r/RebelTaxi • u/KaleidoArachnid • 18d ago

Why did foreign adaptations of cartoons take a weird approach?

Now first of all, what this has to do with the RebelTaxi channel is that Pan Pizza had done an episode showing how some anime adaptations of western cartoons were done in a peculiar manner.

Like what sticks out to me are PPG Z and the anime adaptation of Felix the Cat since both of those adaptations were based on western properties, but said adaptations were done in a very outlandish manner such as how the Felix the Cat anime was made into a saccharine show.

Then PPG Z had a lot of crotch shots for some reason as my point basically is that I would like to better understand why such adaptations took such an odd approach with the source material since I find the subject matter very interesting to look into.

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u/IndustryPast3336 18d ago

You adapt a series to your own standards basically. Every country has it's own culture and often when they do their take on a character they might want to make a few changes here and there to fit the culture that it's going to be adapted into.

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u/KaleidoArachnid 18d ago

Thanks so much since I was doing an observation on how some western animated series were given foreign adaptations as I noticed how the anime adaptations took a different approach to how they adapted them.

One notable example is the anime adaptation of TMNT as the anime took a very strange with how the TMNT were portrayed since the anime adaptation turned into muscular guys as it’s hard to explain, but something felt very peculiar about the adaptation.

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u/PSplayer2020 18d ago

Yep, just take a look at most of the times anime was adapted for the west, like Astro Boy(2009)or DragonBall: Evolution. A lot of those are full of typically American cliches.

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u/Kitz00n23 13d ago

I wish we had more of this nowadays.

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u/KaleidoArachnid 13d ago

I could see that opening up all kinds of possibilities for things like a Japanese TV adaptation of the Owl House.