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Answerman - Do Anime Studios Own The American Shows They Contributed To?

Disney is the absolute worse with releasing any TV show on DVD. Maybe it's just as Answerman says, the money is just not there. They own the rights to pretty much every Marvel cartoon (before they even bought Marvel) but won't put anything older than 2000 on DVD.

Examples like what you and Hoppy pointed out are why Japan really shouldn't try to come up with their own interpretations of U.S. and European properties. It's generally all style (and not necessarily a visually pleasing style) and no substance with them. The Powerpuff Girls Z anime was just incredibly stupid, and that's being generous. Stitch! was terrible too.

I actually own the first 2 seasons of Kim Possible. I got them through the Disney Rewards program. I believe the only way to currently buy them is by being a member of the Disney movie club. I believe they did this with the last sets of the Disney Afternoon cartoons as well.

It's quite interesting that, in comparison, Warner have put out the vast majority of their DC productions on home video and continue to do so, clearly implying there's at least some money still generated from them.

Examples like what you and Hoppy pointed out are why Japan really shouldn't try to come up with their own interpretations of U.S. and European properties. It's generally all style (and not necessarily a visually pleasing style) and no substance with them. The Powerpuff Girls Z anime was just incredibly stupid, and that's being generous. Stitch! was terrible too.

This is a common problem with shows that use copyrighted content from other sources, since getting clearance from the copyright holders to use their IP on television and getting clearance to use it on a home video release are two different beasts. The "Muppet Family Christmas" holiday special has the same issue, where several scenes from the original TV version got completely cut out of the home video version because they couldn't get permission to re-use certain copyrighted songs.

Well, for The Animatrix, while hit-or-miss, I did quite like some of them (especially "A Detective Story"). But more often than not, an anime adaptation of a western property that isn't classic literature tends to not be very good.

I prefer the anime adaptions of Powerpuff Girls and Stitch to the American shows. They have better art and an actual story. There's no excuse to have an artstyle as ugly as the original Powerpuff Girls outside laziness

Disney is the absolute worse with releasing any TV show on DVD. Maybe it's just as Answerman says, the money is just not there. They own the rights to pretty much every Marvel cartoon (before they even bought Marvel) but won't put anything older than 2000 on DVD. They play these games with shows they own too. Heck I think to this very day you can only get like 6 random episodes of Goof Troop on VHS.

I'll say this for Warner Bros. They put everything on DVD. EVERYTHING. If it's not on DVD there's a licensing issue like the Wonder Woman TV Show or the 60s Batman TV show but eventually they work around it and bring it out anyway.

Examples like what you and Hoppy pointed out are why Japan really shouldn't try to come up with their own interpretations of U.S. and European properties. It's generally all style (and not necessarily a visually pleasing style) and no substance with them.

Not disagreeing, but I will say that the reverse is true too: every American re-imagining of a Japanese property (and some European ones) I've ever seen badly misses the point about what made them good to begin with.

I think one of TMS's earliest U.S. efforts, Mighty Orbots, was another one of the exceptions to the rule in that they had actual ownership in that show as well as animating it. It's a pity it was buried in a legal nightmare as that's one series that's crying out for a remaster due to the absolutely amazing quality of its animation.

I do know he hated working on Tiny Toon Adventures though. (And in a weird inversion of this trope of spin-off babies, you have Back to Bedrock

Examples like what you and Hoppy pointed out are why Japan really shouldn't try to come up with their own interpretations of U.S. and European properties. It's generally all style (and not necessarily a visually pleasing style) and no substance with them.

I prefer the anime adaptions of Powerpuff Girls and Stitch to the American shows. They have better art and an actual story. There's no excuse to have an artstyle as ugly as the original Powerpuff Girls outside laziness

matt78 wrote:

I actually own the first 2 seasons of Kim Possible. I got them through the Disney Rewards program. I believe the only way to currently buy them is by being a member of the Disney movie club. I believe they did this with the last sets of the Disney Afternoon cartoons as well.

Ah, so they DO exist? I was never part of the Disney Rewards program as I was never an avid buyer of home video, so I hadn't known about it at all..

The beginning of this article reminds me that as a child I watched a ton of Baby Looney Tunes, almost every day, but have probably never seen more than a clip of a real Looney Tunes show or movie in my life.