Thread 151103163

Why aren't there more cartoons about sports?

>>151103163 (OP)
Because sports are boring and lame

>>151103163 (OP)
Because americans hate sports

I think most of them are French

>>151103166
You are, fatfuck

>>151103218
French cartoons are all just excuses to draw cute girls.

fuck I hate soccer

>>151103383
Its name is football

>>151103260
Yeah, feels like it

Did anybody see this?

>>151103677
I did, I was a fan the hockey game. I thought the show was pretty, uh, mediocre, but other folks out there say it was better then how I remember it, so whatever.

>>151103163 (OP)
Because a single game is repetitive as fuck for a series. It works much better as a one-off movie.

Series are for things like Xiolain Showdown where the 'game' each episode can be anything the characters come up with.

>>151104094
It's really not that hard to just have each episode use different rule/format variants for a lot of games/sports.

Would a western combat-sports cartoon work? Something like Hajime No Ippo.

>>151103213
It's true. We only watch the Super Bowl for the ads.

>>151103163 (OP)
For kids, sports are just a game. For adults it is its own political world of gambling and soft core human trafficking

>>151103218
Or Italian

>>151103163 (OP)
Western cartoons focus on an episodic nature, so they usually don't focus on actual sports related storylines, cause otherwise you might as well just watch real people playing with real sports equipment beating each other up irl. So they tend to either go one of two ways

1) Turn them into superheroes like the Mighty Ducks
or
2) Turn them into superheroes while spamming sponsorships out the fucking ass like Rush Zone

Unless you're talking about like those old Goofy "How to [x]" cartoons, in which case I agree, they need more of those, they were some of the funniest shit I've ever seen.

>>151103163 (OP)
americans are too fat

>>151104094
>Because a single game is repetitive as fuck for a series.
Go ahead and explain why Japan doesn't have this problem

>>151104537
Cause there's a massive lull between games for romance, drama, and hype building, and every single game is given the dramatic importance of a Dark Souls boss. So you might only get like two to four or five games a season, but they'll be multi-episode affairs that treat it like life and death.

>>151103163 (OP)
Cartoons has a sport?

Will we ever get a kino skateboarding or surfing cartoon again?

>>151103166
Correct.

>>151103163 (OP)
probably writing and content issues. you have to talk about things other than the sport if you want a narrative. will the cartoon also deal with the multiple ways of cheating? betting and gambling? corrupt coaches? politics surrounding the sport when it's on a different field in a different country? the crime that comes with big events? arbitrary rules? dealing with injuries? mechanical and engineering problems if the sport involves machinery? the obvious teamwork being superior to individual performance? genetics and unfair advantage overtaking experience and hard work? rigged matchmaking algorithms (EOMM) if it's video games? will it point out that spy apps like porofessor is a form of "acceptable cheating" since it has features that are pay to play, or the simple observation of other players not helping you if you're on a losing streak and playing around you if you're on a winning streak (and vice versa with the enemy team, picking on you for losing streaks and respecting you for winning streaks). will it address the fact that often taxpayer money goes to privately owned stadiums and whatever shenanigans that comes with? if the show focuses on only one sport then a lot is lost that way too since there are so many different sports.

everyone wants it to be some simple bullshit about competition and overcoming but sports are one of the most dumbed down things in existence because it's bread and circus and a way to make money instead of self improvement.

>>151103163 (OP)
cause sports anime exist

>>151103166
FPBP

>>151103163 (OP)
Because they ultimately end up being from foreign animation companies and end up being about soccer, the most boring sport that Europe and Latin America cling to much like the North Americans do to any form of measurement other then metric. To spite the better option.

>>151105799
>>151106050
Get lost, fatlards and landwhales.

>>151103213
Correct. They're too fat to play sports.

>>151104187
>For adults it is its own political world of gambling and soft core human trafficking
God you gen-Zombies truly are mentally insane.

>>151106421
no, that anon is correct

>>151105955
>probably writing and content issues. you have to talk about things other than the sport if you want a narrative.
Most cartoons don't give a fuck about writing realistic narratives. You might as well say that no cartoon should have ever been made.