Comments on: Powerful Disappointment

By: jennaye

jennaye — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:14:25 +0000

i love powerpuff girls z

By: fh

fh — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 11:13:57 +0000

Usually it goes the other way and original and meaningful concepts from all over the world get “reimagined” in America/LA…

Globalization is a two way process now

By: Clifford

Clifford — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 23:22:42 +0000

Not much to report except that it was of course excellent. Did not really take any pics…well, maybe one…. I’ll see.

Bit busy with writing a midterm and a host of other things.

-cvj

By: Chanda

Chanda — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 22:39:46 +0000

ah, that makes sense. i look forward to reading your report on the murakami show (assuming you were going to write one …)

By: Clifford

Clifford — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 17:41:00 +0000

There are many things that seem to miss the point of the success of the original concept. I can’t really explain most of them. One that can sort of be put into words is the appeal of the humour of the only vaguely formed aspects of the characters (physically, I mean), with distortions that poke so much fun at the genre. (There are even plot lines that notice the physical shortcomings of their bodies…) To reinvent them as rather unimaginatively thought out clichÃ©d Japanese schoolgirl archetypes is disappointing, to say the least.

Imagine taking one of the slightly manic Takashi Murakami characters (see right, for example) and, for the US market, replacing it with… Mickey Mouse. Entirely missing the point, and ironically so.

Cheers,

-cvj

By: Chanda

Chanda — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 21:40:24 +0000

Paprika is one of the best films I have ever seen in my entire life.

Clifford, I have to admit confusion. Aside from the weapons being different (they sound silly), what’s wrong with the new renditions?

By: memememe

memememe — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 20:51:52 +0000

I understand the changes, I don’t like them though.

And the powerpuff girls weren’t preteens to begin with, they were kindergarteners…

So the quote “The three preteen, karate-kicking superheroes have grown up and gotten a serious makeover” from the article is totally incorrect.

By: The Ridger

The Ridger — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 20:37:06 +0000

I’ll bet they have fingers and everything. Gah. For the record, I like Sailor Moon - but that doesn’t mean I want the PPG made over like this!

By: Francis Caestecker

Francis Caestecker — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 14:06:59 +0000

I never really like the powerpuff girls. I’m more of a japanese animation person myself. I loveeedd Paprika!

By: Samantha

Samantha — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 22:59:54 +0000

I heard this interview too…. but somehow did not realize the extent to which they had messed with TPG. I would not have recognized them as the same cartoon. Bloody awful.

By: Tony Smith

Tony Smith — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 18:45:13 +0000

This is truly horrible and disturbing.
Have the Japanese versions also done away with the wonderful plots ?
One of my favorites had Miss Keane lecturing on relativity and HIM saying
“… Don’t you know,
the faster you go,
time slows down ?
Your time stopped for 50 years
whilst you were out racing around. …”.

It reminds me of Brian May’s Year of 39.

Tony Smith