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NEWS: Ping Pong/Kick-Heart's Yuasa Directs Adventure Time Episode

This is interesting. A Japanese anime director does "Adventure Time." It'll be interesting to see what this Yuasa guy does with this episode.

Could be worth noting that it's not the first time he animates and directs for a non-japanese cartoon as he did the same for special episode of WAKFU back in 2010.

v1cious wrote:

I can't believe nothing by him has been released in the US yet. Funimation is leaving money on the table.

I REALLY doubt his stuff would sell in the American market. Usually those kinda series bomb HARD here because they're not long running action kids shows. Ain't exactly hard to see why companies pass on his stuff given the tastes of the American anime market.

Also people complaining about AT's style.... You do realize part of what makes animation great is visual diversity right? Something anime severly lacks alot of the time.

I never really got into "Adventure Time",but I might watch this because of Yuasa's presence.Still,this doesn't look a lot like him.
Regardless of my feelings about this episode,I am happy that this year is busy for Yuasa and that he will get more exposure.

kurotsuki wrote:

Could be worth noting that it's not the first time he animates and directs for a non-japanese cartoon as he did the same for special episode of WAKFU back in 2010.

Eunyoung Choi directed that,Yuasa merely provided character designs.

Mister Ryan Andrews wrote:

v1cious wrote: I can't believe nothing by him has been released in the US yet. Funimation is leaving money on the table. I REALLY doubt his stuff would sell in the American market. Usually those kinda series bomb HARD here because they're not long running action kids shows. Ain't exactly hard to see why companies pass on his stuff given the tastes of the American anime market.

Yeah, I think this is the 2nd time this month someone claimed that FUNimation "handled Tatami Galaxy" horribly. Dude, they didn't give it a home video because not enough people watched their stream of it! People should be watching their stream of Ping Pong NOW if they want it to get a home video (and introducing it to others). I'm still meaning to watch more Tatami Galaxy (like 4 episodes in) but I can't watch an episode in a half-hour, what with pausing the lead's fast-talking.

Soundmonkey44 wrote:

Also people complaining about AT's style.... You do realize part of what makes animation great is visual diversity right? Something anime severly lacks alot of the time.

Really? Because the majority of American cartoons look flat (without the detail to things like hair or creases in clothing) and have circles with dots for eyes (or just dots like Adventure Time or Doug). I find this "all anime looks the same" claim annoying when most American cartoons look flat, as if it's too much to ask for characters that don't look flat. I mean, Korra doesn't look flat, but does it have to look like anime not to look flat? I mean, some superhero shows don't (and Disney movies) but I get bored of watching the same characters (i.e. Batman) over and over again.

Your Mistaking Detail for quality & denouncing the merit of visual Diversity. Detailed pictures are nice but part of ATs charm is it's simplistic nature.

Visual Diversity means having a look all your own, or at least some slight variation on what exists, many anime have characters ecspecially female characters that could be from 1 of 1000s of shows. They look like clones! But no one is going to mistake Adventure Time for South Park, or Simpsons For King. Of The Hill, Gravity Falls for Bobs Burgers.

Anime severly lacks this. That's why I love YUASA so much! He makes visually Stimulating stuff like Tatami Galaxy, Kick Heart, Ping Pong, etc. I can't wait to watch his full AT episode!!!