>>Am I the only one noting that Disney has licensed their characters to
>>anime storytellers in the past? Â Kingdom Hearts!
>
> Â Â Â That's a video game. Â I'm not into gaming, and so I've never played it.
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
> 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. Â
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.
> I do know
> of some "Kingdom Hearts" manga. Â It's weird seeing the Disney characters
> drawn in black and white surrounded by manga conventions.
>
>>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! Â I'm not gonna betray Sora either!" :-P)
>
> Â Â Â 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.
If by "badass", you mean throwing marbles and jumping on the heads of
moving objects...
I played the Super NES version of Mickey Mania more than 10 years
ago. Gamers less curmudgeonly than I won't be bothered by the
painfully simplistic jump-and-shoot gameplay. No "super suits" or
special abilities, as in the Capcom Mickey Mouse game for the same
system, just walk, jump, and throw stuff. Maybe pushing some vases
around :-)
>>"A Japanese adaptation of the popular US "Lilo and Stitch" series will
>>start in late 2008"
>
> Â Â Â This toonzone thread has some information about it.
>
> Â Â Â
http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=208016
>
> It doesn't look very interesting. Â The alien characters all look the same. Â
> The two new characters, Hanako and her grandma, I'm trying to place the
> character design style for them, I'm not sure.
I'll download the link onto my PSP and read it on the bus. I'm on
library time now :-)
>>Loli & Stitch? Â
>
> Â Â Â Dude....
Okay, so no drum roll. A rimshot, all the same.
>>Of course, we all we what WE wanna see. Â ANIME NANI!
Cripes... "We all *know* what WE wanna see..."
>>Terrence Briggs, noting that "Nani" means "hot" in Japanese
>
> Â Â Â So, do they do puns with their word for "what"? ( Nan or nani ).
There will be no p*nani jokes in my beloved cartoon corps, private
Spanky!
> Â - Juan F. Lara
Terrence Briggs, reading USENET posts offline on his PSP. Brave new
world, folks.
Peace to you...
