There is a particularly American school of thought that says that "Cartoons and comics are all kiddie stuff." It is this form of thought that got comic book companies into trouble and brought us the Comics Code Authority - someone found an adult comic book and was shocked that some of the violence therein coud be marketed to kids... Or someone was flat outright marketing violence to kids... and thus the CCA was born, giving us hackneyed plots, shallow characters, and yellow spandex. Well, blame the printing tech for the yellow spandex. And try as we may, a hundred years of "comics and cartoons are for kids" is not going to be easily reversed.
There is, however, a place where they can and often do animate any old damn thing... the only problem with Japan is the sheer number of gratuitous boobs you'd find in the finished product.
The problem then would be trying to market a cartoon that, on its face, is about seemingly-magical talking raccoons who believe in God to an 18-35 demographic which has long been taught that "cartoons are for kids."
I love the comic. And I think it would make a FAN-tastic(!!!) animated series. I'm just not seeing it getting picked up.
Same with a lot of Ralph's movie ideas. Thwey're the kinda thing you know would make a hollywood blockbuster if they weren't already making Die hard 4, Terminator 4, Land Before Time ... what are they on.... twelve? And another sequel of a spinoff of a cartoon advertisement for a toy line. I swear, if they make a G.I. Joe movie, California won't have to wait for the North Koreans to nuke them.... someone up in North Dakota is gonna just *snap* and cram a minuteman down their throats.
Actually, the reason we have the CCA in place today is thanks to a little book called "Seduction of the Innocent". I can't rember the author's name at the moment, but his entire book was based on the old, foolish, line of thought that violent images instills violence. Shoot, this book brought the entire comic industry at the time before a Congressional Hearing just to see if what this nut job was rambling on about was actually true. This book was also written during the height of Horror, Murder/Mystery, type comics.
So, thanks to that little peice of literature, the CCA was established, and we got the result you spoke about. Though, much like with movies and TV, the standards appernetly have changed because you will find things now in Comics, especially after the Iron Age of comics, that you would not have found in them say, fifty years ago. We're talking about drug use, blatant sex, alchool gore and violence, everything the CCA was supposed to keep out of comic books, is now alive and well in them. Just read some Image or Top Cow comics if you don't belive me.
Also, while it's true everything and anything can be animated in Japan not everything should. I think with the right animation studio, say the team that put together Cowbow Beebop, or Bleach, would be great for it and they would really give a TotQ anime series a great look and feel to it. Better yet, get the studio that did Full Metal Alchemist. The boob problem can be delt with easily enough just make sure they down play it. The only real problem I see with it being done in Japan, is the average Japanese view of Christianity, which is what the Raconnin follow. Other than that, get the FMA studio to do TotQ and you have yourseld a major score.
One last note, as a 24 year old man I have this to say about "comics and cartoons are for kids" I guess I'm a 34 year old kid then beause about the only thing I watch on tv are cartoons because, honestly, it's the only good thing on. Mind you, most of today's cartoons suck eggs, and they suck em hard, but there are a few good ones out there.
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There is, however, a place where they can and often do animate any old damn thing... the only problem with Japan is the sheer number of gratuitous boobs you'd find in the finished product.
The problem then would be trying to market a cartoon that, on its face, is about seemingly-magical talking raccoons who believe in God to an 18-35 demographic which has long been taught that "cartoons are for kids."
I love the comic. And I think it would make a FAN-tastic(!!!) animated series. I'm just not seeing it getting picked up.
So, thanks to that little peice of literature, the CCA was established, and we got the result you spoke about. Though, much like with movies and TV, the standards appernetly have changed because you will find things now in Comics, especially after the Iron Age of comics, that you would not have found in them say, fifty years ago. We're talking about drug use, blatant sex, alchool gore and violence, everything the CCA was supposed to keep out of comic books, is now alive and well in them. Just read some Image or Top Cow comics if you don't belive me.
Also, while it's true everything and anything can be animated in Japan not everything should. I think with the right animation studio, say the team that put together Cowbow Beebop, or Bleach, would be great for it and they would really give a TotQ anime series a great look and feel to it. Better yet, get the studio that did Full Metal Alchemist. The boob problem can be delt with easily enough just make sure they down play it. The only real problem I see with it being done in Japan, is the average Japanese view of Christianity, which is what the Raconnin follow. Other than that, get the FMA studio to do TotQ and you have yourseld a major score.
One last note, as a 24 year old man I have this to say about "comics and cartoons are for kids" I guess I'm a 34 year old kid then beause about the only thing I watch on tv are cartoons because, honestly, it's the only good thing on. Mind you, most of today's cartoons suck eggs, and they suck em hard, but there are a few good ones out there.