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Author: Lee RatnerLee Ratner Date: Sep 11, 2008 18:27
On Sep 11, 6:55Â pm, "Aje RavenStar" comcast.net> wrote:> "Doug Jacobs" shell.rawbw.com> wrote in message
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> news:5JydnSTE7M5zDlTVnZ2dnUVZ_ozinZ2d@posted.rawbandwidth...
>>> In rec.arts.anime.misc Juan F. Lara ces.clemson.edu> wrote:>>> Â Â That Stitch anime series is set to premiere in Japan in October.
>>> Disney.jp now has a website for it.
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>>> The Okinawan girl is now named Yuuna. Â I can't read Japanese, so I don't
>>> know
>>> what the website says.
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>> The movie originally took place in Hawaii. Â This looks like a new sequel,
>> with Stitch and the other aliens moving to Okinawa for...some reason.
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> To put Stitch closer to the Tokyo Tower?
You should know that in anime Tokyo or at least Japan is the
center of the earth and anything remotely interesting only happens in
Japan.
The Japanese are not the most cosmopolitan people in the world
and when they use non-Japanese things in their pop culture, they have
a tendency to alter it to make it more friendly to the Japanese
audiences. They are experts of pandering. Turning Lilo into a genki
Okinawa girl is one example of this. What they did to Thor in Mythical
Detective Loki is another. Most depictions of Thor in European and
American culture tend to stay true the Thor of Norse mythology. He is
shown to be a big burly man, often with lots of facial hair, and he
wields his hammer with pride. This would not do for the Japanese
audience though. So in Mythical Detective Loki, Thor's form on Earth
is a beardless, average size Japanese high school boy named Narugami
who wields a boken rather than a hammer. I really like Mythical
Detective Loki and I like Narugami but I was always slightly disturbed
of the changes made to Thor to make him culturally acceptable.
Narugami is a nice character but I really can't see him as an
incarnation of Thor.
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