Group: rec.arts.animation · Group Profile
Author: Aje RavenStarAje RavenStar Date: Sep 11, 2008 20:00
just fixing this so the quotations are properly marked. Sheesh.
> "Lee Ratner" gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:e5d8770a-8ab3-44bf-ad31-451ab7c714d1@x41g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
> On Sep 11, 6:55 pm, "Aje RavenStar" comcast.net> wrote:>> "Doug Jacobs" shell.rawbw.com> wrote in message
>>
>> news:5JydnSTE7M5zDlTVnZ2dnUVZ_ozinZ2d@posted.rawbandwidth...
>>>>> 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.
>>
>>
>>>> The Okinawan girl is now named Yuuna. I can't read Japanese, so I
>>>> don't
>>>> know
>>>> what the website says.
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> 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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