]
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 9:54 pm Reply with quote
posterior_praiser wrote:
I actually have to say that I would love to change the ending of Escaflowne. It's always bothered me that spoiler[Dilandeau was a girl in the anime for some reason, and the fact that Hitomi just goes home and everything goes 'back to normal'. Like WTF? I dunno. Maybe that's what made it different, but it still kinda ticked me off Anime hyper!]


If I remember correctly, Escaflowne was originally slated to be longer than it ended up so when the decision was made to make it 26 episodes, they needed to rush to the conclusion a bit. I have no problem with the first thing you mention but the second thing is mostly because of that.
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 11:13 pm Reply with quote
Yuukichan's Papa wrote:
posterior_praiser wrote:
I actually have to say that I would love to change the ending of Escaflowne. It's always bothered me that spoiler[Dilandeau was a girl in the anime for some reason, and the fact that Hitomi just goes home and everything goes 'back to normal'. Like WTF? I dunno. Maybe that's what made it different, but it still kinda ticked me off Anime hyper!]


If I remember correctly, Escaflowne was originally slated to be longer than it ended up so when the decision was made to make it 26 episodes, they needed to rush to the conclusion a bit. I have no problem with the first thing you mention but the second thing is mostly because of that.


Oh! I didn't know that. That would explain that cut off ending then.

And I don't know about spoiler[Dilandeau. I guess it was just a bit of a wtf moment for me, but it was a pretty intersting twist. I think I just came to like him, and then at the end he wasn't that character anymore really. I don't know if this makes sense Anime hyper]
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 11:42 pm Reply with quote
To Michael Loudon

I think you had a good point about not liking predestination, and what would have happened had spoiler[Spike lived.] Unfortunately, I think we wouldn't have had a show. The entire thing (well, the main storyline at least) was wrapped around the way people deal with their past. Some run toward it and face it like Spike, and some run from it like Faye. In the end, it catches up to all of them, and they must face what comes their way.

I agree with you in that most Bebop fans probably knew the ending as soon as spoiler[Julia was shot.] I was hoping that Spike could have made it out, but then, what would have been the point? By the time the fight with Vicious went down, everyone was facing their own demons. spoiler[Ed and Ein were gone, Faye found her past, Jet was back to the way he started and Spike finally had his answers.] That was it. Upset as I was at the end it, I finally came to see that Spike had nothing to go back to. We could argue that he had his friends and he had the Bebop, but those things were never his main concern anyway. Everything, from the very beginning, was about Vicious and Julia. The side episodes made us think that he actually had a real life, but it was an empty one.

This is all just my opinion of course, but after seeing the series time and time again, this conclusion made sense to me. With the way the show was going, there was no other way it could end, much like Bebop's pseudo-successor Samurai Champloo. According to the show, everyone has their own path in life, and they must follow this path wherever it may lead. To change the ending of the story, you'd have to change the whole thing as well.

To Answerman

Dead on. Though I think that Mitsubishi-kun and Toyota-kun slashfic would be disturbingly like the slashfic you find in the Transformers fandom. It's enough to make your eyes bleed.[/spoiler]
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 12:33 am Reply with quote
even if you set up the torrent client to upload (virtually) 0 kb/s, it would still have upload handshake data at the very least. really, all someone interested would have to do is ping the tracker to get a list of ip addresses, and package them with some c&d's to the isp to get you in 'trouble.' you are indeed correct in saying that it is stastically impossible for the casual user to face any serious repercussions (as things currently are).
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