Thread 283229797

if you think about it, inspector gadget was in many ways the first anime to reach an american audience

lol no
Speed Racer, Astro Boy, Kimba the White Lion, Star Blazers, and Gigantor all disagree.

>>283229797 (OP)
Me and my brothers were all Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh GODS.
We had the duel disks and a massive collection of cards

>>283229834
that doesn't combat the OP. nobody has heard of these. inspector gadget reached an american audience first

>>283229797 (OP)
>french cartoon
>anime

THE GREATEST ANIME OF TIME!

>>283229874
I was genuinely shocked for a moment seeing the OP.
>Wait that was anime??

>>283229864
You think no one's heard of Speed Racer or Star Blazers? Next you'll be telling me Robotech wasn't popular either.
Oh child, please educate yourself before you speak.

>>283229864
For your sake, I hope you're fucking trolling and not that genuinely retarded. These days it's so hard to tell.
>Speed Racer
Premiered in the US in 1967
>Astro Boy
Premiered in the US in 1963
>Kimba the White Lion
Premiered in the US in1966
>Gigantor
Premiered in the US in 1966
>Star Blazers
Premiered in the US in 1979
Meanwhile, Inspector Gadget premiered in 1982.
>>283229874
French call their cartoons "animé"

What part of this says anime to you, OP?

>>283229834
No, you haven't heard the old tale? George Washington after winning the Revolutionary War flew over to Tenmei Japan and was given Inspector Gadget by Emperor Kōkaku. He flew back to the US and showed Inspector Gadget to the founding fathers. Thomas Jefferson liked it so much as that he showed it to every person living in the newly founded United States. And thus American's were introduced to anime.

>>283229910
>>283229874
It was animated in Japan. It's arguably "Japanese animation." Which, incidentally, makes Penny a "loli" by even the most autistic weeaboo definitions.
I think Dic! and TNS worked on it. Same shit with Tiny Toon Adventures and stuff like Muppet Babies. A lot of studios in the 80s and 90s were eitger having Japan do their animation or hiring the same Korean studios the Japanese were for anime. Sometimes it changes between seasons, too. You can see the visual similarities to anime in a lot of places, but sometimes the only giveaway is a change in fluidity or quality. Check out this Penny, for instance. If you didn't know this was from Inspector Gadget I could have convinced you it was from MGS or Minky Momo or Doraemon or some shit.
Picrel, obviously

>>283230023
The most autistic weeaboo definitions require it to be created by japanese for a japanese audience.

>>283230023
So was Avatar. We still don't allow that here, as it's rightfully /co/ material.

GO GADGET GO

From the Japanese model sheet for Penny I like to think the Japanese studios really knew what to do with her design

>>283230023
Anime means PRODUCED in Japan, not animated retard.

Like you can just straight-up tell which drawings were sent to Japan as concepts and which ones were made in that country apart on-sight

>>283229797 (OP)
IIRC Inspector Gadget was born from a cancelled Lupin spinoff anime thing set in the future staring his grandson and a cyborg zenigatta.

>>283231368
You don't recall correctly. We're on the internet; you can just look things up if you're not sure.

Gadget wasn't even the most anime thing in Nick Jr

>>283229951
Anime is made in Japan. Off yourself.

Penny, my beloved

>>283232390
that’s a kid

>>283229834
The first anime that Americans ever saw was also the first anime that most Japanese ever saw: Astro Boy.
Which was the first TV anime ever.

>>283232410
So was I

I have 423 screenshots of Penny

>>283230023
No one here will talk about it but I hard agree. You can tell when a Japanese animation studio draws something. Or at least Asian. Mlp rescue at midnight castle is toei and It's completely different from the cartoon in lighting, expression, momentum, etc. Having watched it and compared it to other clips of early mlp cartoons, nothing really comes close.

It's strange to me that this would offend anyone. You can say it's not anime, but the reality is this basically confirms that there is an undefinable root to Japanese animation that can't be copied by shit like totally spies. It's weird people would have a problem with this notion on /a/.

>>283232390
I can't believe they made a modern inspector gadget video game but penny is not playable. Retard award of the decade.

>>>/wsg/6007809
>>>/wsg/6007811
Even her theme music was great

Who would win in a fight, Inspector Gadget or Lupin III?

>>283229951

You forgot Marine Boy, which was originally 13 episodes but america had them make more episodes for it here.

>>283232458

The elites dont want me to know this.

>>283230023
by this logic modern anime doesn't exist, it's all chinese

>>283229951
>French call their cartoons "animé"
That's for japanese ones, we call ours (and anything else western) "dessins animés"

>>283232462
Lol no. I bet you think raw egg on rice is mindblowingly divine and the jap saber can bisect a western knight in two. We like anime because of the Japanese setting and stories. In terms animation quality, most Jap cartoons are shiite powerpoint slides.

>>283231824
Nick Jr had a lot of localized anime back then, like "The Littl' Bits", "Little Koala" and notably "Grimm's Masterpiece Theater", on top of co-productions like "Mysterious Cities of Gold".
Obvious anime imports were pretty common back then, and no one gave a single fuck.

>>283232803
Huh? I never said it was perfect. I said it has a signature you illiterate jeet

>>283232827
I think I must have seen Manxmouse there, too, I'm not old enough for the first broadcast.

>>283229797 (OP)
which one is the episode where he uses brown bricks?

For me it's the Japanese anime Cybersix.

>>283230100
avatar was animated by koreans

haaa inspecteur Gadget, i've watched tons of episodes when i was younger because it was on the French TV back then.
a true cult classic, would recommend.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itwBlZ_lTVg

but it wasn't the only French "anime", there was "Les mystérieuses cités d'or", "Ulysses 31" and many more.
and yes it is "anime" because it was animated in Japan by Japanese studios (but with French help) BUT; to my knowledge, those anime were never distributed in Japan because they were "bought" like the animation mainly, not the story, VA's, etc...
maybe Japs did see inspector Gadget on their TV but i don't think it happened and the character design for Penny is most likely Japanese but i doubt it's the case for Uncle Gadget himself.

pic rel is Ulysse 31, another Franco-Japanese production with the designs and animation clearly Japanese.
i'd love to see a "new" Franco-Jap production, a remaster, for Ulysse 31.

and by the way, the most modern French-Japanese production i can think of is Radiant, it's a French manga that got a Japanese anime adaptation with Japanese VA's this time (and french VA obviously) and broadcasted in both countries.

>>283230308
wrong, because Radiant is a French owned IP but the animation, SFX, VA and broadcasting was also done in Japan.

>>283230023
It was the same case for The Real Ghostbusters, show was the shit man.
https://youtu.be/M2SysYkllvE?si=-mQUgKaM1pt_1Lgp

>>283233134
>Ulysse 31
Basé, it was pretty dated when I was a kid and it aired on TV but I still loved it
Also the OP was kino
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxlNw-vz7l8

>>283229963
Not OP, but how much leverage do
>Tetsuo Katayama
>Tokyo Movie Shinsha
give?

Honest question.

I remember there being a list of episodes were penny is in a bikini or partially undressed

Penny's cute spacesuit

by the way, "Penny" is called "Sophie" in the original French version.

>>283233520
Yes, I think it's a nice name.
There is a version of her theme song that has lyrics in French.

if you can read French (or auto-translate the text) here's an article explaining the history of French-Japanese animation with the Nippon Animation studio (not the one that did Ulysse 31 or Inspector Gadget), starting in 1975 (!) :

https://fouchapelier.wordpress.com/2009/07/26/nippon-animation-les-bons-dessins-animes-francais/

>>283233306
very little. Plenty of old American cartoons were subcontracted to jap studios. Doesn't change the fact that they were predominantly created by and for an american audience

but France did it with movies as well, like "Wasabi" (with Jean Reno) French movie but produced in Japan and France with some Japanese actors and with the beautiful Ryoko Hirosue as Yumi in the movie, yes she speaks French in the movie but she's only repeating phonetically because she couldn't actually speak the language.
filmed in Japan without the approval of competent autorities for some of the locations lol, that's why you can see background characters looking at Reno or Ryoko because they weren't allowed to film in Tokyo but they did it in the streets full of passerby anyway, fuck the police and shit.
the "hole" scene :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gPOnCuxVtg

I want a modern Gadget anime, none of that CGI shit. Cute loli Penny is a must.