Jetix Europe N.V. (formerly known as Fox Kids Europe N.V. ) was a European television broadcasting company that owned children's television channels and programming blocks across the Europe and Middle East, such as Jetix and Jetix Play .
116-402: Totally Spies! is a French anime-influenced animated spy-fi series created by Vincent Chalvon-Demersay and David Michel mainly produced by French company Zodiak Kids & Family France , with seasons three to five being co-produced with Canadian company Image Entertainment Corporation . It focuses on three teenage girls from Beverly Hills, California , who work as undercover agents for
232-521: A GeoCities interview, Kate Griffin, who voices Alex, mentioned that the typical session for the three girls is that they would record as an ensemble, but through a phone patch, with Hale and Baker calling from Los Angeles, and herself in Toronto. Following the end of the fifth season, the series's movie, Totally Spies! The Movie , was produced and released to theatres in France on 22 July 2009. The movie received
348-602: A Greek service was launched with limited 13 hours following a 2-hour block launched in October. On March 21, 2002, it was announced that Buena Vista International Television would take over television servicing from Saban International for the 6,300 episode Saban catalogue in Europe and the Middle East beginning in May. FKE would continuing to hold holding all television rights in Europe and
464-466: A chibi -stye animation similar to the style used in Teen Titans Go! . Ballmastrz: 9009 is an American-Japanese television series aired on Adult Swim and its animation produced by Titmouse, Inc. , Williams Street , and Studio 4°C . When the animators were discussing the artistic direction of the series, Chris Prynoski , president of Titmouse said that the show’s animation was made "like it
580-552: A reboot of the Voltron franchise, this time produced completely by American artists. Lauren Montgomery and Joaquim Dos Santos , both known for their work on the Avatar: The Last Airbender series and its sequel The Legend of Korra , served as showrunners while fellow crew member Tim Hedrick served as head writer. The American sitcom The Boondocks has many anime-style features and uses Japanese style fighting. It
696-573: A shonen anime. The show was animated by Studio Mir in South Korea, the same studio that animated other notable anime-inspired shows like The Legend of Korra , Voltron: Legendary Defender , and the fourth and final season of The Boondocks . It was sometimes known as the American version of One-Punch Man and My Hero Academia , and the series has been frequently compared to the two and various other similar anime projects. Major influences for
812-544: A 75.7% majority stake and the other 24.3% being listed on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange . In 2000, five additional Fox Kids feeds launched: Italy , Turkey, Germany , Hungary and the Middle East . These launches made Fox Kids the only children's entertainment company with a local channel in every major European market. In late 2000, Saban Entertainment reconsolidated their European licensing subsidiary based in
928-409: A Global Reach on Children's Cultural Markets" by Valerie-Ines de la Ville and Laurent Durup, the series was originally designed to reach an American audience, but has garnered appeal from its humor "based on a stereotypical European vision of American references" while "appearing to be original and innovative to the U.S. audience". Producer and artistic director Stephane Berry explained that the style "is
1044-568: A major influence on their own work. Miyazaki's influence on Disney dates back to The Great Mouse Detective (1986), which was influenced by Miyazaki's Lupin III film Castle of Cagliostro (1979) and which in turn paved the way for the Disney Renaissance . It was especially inspired by the adventures of the 1994 Disney movie The Lion King Doraemon . In particular, Roger Allers had stated in an interview that he went to Japan before 1988,
1160-724: A management buyout and rebrand as Switchover Media, and announced that they would purchase the GXT and K2 networks and blocks from The Walt Disney Company. The company also agreed to operate Jetix Italy for Disney until its rebranding as Disney XD Italy. Disney XD was expected to be rolled out to European territories in 2009. Later, however, Disney announced that the Jetix channel in certain countries (Hungary, Romania, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Russia, Bulgaria and Israel) will be renamed to Disney Channel , marking that channel's first introduction in these countries. The change took place on September 19, 2009, in
1276-634: A melting between the American style, which associates action and comedy, and Japanese design for the aesthetic environment and the emotions expressed through the large eyes of the characters." Some of the common references have included Charlie's Angels , Beverly Hills , The Avengers , James Bond and its gadgets, and Cat's Eye . The head writers for the series were Robert and Michelle Lamoreaux who were based in Los Angeles, and who had worked on Nickelodeon shows. Demersay and Stephane Berry had both recently worked with Saban entertainment in Europe. In
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#17328811882971392-436: A regular character in the show. While the series focuses on four young teenage siblings—Lee, Megan, Marc, and Tony Clark, the three spy girls make an appearance on the crossover episode "Operation: Dude Ranch Disaster" from season 1. The show had its world premiere on 15 March 2009, on Disney Channel Asia; and its US premiere on 26 April 2010, on Cartoon Network. In Canada, the show premiered on 2 September 2010 on Teletoon . Only
1508-456: A streaming platform that typically features Japanese anime shows and mangas . Both series are notably extremely similar to Japanese anime, taking visual cues from Avatar: The Last Airbender , its sequel The Legend of Korra , and She-Ra and the Princesses of Power , and were also produced by South Korean animation company DR Movie . The Owl House is an American-made cartoon, but it
1624-495: A telecast release in the United States, on 25 April the following year, coinciding with the airing of the series' fifth season there. In August 2011, Marathon Media confirmed that production for the sixth season was underway and set to premiere in 2013. The sixth series would be produced only by Marathon in association with TF1 and The Walt Disney Company France . It was later confirmed that 26 episodes would be produced and that
1740-468: A true Japanese animation based on an American project. G.I. Joe , despite it being primarily and notably an American cartoon, film, and toy line franchise, is notable for having quite a handful of anime influences in their animations. The first and most notable example, G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero , both the first and second seasons, as well as the film adaptation , were all outsourced in Japan by
1856-417: A year. According to Michel, the series' animation style was influenced by anime . The production company, Marathon Media , intended on building on the series brand by forming a three-piece girl band, utilizing German talk show Arabella to create it. Using a panel of judges, 20 demo videos were selected and the winners were selected based on the strength of their performance and the series' viewers. The band
1972-497: A young male audience that would air on Fox Kids networks in Europe and the Middle East and Disney networks in all other territories; alongside the increase of third-party acquisitions. The first agreement made out of the new strategy was a three-year deal with Disney's Buena Vista Home Entertainment to release Power Rangers and select Marvel shows in English-speaking territories. The company's CEO Bruce Steinberg also denied that
2088-503: Is a direct adaptation of the show itself, or whether they are related at all, has been heavily debated and used as a point of contention to fans and critics alike. OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes (2017-2019), made by Steven Universe' s co-developer Ian Jones-Quartey , is another example of a Western cartoon being heavily similar to actual Japanese anime. The show's animation and aesthetics are extremely similar to that of anime and video games, with plenty of references for both. The cartoon
2204-438: Is a type of non-Japanese work of animation that is noticeably similar to or inspired by anime . Generally, the term anime refers to a style of animation originating from Japan. As Japanese anime became increasingly popular, Western animation studios began implementing some visual stylizations typical in anime—such as exaggerated facial expressions, " super deformed " versions of characters, and white radical lines appearing on
2320-467: Is actually partially outsourced to Japanese and Korean artists, with the title sequence produced by the co-founder of Studio Trigger , Hiroyuki Imaishi , and its animation produced in South Korea by Digital eMation and Sunmin Image Pictures . ND Stevenson and the crew of She-Ra and the Princesses of Power were strongly influenced by anime, especially those with magical girls . Rise of
2436-471: Is an art form, and to say only one country can make this art is wrong." Furthermore, RWBY was often dubbed in Japanese version, and even got a 2016 spin-off series RWBY Chibi , which depicts the characters become chibi and depicts them in situations akin to that of typical of Japanese chibi parodies. Eventually, in 2022, RWBY was given an actual Japanese animation called Ice Queendom , making it one of
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#17328811882972552-576: Is and whether a non-Japanese animation should be called anime. Avatar creators Bryan Konietzko and Michael Dante DiMartino confirmed an anime influence in a magazine interview; that of "Hayao Miyazaki, especially Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke " as well as My Neighbor Totoro . Other studios from which inspiration was drawn include Studio 4°C , Production I.G , Polygon Pictures and Studio Ghibli . The same strong resemblance can be seen in Voltron: Legendary Defender ,
2668-654: Is being aired around Europe. In Canada, season 6 began airing on 7 September 2014 on Teletoon , and on 6 September on Télétoon . The show has been aired worldwide on various networks, such as TF1 in France; Teletoon in Canada, Fox Family/ABC Family , Cartoon Network , Universal Kids in the US; Fox Kids , Jetix , Cartoon Network , and Boomerang in Latin America and Brazil on pay-TV; Rede Globo in Brazil on terrestrial TV; ABS-CBN in
2784-481: Is notable for having some obvious anime influences regardless, such as the large, expressive eyes, colorful hair on several characters (particularly to match the cartoon’s otherworldly setting), animation patterns, and the plot heavily mirroring that of isekai works. The show was animated by the collaborations of Rough Draft Korea ; a studio known for making many famous cartoons, Sunmin Image Pictures , and Sugarcube Animation. Series creator Dana Terrace had said that
2900-409: Is released on DVD & Blu-ray in the U.S. by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment . Joly Herman of Common Sense Media gave the series a mixed review, rating the show 3 out of 5 stars and writing that "We think it's a decent show to catch once in a while, but anything more regular might give viewers the like, slightest headache." Joe Corey of Inside Pulse had a more positive review, calling
3016-508: Is shown in many scenes, as Japanese sword styles have been used. Additionally, the aesthetics are notably very similar to Japanese animation , due to the series being partially outsourced to Japanese and Korean artists, most notably Madhouse Studios . However, despite this, Madhouse was never credited with its involvement with the cartoon. Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H. has many anime-style features and has plentiful references, particularly
3132-484: Is the closest known adaptation of the novel and was produced by Japanese animation studio Sunrise . 24 years later, two Japanese-American direct-to-video animated films, Invasion (2012) and Traitor of Mars (2017), were both designated to continue the storyline from the movie trilogy but through a different format than that of the typical live-action movies with CGI and stop motion . Both sequel films were created by Shinji Aramaki and Joseph Chou. Even with
3248-498: Is the first Jetix original show to be produced by Japanese artists and use an anime concept for the characters, including a transformation sequence for the series' main protagonist, Chiro. American television producer Ciro Nieli , who had also previously served as a creator and director on Teen Titans and The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes , would later become showrunner of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012) , which also featured anime-inspired aesthetics and moments, some of
3364-554: Is written and directed by Takashi Sano. The web series RWBY , produced by Texas-based company Rooster Teeth was premiered in July 2013, is produced using an anime-heavily influenced art style and has been referred to as an American anime by multiple sources. For example, when the series was licensed for release in Japan, AdWeek reported on the situation using the headline "American-made anime from Rooster Teeth gets licensed in Japan". The CEO of Rooster Teeth, Matt Hullum , commented on
3480-534: The Teen Titans television show in 2003, giving rise to a unique style referred to as "murakanime". In 2004, Murakami also produced The Batman , which showed much stronger anime influence than even its predecessor Batman Beyond . Later, in 2013, Murakami produced Teen Titans Go! , which was given a stronger Japanese influence than even its predecessor, with it animation and visuals being heavily reminiscent of chibis . Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!
3596-695: The United Kingdom on October 19, 1996. After the successful launch of Fox Kids UK, five additional Fox Kids networks were launched between 1997 and 1999 for the Netherlands , France , Poland , Scandinavia and Spain . On April 1, 1999, the Central & Eastern Europe feed was launched for the CIS and Baltic countries. Fox Kids Europe became a publicly traded company in November 1999 with Fox Family Worldwide holding
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3712-473: The anime movie of the same name (1996), and X (2003–2005). While Street Fighter is a Japanese property to begin with, one particular animated television series based on the franchise, Street Fighter (1995), was primarily made in the United States and Canada. The cartoon was produced by Japanese artists, most notably Madhouse Studios and Sunrise, Inc. , allowing itself for plentiful anime references and visuals, while also making references to
3828-482: The first movie and the earlier games. While Final Fantasy is also a Japanese property to begin with, one particular animated movie based on the franchise, The Spirits Within (2001), was primarily made in the United States by Chris Lee and the franchise's creator Hironobu Sakaguchi and stands as the first full-length photorealistic computer-animated feature film ever made. Lee even compared The Spirits Within to that of Walt Disney 's Snow White and
3944-411: The movie franchise created by Edward Neumeier and Paul Verhoeven , had already spawned several animated projects, including Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles , itself heavily reminiscent of anime. Additionally, Starship Troopers was also an unexpectedly popular in Japan, leading to the development of three separate animations from that country. The 1988 anime miniseries of the same name
4060-417: The 1980s and the 1990s, many American shows started to be outsourced to Japanese animators, most notably TMS Entertainment , which animated popular television productions such as Inspector Gadget , The Real Ghostbusters , Mighty Orbots , Rainbow Brite , Tiny Toon Adventures , DuckTales , Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers , Animaniacs , The Littles , The New Adventures of Zorro , Dennis
4176-458: The Beast (1991), Aladdin (1992), and Tangled , has credited Hayao Miyazaki as a "huge influence" on Disney's animated films ever since The Rescuers Down Under (1990). Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise , the directors of Disney films such as Beauty and the Beast , Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), and Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001), are fans of anime and have cited Miyazaki's works as
4292-817: The CEE region. On September 19, 2009, Disney Channel replaced Jetix in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Romania and Slovakia. But the Russian feed was still broadcasting under the Jetix name until it was announced that a separate Disney Channel would launch. After the launch of Disney Channel in Romania and Bulgaria, the Jetix feed in Russia began to be independent and got localized, with Russian titlecards and banners with Russian hours. The last Jetix channel to switch over to Disney XD
4408-734: The Crystal Gems, are directly inspired and modeled after magical girls , and there are plenty of references to anime throughout the original and sequel shows. There was even an episode in the fourth season, " Mindful Education ", that had animation assistance from Japanese animation company Studio Trigger . Furthering the cartoon’s similarity to Japanese animation, the manga series Land of the Lustrous and its television series adaptation animated by Orange are shown to be somewhat based on Steven Universe , particularly in terms of plot, characters, and visuals. However, this similarity and whether or not it
4524-610: The Disney XD logo in the credits, with "Jetix Europe Properties SARL, Luxembourg, Zurich Branch" credited underneath. As a legal entity, the UK subsidiary (which was mostly responsible for the operational side of Jetix) ceased to exist on March 11, 2019. However, other UK-based Jetix divisions, Jetix Entertainment Limited and Jetix Consumer Products UK Limited existed until April 20, 2014, although by then Jetix's functions were already integrated into Disney. The Dutch subsidiary which mostly handled
4640-607: The Fox Kids channels to Jetix began with the France channel's rebranding on 28 August 2004 and ending with the German channel's rebranding on 10 June 2005. In May 2005, Jetix Europe subsidiary Jetix Italia launched GXT on Sky Italia , targeted towards male teens. SIP Animation co-produced a few animated series with Jetix Europe during the 2000s. On March 23, 2006, the pre-1989 DIC Entertainment catalogue, consisting of 20 shows which had been held by Jetix Europe and Disney since 2001,
4756-801: The Japanese films and has a more directly anime-looking aesthetic throughout the show. Godzilla himself is made to look more in line with his earlier Japanese design. Other notable examples of series with an anime influence are Batman: The Animated Series and Superman: The Animated Series , both of which were actually partially outsourced to Japanese artists, as well as Gargoyles , Todd McFarlane's Spawn , Samurai Jack , X-Men: Evolution , Teen Titans , Exosquad , Megas XLR , Loonatics Unleashed , The Jackie Chan Adventures , Xiaolin Showdown , Xiaolin Chronicles , Wolverine and
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4872-466: The Menace , and Spider-Man , most of which visually or thematically were not reminiscent of Japanese anime. TaleSpin (the animation was done at Walt Disney Animation Japan ) did, however, take inspiration from Hayao Miyazaki 's 1989 manga Hikōtei Jidai . Throughout the 1990s, some American cartoons began showing a strong influence from anime without having any Japanese artists directly involved in
4988-613: The Middle East and Africa. In November, the Central and Eastern European channel team won gold in the U.K. Promax Awards for Jetix Max idents. On December 8, 2008, Disney made an agreement to increase ownership in Jetix Europe to 96%, with intentions to purchase the remainder and have Jetix Europe delisted from the Euronext Amsterdam exchange. By 2009, Disney had owned 99.8% of the company. On 15 July 2009, Jetix Europe subsidiary Jetix Italy S.r.l. announced that they would undergo
5104-596: The Middle East with Buena Vista servicing FKE's program distribution activities to third-party broadcasters, while Buena Vista would handle all rights to Saban's catalogue not under Fox Kids Europe including rights outside of Europe and the Middle East. In December 2002, the company signed with BMG Europe for two Fox Kids Hits music compilation albums per year for 10 European markets. In January 2003, Fox Kids Europe launched their first sister network, Fox Kids Play, in Poland. The channel later extended to CEE and MENA regions, and
5220-589: The Middle East, reaching 24.9 million households and broadcasting in 54 countries via 11 channel feeds in 16 languages. In the summer of 2001, the Italian Fox Kids channel launched a syndicated block for several local stations in Italy. On July 23, 2001, it was announced that The Walt Disney Company would purchase Fox Family Worldwide for $ 2.9 billion, which included FFW's majority stake in Fox Kids Europe, which
5336-525: The Netflix series Castlevania , created by Warren Ellis , its sequel Castlevania: Nocturne , created by Clive Bradley , and Blood of Zeus , created by Charley and Vlas Parlapanides. These anime-influenced series have become defined as "anime" by some sources, in an attempt to classify all Japanese-anime styled works of non-Japanese origin. Since the 2000s there have already been countless independent projects for animated series inspired by anime. One of
5452-664: The Philippines on terrestrial TV; ART Teenz , MBC 3 in the Middle East; Dragon Club in China; TVB in Hong Kong; Fox Kids , Jetix , Disney Channel , and Nickelodeon channels in Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania. In Australia, it was shown on Network Ten and later on 10 Peach (formerly Eleven) as part of their Toasted TV block. Seasons 3–4 was aired on POP in the United Kingdom from 2013. Season 5 started airing in 2015 and season 6
5568-1235: The Power of Juju is an American cartoon series loosely based on the 2003 video game of the same name and has quite a handful of anime visuals and aesthetics. The American videogame Dante's Inferno , loosely based on Dante Alighieri 's Divine Comedy , particularly Inferno , was adapted into a 2010 anime-based movie that was developed by the combined efforts of American, Japanese, and South Korean artists. Several known Korean and Japanese animation studios have done their part to contribute to this film, such as Production I.G , Dong Woo Animation , Manglobe , and Digital eMation . The EA videogames Dead Space and Dead Space 2 has developed two animated films, Downfall (2008) and Aftermath (2011), both of which were released direct-to-video . Both films were aesthetically influenced by anime and were distributed by Manga Entertainment , which typically produces and distributes Japanese animation . The popular BioWare and EA videogame franchises Mass Effect and Dragon Age have both developed their own Japanese-American animated projects in 2012, Mass Effect: Paragon Lost and Dragon Age: Dawn of
5684-479: The Seeker . Both anime films were made to promote the release or to give clarity to the plot holes of certain videogames as official prequels, particularly for that of Dragon Age: Origins and Mass Effect 3 , respectively. Dragon Age would appear in animated form again in 2022 as Dragon Age: Absolution , where unlike Dawn of the Seeker , the series is not an actual anime, nor was it made in Japan. However, it
5800-522: The Seven Dwarfs , which was the first full-length cel animated film. Mortal Kombat has had several animated movies, many of which were aesthetically similar to that of anime, with some recent examples including Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms , Mortal Kombat Legends: Cage Match , Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge , and Mortal Kombat Legends: Snow Blind . Tak and
5916-486: The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and its film adaptation were both strongly influenced by anime visuals and iconography, using imagery and animation similar to that of Japanese studios such as Studio Trigger . My Adventures with Superman was primarily an American production, but was thematically and visually inspired by Japanese anime, with its animation and aesthetics heavily reminiscent to that of
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#17328811882976032-512: The U.S., Totally Spies! premiered on 3 November 2001 on Fox Family/ABC Family (now Freeform ). It later premiered in Europe on pay-TV and terrestrial channels such as Germany's ProSieben , France's TF1 , United Kingdom's Channel 4 and the localised Fox Kids channels throughout the region during the spring of 2002. The show was moved to Cartoon Network in July 2003 in the United States, where it attracted 1.6 million viewers (aged 4–10) daily and continued airing until 10 September 2010. In 2019,
6148-543: The United Kingdom, Saban Consumer Products Europe, as a subsidiary of Fox Kids Europe. In February 2001, a Fox Kids feed was launched in Israel , while the Hungarian feed was extended to the Czech Republic and Slovakia, while launching in Russia as a programming block on free-to-air channel Ren TV . In June 2001 Fox Kids Europe announced that the Fox Kids brand had become the most widely distributed children's channel in Europe and
6264-576: The United States and their primary influence being other American cartoons, such as Disney's musicals. That said, both cartoons indeed possess plentiful anime references, particularly in terms of animation, visual effects, and iconography, making Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss recent examples of American cartoons being comparable to that of actual Japanese anime. Even though it derived from an American comic strip , Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland
6380-458: The United States, and would be distributed to the European countries in the following year. Fox Kids Europe acquired European merchandising rights to the series in July 2001, excluding German-speaking territories. In an interview with WorldScreen.com, Michel explained that prior to the series, there were a lot of boy action-adventure shows and practically nothing for girls, yet in pop culture, there
6496-1014: The Wachowskis visited some of the creators of the anime films that had been strong influences on their work, and decided to collaborate with them. After the success of The Animatrix, companies such as Lionsgate , Warner Bros. , DC Entertainment , Sony Pictures , Legendary Television , Disney+ , Netflix , 343 Industries , and Amazon Prime Video all decided to take advantage of its success by using other films and comics to make their own adaptations directly influenced by Japanese animation, such as Hellboy Animated , Van Helsing: The London Assignment , Batman: Gotham Knight , Ultraviolet: Code 044 , Halo Legends , Underworld: Endless War , Love, Death & Robots , Pacific Rim: The Black , Bright: Samurai Soul , Star Wars Visions , What If? , and The Boys Presents: Diabolical . Universal Home Video and Japanese animation studio Gonzo even personally tried to replicate
6612-603: The World Organization of Human Protection (WOOHP). Prior to its debut in France on 3 April 2002 on TF1 's TFOU block, the series was first shown in the United States on 3 November 2001 on ABC Family before moving to Cartoon Network , and later to Universal Kids for the sixth season. It premiered in Canada on Teletoon on 2 September 2002 for the English version, and on Télétoon for the French version. During its original run,
6728-457: The X-Men , and The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes . Batman Beyond displayed some characteristics of anime; in particular, some of its production processes were outsourced to Japan. Glen Murakami was also a strong influence in inspiring American cartoons with Japanese elements. He animated alongside Bruce Timm on Batman: The Animated Series and its sequel, Batman: Beyond . Keeping
6844-666: The animation was noted to be extremely similar to that of Avatar: The Last Airbender and the works of Madhouse Studios , especially its character designs and fight scenes. Finally, the most recent one to date, G.I. Joe: Renegades , despite it being primarily an American cartoon, had plenty of anime references, particularly its frequent usage of Ninja culture and stylized fight choreography. ThunderCats , both its 1985 and 2011 cartoons, are outsourced and produced by Japanese animators, like that of Studio 4°C , and thus both cartoons have several references to anime all throughout. The most recent one, Roar , made in 2020, even has
6960-429: The animations involving the franchise, they each more or less satirize Western politics and military and glorifies gratuitous violence through dark comedy in a similar manner to that from the movies. Japanese anime has majorly influenced Disney , Pixar and DreamWorks productions. Glen Keane , the animator for successful Disney films such as The Black Cauldron (1985), The Little Mermaid (1989), Beauty and
7076-445: The brand was also used for other usages, such as a VOD channel on UK cable provider Telewest . In April 2003, Saban Consumer Products Europe was renamed as Active Licensing Europe. On 11 June 2003, Fox Kids Europe announced that due to the low amount of original content being supplied following the October 2001 purchase of FFW, the company would increase the level of coproduction work with Disney to produce new programmes aimed at
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#17328811882977192-560: The characters' reaction shots and the fight sequences. Ultimate Spider-Man goes further with the anime references by including the Japanese chibi on the characters, which occurs throughout the cartoon series; there were multiple episodes that involved the characters becoming exclusively made as chibis similar to the style used in Teen Titans Go! , Thundercats Roar , and RWBY Chibi . Witchblade and Super Crooks , from Icon Comics and Top Cow Productions , are both adapted from two separate American comic book series of
7308-554: The company conducted international research specifically with a number of children's focus groups. Many of the children picked the name as it implied action and adventure, and the company was able to use the name internationally due to its ambiguity. Bruce Steinberg, chairman and chief executive officer of Fox Kids Europe, explained that Jetix would help strengthen Fox Kids Europe's partnership with Disney while building new alliances to continue to successfully leverage its programming library and distribution. The pre-launch period began with
7424-631: The company would be rebranded under the Disney umbrella, by saying "Fox Kids Europe won't rebrand with Disney in its name. We're very different channel and that's why Disney bought us. We'll exploit other synergies, such as coproductions, consumer products and home video." The company also announced they had purchased out Fox Kids Israel to become fully owned and purchased back Israeli rights to Saban's library, both for $ 20.5 million. By 2003, Fox Kids Europe had extended to 34.8 million households in 57 countries via 12 channel feeds in 17 languages. In October 2003, it
7540-452: The corporate side of Jetix had its final shareholders meeting on March 22, 2012. Buena Vista International Television serviced the television distribution of Jetix Europe's programmes, while the company itself handled all other rights, except for W.I.T.C.H. , which was entirely handled by Disney. These programmes are co-productions with Walt Disney Television Animation . Other than their own co-produced shows, Jetix Europe also licensed
7656-456: The exclusive streaming rights in the U.S. In the year of 2004, Goodtimes Entertainment released the first twelve episodes of the show's first season on VHS and DVD in three volumes: Totally Spies Volume 1: First Secret Missions , Totally Spies Volume 2: The Getaway , and Totally Spies Volume 3: Spies Attack . Coinciding with the production and release of the show's sixth season, New Video Group/Flatiron Film Company acquired US DVD rights for
7772-515: The film's development included George Lucas , Chuck Jones , Ray Bradbury , Isao Takahata , Brad Bird , Jerry Rees , Chris Columbus, Ken Anderson , Frank Thomas , Oliver Johnston , Paul Julian , Osamu Dezaki , Andy Gaskill , Roger Allers , the Sherman Brothers ( Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman ), Hayao Miyazaki (who was working at TMS at the time), and Gary Kurtz . The production on The Animatrix began when
7888-466: The first attempts was an animated adaptation of the popular manga-styled comic Holy Avenger after its completion in 2003, however due to financial and production problems the series was never developed. Over the years several other attempts for independent projects for animation inspired by Brazil were created, the most notable being Dogmons! , XDragoon and Magma . In 2021 an independent platform for anime-inspired animations titled Anistage
8004-655: The first noted attempts from American companies on making a series visually inspired by anime was The King Kong Show in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It was the result of a collaboration between Toei Animation from Japan and Videocraft from America. The result was an animation with an anime-like visual style and a Japanese kaiju theme, that incorporated the cartoonish style of the Hanna-Barbera era in American TV animation. Likewise, Hanna-Barbera's earlier series Frankenstein Jr.
8120-685: The first season and ten Season 2 episodes aired in the US. Totally Spies! also had a crossover episode in season 5 titled "Totally Mystery Much?" with Martin Mystery , a Marathon-produced series that aired from 2003 to 2006. A live-action television series produced by Gloria Sanchez Productions , Banijay Kids & Family and Amazon MGM Studios is in development at Amazon Prime Video and will premiere in 2025. Totally Spies! comics were released monthly in Sweden . Five books with about 90 pages came out in Brazil as well. Each book represents an episode from
8236-643: The following year in 2016. It was also briefly aired on its sister network, Pop Girl . It was aired on BBC Alba in Scotland. Season 1 aired on Disney Channel and Disney XD . It aired in Ireland on RTÉ Two from 11 September 2002 until 2009. Since 2012, the show has had an official YouTube channel that has uploaded the majority of the episodes and even the film, and normally uploads random clips every Saturday. As of 24 April 2021, all six seasons of Totally Spies! are also available on Amazon Prime Video , which currently has
8352-540: The intimacy of funny quirky characters." Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois described Miyazaki's flight and pacifist themes as an influence for creating How to Train Your Dragon (2010). Joel Crawford , the director of Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022), cited Akira (1988) as an influence on the design of the characters and action within the film. Additionally, the film utilized 2D animation to "highlight
8468-548: The launch of Jetix branded blocks on the Fox Kids networks which would transition to the rebrand once the name would become more familiar. The UK feed added the Jetix-branded block in April. The following month saw the subsidiaries begin to adopt the Jetix brand, with Active Licensing Europe becoming Jetix Consumer Products on 4 May 2004. following suit with Fox Kids Europe changing to Jetix Europe on 14 July 2004. The rebranding of
8584-424: The licensing agreement, saying "This is the first time any American-made anime has been marketed to Japan. It definitely usually works the other way around, and we're really pleased about that." In 2013, Monty Oum , the creator of RWBY , said "Some believe just like Scotch needs to be made in Scotland, an American company can't make anime because it's impossible at all. I think that's a narrow way of seeing it. Anime
8700-521: The most notable examples being seen in the characters' reaction shots. In addition, a parody of the anime series Voltron: Defender of the Universe was featured within the series throughout the second season, titled Super Robo Mecha Force Five! Avatar: The Last Airbender and its sequel series The Legend of Korra are other examples of American series influenced by anime so heavily that they started discussions among fans and viewers about what anime
8816-406: The organization's leader, Jerry , to solve worsening crime conditions that arise across the globe. The spies sport colourful latex jumpsuits and are provided with various gadgets to aid in their investigations. Their primary missions involve dealing with disgruntled and vengeful criminals who have been inconvenienced in some form in the past. Other missions have the same villains plotting revenge on
8932-821: The personal touch of hand-drawn animation that is found in traditional anime", as noted by Variety ' s Jazz Tangsay. While the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise is originally a Japanese IP, it also has influence in Italy , France , Canada , and the United States, which led to animated co-productions in the form of Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog (1993–1996), the TV series of the same name (1993–1994), Underground (1999), Boom (2014–2017) and Prime (2022–2024). Meanwhile, in Sonic's home country, Japan, two animated projects exist in form of
9048-402: The popular Pixar films Monsters, Inc. (2001) and Up (2009) as well as a co-creator of other Pixar works, has also described anime, specifically Miyazaki, as an influence on his work. Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck cited the influence of Miyazaki's anime productions on Frozen (2013), stating that they were inspired by their sense of "epic adventure and that big scope and scale and then
9164-803: The project. A few notable examples of this can be seen in the Cartoon Network show Dexter's Laboratory , the ABC show Clerks: The Animated Series , the Nickelodeon show My Life as a Teenage Robot , the Disney Channel show Kim Possible , or the Jetix show Yin Yang Yo! . At the same time, Godzilla: The Series is technically an adaptation of the American Godzilla movie , but has plentiful references to
9280-469: The same animation process that was used from The Animatrix , which led to the creation of Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo and The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury . The two projects were notably produced through collaborations with Mahiro Maeda and Peter Chung , both of whom had worked in The Animatrix . Starship Troopers , including the novel made by Robert A. Heinlein and then
9396-471: The same name ; Witchblade is loosely based on the film and television series ; Super Crooks is a spinoff of Jupiter's Legacy . The Witchblade comic book series was influenced by the magical girls and ecchi genres, which are utilized throughout the animation, whereas the Super Crooks comic book series and the resulting animated series is often compared to that of My Hero Academia . Witchblade
9512-466: The screen when something shocking happens or when someone screams, etc. Although outside Japan, anime is specifically used to mean animation from Japan or as a Japanese-disseminated animation style often characterized by colorful graphics, vibrant characters and fantastical themes, there is a debate over whether the culturally abstract approach to the word's meaning may open up the possibility of anime produced in countries other than Japan. One of
9628-550: The series as well as some digital rights for the first three seasons of the series. They've released the first and second seasons (in two volumes each), as well as a box set containing seasons one through three. The third season was finally released in two volumes on 14 January 2014. As of 2020, these DVD sets are now out of print and very hard to find. Totally Spies DVDs are also released in the United Kingdom by Sanctuary Visual Entertainment in 2005 and 2006, Totally Spies – First Secret Missions and Totally Spies – Spy Gladiators . This
9744-480: The series include the 1986 comic book limited series The Man of Steel , as well as the works of Dan Jurgens , Jon Bogdanove , and Louise Simonson . Additionally, Superman's transformation sequence is particularly inspired by Pretty Cure , specifically Cure Mermaid from Go! Princess PreCure . The Hazbin Hotel cartoon series and its web spinoff Helluva Boss have been frequently interpreted by viewers and fans as an anime despite both shows being made in
9860-554: The series would be licensed in Spain and Latin America, with European territories following suit. To coincide with the sixth season's premiere, Zodiak Kids CP Paris , in association with Château de Versailles Spectacles (CVS) and TF1, organized an event at the Palace of Versailles , taking place during Summer 2013. The event would be preceded with activities including a screening of a special featuring
9976-442: The series. There is another comic called Totally Spies Unleashed ; this opens with "I Hate the 80s!", in which a bad guy, Boogie Gus, has invented a retro ray that de-ages people. The second story, "Attack of the 50 Ft. Mandy", turns their nemesis into a giant in a plot that involves a beauty contest and an escaped evil scientist. Chapter books have also been released. Anime-influenced animation Anime-influenced animation
10092-527: The sharp-edged angular style of Timm and mixing in his own personal influences, the show was given cyberpunk and sci-fi elements with a Japanese twist. American television producer Sam Register - who created anime inspired works such as Ben 10 , its sequel Alien Force , Transformers Animated , Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated , Beware the Batman , Mike Tyson Mysteries , Unikitty! , Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi - also worked alongside Murakami to create
10208-402: The show "fun enough for small kids who want a Charlie's Angels undercover action show. The trio does their best to balance the fun of being in the espionage game without it being too risky." Matt Hinrichs of DVD Talk gave a positive review, calling the action in the first three seasons "decently written enough for adults to enjoy." After four seasons, the show had reached over 130 countries and
10324-512: The show aired weeknights on the Universal Kids channel, which broadcast the show's sixth season for the first time in the United States . Totally Spies! has attracted over one million viewers in France since its debut. It was re-licensed and its sixth season, along with Totally Spies! The Movie and the show's spin off The Amazing Spiez! . The show aired its sixth season in France and
10440-518: The show among his "10 Girl Cartoons (That Guys Secretly Love)" list. The Parents Television Council , in their March 2006 report, noted that the show did not contain offensive language, but expressed concern about the "nature of the violence of the show" in an episode where rats were released to psychologically torture Jerry and Clover, and the sexual content exampled by a sunblock ad by a bikini-clad woman. A spin-off series called The Amazing Spiez! features new characters as spies, retaining Jerry as
10556-497: The show spanned six seasons, with 156 episodes and several specials. The series was revived with a seventh season which premiered on 12 May 2024 on Gulli in France, and will premiere later on Cartoon Network and Discovery Kids internationally. In France, Totally Spies developed a cult following . The series also spawned a media franchise with several products tied to it, including various comic books , novels and video games . A prequel film, Totally Spies! The Movie ,
10672-498: The spies by ruining their personal lives. Framing each episode is a subplot that focuses on the girls' everyday lives as high school (and later university) students, dealing with relationships and their longtime high school nemesis Mandy . The series' conception came from the rise of girl groups and female singers in the music industry. Wanting to capitalize on the niche, David Michel and Vincent Chalvon-Demersay put their idea into development, which later shifted into production within
10788-793: The spies on a mission in the palace gardens. On 8 January 2022, Thomas Astruc, the creator of Miraculous Ladybug , who had previously worked on Totally Spies! , announced on Twitter that a new season of the latter was "in the making". On the 13th, revised character designs for Sam, Alex and Clover were revealed. It was originally set to premiere in 2023, but was later pushed back to 2024. The upcoming series will be produced by Zodiak Kids & Family Studio France, with Ollenom (Production subsidiary of fellow Zodiak Kids & Family subsidiary Monello Productions) as co-producer, and French-broadcaster Gulli and Latin American-broadcaster Discovery Kids as participators. On 25 April 2023, it
10904-409: The studio Toei Animation , who was also known for making The Transformers . The second, G.I. Joe: Sigma 6 , was actually the closest known G.I. Joe property to ever be translated into Japanese animation in any form; it was animated by the Japanese studio Gonzo , and it was produced by 4Kids Productions in America. Third, G.I. Joe: Resolute was a web series produced by Titmouse, Inc. , and
11020-430: The third American cartoon to have a Japanese anime adaptation. The Japanese version was first released as five short films from March 29, 2020, to November 12, 2021. Each of those short films depict the characters in Japanese settings, ranging from samurai and Neon Genesis Evangelion to even other anime-based projects such as Pacific Rim . The series aired on Adult Swim starting from August 16, 2024. The series
11136-399: The very first anime-based cartoons to have actually developed a true Japanese animation based on an American project. The Powerpuff Girls cartoon series, as well as its reboot and film adaptation were all heavily influenced and stylized by anime to begin with, with the three main characters being obvious examples. For this, the franchise was revered by not just American viewers, which
11252-402: The visual style was inspired by paintings by Remedios Varo, John Bauer , and Hieronymus Bosch, as well as Russian architecture . Steven Universe , as well as its television film adaptation and Future , are notable for possessing anime aesthetics resembling that from Dragon Ball Z and especially the works of Osamu Tezuka and Harvey Kurtzman . Most notably, the protagonist team,
11368-452: The year the production of The Lion King started, and that he was very impressed by the adventures in Doraemon, and that The Lion King was greatly influenced by Doraemon . Fujiko Fujio , despite the controversy, later thanked Disney in 1995 for being impressed by Disney's The Lion King and praising Doraemon . Controversy surrounded another Disney film, Atlantis: The Lost Empire , which
11484-456: Was Britney Spears and Spice Girls . He explained that the characters are heavily inspired by the movie Clueless and wanted to mix that with a James Bond format. When they first pitched the show, it had a moderate response, but when the first season was broadcast, the Charlie's Angels film came out, and suddenly the market was full of girl show properties. According to an article "Achieving
11600-534: Was alleged to have plagiarized the Studio Gainax anime series Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (1990). Atlantis directors Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise denied the allegation, but nevertheless acknowledged Miyazaki's films as a major influence on their work. Miyazaki's work deeply influenced Pixar co-founder John Lasseter , who described how Miyazaki's influence upon his life and work began when he first saw Castle of Cagliostro . Pete Docter , director of
11716-535: Was animated by the Japanese company Tokyo Movie Shinsha and thus is often considered an anime film, although it was a joint production of Japanese and American animators and production companies. Despite being infamously trapped in development hell for much of the 1980s, many notable people were involved with the film's production at some point before dropping out, with the workers coming from Disney , Lucasfilm , Warner Bros. Animation , and Studio Ghibli . Those who expressed interest in or were involved at some stage of
11832-466: Was announced that John de Mol Jr. had purchased a 5.1% stake in Fox Kids Europe. This stake was later expanded to 10.2%. In January 2004, Fox Kids Europe, Fox Kids Latin America and the ABC Cable Networks Group agreed to rename its then current operations under a single brand, called Jetix , which helped strengthen its then operations into a single force. The Jetix name was chosen after
11948-498: Was announced that Warner Bros. Discovery had acquired broadcast rights to the series in the United States and EMEA regions, where the series would air on Cartoon Network in the United States and stream on Max in EMEA regions. In September 2023, Andrea Baker confirmed on her Twitter that she and the rest of the voice cast would not be returning. On 13 June 2024, it was announced that the show has been renewed for an eighth season. In
12064-420: Was co-produced with Toei Animation, who handled several stages of the animation production process, the series was ultimately written in the United States. Transformers showed many influences and elements of anime including story, themes, and a style that resembled Mecha anime. This trend continued throughout the 1980s with series like Dungeons & Dragons , again co-produced by Toei Animation. Throughout
12180-448: Was completed on October 24, 2001 The original intention of The Walt Disney Company for the Fox Kids Europe networks after the acquisition was to rebrand all operations as Toon Disney, a channel that had very little distribution internationally but this was scrapped, and the company was instead granted a non-fixed term license with 20th Century Fox Film Corporation to continue using the "Fox Kids" brand at no charge. In November 2001,
12296-489: Was created. Fox Kids Europe In September 1995, Fox Broadcasting Company and Saban Entertainment announced they had formed a strategic partnership in the creation of children's programming networks worldwide under the Fox Kids umberella. The networks would capitalize on Saban's library and Fox-parent News Corp.’s distribution strength. The venture launched their first international Fox Kids Network branded channel in
12412-632: Was drawn by High School kids who try to draw anime". For the Ballmastrz: Rubicon special, series creator and voice actor Christy Karacas intended for the special to "dive into the actual anime world," using the teams from the Japanese animation studio Studio 4°C for this express purpose. The Mexican-American Onyx Equinox , created by Sofia Alexander , and the American High Guardian Spice , created by Raye Rodriguez, are both Western cartoons that were released on Crunchyroll ,
12528-576: Was heavily inspired by the Gigantor anime series, although its art style was more similar to that of other American cartoons of the time. Another early example of this might be Johnny Cypher in Dimension Zero and Hong Kong Phooey . Toei Animation continued this type of collaboration in the Transformers TV series and its associated film , both of which aired in the 1980s. While Transformers
12644-454: Was its intended target audience, but also Japanese viewers as well. As a result of the cartoon's major popularity in Japan, the show was given an anime spin-off known as Z that debuted in July 1, 2006. The Z spinoff is loosely based on the original cartoon, with plot details and characters very similar to their depiction from the cartoon. The Powerpuff Girls stands as one of the very first anime-based cartoons to have actually developed
12760-472: Was met with enthusiasm among ages 6–11 that included both girls and boys, and had a Pokémon -like appeal to a broad range of age and gender. In an interview before season three, David Michel said, "The one thing that surprised us the most is the consistency in the male / female viewership split: from Brazil to Italy, we have a 50% boys 50% girls audience ratio, whereas everybody was predicting the show would score very low on boys." Scott Stoute of ScreenRant listed
12876-546: Was produced by Red Dog Culture House, a South Korean animation studio, and the series does thematically resemble anime in many ways, particularly through the animation, character design, and fight scenes. Chronologically, Absolution is established to take place after the conclusion of Dragon Age: Inquisition , as characters make reference to events in that game, but before the events of the upcoming video game Dragon Age: Dreadwolf . Other heavily anime-inspired American-made shows that were based from popular videogames are
12992-565: Was re-acquired by DIC. In December, John De Mol Jr.'s stake in Jetix Europe was increased to 17.4%. In 2008, Jetix Europe licensed out Jetix France to The Walt Disney Company France and Disney-ABC-ESPN Television became its channel distribution partner. In February 2008, Jetix Europe was in talks to join affiliated companies, Disney Channel Europe, ESPN Europe and Disney–ABC International Television (DAIT), in their combined distribution sales unit. In June, Jetix Europe agreed to have DAIT take over distribution sales for all channels across Europe,
13108-479: Was released on April 6, 2006, and Super Crooks was released in Netflix on November 25, 2021. Both animated series were animated by Japanese studios Gonzo and Bones . Rick and Morty was already heavily influenced by Japanese anime, and has multiple references throughout many episodes. Due to the cartoon's resulting popularity in Japan, the series was given an actual anime adaptation , making Rick and Morty
13224-400: Was released theatrically in 2009 in France. A spin-off series titled The Amazing Spiez! premiered in 2009 and ran for two seasons. The series focuses around the adventures of three teenage girls from Beverly Hills , California – Sam , Clover and Alex – who live a double life as secret agents working for the World Organization of Human Protection (WOOHP). The girls are recruited by
13340-452: Was selected and released a single in the spring of 2002, through EMI . According to managing director Dirk Fabarius, "The plan is to eventually create an entire album and establish and promote Totally Spies as a real band." While the idea did not materialize, the series was promoted through other merchandising. It was announced in Spring 2001 that the series would air in the fall on ABC Family in
13456-551: Was the Dutch version on January 1, 2010. The last Jetix channel to close was the Russian version, which was rebranded as Disney Channel on Tuesday, August 10, 2010. The Jetix Play channels soon followed suit in 2010/2011, being replaced with Playhouse Disney / Disney Junior . Remnants of Jetix Europe continued until around 2012 to 2014 to wind down operations and as an overhang period to fully integrate Jetix into Disney. European Disney XD co-productions such as Rekkit Rabbit contained
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