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Author: Aje RavenStarAje RavenStar Date: Sep 11, 2008 19:33
"Lee Ratner" gmail.com> wrote in message
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On Sep 11, 6:55 pm, "Aje RavenStar" comcast.net> wrote:> "Doug Jacobs" shell.rawbw.com> wrote in message
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>>> In rec.arts.anime.misc Juan F. Lara ces.clemson.edu> wrote:>>> 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. 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. 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.
Sigh. Missed the point (all things in anime threaten the Tokyo Tower at
some point!).
And being (xxx)centric is common to all varieties of media in their
respective culture, Japan and/or anime is no particular extreme in that
regard. Plenty of examples of non-Nipponcentric anime stories. VanDread,
which doesn't take place on Earth at all; .hack//sign, doesn't take place in
mundane world; Planetes, which takes place in space; Battle of the
Stars/Crest of the Stars, Galaxy Railway 999, Saber Marionette J, Outlaw
Star, all outer space shows that don't get anywhere near Japan; Le Chevalier
D'Eon which takes place during the French monarchy; even Bo-Bobobo Bobo-bo
(and no, I don't care if I did that inaccurately), which hopefully takes
place nowhere except in someone's bad dream after eating foods strange to
them.
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