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Given that most aspects of Japanese arts were "inspired" (ahem) by Western artists, it's just a good lesson that the shoe can hurt when put on the other foot.
by suction 5y ago
Given that most aspects of Japanese arts were "inspired" (ahem) by Western artists, it's just a good lesson that the shoe can hurt when put on the other foot.
I'm pretty sure without Walt Disney, there would have never been any Anime in Japan.
- brazzy 5y agoThe "god of manga" Osamu Tezuka (yes, they call him god, not godfather) certainly never denied lifting ideas from Disney and other early American animators. But there's the difference: Tezuka was, as the moniker makes obvious, hugely successful, also financially. It's easy to be gracious to people copying from you when you're successful yourself. It's a very different thing when you're struggling and other people are being successful and making bank with ideas copied from you - and that is clearly what irked Satoshi Kon as well.
- toyg 5y agoEverybody was lifting from everybody at the time. The two postwar periods were golden ages in creative industries precisely because there was no practical limitation to riffing and reimagining. Then the boomers got law degrees and went to work.
- toyg 5y agoI'm pretty sure you're spectacularly wrong. The first commercial animation in Japan pre-dates Disney by a decade: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anime https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anime Anime is effectively an offshoot of manga, which goes back literally centuries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_manga https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_manga
- suction 5y ago