Here's some more information on projects Disney is working on in
corporation with anime companies like Toei and Madhouse.

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5io_Rsl5sBVipKwh7lwKeM3rk17sw

- Juan F. Lara

On Fri, 28 Mar 2008), ljuan@ces.clemson.edu (Juan F. Lara) apprised
us:

From the news release:
"The futuristic Fireball is set on a planet in outer space and
features a metallic white-coloured humanoid robot named Drossel that
has the mind of a 14-year-old girl and her gigantic butler robot."

A planet set in outer space? Wonders! As opposed to a planet that's
half-embedded in Earth's crust, or orbits within Earth's hollow
interior, or exists inside a computer, or is a figment of the main
character's pathological ravings. Or somesuch. (1)

A metallic humanoid robot? Unlike the stone, wood, holographic,
vegetable, or meat robots that populate all those other anime. (2)

On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:17:38 -0400, Phillip Thorne
comcast.net> wrote:

Tidal drag is a gravitational effect that has nothing
to do with air - except when the air is massive enough
to be generating gravity.

Thanks for not forgetting rec.arts.animation with this press release,
traitor :-)

On Mar 28, 3:35 pm, lj...@ces.clemson.edu (Juan F. Lara) wrote:

Am I the only one noting that Disney has licensed their characters to
anime storytellers in the past? Kingdom Hearts!

Don't ask me for my opinion on the story, the dialogue, or the very
concept of transforming plushy Disney characters into badass action
figures. ("Gorsh! I'm not gonna betray Sora either!" :-P)

"A Japanese adaptation of the popular US "Lilo and Stitch" series will
start in late 2008"

Loli & Stitch?

Of course, we all we what WE wanna see. ANIME NANI!

Terrence Briggs, noting that "Nani" means "hot" in Japanese
Peace to you..

In article
<9a89f8f6-6341-49a1-808d-f2f44703ffd4@e39g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>,
Terrence Briggs lycos.com> wrote:

Which would naturally destroy what was so great about her character
design, ie. what one female poster described at the time as a realistic
pear shaped figure :)

In article <9a89f8f6-6341-49a1-808d-f2f44703ffd4@e39g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>,
Terrence Briggs lycos.com> wrote:

That's a video game. I'm not into gaming, and so I've never played it.
From what I heard, though, the KH series, which sounded like such a bad idea
when it was first announced, has actually been pretty successful. I do know
of some "Kingdom Hearts" manga. It's weird seeing the Disney characters
drawn in black and white surrounded by manga conventions.

I think there was some video game called "Mickeymania" that featured
Mickey as a badass, in adventures inspired by the earlier Mickey shorts, when
he really was a badass modelled after Douglas Fairbanks.

This toonzone thread has some information about it.

http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=208016

In article <010420082139083000%%invid@localnet.com>,
Invid Fan localnet.com> wrote:

There are no pear shaped anime babes?

Hmm, Masane from "Witchblade" probably rivals Nani in hip measurements.
It's just that her other ("Melony") side gets all the attention for some
reason. :-)

- Juan F. Lara

Juan F. Lara wrote:

It was one of the REASONS for getting my still-backwards-compatible 60G
Playstation 3 (as a Blu player, honest!) while the getting was good--

The first KH has a nice concept, but comes off a bit too frustratingly
difficult, slow-paced, and poorly chosen movie-worlds (Tarzan??)...
KH2, however, rocks the castle--It's already come in the top three best
games of last year, on most gamer lists. :)

On Apr 2, 10:26 am, lj...@ces.clemson.edu (Juan F. Lara) wrote:

You didn't miss nothin'. Admittedly, I've only played the sequel, but
that's supposed to be the less mindless, more sophisticated of the two
games :-P

If the leaked sales numbers I read are correct, Kingdom Hearts 1 sold
more than 2 million copies in North America, making it one of the 10
best-selling PS2 games of all time.

In article hubcap.clemson.edu>,
Juan F. Lara ces.clemson.edu> wrote:

And now someone has posted a cellphone recording of the anime preview
on Youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDS1pTH0vLE

Of course, the picture is bad and the sound is nonexistent. I hope Disney
releases the preview.

Hmm, the art looks just about the same as the TV series. But the animation is
really stiff; I hope that's just because this is a demo. Stitch, Jumbaa and
Pleakly all look the same; Hanako looks like Lilo with a new hairstyle. The
main difference seems to be that Stitch has a fancy new way to identify
experiments.

- Juan F. Lara