Panel & Pixel brought a funky bit of Cartoon Homogenization to my attention.
The 90s USA X-MEN intro:
The Japanese newly animated intro created for the exact same USA content:
They actually made two: X-men Japanese intro 1
The 90s X-Men series. There blows an ill wind. I watched the hell out of it because I figured there was no other way to get my fix of TV X Adventures. The action scenes shattered my 80s-cartoon mind into tiny pieces. The stories were mediocre at best. (A damn sight closer to the source material than X-MEN 3: THE LAST STAND, though.)
At the end of the day, I took what was given to me and I’m not ashamed of subjecting my eyes, and time, to it.
The japanese intros are a curious thing. I mean, shitfire, where can I watch *that* series?! Granted, the new j-intros merely mask the chewy mediocre center, but damnit, I want my X-Men anime now. Pure anime X-Men.
I want critters’ heads optic-blasted into oblivion. Wolverine should be slashing anybody and everbody that dares piss him off, especially when it’s Cyclops. I want a Jean Grey that wasn’t always simpering about non-issue things. Seriously guys, the 70s did happen. Women can have their own thoughts and feelings and being perfectly 3-dimensional characters/people.
It is interesting how American interests buy anime series from Japan only to dump Howard Taft sized tubs of bathwater into the content. An effort to make the “intense” scenes more palatable to American eyes. But when Japan buys American content, they feel the need to spike the punch and add new creative energies in order to seel to a Japanese market.
Very interesting.
There was one thing that remained the same. The music was a loss on all fronts.
