Why did Cartoon Network feel threatened by Dragon Ball Z's success in the West?

>zoomers don't know what parody is

>>149027583 (OP)
This run of Johnny Bravo was headed by Kirk Tingblad and his Warner rejects. Remmeber that Tom Ruegger was honestly surprised kids would rather watch Pokémon than watch some birds talk about Martin Scorsese.

>>149027583 (OP)
The same reason they made fun of anything successful. Cause they were trending and well known.

>>149027583 (OP)
Pokemon fucking murdered Spider-Man Unlimited

>>149027603
Pretty fucking mean spirited for a parody though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-gxh52xsXw

>>149028976
>Pretty fucking mean spirited for a parody though.
good grief you're such a wuss

>>149027583 (OP)
Why do you feel threatened by a joke

>>149027583 (OP)
>>149027603
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>>149028914
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>>149028976
>>149028985
>>149028987
>Posted it again award
https://desuarchive.org/co/search/image/mGIEl_TnELt3Ykh5BVhPWw/

By this point, it was just parody for fun.
But back when Animaniacs was making new episodes and Power Rangers was the hottest shit ever, it also got made fun of.
The animators felt threatened- rightfully so- that their jobs were at risk because the executives could just buy the rights to an anime that was already made, hire some voice actors, and make more money at a fraction of the investment.

>>149029060
Why did OP choose this year to let a 20-year-old Johnny Bravo joke destroy his psyche?

In the 90s we could make fun of queer Asian shit for the cheap third world autism it is, then wokeshit ruined it

>>149028976
what does "mean spirited" mean to you?

Billy and mandy is chok full of humor like this. How is this surprising

>>149027603
Most western parodies of anime were a repetition of "ain't japanimation weird?" And seemed written by someone who had only caught 5 minutes of a show

Because it gave little boys what they wanted in media
>Over the top fighting scenes
>Little female rep (I'm talking about Z)

Because everyone gets butthurt when their paycheck is in danger.

>>149027603
>>149028914
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>>149030419
There was a lot of weapons grade autism surrounding anime even back then. You can argue a lot of jokes like this were done in good fun but there were a lot of people with VERY strong opinions about jap cartoons back then.

>>149030419
Who cares woke minority

We don't NEED to respect you or your pedo culture

Why did the term "japanimation" die anyway?

>>149030958
Asians think they're white because of years of racists who are also weeaboos. It's time to end that since they're the biggest whining bitches next to blacks

>>149030511
How would a cn show be challenged by dbz? When dbz ran on cn?

>>149031000
Because they're taking jobs from Honest Hard-Working American Folk!

Cue the crying Statue of Liberty and Kelly snarking in the corner.

>>149031000
Only kids who were into DBZ at My school were the autistic Mexican and black kids who orbited the white nerds and wore cargo pants with Payless shoes

recycling Japanese animation into Western cartoons was a smart move, and i'm tired of pretending it wasn't.

>>149030968
too wordy

>>149030968
it's racist to make any sort of portmanteau with a place name. it's why they had to change 'wapanese' to 'weeaboo'. PC gone mad.

>>149031008
But Cartoon Network was the main way I watched Western cartoons, because Nickelodeon had mostly gone downhill by then. So really, you could say it would’ve been better for Cartoon Network to air Dragon Ball Z, since it would’ve taken viewers away from Nickelodeon.

>>149031013
What was this middle school? How do you remember middle school?

>>149030958
>>149030987
Shut the fuck you fags

>>149031039
Because I wasn't medicated like zoomers? I remember everything from like age 3 onward, is that supposed to be abnormal?

>>149031051
Die sjw, multiculturalism sucks

>>149031052
>I remember everything from like age 3 onward, is that supposed to be abnormal?
this blows my mind tbqh. although i can remember, say, being 10-15 way clearer than i can remember being 25-30.

fucking brains.

>>149031056
Cope and seethe amerimutt

>>149031082
Euro here. Death to globohomo and death to multiculti. Invaders must die.

>>149031090
I don’t care about your gay fantasies

>>149030968
it sounds kinda dumb and dismissive, on top of being longish. You can either just say "Japanese animation" or just call it what the japanese call it.

>>149027583 (OP)
It was on CN so maybe the creators were nervous or doing more numbers would lead to CN just becoming the anime exporting network instead of greenlighting new content.

>>149028974
Should've just greenlit another season of Spider-Man: the Animated Series. Execs torpedo their most popular show then get mad that the shit they replace it with isn't popular enough to beat their competitors.

>>149030968
It's one of those names that only works for someone who doesn't like the thing or want to learn about it or be exposed to it. Like when older people used to call video game systems the "game station" or refer to Pokemon as "Pokey man" or social media "Facepage" kind of thing. It's funny when it's a dismissive attitude towards a thing you don't like and don't care to have stick around but if you've grown up with something or kind of like it then it feels weird to say because you know the correct terms.

>>149031052
Same. Apparently most people can't but they'll recover memories if you start feeding them details.

>>149027583 (OP)
Pokémon over shadowed DBZ to be frank, both got over shadowed by SpongeBob in the end.
>>149027610
They weren't, The WB just shoved Pokémon down everyone's throat because The WB became too cheap to give people what they actually want (Animaniacs), luckily Nick showed up and give the people something they actually wanted (SpongeBob) and there was no turning back.
>>149028974
SpongeBob, not Pokémon.
>>149030071
Pokémon lacked the queer shit some other anime shows had *cough*CardCaptor Sakura*cough*.
>>149031029
Nick got it's second wind with SpongeBob and that is still going strong.
>>149031364
TMS was already leaving the American space and Spider-Man was mostly done by Korean studios anyway (on top of the Japanese team behind it leaving TMS to find Ufotable by that point), they needed to just use that money on Animaniacs instead anyway.

>>149027583 (OP)
>parody is mostly about Pokemon
>only Dragon Ball tards get offended

>>149028976
>WELL YOU HAVE SACRIFICED STORY CONTENT FOR MINDLESS VIOLENCE AND LACK OF STRUCTURE
Funny how western cartoons were just episodic comedies yet claim this.

>>149031470
Anything that has a character with Goku's distinctive spiky haircut becomes Dragon Ball by default to the tards.

>>149031439
Nobody wanted Animaniacs.

>>149031482
Animaniacs was getting over 10 million views per broadcast back in the day, only The Simpsons were getting similar viewership numbers.

Both still did much better then Power Rangers and Barney.

Imagine dying in this hill for this type of cartoon.
Steven universe was a better product in any stage of its existence.

>>149027583 (OP)
It was more than just DBZ.. It's almost standard for every /co/ work to have an anime or manga parody at some point. Keep wondering why, while the west continues to die

>>149031504
Fixed.

>>149027583 (OP)
stop making this thread you autist

>>149031439
>Pokémon lacked the queer shit some other anime shows had *cough*CardCaptor Sakura*cough*.
but they de-gayed Cardcaptors

meanwhile, the American Pokémon stage play had a "James is gay" joke.

>>149031490
There was less competition at the time.

>>149028976
>mean spirited
zoomer confirmed

>>149031528
>animation
>>149031504
>slideshow (both)

>>149031536
stop arguing in bad faith, it's bad netiquette. remember the human.

>>149030431
Also important is that it gave girls romantic stories of shujo, there is no big secret or unknowable formula. Girls like romance and fashion and boys like Action and Violence. Localized Anime filled these niches. Western showrunners don't understand this, they are too focused on comedy and romance hardly exists.

>>149031439
>>149031482
Then Gundam Seed came out and kicked in the shit of any non-Pokemon IP

>>149031528
Why can't japs do this kind of animation unless it's 3D? 3D exposes them so hard because it shows that they would go for this if their industry didn't train them to do the other retarded shit qith extreme zoom ins on characters faces and excessive flashes.

>>149031560
SpongeBob says hi.

And Hamtaro did much better then any Gundam project.

And lets not forget about Sazae-San.
>>149031566
Because it's not allowed anymore, TMS tried to get Animaniacs back but were forced to do Tower of God's first season and Shenmue: The Animation against their will because it was in line to what everyone else was doing.

BECAUSE GOD FORBID IF ANOTHER MIGHTY MOUSE: THE NEW ADVENTURES (a show that changes how cartoons get made forever) HAPPENS AGAIN!!!!

>>149030071
Lol, lmao even. Anime ins the 90s was mogging cartoons so hard, even the good looking cartoons were outsourced to japan.

>>149031540
That the slideshow still appeals to children, no child has ever cared over a pervy reference to Casablanca

>>149030958
>Who cares woke minority
You are saying that on an anime site and comicshitters are the minority considering manga outsells their shit.

>>149031591
>And Hamtaro did much better then any Gundam project.
Only lasted a couple of years in the US
Gundam Seed was one of the mainstays of Toonami in its later years, as was Destiny
AS not picking up Stargazer or 00 really hurt them long-term

>>149031504
Shut the fuck up tranny

>>149031504
That design has more soul than any western cartoon made in the last 20 years.

>>149030071
Cope amerimutt tranny

>>149031566
>Why can't japs do this kind of animation unless it's 3D?
That animation was literally made by japs and for series cowboy bebop has better animation and direction than most western cartroons. Also since ccs has been mentioned.

>>149031617
Nope

>>149031607
This is a western comics and cartoons board

>>149031566
>Why can't japs do this kind of animation u
99% of the good western animated series made after the 80s were animated by the nips. You should ask yourself why the west can't do that kind of animation.

>>149031616
>>149031622
>>149031626
He's back, jump on his /co/bros!

>>149031557
>>149030431
Nothing you said is true, as....

Both boys and girls want comedy, falling anvils and funny animals, the problem is that it's all action serials that just happen to be animation with a few dramas which in both camps are universally hated.

To quote Charles Solomon; There has only been a few good human characters in animation, excluding side (both primary and secondary) characters those are Koko The Clown, Betty Boop, Popeye, Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, Granny, Fred Flintstone, George Jetson, Homer Simpson, Philip J. Fry, Laura Haruna and Katie Minami; Other then that all of the greats are all funny animals like Bugs Bunny and Woody Woodpecker.

>>149031654
Why do you people on this board keep asking for this?

There needs to be an addendum to Global Rule 4. One where doxxing and raiding are allowed if, and only if, the target is a well known and universally despised public nuisance to a board's community.
famicom both needs, and deserves to have that taken one step further by either being swatted and shot dead, or having a hitman sent after him.

>>149031602
It doesn't, Duck Dodgers In The 24½th Century appeals to children as well as adults, the slide show appeals to no one.

Limited animation can work, Huckleberry Hound, Quick Draw McGraw, Yogi Bear and The Flintstones are proof of this.
>>149031623
Cowboy Bebop and Cardcaptor Sakura were also satellite anime (NHK for Sakura's case) so they get bigger budgets then over the air anime.

>>149031662
Because you people wanted networks to air more anime back in the day, only to then realize that it's 20 times worse then what you had before.

>>149031612
All got over shadowed by SpongeBob.

Also Hamtaro was getting better ratings on CN then anything Gundam related on CN.

>>149031701
Oh, I know that. I'm just asking why everybody keeps inviting that Laura-obsessed retard to vomit all over our threads.

>>149031617
Not true.

>>149031648
Cope retard

>>149031726
Laura Haruna is one of the greats that is in the same leagues as Bugs Bunny, Tom and Jerry, Woody Woodpecker and Popeye, plus you always post stuff from John K's blog about "how and how not to make cartoons".

He is not a retard.

Someone post screen caps from John K's blog.

>>149031741
So what does she do?

>>149031616
>>149031617
Waht if I told you, that I think Japan excells in 3D animation? To me, Daima is far better animated than One Piece. It's all about the techniques they are forced/learn to use in school to animate their 2D projects. The same rules are not applied to 3D. So it's allowed to be better. And a better project with a big budget will always be better than a better project but with a lower budget (in case of 3D animations from western products).
Is my message getting to you?

>>149031742
She is Japan's answer to (Chuck Jones) Bugs Bunny, that will tell you everything you need to know.

>>149031674
Well, it's obvious (not that I care if this reply is gone after 5 hours), but also because I've seen this thread before and it was some YouTube comment bot thread that lasted for nearly 3 days in February. But Famicom can't be much of a problem since recently, Jannies take down some replies from him. He can't be that bad to take down.
>>149031721
>>149031741
And I rather have that anon who posts frame-by-frame Proud Family screencaps. That's not done by TMS, so that works

>>149031753
No, really, what does she do. Describe an actual short with her.

>>149031764
Not every episode has this premise but... Laura is minding her own business while something comes up and she has to solve it in her own special way.

>>149031782
And explain what her "special way" is.

>>149028976
Different time.
They didn't really need to pretend not to be racist against Asians in the 90s. To be hosnest, I feel it was a better time for both sides.

>>149031816
See what Bugs Bunny and Slappy Squirrel do whenever they're dealing with something.

>>149027583 (OP)
It's this thread again, and that's a good thing!

>>149031836
Not an answer. In detail, explain what she does.

>>149031840
THAT IS A ANSWER!!!!

>>149031846
Still not hearing that answer.

>>149031854
That is a answer; Why is it that you accept that as a answer with everyone else on /co/ but with me it's "NOT GOOD ENOUGH"? It is good enough so fuck off.

I unironically miss unapologetic racist reviews in the western media.
Now they just have to pretend to be super progressive to shit on Japs safely. That's just dishonest and uglier at the end of the day.

>>149031868
No, it's not. And you're supposed to write it as "an answer".

>>149027610
>watch some birds talk about Martin Scorsese
i'd watch that, what are you referring to?

>>149031908
The Goodfeathers from Animaniacs.

Does anyone else find it strange that mods dont just permaban these people? OP's been spamming this thread for months, Famicom's self-explanatory, we have Birchy shitting up multiple threads right now with avatarfagging and derailing to make things about generation wars, and they're just... allowed to? While breaking multiple global rules, constantly?

>>149032034
>Does anyone else find it strange that mods dont just permaban these people?
It never works. They just get new IP addresses and keep posting regardless.

>>149032034
>he doesnt remember all the mods information being leaked
They're all a bunch of incompetent /pol/fags

>>149031654
>Both boys and girls want comedy, falling anvils and funny animals
Maybe in the 1960's, but that's not the case anymore. Literally every market research study on demographics shows that boys watch and like action and girls watch and like romance.

>>149031544
i don't need to argue. you are a faggot. end of story

>>149032034
I don't think it's that bad. At least this is about cartoon and it's a good thing to remember what it was like in the 90s.

>>149031674
Good idea because this place is full of sensible people who would use that rule very sparingly and responsibly
>>149031760
>Jannies take down some replies from him.
That's surprising. Obviously it'd be better if they just ban him outright, but this is definitely a step up from the jannies actively supporting and enabling trolls.

>>149031612
Gundam Seed was tossed around the schedule in the US, it wasn’t a Toonami staple. I think it finished its running 5-6 am slot. Or it was after 12 on Fridays, when Adult Swim wasn’t airing on Fridays yet. Similar thing happened to YuYu Hakusho

>>149032121
No, they don't, everyone hated it and John K entered the industry back in the 1980s to stop this nightmare and he won.

It's only when he got exposed as a groomer that we went back the the hellscape that was the 1980s.

Boys and girls want funny animal comedies such as Bugs Bunny, Droopy and Woody Woodpecker and nothing else.

>>149027603
>retards who don't know what bait or different opinion is
>>149028976
Not really mean spirited, just pointing out how pokemon was selling a lot of toys to kids just used other stuff to mask the parody better (which is kinda ironic since cartoon network leaned on selling toys )

>>149033678
Problem with what you just said was that the Pokémon anime wasn't designed to sell shit, it was designed to expand the story in whys the very limited Game Boy hardware couldn't, Yoshio Sakamoto said so himself, otherwise they would've rejected it for disobeying John K's rules and guide lines in the animation industry.

>>149030958
American and euro entertaiment has way more pedophiles involved in it's industry

>>149033740
>Famicom's here

>>149031504
>Steven universe was a better product in any stage of its existence.
and people dare to say /co/mblr is not real.

>>149034090
No, that is the case.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HsxuGMWnXM

>>149028914
Anime has in one year more original IPs that CN, of 2000 to 2025. And lots of anime are adaptations of books and mangas. CN has zero cartoons of american books and comics

>>149033327
Shut up retard

>>149034949
No, that is the case, please read John K's blog.

Stop making this thread

>>149028985
They LITERALLY say this:

>WELL YOU HAVE SACRIFICED STORY CONTENT FOR MINDLESS VIOLENCE AND LACK OF STRUCTURE

it WAS mean spirited against anime.

>>149036350
Nobody cares you faggot

post more bros

>>149031439
>give people what they actually want (Animaniacs)

>>149027583 (OP)
Because it was cheaper to import cartoons from other countries instead of spending millions on a cartoon.
And a lot of Western artists were sour about that as they should be.
Also
>Kirk era of Johnny Bravo.

>>149031504
I'm really enjoying the new Yaiba, but man I really am not a fan of how spastically flashy and fast a lot of fights are animated nowadays.

>>149037482
TMS back then knew what the people wanted.
>>149037515
Until Japan caught wind of how huge Pokémon got and jacked up their rates.

>>149027583 (OP)
Because anime stole the boys and male market from them, which ended up being the case, boys would prefer to watch DBZ over the steven universe or late seasons adventure time for example.
One of the many why CN is dead nowadays

>>149037794
No, not the case what so ever.

Boys (as well as girls) wanted funny animal comedies.

All they picked up were shitty action shows that just happened to be animated.

Boys (as well as girls) avoided it and just went to live action YouTubers like Game Sack, The 8-Bit Guy, My Life In Gaming and LGR because it give them what they wanted.

Even the studio that SAVED the animation industry back in the 1980s (TMS/Telecom) were forced to do shitty action shows at gun point (and later shitty dramas that were even worse) because Wellesley Wild hated everything the studio stood for and wanted to make them suffer.

All of this would've been avoided if TMS (Telecom) got Animaniacs (and later Tiny Toons) back with ZERO AMERICAN/FOREIGN INVOLMENT so they can give Toei and Sunrise a run from their money.

That and have Looney Tunes Cartoons be done by TMS (Telecom), Studio 4°C, Trigger and OLM and make sure theres no Americans/foreigners in that production either, it would've done wonders.

>>149027583 (OP)
It’s a dumb joke. rather have boomer cartoonists make fun of anime instead of this

>>149037908
The showrunner doesn't control who gets to animate a show

>>149037972
Yes he does, otherwise Tower of God and Shenmue: The Animation wouldn't exist and TMS would've got Animaniacs back.

>>149037908
>Boys (as well as girls) wanted funny animal comedies.
>All they picked up were shitty action shows that just happened to be animated.
>Boys (as well as girls) avoided it and just went to live action YouTubers like Game Sack, The 8-Bit Guy, My Life In Gaming and LGR because it give them what they wanted.
But you said they wanted funny animal cartoons. Why would they move onto random gaming channels?

>>149033740
>Pokémon anime wasn't designed to sell shit, it was designed to expand the story
Every anime based on an existing IP is designed to sell more shit. Doesn't mean it can't tell a good story, but most of the time it's just there to sell.

>>149038009
Why the fuck do you keep talking about TMS and Animaniacs when most posts you reply to have nothing to do with it

>>149031479
yeah DBZ had a lot more consistent narrative storytelling going on than anything produced stateside at the time.

>>149031534
they joked about him being gay in the Japanese too. the dub just cranked it up

>>149038036
No it isn't, some got an anime to expand it's source as the manga/game/radio drama had bottle necks that only anime can get rid of.
>>149038039
Gold standard for TV animation.
>>149038069
>1989-1990.
Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers, The Simpsons and Tiny Toon Adventures will like to have a word with you.

Also Gummi Bears, The New Adventures of Winnie The Pooh, DuckTales, and Garfield and Friends were also still getting new episodes at that time too.

>>149038106
That was a 1 time thing with the inflatable breasts.

>Birtchy is replying to Famicom
AUTISM TORNADOOOOOOO EVERYONE BATTEN DOWN THE HATCHES

>>149038185
he crossdresses constantly.

>>149038199
So does Bugs Bunny, and people worship the ground that wabbit walks on.

>>149038027
They have other interests.

>>149038208
and there's a joke that Bugs is limpwristed, too.

>>149038237
No, just likes dressing up as a woman.

>>149038396
buddy back in the 40s and 50s there was a controversy that Bugs was gay propaganda because he crossdressed and kissed Elmer Fudd.

>>149027583 (OP)
american cartoons are cucked

>>149038441
Shut up tacoshart

>>149038440
No there wasn't, if there was The Hay's Office would've stepped in and stopped it before it even started.

>>149038467
You are brown yourself, you admitted it
>>149025897

>>149038493
you're an idiot. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.0022-3840.1995.00183.x
Hayes office wasn't omnipotent.

>>149038619
Yes, they were, it's why Betty Boop jumped shark.

>>149027603
The people making this shit don't know what parody is. Blazing Saddles is parody. Airplane is a parody this is just going WOOOOOAAAAH THING I DON'T LIKE IS SILLY.

>>149027583 (OP)
ok come on, how is nobody not acknowledging that this is clearly a Jackie Chan Adventures spoof?

>>149038511
Never said that

>>149038871
Sure you did

>>149038511
I'm purple.

>>149027583 (OP)
Because

I want the opposite. What was the most sincere efforts to parody/reference anime. Ideally one pre 2010, since around that time you had people who actually like anime begin to make cartoons. I think Gendy's whole episode for speed racer is definitely made sincerely, albeit he plays it up

>>149040637
Except that the anime they grew up were TERRIBLE bastardized dubs.

>>149038883
Yes

>>149031364
What are the chances we actually get a continuation after X-Men 97? Never ever I am sure.

>>149027583 (OP)
Because it was a success.
Like how WB got butthurt over Pokemon being more successful than their own cartoons.

Now it feels pretty weird and too dumb that their critisisms of anime were often like ''those damn japs are just chasing money because......merch!!''

But you need to understand japan was still pretty rich in the 90s and there was a general sentiment that japs were cheating and doing too good econnomicaly in the 80s
That's still dumb and unfair though

>>149042372
100% fake.

Pokémon's ratings were high, but were much lower then the Spielberg/Ruegger toons, in fact the only reason why ratings were high was strictly was because the Spielberg/Ruegger toons ended and The WB became too cheap to make their own programming.

And then SpongeBob showed up and incinerated Pokémon and everything in it's path that wasn't news and sports.
>>149042420
That was never the case as that would be disobeying John K's rules and orders which Japan only got as big as it did by following his orders to the T.

Oh so you're doing the whole "bumping the thread every time it hits page 10" thing again huh. God this board is fucking dogshit.

>>149043207
I didn't even know this thread was even at page 10.

>>149042372
Fixed.

>>149040654
You're an under age faggot. And even if they grew up on the western version they're at least not seething like a bunch of retards.

>>149027583 (OP)
I feel like /co/ is the only place obsessed with comparing Japanese cartoons with western ones. This site will always have its roots buried in anime and Otaku culture no matter how many newfaggots and in /co/'s case relatively old faggots complain about it.

>>149031504
The worst part is you actually believe that.