The french are cracked at anime.

[DianeInsetinha]

With the passing of the years, I've tried to watch more and more stuff, that includes Japanese animation and GOD DAMN do they understand it.

My favorite is obann star racers (complet in HD in YouTube, check it out) and it's because the series understands what anime is! It's not just big heads or popping veins, it's the wheight of silence during certain scenes, the emotional drama and heart breaking arcs of characters, the mysterious and unknown of the world it takes place in. They understood exactly what made anime so iconic to most people and did it really god damn well!! Btw, this series was made by the great great great great grandchild of the guy who created the eifell tower. He's name is literally eifell lol.

Dofus and wakfu are two modern examples that also fit really well onto this, they colorful, expressive and not scared to put weight onto things, you should totally check these out!!

A more old example that some may know better is code lyoko, a crazy and kinda experimental cartoon that I really used to like as a kid.

And, as a bonus fun fact: miraculous ladybug was first animated in beautiful 2D animation. It was full of so much life and ambience, but they switched for 3D for the final product, unfortunately.

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

They're not animes per se but Totally Spies (and Martin Mystery) are full of elements from animes (from animations to the facial expressions).

 

[DianeInsetinha]

They're not animes per se but Totally Spies (and Martin Mystery) are full of elements from animes (from animations to the facial expressions).

I remember these two!! I used to love them, they appealed for both sides of child me lol

 

[Gorse]

They're not animes per se but Totally Spies (and Martin Mystery) are full of elements from animes (from animations to the facial expressions).

I like both of these shows more than 95% of real anime.

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

I like both of these shows more than 95% of real anime.

I'm curious but why?

I mean there are many great classics (unless you only count them as the remaining 5%).

 

[LiberoVulpesLiberoVulpes's icon]

Anime inspired, not anime, just like Last Air Bender.

The only one i haven't seen from the ones mentioned in the OP is Dofus, although i used to play the game... Wakfu is so good tho.

I did like Oban Star Racers, and Code Lyoko back in the day.

As for Miraculous, i only know about it through memes, i heard its both good and bad.

 

[DianeInsetinha]

Anime inspired, not anime, just like Last Air Bender.

The only one i haven't seen from the ones mentioned in the OP is Dofus, although i used to play the game... Wakfu is so good tho.

I did like Oban Star Racers, and Code Lyoko back in the day.

As for Miraculous, i only know about it through memes, i heard its both good and bad.

Most of my miraculous knowledge comes from watching random episodes on the TV and a friend of mine spoiling me everything she can.

It's gone crazy of the rails in the last few years, with animation decaying in quality while the series just gets more and more complex (they had to time travel a few times to summon God and then sacrifice someone so it wouldn't destroy the space-time continum)

 

[Gorse]

I'm curious but why?

I genuinely adore a lot of the character designs, and I think both shows (especially Martin Mystery) have some really excellent visuals and writing (especially in character-to-character interactions). Last year, I went on a little nostalgic walkthrough of several Martin Mystery episodes, and not only does it still hold up, but I think I like it even more than I did when I was watching it on YTV at 4:30 on Friday afternoons. There's even loads of fanservice! Quite frankly, that's enough for me.

These shows were MASSIVE in Canada when I was growing up – Totally Spies was a predominant "girls franchise" that had loads of merchandise and was very present in pop culture. (The company that made these shows, Marathon, had a direct pipeline to several major cartoon stations here, and the English voice casts for all their shows were Canadian.) I never saw an episode of Team Galaxy until later on, and I did see a spinoff of Totally Spies about kids that kind of looked dumb conceptually (though, again, never caught a full episode so WTF do I know), but I still love the visuals and think the characters look just great.

I saw a few stills from the new Totally Spies season and, as expected, it looks worse than what they were putting out 20 years ago. OH WELL

 

[LiberoVulpesLiberoVulpes's icon]

That reminds me that i should watch Martin Mystery, just looking at screenshots tells me its something i would love.

And there was this anime called Radiant, afaik its based on a french comic, its alright (although i dropped it), its cool to see that bro got noticed by Japan.

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

That reminds me that i should watch Martin Mystery, just looking at screenshots tells me its something i would love.

I think it was an italian comic.

It's not on the same level as Dylan Dog but it looks interesting.

 

[Gorse]

I think it was an italian comic.

It is indeed, but the show and the comic are nothing alike (aside from a few similar characters). The comic is a long-running globe-trotting action-adventure serial, and the show is a monster-of-the-week sci-fi affair starring young adults at boarding school.

 

[Zerpina]

*Totally Spies* Humm *Thinks*

Yeah... I remember it being the PG-13 Fetish starting pack

 

[Gorse]

Clover was the hottest one, anyways. I also loved Mandy – she and Clover should have had a few more one-on-one tussles (with lots of heavy, angry make-out sessions), purely for scientific purposes.

 

[LiberoVulpesLiberoVulpes's icon]

Oh yeah, Totally Spies, watched it for the plot.

Makes you wonder how they managed to get away with some of that stuff.

Spoiler: Very long image

 

[DianeInsetinha]

Oh yeah, Totally Spies, watched it for the plot.

Makes you wonder how they managed to get away with some of that stuff.

Spoiler: Very long image

That was an insane read

 

[HextarVigar]

Weeaboo isn't anime. Don't insult it by equating it.

 

[Gorse]

Weeaboo

When they're French, it's called "Ouiaboo".

 

[HextarVigar]

When they're French, it's called "Ouiaboo".

It's wannabe trash. Giving the characters doe eyes and calling it anime is like me putting ketchup and cheezo on a slice of bread and calling it a pizza.

 

[Zerpina]

It's wannabe trash. Giving the characters doe eyes and calling it anime is like me putting ketchup and cheezo on a slice of bread and calling it a pizza.

Just like mamma use to make...

 

[RebelofDaNeonGod]

With the passing of the years, I've tried to watch more and more stuff, that includes Japanese animation and GOD DAMN do they understand it.

My favorite is obann star racers (complet in HD in YouTube, check it out) and it's because the series understands what anime is! It's not just big heads or popping veins, it's the wheight of silence during certain scenes, the emotional drama and heart breaking arcs of characters, the mysterious and unknown of the world it takes place in. They understood exactly what made anime so iconic to most people and did it really god damn well!! Btw, this series was made by the great great great great grandchild of the guy who created the eifell tower. He's name is literally eifell lol.

Dofus and wakfu are two modern examples that also fit really well onto this, they colorful, expressive and not scared to put weight onto things, you should totally check these out!!

A more old example that some may know better is code lyoko, a crazy and kinda experimental cartoon that I really used to like as a kid.

And, as a bonus fun fact: miraculous ladybug was first animated in beautiful 2D animation. It was full of so much life and ambience, but they switched for 3D for the final product, unfortunately.

You hit the nail on the head, man, Oban Star-Racers is soooo good. I shelled out the cash to get the collector's edition blu-ray (it was like 90 something bucks) and am I glad I did, it comes with 11 fucking dubs, dude. I really hope the team behind it can actually move forward with the potential sequel they shopped around

 

[DianeInsetinha]

You hit the nail on the head, man, Oban Star-Racers is soooo good. I shelled out the cash to get the collector's edition blu-ray (it was like 90 something bucks) and am I glad I did, it comes with 11 fucking dubs, dude. I really hope the team behind it can actually move forward with the potential sequel they shopped around

Fun fact: the collectros edition Blu-ray was, as far as I know, the only archive of the brazillian dub of this cartoon, and as a brazillian, God. That dub was as good as the series deserved.

I'd had already met Oban a few years earlier, but never watched due to the lack of dub/sub, so finally having this in high quality and 16:9 or 4:3 was such a blast.

 

[RebelofDaNeonGod]

Fun fact: the collectros edition Blu-ray was, as far as I know, the only archive of the brazillian dub of this cartoon, and as a brazillian, God. That dub was as good as the series deserved.

I'd had already met Oban a few years earlier, but never watched due to the lack of dub/sub, so finally having this in high quality and 16:9 or 4:3 was such a blast.

The fact alone that they thought to get all of these different dubs for this blu-ray means the creators truly do love Oban, which is deserving of praise

 

[Parasite_Steve]

Good call on the shows mentioned so far. I was randomly thinking of totally spies recently.

I’m usually reaaaaallly critical of non-Japanese studios trying to do an anime aesthetic, because it’s a very surface level pantomime in most cases. Not quite as bad as western developers trying to do feudal Japan though…

I think if you’re transforming it enough to make it your own thing, it’s legit to use japanime as an inspiration or template. In turn Anime was originally just a blatant ripoff of Max Fleischer cartoons, so there you go.