What are your thoughts on Imagi Animation Studios ? Were they gone too soon ?
What are your thoughts on Imagi Animation Studios ? Were they gone too soon ?
Adrian Ramirez
Angel Ward
I enjoyed TMNT. Astro Boy was terrible though.
Jackson Rogers
>We could've gotten Gatchaman
>We could've gotten Tetsujin 28
>We could've gotten Legend of Zelda
Gone far too soon.
Christopher Peterson
If I’m not mistaken, didn’t Gatcha eventually get a 3D movie?
Ethan Young
I liked Astro Boy. It was charming, if a little childlish
Thomas James
They had a serious case of reusing the same art direction film to film and it would have gotten extremely tiring if they'd continue. That being said while I enjoy TMNT 2007 it's a very flawed film and Astro boy is only enjoyable for being extremely weird. There was a reason this studio failed and it was completely understandable why.
Robert Hughes
Stone was a pretty fun Bush parody tho
Camden Butler
It had the right idea, and had some great franchises to adapt, but their movies were bad. They needed much better writers.
Guaranteed none of those would’ve been more than mediocre, because TMNT and Astro Boy were both plagued with shit writing and story pacing.
Colton Morales
No he wasn’t. He was obnoxiously on the nose, as was the red/blue energy stuff. All of his dialogue was “muh votes.”
Adrian Parker
Pleasently surprised that the character designer was argentinian. He later did designs for Arthur Christmas and Hotel Transylvania ( you can definitely see the similarities )
Josiah Davis
>the red/blue energy stuff
Call me a dumbass but i didn't get that metaphor. Care to explain it ?
Jonathan Jackson
The Astro Boy movie was a weird case where I liked the ideas it presented much more than the execution. It could've been legitimately great had it leaned in and focused on the existential aspect of the premise.
Also it has the most sympathetic version of Tenma to date.
Jeremiah Edwards
Bush stand in wanted the red energy, while blue was the good energy. Call me Zig Forums or whatever, but considering it was slapped on top of an obvious Bush stand in, and republican is generally red...
Also there’s plenty of villains they could’ve used, but they made up a shitty one instead.
Ayden Sanders
It got a live-action movie.
Parker Morris
>most sympathetic version of Tenma
That was intentional. Director didn't like the 2003 show, so he wanted a different approach, including humanizing Tenma
Hunter Bell
Astro Boy was pretty meh. I still like it but not enough to call it good.
Ayden Brown
The 2003 show was good, and a lot better than his movie.
Jayden Jackson
Still liked it. Hard to dislike something so sincere. Shame it came out only a few months after fucking Evolution, since nobody wanted to see more anime adaptations after that
Samuel Fisher
At least the film shows Tobio's death. Didn't care much for the show. It did give us an amazing GBA game tho
Kayden Walker
>the 2003 show
Word of advice : avoid the PS2 game by Sonic Team. Don't make my mistake
Michael Lopez
I've got machine guns, in my butt?
Luke Barnes
Not surprised that character designer came straight out of Ratatouille. He looks like Ego
Oliver Roberts
Urrgh dear god I fucking hate when the west bastardizes anime.
Levi Sullivan
>At least the film shows Tobio's death
You must've watched the 2003 dub, which botched the show beyond repair
Jackson Long
>I've got rockets
>in my butt?
literally the only thing I can remember
Brandon Thomas
You gotta admit, this is a pretty sweet looking cover. Probably one of my fav in CG animation
Austin Lopez
He's kind of like Mickey mouse in that his head points don't work/look very good in 3d, iirc they're actually inspired by how the mickey's ear alignments
Brayden Brooks
>They needed much better writers.
This.
Josiah Perez
Gatchaman was so going to be a flop. If Astro couldn't find an audience, then i seriously doubt Gatchaman would. Besides, they were already struggling financially before Astro, so production would've been a total mess
Ethan Rodriguez
Come to think of it, Imagi reminds me of that company which made Jimmy Neutron and Ant Bully : They had a modestly successful first film, yet their second film flopped so hard that they went bankrupt, leaving several projects cancelled. It's the same situation really
Dylan Campbell
I liked the show because it emphasized Astro less as a superhero and more as a kid trying to do good.
James Lee
It wouldn’t have helped that Gatchaman would’ve most likely been mediocre to bad. Like was said before, Imagi had bad writers. TMNT and Astro Boy had a lot to work with but ended up weak, so as good as the show was Gatchaman wouldn’t have been different.