DISCLAIMER!! omg thank you so much for the love on this video!! I just wanted to put it out there that yes I understand that the word "anime" is just a shortened term for "animation" so in japan it's no different than any other animated series no matter it's country of origin. BUT I just wanted to highlight in the video how the creators of ATLA, Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, made Avatar to honor japanese anime and how they did so! Avatar is awesome and this video is just celebrating that 😤😤👌👌
In my opinion I don’t really mind using the term “anime” to specifically mean Japanese animated stuff, it just makes it easier to distinguish that’s all! great video!
I think that 'anime' has a different meaning in English than in Japanese, and that's fine. In French, the word 'souvenir' is a verb, not a noun. 'Mesa' is a type of hill in English and a table in Spanish. This goes the other way, with languages taking words from English and other languages and changing the meaning. If someone really wants to say that Scooby Doo is an anime because 'anime' is just Japanese for 'cartoon', I don't think that represents how we use the word in English. It's fine to use 'anime' as shorthand for 'Japanese cartoon'.
Anime is also inspired by America. FLCL carries beats from Donnie Darko. Panty and Stocking cited Drawn together as inspiration. Naruto just like Harry Potter was written when the Wicked novel was blasting through the literary circuit, which is so impactful in Japan that the stage adaptation was natural fit to inspire Sasuke's and Naruto's storyline, back when the original one-shot of Naruto had him as a wizard. To this day Japanese isekai is largely built on the freemium Light Novel publication sites, and stage adaptation is in tight symbiosis with manga, including TV dramas first written for the josei magazines. NOT ONLY the "anime" adaptations, that were ANIME adaptations even when THEY were the ones animating Animaniacs, Disney Afternoon, TMNT and BatmanTAS. THAT IS ANIME. It's gonna look like "anime style" IF THEY ADAPT JAPANESE COMICS and hire and credit storyboarders form the manga insutry. It jsut won't be CALLED "anime" only in the case Hollywood own the IP and uses foreigenrs only for cheap uncredited labor. NOW they use them for Velma. Because the "english word" anime is just a tool to exceptionalize and remove far crediting, when Japan is BETTER at creating ANIMATION ADAPTATIONS. You try to pull that is' only "real" anime if they jingoistically only adapt Japanse storyboards.
@@Jason_Bryant Because you only "use" japanese to remove fair credit from everyone else NOW, NOW that you no longer ignore that theJapanese were the ones animating many of your "western" shows. Now you've put Hong Kong animators on the job of wasting their talent on Velma, and don't call that ANYTHING. Just like you didn't call the work of TMS anything. It's RACISM. Your own Hollywood industry WON'T HIRE Japanese storyboarders to forced-labor have them ADAPTED in USA. Because according to racism inhumane working conditions ONLY ARE INHUMANE if white people work under them. That's why there barely IS "western animation industry" because all those works just took labor FROM the actual industry that exists in Japan. They are exclusive to the Manga style and Light Novel isekai writing style because YOU only grant them credit IF THEY ARE. you DEFINE "anime" around the fact they're exclusionary, because that's what racism is. When Studio Ghibli's former name Topcraft created Rankin-Bass animations like Rudolph the Reindeer and The Last Unicorn, you REFUSED them the credit of adapting THOSE works and wouldn't CALL them Japanese.
Avatar was inspired by many things. Anime definitely being one of them but for me what makes the show so great is how it tackles existential and metaphysical schools of thought. If you unironically follow the teachings of Iroh alone, you will live a good life. The chakra meditation that guru pathik taught aang is a real kundalini meditation. The amount of wisdom packed into a children’s show and the way it’s presented in a palatable way makes Avatar much more than a tv show.
Even something such as the bending, and variants of the bending, are highly noticeably based on real world marital arts. If you watch each bending style next to the martial art they're based on, you can clearly see it.
@@newp0rtalr chill bro, just let people enjoy what they enjoy and Cowboy Bebop and ATLA are both shows that are not only super nostalgic for me, but incredible masterpieces that inspired the way I write, draw and live, so I completely get where this person is coming from because I have the same opinion, and it’s nice seeing people appreciate these amazing works :D you don’t gotta gatekeep the concept of liking multiple things lmao
After seeing your video, I'll be planning to watch FLCL and Samurai Champloo. Fun fact: the people who worked on FLCL would eventually form their own studio, called Studio Trigger, the studio responsible for Kill la Kill, Little Witch Academia, Promare, BNA: Brand New Animal, and Cyberpunk: Edgerunners.
@@rovidelarosa ya triggers style one of the most recognizable in the industry. i mean just look at panty & stocking with garter belt. its done by gainax and you can CLEARLY see where the people working on it went from there. just look at the transformation scene. thats literally the kill la kill transformation scene lmao.
Oh, WOW! I didn't know Studio Trigger started with FLCL. That makes a lot of sense. I LOVED FLCL when it came out. Still have the soundtrack in my rotation. And Little Witch Academia is one of my all time favorite anime. Totally underrated. Guren Lagan and Cyberpunk are amazing, too, but they get an adequate amount of credit. BNA was pretty good, but I feel like it becoming truly great is contingent on another season to show what they were going for. Like how LWA was pretty good in the first season, but the second season was such a great payoff for the build up in the first season that it elevated both to a true masterpiece.
5:13 these characters are an homage to Antonio Carlos Jobim, the legendary Brazilian composer who wrote The Girl from Ipanema and a lot of other beautiful songs.
FLCL blew my mind so far open when I watched it in college that I’ve never re-watched it, and just let the memory of the show sit in my mind for more than 20 years. Nothing could compare to the experience of watching it for the first time.
@@asmodiusjones9563 FLCL is one of the first anime I remember seeing, and if not, it was the most impressionable, besides some vague FMA scenes of homonculi scaring me. I was 5 yrs old when the show aired at some late hour on Toonami. I remember seeing the robot come out of Naota's head on the bridge, and I remember seeing his dad on the floor dead, with the scene tinted red more than anything. I didn't understand what was going on really, but in my memory this experience was equivalent to a stereotypical media portrayal of a psychedelic trip. It's definitely a core memory. Fast forward to me in middle-school or high-school and Toonami announced that it would be airing FLCL and the instant it showed a snippet from the show my jaw dropped, with the memory of when I was 5 hitting me. I've watched the show at least three times in It's entirety since then. I'm not one to mark things as being my favorite of something either, because I know feelings can change, but anytime I think "what's my favorite anime", FLCL is always in the back of my mind somewhere; it's a memory that has never truly faded from me. The show has the same feeling for me as a recurring dream that pops up every once in a while over the course of years. In fact, it just so happens that I made a FLCL edit some years ago, but didn't finish it because my editing software crashed while I was hours into editing. I ended up posting the not fully edited version to my YT channel last year some time while cleaning out my storage space.
i remember seeing flcl commercials on adult swim years ago and when i wanted to watch it, MY LITTLE BROTHER SAID "nahhhhhhhhhhh this is boring" after 2 minutes.. i recently watched the entire series and im so glad i did but damn i wish my little brother wasnt a buzzkill 😭
Flcl wasn't my first anime but definitely my first mind blowing experience with the medium. Had no idea the influence it had on Avatar! Thank you so much for sharing!
I know this is a riff on MCR being considered “not emo rock” because they’re not from the Midwest, but nothing about emo rock suggested it ought to be midwest, and MCR is to emo rock what Pink Floyd is to progressive rock, neither founded the genre, but they sure are the biggest name to the genre.
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FLCL was a huge influence on my childhood/ adolescent years and one of my favourite anime. The fact that I didn't see the direct influences from FLCL on Avatar is testament to how well-written Avatar is, but also how it doesn't make light of anime tropes, nor does it use them as crutches. When I did notice other inspirations, which are quite familiar (Ghibli, EVA/ angels, Bumi's Dragon Ball-esque transformation etc.), the writers of Avatar were very self-aware and used those tropes to serve the story and characters, not just to call back to things they enjoyed.
I always felt the Unagi scene where there’s a close up on one of its eyes blinking looked like the eva unit 01 eye when it sees itself in Neon Genesis!!!
I will say this...as an anime fan since waaay back (I'm part of your dad's era...or probably before, as my first anime was Star Blazers/SB Yamato...which I watched when living in the Philippines...early 80's) ...Japanese don't distinguish cartoon from anime...it's all anime to them. They call everything from Avatar to Batman: TAS "anime"...and I learned this first hand when I met Gainax in 1991, at one of the first "anime expos" actually called anime con for the first one and it was held in San Jose before it moved to LA...they were asked that very question.
@thomasffrench3639 I was too young to remember when Voltes V was banned... It was 1979, and I was 5...but it was a legend by the time I was 10 living there. Although it was banned, if you had access to VHS or Betamax, tapes of the show, and the other banned shows Daimos and Mazinger Z were all over. My uncles got together and got a VHS and I would watch with my cousins in Manila. It was definitely a "Streisand effect" where banning it actually made it more popular than normal. Curiously, Marcos didn't ban Star Blazers (Yamato) or even Harlock and Galaxy Express 999, considering Harlock, I think Marcos banned Voltes V on a whim, and otherwise didn't care that much. Long after Marcos was gone, the show still didn't play in the Philippines until 1999 (!)...so even the reformers didn't really get it. But the public had a long love affair with that show, and long after I moved to America, it's still remembered among us Filipinos that moved away.
I seriously don't understand why the style of punctuation you're using seems to be on the rise. It's really annoying to read and makes me irrationally angry.
"I named you Naota for honesty" "Blue! Blue! Blue! COBALT BLUE!" "I lost him again because of you, Takun, we couldn't pull it off... Wanna come along?... Know what? Forget it, 'cause you're still a kid, Takun. Save it for next time" I saw FLCL 20 years ago before streaming existed. It was on Adult Swim back when TV worked by literally screwing a cable behind it and tuning to the Cartoon Network channel at 11:00 pm. Haru Hara Haruko stole my heart and flew away in a yellow vespa. Thank you for bringing FLCL back to light.
Avatar The Last Airbender is great because it isn’t anime, but it uses anime as an influence in storytelling and animation, but it clearly is made like a western animation. It takes the best from each to make something amazing. I don’t love it like BoJack Horseman which is an amazing animation that is entirely western animation, but Avatar is something special. Also it is worth noting that Cowboy Bebop and other Watannabe works aren’t well know by general Japanese anime fans unless they were watching anime in the late 90s when it aired. So, Cowboy Bebop has sort of been claimed as a English anime classic as opposed to a worldwide anime classic, which is really fascinating.
i can't find it now, but years ago i stumbled upon that exalted rpg influenced some of Avatar the last airbender. Exalted is another love letter towards anime. you have five elemental poles, so the world is split five ways. water to the west, wood to the east, earth in the middle, fire to the south, and wind to the north. you have the story of there being a golden age/peace but then the dragon bloods found a way to take over. it came out in 2001. second edition came out in 06.
Kuvira (final villan of Legend of Korra), i think, it's inspired a lot by the female villans of Princess Mononoke and Nausicaä of the vally of The Wind. Like, it has similar framings, plans, lines, aesthetics. In Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind the villain literally gets on a military vehicle and makes a monster shoot giant laser beams and it's very similar to what Kuvira did in the end of Korra.
Nah, that’s definitely reductive. It only “ means” that linguistically. But that’s like saying it doesn’t actually mean a separate medium. Anime and Manga are Japan’s indigenous art forms that are the EQUIVALENT to Western comics and animation. When you ask Japanese people about their favorite manga and anime they don’t respond with Western subjects. Why?
@acetofresh1 I actually saw a video asking Japanese people their favourite anime and a lot of them said western cartoons like Disney. I think in Japan anime just means animation
@@acetofresh1 Because you lost. You lost the game you invented and forced everyone to play, when Japanese vineyards were the source of Batman and TMNT. You didn't nuke your own voteless civilians to build back better, not even Hawaiians who also were voteless civilians but never were killed by the Japanese alongside the invasive US military. It's LITEARALLY an issue of that you stop recording credit the MOMENT Japan surpasses you, and stop at "eh, let's call it even". Hirohito at US side until 1989 granting you the right to collude like that, against human life and fair work in animation. THAT is why USa doesn't do its own animation. Manga IS a different artform in the medium of ink on paper, it's not reaching for the goal of pin-up art with text, i.e. GRAPHIC NOVEL, that you REDUCTIVELY call comical. Yeah, ONLY the medium is same. Michal Bay movies invented a bombed hosptial in THE MEDIUM of real news. But if you adapt manga, you get CARTOONS from the COUNTRY that can do it. Japan just adapts it WELL, unless TMNT cartoon director specifically tells them to change gritty comics for 80's kids. And they did when Toei animated Turtles. Japanese don't KNOW that BS, that steals ninjas over nonexisting US culture. Your failure of English language is very deliberate, its definitions are based on double-think to always draw the winning line where you would win.
Wouldn't be surprised if the original Dragon ball series inspired Avatar as well. Avatar always reminded me of baby Goku Dragon ball, which i guess is an obvious statement because almost every show has been inspired by Dragon ball even if it's not overtly obvious because Dragon ball is the Prince & Michael Jackson of anime and action cartoons in general.
*Says Avatar isn't anime, proceeds to show how the author of avatar couldn't stop themselves from making an anime.* EDIT: To all the weebs in the comment section, anime is now a art movement, not just a cheap "made in " tag, or we'll have to add a bunch of outsourced cartoons to the canon and remove a bunch of outsourced anime from there too.
"Says Avatar isn't anime, proceeds to show how the author of avatar were influenced by a bunch of anime" - that is what the did Edit: saying the tag made in is cheap really devalues what that tag means. Knowing a things country origins means we can understand a little why things were done a certain way (like why are head pats a thing, why is there so much nudity humour-those are weird to Americans but a thing in Japan) Also the art movement argument is not really accurate because there is never been a clear consensus on the style belonging to thst movement. People keep picking and choosing why the origin definition is just ANYTHING coming from the Japanese animation industry
@@rogersol.youtubelol Anime inspired a bunch of shows Avatar the last Airbender, teenager robot, Samurai Jack ,Og teen titans,Castlevania on Netflix,Rise of Tmnt ,Batman beyond ,Megas xlr , tha Powerpuff girls ,Sym biotic Titan ,Unicorn eternal the list goes on and on and on
The video "don't skip the great divide" from RUclipsr Kross just touched on the exact same talking points. And that's from one week ago. That's curious.
I think Princess mononoke has a huge impact too(didn't know if u wud mention it). I think the main character is a lot like aang and zuko. The prince has a somewhat similar story to zuko. Burned and looking for an antidote. As peaceful as aang. Then the giant fish spirit monster in the North Pole looks a lot like the night walker. U cud say heibai was inspired by the gorillas turning into demons and attacking humans for destroying the forest. Princes mononoke learned how to fight from the wolves that found her. Toph learned how to fight after two badger moles found her. That's a bit loose.
So ATLA and Teen Titans were both not only inspired by Anime but FLCL which was made by the people that made my favorite anime of all time TTGL, it's all connected
Not sure if any of you guys realised this, but the "Polar-Bear dog hybrid" is korra's pet in tLOK!! So if could be that there referencing to Aangs older design, by giving Korra that pet. 3:55
Y'all WE KNOW anime means animation, we use anime to distinguish between U.S. animation and Japanese animation. You can stop with the condescending comments.
At least for the first wave of viewers, I dont think there was ever any confusion that ATLA is not anime. In the past 20 years with anime's presence becoming more widespread and accepted, it's actually more surprising to me that the distinction in art style hasn't become more apparent.
I'd say Avatar: The Last Airbender was as much inspired by 80s animation like Dungeons & Dragons as anime. Most of those 80s shows were animated in Japan and Korea, so there was an anime influence. The limits to what could be done on a Saturday morning cartoon prevented a show like Dungeons & Dragons from being like Airbender, but it was what Michael and Bryan grew up watching along with any of the American crew of a similar age. But I think people are surprised what did actually get past the censors in 80s cartoons. There's an episode of Dungeons & Dragons where the group of children have to decide whether or not to commit murder of the villain in order to go home that's highly reminiscent of Aang's struggle. The episode was written by Michael Reaves who went on to write Batman: TAS and a series of books with Neil Gaiman. I always felt like Airbender was taking what a show like D&D could have been if the writers in the 80s didn't have the network restrictions related to episodes of the week and issues with episodes airing out of order preventing serialized storytelling.
I literally just binge watched ATLA like 3 weeks ago and needed a new show to revisit and Copped a FLCL DVD boxset and rewatched in Japanese & English. I never made the connection, wow! How cool! 😮 AND I'm literally about to watch Evangelion to prepare for EoE in theaters on the 17th. HOLY SHIT! Sidenote: to anyone seeing this along with Bebop & Champloo for sure give Space Dandy a rewatch or first time view. Also binging that lol
It was really neat to see all the parallels I hadn't noticed before pointed out! One small gripe tho, you did my man the cabbage merchant a disservice relegating him to the cabbage GUY. C'mon now
This CONFIRMS something I always thought. In the widely disliked episode "The Great Divide" there is a scene where the animation style changes to depict the perspective of one of the tribes. This animation style is HEAVILY reminiscent of old Gainax works ESPECIALLY a film called "Dead Leaves" and I've always pointed this out to myself- but after this video I am 10000% certain that my assumption is true
Yes this makes sense. It’s a great cartoon that has anime influences. The live action Netflix series is a more mature version of the show and now I’m like I need an anime version of this 😂
I love your video. One thing I just thought about is how globalization has impacted media. Cowboy Bebop was influenced by Italian western spaghetti and jazz. SC sound track soundtrack influenced by hip hop. Jazz and hip hop are African American music forms. Then to see how these anime’s influenced western media like Avatar. Or how anime has had an huge impact on African Americans kids growing up in the early 2000’s like my self and the influence it had on hip hop years later. It’s a feed back loop. Maybe I’m thinking too deep about it, but it’s cool if you ask me.
Wow i learned so much and i guess i got a new anime to watch, fooly cooly, im surprised i never noticed all the influences or like the specific instances of them being inspired
I knew it. Bruuuh I can't believe it's inspired by FLCL one of my fav anime. When I first saw Aang with hair at the fire nation I lowkey thought he reminded me of Naota, not just based on looks, same age, both can't control they're power's like Aang's avatar state and Naota can't control Atomsk (pirate king), both r destined to save the world and I felt like the art style and animation was kinda similar in different aspects. Except they're personality/life style is different, for instance Aang doesn't want to carry out the responsibility of being the avatar and he want's ppl to see him as a regular kid not the avatar (but the world relie's on him because he's the only one that's powerful to hold 4 element's) and Naota he doesn't want to be seen as a child he want's ppl to treat him maturely like an adult, but the thing is he's just a kid and no one really knows he is powerful besides Haruko, Amarao and his close friends. When Naota gain some ppl's attention they think he's the hero but really, Naota's just the bullet. I notice that a lot of anime are inspired by FLCL in certain scenes, like Naruto, Chainsaw man, Bocchi the rock and many others that I might not know.
Wild that zuko's character design and backstory is IDENTICAL to todoroki and aang is just krillin with an arrow painted on his head - you made some good points in this video!
I believe Avatar is a 2005 show. MHA’s manga was 2014, right? So Todoroki is almost certainly inspired from Zuko. As for Aang and Krillin, I can sorta see that. DBZ came out long before ATLA.
I see a lot of Naruto in Avatar too, all the elements/chakra natures. Water style, fire style, earth style etc. Each protagonist main nature is air/wind. And there's definitely also some Cowboy Bebop for sure. Jet looks so much like Spike Spiegel, who's crewmate's name is Jet
I don't think Avatar NEEDS to be classified as "anime", but it is imo. Anime is just short for "animation", and itself was inspired by western cartoons. The majority of Japanese ppl consider anime cartoons, basically looking at it like we look at Spongebob. If a show like Wakfu can be considered anime to ppl even tho it was made in France then so can Avatar.
thats why you don't shoot weird creatures you can't identify, unless they are attacking you with deadly force. It could turn into a pissed water giant.
I love ATLA. Now that I know what inspired it. I'm geeking out. I love all those shows. Now I'm going to rewatch FLCL. Though I never did get to watch Evangelion. That is still on my to watch list. Going to put it at the top now. Man do I love Cowboy Bebob!!! Another one of my all time favorite animes is Trigun! The original Trigun!!Check it out!!!
It's not just Japan using a geographically specific term either though. Hanguk Aeni refers to Korean animation. Chinese animation is called Donghua. Same with Japanese manga for comics in which Manhwa refers to Korean comics and Manhua is for China. It's a bit reductive to call western animation "anime" but "cartoon" is a more broader term that has evolved over time since the Middle ages as a preparatory drawing for a piece of art like a fresco or tapestry (from Italian: cartone and Dutch: karton-words describing strong, heavy paper or pasteboard) , so I don't really mind referring to anime as "Japanese cartoons" or donghua as "Chinese cartoons" conversely.
Being a One Piece fan, I TOTALLY forgot about the OG Pirate King from FLCL!!! It was one of my first animes that I watched years ago too! A FLCL rewatch is in order. STAT.
There was a human in ancient times which controlled the telomeres and hence he became non-mortal, which means he decided when to die (that’s the difference with immortality).
It isn’t anime but it may as well be one. It doesn’t have to be but it does almost everything right to be that. It hits all the right notes without feeling like a knock off
The old gentlemans from cowboy Bebop name "Carlos, Antonio, jobin" if you search this as one single name you will find. Carlos Antonio jobin the music composer that inspired the show
Fantastic research. You should check the story of Skaanda and Agastya Muni (a true story of the son of the first mystic and Yoga master from Bharat [formerly India]🇮🇳), it is connected (knowingly or unknowingly) to the story of Zuko and uncle Iroh. 😊
Watched Netflix atla and I can say that I'm positivly surprised (but - yes - my expectations were low). I could feel that the spirit of the show was there, they really try to show the diversity of the atla world, and the characters felt realistic. I mean they understand that the cartoon have slithly different humour than movie should have (a little less goofy, more subtle). CGI sometimes lack quality but fights looks really good. Overall I had a good time and my eyes didn't suffer.
I didn't watch Avatar until the last episode aired and when I saw Aang vs Ozai it felt like the first time I saw DBZ so I went back and watched the whole thing (Nickelodeon started marathoning it)
"Anime" in Japan simply means "animation". Nothing else. This long debate about what is and isn't anime has always been meaningless and the people who perpetuate this fake distinction don't know as much about the subject as they think they do.
@@philo2189 Foreigners misusing a word out of ignorance do not get to rewrite its original meaning. That's not how language works. It's all animation. It means nothing to try and slice it into empty categories to appease purist sentiments.
@@cormano64 that actually is how language works. Every country different words have different meanings. A word that may be normal in America might be considered disrespectful in another country. So your point makes no sense. Even with symbols things are different based on what country you're in. The swastika doesn't mean the same thing in Japan like it does to us in America or Germany. There's plenty of words we use in America that does not have the same meaning in Japan and vice versa. So stop being a "Ummm ACHTUALLY!! 🤓🤓🤓" Little nerd and get over it. That's not what anime means to us we're not in Japan.
For the people in the comment. What distinguishes anime as anime isn't the country it was made in, it's a combination of it being made for Japanese people with Japanese being the original language, the dubbing doesn't detract that it's an anime. Once you remove speech and sounds from an animated feature does the creator and the country of origin/work it's based on come into play. ATLA is a cartoon through and through, same as Castlevania and most Netflix "anime." If the original language isn't Japanese, it really isn't anime, just an anime style. Someone can draw in a Pixar or Disney style, but it doesn't make it such. Forget about the people using semantics to justify that anime is no longer restricted to Japanese dialogue, saying "anime is just animation in Japanese." In that case, everything of the similar nature but named differently due to cultural roots and language are the same also. Calling cartoons anime and Anime cartoons are simply an immature way of ignorantly destroying a culture. No one will mix up, or rather should mix up, the differences between a Webtoon and a Manga. Simply put, if you are watching something animated dubbed while the original language is Japanese, you're watching a dubbed anime. It doesn't suddenly become a cartoon. It's an art/storytelling movement with cultural ties and history. It's a style that can be imitated but imitation doesn't make it an original.
Oh and we are discussing the usage of the word "Anime" and it's implications within the English language. Arguing that anime means animation in Japan, thus all animation is technically anime is nonsensical. If that's your take, I expect you to be speaking Japanese all the time and switching to animation when speaking in English. Language isn't precise which is why there are loan words from other languages. Using loan words doesn't make that thing the same as everything similar. There are fundamental differences to things and educated people should know that. Sigh, I just see the degradation of human intellect on internet discourse and it makes me so sad. Pretty soon you'll see people arguing that a Sari and a Yukata are the same thing as they are both traditional clothes of a country made from a large piece of cloth used to clothe a human being.
superb video, i watched it but my browser closed and i didnt get to like immediately, but i liked it now and i just wanted you to know i watched the whole thing through
One thing that Avatar does that, in my opinion, makes it better than your typical anime is use constant motion in all of its shots. You’ll never find a scene in Avatar where something isn’t moving. Also it doesn’t do the thing where one character is having a fight or doing something amazing and then you gotta have another character watching in awe and explaining what’s happening. I hate that.
Anime refers to all Manga characters and their respective details in drawings it shows the honor for style and skill sets of minde it depends on how you look at it if it’s inspired by another anime it’s still a inspiration for a western anime it shows Homer and respect to particular characters that they have adopted for their own style and character development arch which can be the legacy to that of Homer did know links was inspired by Peter Pan? This is basically the same thing.
I'm early on in the video but to me there is a spectrum of what is anime. From the most inclusive end which is things my mom would call anime (atla is one) to a hyper strict produced in Japan.
DISCLAIMER!! omg thank you so much for the love on this video!! I just wanted to put it out there that yes I understand that the word "anime" is just a shortened term for "animation" so in japan it's no different than any other animated series no matter it's country of origin. BUT I just wanted to highlight in the video how the creators of ATLA, Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, made Avatar to honor japanese anime and how they did so! Avatar is awesome and this video is just celebrating that 😤😤👌👌
In my opinion I don’t really mind using the term “anime” to specifically mean Japanese animated stuff, it just makes it easier to distinguish that’s all! great video!
I think that 'anime' has a different meaning in English than in Japanese, and that's fine. In French, the word 'souvenir' is a verb, not a noun. 'Mesa' is a type of hill in English and a table in Spanish. This goes the other way, with languages taking words from English and other languages and changing the meaning.
If someone really wants to say that Scooby Doo is an anime because 'anime' is just Japanese for 'cartoon', I don't think that represents how we use the word in English. It's fine to use 'anime' as shorthand for 'Japanese cartoon'.
Ever heard of 'Corey in the house?' Or as it's known in Japan 'korii waitohausu?'
Anime is also inspired by America. FLCL carries beats from Donnie Darko. Panty and Stocking cited Drawn together as inspiration.
Naruto just like Harry Potter was written when the Wicked novel was blasting through the literary circuit, which is so impactful in Japan that the stage adaptation was natural fit to inspire Sasuke's and Naruto's storyline, back when the original one-shot of Naruto had him as a wizard.
To this day Japanese isekai is largely built on the freemium Light Novel publication sites, and stage adaptation is in tight symbiosis with manga, including TV dramas first written for the josei magazines.
NOT ONLY the "anime" adaptations, that were ANIME adaptations even when THEY were the ones animating Animaniacs, Disney Afternoon, TMNT and BatmanTAS. THAT IS ANIME. It's gonna look like "anime style" IF THEY ADAPT JAPANESE COMICS and hire and credit storyboarders form the manga insutry. It jsut won't be CALLED "anime" only in the case Hollywood own the IP and uses foreigenrs only for cheap uncredited labor. NOW they use them for Velma. Because the "english word" anime is just a tool to exceptionalize and remove far crediting, when Japan is BETTER at creating ANIMATION ADAPTATIONS. You try to pull that is' only "real" anime if they jingoistically only adapt Japanse storyboards.
@@Jason_Bryant Because you only "use" japanese to remove fair credit from everyone else NOW, NOW that you no longer ignore that theJapanese were the ones animating many of your "western" shows. Now you've put Hong Kong animators on the job of wasting their talent on Velma, and don't call that ANYTHING. Just like you didn't call the work of TMS anything.
It's RACISM. Your own Hollywood industry WON'T HIRE Japanese storyboarders to forced-labor have them ADAPTED in USA. Because according to racism inhumane working conditions ONLY ARE INHUMANE if white people work under them. That's why there barely IS "western animation industry" because all those works just took labor FROM the actual industry that exists in Japan. They are exclusive to the Manga style and Light Novel isekai writing style because YOU only grant them credit IF THEY ARE. you DEFINE "anime" around the fact they're exclusionary, because that's what racism is.
When Studio Ghibli's former name Topcraft created Rankin-Bass animations like Rudolph the Reindeer and The Last Unicorn, you REFUSED them the credit of adapting THOSE works and wouldn't CALL them Japanese.
Avatar was inspired by many things. Anime definitely being one of them but for me what makes the show so great is how it tackles existential and metaphysical schools of thought. If you unironically follow the teachings of Iroh alone, you will live a good life. The chakra meditation that guru pathik taught aang is a real kundalini meditation. The amount of wisdom packed into a children’s show and the way it’s presented in a palatable way makes Avatar much more than a tv show.
Even something such as the bending, and variants of the bending, are highly noticeably based on real world marital arts. If you watch each bending style next to the martial art they're based on, you can clearly see it.
It is a work of art and a true phenomenon. Such an important show.
Your describing many anime.
I Love This Comment.
I knew Jet and Spike had to be related but Bumi being an Eva blew my mind lol. ANd the FLCL stuff is so cool! Great vid! ATLA is so good
RIGHT i cant un-see it now!
Also the name Jet is probably from Jet Black, Spike's crewmate/friend
Eva X Master Roshi XD
@@inakyu please make a video discussing the Fushigi Yuugie Mysterious Play Ova series please
Finding out that cowboy bebop was a big inspiration for avatar made my heart smile😭😭 2 of my favorite shows
They're my two only favorite shows 😭
@@Nneeee-w5k i bet you call any show u like "your favorite show" followed by a sobbing emoji. i literally gag at some of these comments.
@@newp0rtcalm down monsieur. Ill get these "filthy" peasants off of your manor 🧐
@@newp0rtI bet you constantly hate on people enjoying things, and are a huge drain to be around.
@@newp0rtalr chill bro, just let people enjoy what they enjoy
and Cowboy Bebop and ATLA are both shows that are not only super nostalgic for me, but incredible masterpieces that inspired the way I write, draw and live, so I completely get where this person is coming from because I have the same opinion, and it’s nice seeing people appreciate these amazing works :D
you don’t gotta gatekeep the concept of liking multiple things lmao
After seeing your video, I'll be planning to watch FLCL and Samurai Champloo.
Fun fact: the people who worked on FLCL would eventually form their own studio, called Studio Trigger, the studio responsible for Kill la Kill, Little Witch Academia, Promare, BNA: Brand New Animal, and Cyberpunk: Edgerunners.
Who doesn't know Studio Trigger was founded by former Gainax employees?
And now: Delicious in Dungeon
@@rovidelarosa ya triggers style one of the most recognizable in the industry. i mean just look at panty & stocking with garter belt. its done by gainax and you can CLEARLY see where the people working on it went from there. just look at the transformation scene. thats literally the kill la kill transformation scene lmao.
us old school heads still call trigger gainez and prob always will. daicon forever ! :D : D
Oh, WOW! I didn't know Studio Trigger started with FLCL. That makes a lot of sense. I LOVED FLCL when it came out. Still have the soundtrack in my rotation. And Little Witch Academia is one of my all time favorite anime. Totally underrated.
Guren Lagan and Cyberpunk are amazing, too, but they get an adequate amount of credit. BNA was pretty good, but I feel like it becoming truly great is contingent on another season to show what they were going for. Like how LWA was pretty good in the first season, but the second season was such a great payoff for the build up in the first season that it elevated both to a true masterpiece.
Yeah FoolyCooly is a goated classic.
But that's crazy Bumi was inspired by evangelion. Avatar is a bigger love letter to anime than I thought
I need to go back to FLCL. When I tried last time, it was just too insane for my head to wrap around if it’s the one I’m thinking about.
@@paulyguitary7651Yep, that’s the one.
5:13 these characters are an homage to Antonio Carlos Jobim, the legendary Brazilian composer who wrote The Girl from Ipanema and a lot of other beautiful songs.
That music about traffic 🚦 "morreu atrapalhando o trafego" have the brass that inspired cowboy Bebop opening
People are “finding” FLCL…god I’m getting old 😂 Love the vid!
FLCL blew my mind so far open when I watched it in college that I’ve never re-watched it, and just let the memory of the show sit in my mind for more than 20 years. Nothing could compare to the experience of watching it for the first time.
@@asmodiusjones9563it’s really good on rewatch too. A BUNCH of themes /motifs come through when you watch it when you’re older
@@asmodiusjones9563 FLCL is one of the first anime I remember seeing, and if not, it was the most impressionable, besides some vague FMA scenes of homonculi scaring me. I was 5 yrs old when the show aired at some late hour on Toonami. I remember seeing the robot come out of Naota's head on the bridge, and I remember seeing his dad on the floor dead, with the scene tinted red more than anything. I didn't understand what was going on really, but in my memory this experience was equivalent to a stereotypical media portrayal of a psychedelic trip. It's definitely a core memory.
Fast forward to me in middle-school or high-school and Toonami announced that it would be airing FLCL and the instant it showed a snippet from the show my jaw dropped, with the memory of when I was 5 hitting me. I've watched the show at least three times in It's entirety since then.
I'm not one to mark things as being my favorite of something either, because I know feelings can change, but anytime I think "what's my favorite anime", FLCL is always in the back of my mind somewhere; it's a memory that has never truly faded from me. The show has the same feeling for me as a recurring dream that pops up every once in a while over the course of years.
In fact, it just so happens that I made a FLCL edit some years ago, but didn't finish it because my editing software crashed while I was hours into editing. I ended up posting the not fully edited version to my YT channel last year some time while cleaning out my storage space.
i remember seeing flcl commercials on adult swim years ago and when i wanted to watch it, MY LITTLE BROTHER SAID "nahhhhhhhhhhh this is boring" after 2 minutes.. i recently watched the entire series and im so glad i did but damn i wish my little brother wasnt a buzzkill 😭
Flcl wasn't my first anime but definitely my first mind blowing experience with the medium. Had no idea the influence it had on Avatar! Thank you so much for sharing!
flcl is midwest emo anime
@ville__ I have seen the yellow sign, I fear not death nor what comes after death
I know this is a riff on MCR being considered “not emo rock” because they’re not from the Midwest, but nothing about emo rock suggested it ought to be midwest, and MCR is to emo rock what Pink Floyd is to progressive rock, neither founded the genre, but they sure are the biggest name to the genre.
@@geoffreysherman609ignore it dude... It's literally fake
@@corrinflakes9659Midwest emo is a specific genre tho...
@ville__Verborum perversitas quasi fulmen ad cor reis repercutiet, qui aliis joci maledicit. Siligineus ager quem foves inexhaustum feret capturam, pecora quae caves, nunquam lac producunt et mutuo comedunt. Per multos dies totidem sportas feres, parem numerum thesaurorum quem vere amas. Istas cophinos efferes, et voles similiter sepelieris, sed nunquam eris. Videbis finem vitae tuae sicut canes bibunt sanguinem de vulneribus tuis fluentem.
FLCL was a huge influence on my childhood/ adolescent years and one of my favourite anime. The fact that I didn't see the direct influences from FLCL on Avatar is testament to how well-written Avatar is, but also how it doesn't make light of anime tropes, nor does it use them as crutches. When I did notice other inspirations, which are quite familiar (Ghibli, EVA/ angels, Bumi's Dragon Ball-esque transformation etc.), the writers of Avatar were very self-aware and used those tropes to serve the story and characters, not just to call back to things they enjoyed.
Flcl - avatar connection… now I know why I’m so in love with this show
I always felt the Unagi scene where there’s a close up on one of its eyes blinking looked like the eva unit 01 eye when it sees itself in Neon Genesis!!!
I will say this...as an anime fan since waaay back (I'm part of your dad's era...or probably before, as my first anime was Star Blazers/SB Yamato...which I watched when living in the Philippines...early 80's) ...Japanese don't distinguish cartoon from anime...it's all anime to them. They call everything from Avatar to Batman: TAS "anime"...and I learned this first hand when I met Gainax in 1991, at one of the first "anime expos" actually called anime con for the first one and it was held in San Jose before it moved to LA...they were asked that very question.
Literally all I know about the Philippines when it comes to anime is that everyone watched Voltes V. Great show
@thomasffrench3639 I was too young to remember when Voltes V was banned... It was 1979, and I was 5...but it was a legend by the time I was 10 living there. Although it was banned, if you had access to VHS or Betamax, tapes of the show, and the other banned shows Daimos and Mazinger Z were all over. My uncles got together and got a VHS and I would watch with my cousins in Manila. It was definitely a "Streisand effect" where banning it actually made it more popular than normal. Curiously, Marcos didn't ban Star Blazers (Yamato) or even Harlock and Galaxy Express 999, considering Harlock, I think Marcos banned Voltes V on a whim, and otherwise didn't care that much.
Long after Marcos was gone, the show still didn't play in the Philippines until 1999 (!)...so even the reformers didn't really get it. But the public had a long love affair with that show, and long after I moved to America, it's still remembered among us Filipinos that moved away.
Today I learned that Tom and Jerry is anime
@@gokulhemanthkumar4556 Anime is just shortened animation. So yes, for a Japanese person, Tom and Jerry is anime.
I seriously don't understand why the style of punctuation you're using seems to be on the rise. It's really annoying to read and makes me irrationally angry.
The animation and anatomy of the characters in ATLA has always reminded me of FLCL it’s cool to see that I wasn’t just imagining that comparison.
"I named you Naota for honesty"
"Blue! Blue! Blue! COBALT BLUE!"
"I lost him again because of you, Takun, we couldn't pull it off... Wanna come along?... Know what? Forget it, 'cause you're still a kid, Takun. Save it for next time" I saw FLCL 20 years ago before streaming existed. It was on Adult Swim back when TV worked by literally screwing a cable behind it and tuning to the Cartoon Network channel at 11:00 pm. Haru Hara Haruko stole my heart and flew away in a yellow vespa. Thank you for bringing FLCL back to light.
it was really fun vid queen :D (especially seeing one of your videos after a really long time)
It is Anime. Anime is a style now. Just like Hip Hop is a style. Imagine saying a rap song isn't Hip Hop because it was made in Japan
The 2000s Teen Titans animated series was inspired by FLCL as well.
Avatar The Last Airbender is great because it isn’t anime, but it uses anime as an influence in storytelling and animation, but it clearly is made like a western animation. It takes the best from each to make something amazing. I don’t love it like BoJack Horseman which is an amazing animation that is entirely western animation, but Avatar is something special.
Also it is worth noting that Cowboy Bebop and other Watannabe works aren’t well know by general Japanese anime fans unless they were watching anime in the late 90s when it aired. So, Cowboy Bebop has sort of been claimed as a English anime classic as opposed to a worldwide anime classic, which is really fascinating.
BH is a great story. Not a great animation. Those characters barely move.
@@alvinsmith3894 I didn’t mean that BoJack Horseman was amazingly animated, but it was a great work in the animation medium
i can't find it now, but years ago i stumbled upon that exalted rpg influenced some of Avatar the last airbender. Exalted is another love letter towards anime. you have five elemental poles, so the world is split five ways. water to the west, wood to the east, earth in the middle, fire to the south, and wind to the north. you have the story of there being a golden age/peace but then the dragon bloods found a way to take over. it came out in 2001. second edition came out in 06.
Kuvira (final villan of Legend of Korra), i think, it's inspired a lot by the female villans of Princess Mononoke and Nausicaä of the vally of The Wind. Like, it has similar framings, plans, lines, aesthetics. In Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind the villain literally gets on a military vehicle and makes a monster shoot giant laser beams and it's very similar to what Kuvira did in the end of Korra.
3:54 I was positive the Polar Bear-Dog Hybrid was revived as Naga though.
The Creators backed up this claim too.
yep!
YAAAASSS it's totally FLCL!!! ❤❤❤
And all the other shows you mentioned! I knew it was inspired by Anime but this is so cool to see 🤩
In a technical sense, “anime” simply means animation, same with how manga translates to comic.
But specifically out of Japan. Like champagne.
Nah, that’s definitely reductive. It only “ means” that linguistically. But that’s like saying it doesn’t actually mean a separate medium. Anime and Manga are Japan’s indigenous art forms that are the EQUIVALENT to Western comics and animation. When you ask Japanese people about their favorite manga and anime they don’t respond with Western subjects. Why?
@acetofresh1 I actually saw a video asking Japanese people their favourite anime and a lot of them said western cartoons like Disney. I think in Japan anime just means animation
@@beanman6969exactly its always the us poeoke making things complicated more than it should be
@@acetofresh1 Because you lost. You lost the game you invented and forced everyone to play, when Japanese vineyards were the source of Batman and TMNT. You didn't nuke your own voteless civilians to build back better, not even Hawaiians who also were voteless civilians but never were killed by the Japanese alongside the invasive US military.
It's LITEARALLY an issue of that you stop recording credit the MOMENT Japan surpasses you, and stop at "eh, let's call it even". Hirohito at US side until 1989 granting you the right to collude like that, against human life and fair work in animation. THAT is why USa doesn't do its own animation.
Manga IS a different artform in the medium of ink on paper, it's not reaching for the goal of pin-up art with text, i.e. GRAPHIC NOVEL, that you REDUCTIVELY call comical. Yeah, ONLY the medium is same. Michal Bay movies invented a bombed hosptial in THE MEDIUM of real news. But if you adapt manga, you get CARTOONS from the COUNTRY that can do it. Japan just adapts it WELL, unless TMNT cartoon director specifically tells them to change gritty comics for 80's kids. And they did when Toei animated Turtles. Japanese don't KNOW that BS, that steals ninjas over nonexisting US culture.
Your failure of English language is very deliberate, its definitions are based on double-think to always draw the winning line where you would win.
Wouldn't be surprised if the original Dragon ball series inspired Avatar as well. Avatar always reminded me of baby Goku Dragon ball, which i guess is an obvious statement because almost every show has been inspired by Dragon ball even if it's not overtly obvious because Dragon ball is the Prince & Michael Jackson of anime and action cartoons in general.
samurai Champloo and Atla aired within a month of each other, so I think it is in fact a coincidence that Momo and Momo share the same name
*Says Avatar isn't anime, proceeds to show how the author of avatar couldn't stop themselves from making an anime.*
EDIT: To all the weebs in the comment section, anime is now a art movement, not just a cheap "made in " tag, or we'll have to add a bunch of outsourced cartoons to the canon and remove a bunch of outsourced anime from there too.
"Says Avatar isn't anime, proceeds to show how the author of avatar were influenced by a bunch of anime" - that is what the did
Edit: saying the tag made in is cheap really devalues what that tag means. Knowing a things country origins means we can understand a little why things were done a certain way (like why are head pats a thing, why is there so much nudity humour-those are weird to Americans but a thing in Japan)
Also the art movement argument is not really accurate because there is never been a clear consensus on the style belonging to thst movement. People keep picking and choosing why the origin definition is just ANYTHING coming from the Japanese animation industry
My favorite Hollywood movie is Ghost in the Shell.
It's not an anime.
Avatar isn’t an anime and it doesn’t have to be. Not being an anime doesn’t make it any less great than it is.
@@rogersol.youtubelol Anime inspired a bunch of shows Avatar the last Airbender, teenager robot, Samurai Jack ,Og teen titans,Castlevania on Netflix,Rise of Tmnt ,Batman beyond ,Megas xlr , tha Powerpuff girls ,Sym biotic Titan ,Unicorn eternal the list goes on and on and on
The polar bear dog looks more like Korra's pet
The video "don't skip the great divide" from RUclipsr Kross just touched on the exact same talking points.
And that's from one week ago.
That's curious.
Yeah, noticed that incredibly quickly too. This video feels like it's plagiarism to me
I was thinking the same, I hope it's addressed, because I understand that coincidences exist, but it is very similar and having scepticism is valid
I think Princess mononoke has a huge impact too(didn't know if u wud mention it). I think the main character is a lot like aang and zuko. The prince has a somewhat similar story to zuko. Burned and looking for an antidote. As peaceful as aang.
Then the giant fish spirit monster in the North Pole looks a lot like the night walker.
U cud say heibai was inspired by the gorillas turning into demons and attacking humans for destroying the forest.
Princes mononoke learned how to fight from the wolves that found her.
Toph learned how to fight after two badger moles found her. That's a bit loose.
So ATLA and Teen Titans were both not only inspired by Anime but FLCL which was made by the people that made my favorite anime of all time TTGL, it's all connected
IF YOU SAIDS GURREN LAGANN.... YES!!!!!!! Subbed.
Not sure if any of you guys realised this, but the "Polar-Bear dog hybrid" is korra's pet in tLOK!! So if could be that there referencing to Aangs older design, by giving Korra that pet. 3:55
Y'all WE KNOW anime means animation, we use anime to distinguish between U.S. animation and Japanese animation. You can stop with the condescending comments.
im a huge fooly cooly fan and I NEVER knew this thank you for making this video
At least for the first wave of viewers, I dont think there was ever any confusion that ATLA is not anime.
In the past 20 years with anime's presence becoming more widespread and accepted, it's actually more surprising to me that the distinction in art style hasn't become more apparent.
flcl is such a drug drip, would influence my stuff too if I made some.
Make some stuff. It’s good for you.
The depth of this video was amazing! Please, please, please, do a review of Netflix live action of Avatar.
Cool video! ALSO I freaking love the "subcount during upload-- ..." What a fantastic idea for the YT change to make the exact number private
haha i enjoy it bc sometimes i like looking at some videos as time stamps for growth, like, "wow i made that video when i only had 100 subs. crazy"
This was a great video, shout out FLCL, great anime. I was wondering, what is that picture right of the Blastoise?
howl and sophie from howl's moving castle! the artist is rossdraws
@@inakyu Thank you so much for the reply. You're awesome. 💜
I'd say Avatar: The Last Airbender was as much inspired by 80s animation like Dungeons & Dragons as anime. Most of those 80s shows were animated in Japan and Korea, so there was an anime influence. The limits to what could be done on a Saturday morning cartoon prevented a show like Dungeons & Dragons from being like Airbender, but it was what Michael and Bryan grew up watching along with any of the American crew of a similar age. But I think people are surprised what did actually get past the censors in 80s cartoons. There's an episode of Dungeons & Dragons where the group of children have to decide whether or not to commit murder of the villain in order to go home that's highly reminiscent of Aang's struggle. The episode was written by Michael Reaves who went on to write Batman: TAS and a series of books with Neil Gaiman. I always felt like Airbender was taking what a show like D&D could have been if the writers in the 80s didn't have the network restrictions related to episodes of the week and issues with episodes airing out of order preventing serialized storytelling.
I legit get so happy when you post😂❤
I literally just binge watched ATLA like 3 weeks ago and needed a new show to revisit and Copped a FLCL DVD boxset and rewatched in Japanese & English. I never made the connection, wow! How cool! 😮
AND I'm literally about to watch Evangelion to prepare for EoE in theaters on the 17th. HOLY SHIT!
Sidenote: to anyone seeing this along with Bebop & Champloo for sure give Space Dandy a rewatch or first time view. Also binging that lol
100% agree. I am also pretty sure the animators/creators of ATLA are big 90's animé art style in general.
The gliding of Ang is a wonderful homage to nausicaa and the valley of wind!
It was really neat to see all the parallels I hadn't noticed before pointed out! One small gripe tho, you did my man the cabbage merchant a disservice relegating him to the cabbage GUY. C'mon now
The fact that Bumi's stature is inspired by Eva will never not be funny lmao
This CONFIRMS something I always thought. In the widely disliked episode "The Great Divide" there is a scene where the animation style changes to depict the perspective of one of the tribes. This animation style is HEAVILY reminiscent of old Gainax works ESPECIALLY a film called "Dead Leaves" and I've always pointed this out to myself- but after this video I am 10000% certain that my assumption is true
That sure is a lot of famous anime.
Yes this makes sense. It’s a great cartoon that has anime influences. The live action Netflix series is a more mature version of the show and now I’m like I need an anime version of this 😂
Great video! This gave me a new appreciation on one of my favorite shows of all time. Thank you!🙏
I love your video. One thing I just thought about is how globalization has impacted media.
Cowboy Bebop was influenced by Italian western spaghetti and jazz. SC sound track soundtrack influenced by hip hop.
Jazz and hip hop are African American music forms. Then to see how these anime’s influenced western media like Avatar. Or how anime has had an huge impact on African Americans kids growing up in the early 2000’s like my self and the influence it had on hip hop years later. It’s a feed back loop.
Maybe I’m thinking too deep about it, but it’s cool if you ask me.
Wow i learned so much and i guess i got a new anime to watch, fooly cooly, im surprised i never noticed all the influences or like the specific instances of them being inspired
I knew it. Bruuuh I can't believe it's inspired by FLCL one of my fav anime. When I first saw Aang with hair at the fire nation I lowkey thought he reminded me of Naota, not just based on looks, same age, both can't control they're power's like Aang's avatar state and Naota can't control Atomsk (pirate king), both r destined to save the world and I felt like the art style and animation was kinda similar in different aspects. Except they're personality/life style is different, for instance Aang doesn't want to carry out the responsibility of being the avatar and he want's ppl to see him as a regular kid not the avatar (but the world relie's on him because he's the only one that's powerful to hold 4 element's) and Naota he doesn't want to be seen as a child he want's ppl to treat him maturely like an adult, but the thing is he's just a kid and no one really knows he is powerful besides Haruko, Amarao and his close friends. When Naota gain some ppl's attention they think he's the hero but really, Naota's just the bullet. I notice that a lot of anime are inspired by FLCL in certain scenes, like Naruto, Chainsaw man, Bocchi the rock and many others that I might not know.
Wild that zuko's character design and backstory is IDENTICAL to todoroki and aang is just krillin with an arrow painted on his head - you made some good points in this video!
Keep in mind that ATLA came out before MHA.
@@dennisduncan7561 pretty sure My Hero, Aang came out first..
I believe Avatar is a 2005 show. MHA’s manga was 2014, right? So Todoroki is almost certainly inspired from Zuko. As for Aang and Krillin, I can sorta see that. DBZ came out long before ATLA.
I see a lot of Naruto in Avatar too, all the elements/chakra natures. Water style, fire style, earth style etc. Each protagonist main nature is air/wind. And there's definitely also some Cowboy Bebop for sure. Jet looks so much like Spike Spiegel, who's crewmate's name is Jet
Elements and chakras are just easy to base a magic system around as half of the work is already done for you
I don't think Avatar NEEDS to be classified as "anime", but it is imo. Anime is just short for "animation", and itself was inspired by western cartoons. The majority of Japanese ppl consider anime cartoons, basically looking at it like we look at Spongebob. If a show like Wakfu can be considered anime to ppl even tho it was made in France then so can Avatar.
makes sense why I loved fooly cooly and need to rewatch it again
Id recommend everyone to watch the video “Do not skip the great divide” by kross who also goes into depth about the anime inspirations of avatar
thats why you don't shoot weird creatures you can't identify, unless they are attacking you with deadly force. It could turn into a pissed water giant.
I love ATLA. Now that I know what inspired it. I'm geeking out. I love all those shows. Now I'm going to rewatch FLCL. Though I never did get to watch Evangelion. That is still on my to watch list. Going to put it at the top now. Man do I love Cowboy Bebob!!! Another one of my all time favorite animes is Trigun! The original Trigun!!Check it out!!!
It's not just Japan using a geographically specific term either though. Hanguk Aeni refers to Korean animation. Chinese animation is called Donghua. Same with Japanese manga for comics in which Manhwa refers to Korean comics and Manhua is for China.
It's a bit reductive to call western animation "anime" but "cartoon" is a more broader term that has evolved over time since the Middle ages as a preparatory drawing for a piece of art like a fresco or tapestry (from Italian: cartone and Dutch: karton-words describing strong, heavy paper or pasteboard) , so I don't really mind referring to anime as "Japanese cartoons" or donghua as "Chinese cartoons" conversely.
Japanese cartoon is exactly what anime is. Idk why anyone would have a problem
I HECKIN LOVE WHEN INAKYU POSTS
I love all the comparisons to princess mononoke so much 😭
Geez. That's like, such a huge magic trick that imagery was inpired by all the stuff I watched in the past but I NEVER picked up on it. Woooow.
Being a One Piece fan, I TOTALLY forgot about the OG Pirate King from FLCL!!! It was one of my first animes that I watched years ago too!
A FLCL rewatch is in order. STAT.
The HuniePop Sound Track Was a great choice 👍✨
An inakyu video about Avatar: The Last Airbender? What could possibly be better?
There was a human in ancient times which controlled the telomeres and hence he became non-mortal, which means he decided when to die (that’s the difference with immortality).
It isn’t anime but it may as well be one. It doesn’t have to be but it does almost everything right to be that. It hits all the right notes without feeling like a knock off
The top 3 imo is
1. FLCL
2. Ghibli movies (Also Ghibli has inspired everyone from everywhere it can be animation or live action)
3. Cowboy Bebop
Your voice is so soothing , thanks 😊 😌
You found ONE of the animes it was a love letter to, theres 3 in just the last couple episodes alone
The old gentlemans from cowboy Bebop name "Carlos, Antonio, jobin" if you search this as one single name you will find. Carlos Antonio jobin the music composer that inspired the show
And I recomend the review of his music at Adam Neely channel
So much nostalgia!!! 😭
It was the greatest loveletter to animé I've ever seen 👍
Came flying in because I recognize that thumbnail. That show is a work of art.
I think the best part of this is finding out Naga got designed before Appa 🤯
You did great. Explained it so well
wow i love learning about the deep history on things i like...thanks for the info ima watch fooley cooley asap!!!
That light proves you would look so cool with red highlights lol
so basically Avatar is inspired from many animes and real life, making it an awesome show that shows the creators paid attention to details
yes exactly
Love your enthusiasm - and you pointed out many valid and essential themes.
Valid, maybe not essential..
Valid sure but, maybe not essential..
I like it. This just goes to say that good Animations don't need to be Anime.
Samurai champloo is my fav after avatar. Love this video. :)
it has everything a regular anime has, mainly the drawing style
yes, this is what anime means: "an animation" (it's literally short for animation in japanese)
Fantastic research. You should check the story of Skaanda and Agastya Muni (a true story of the son of the first mystic and Yoga master from Bharat [formerly India]🇮🇳), it is connected (knowingly or unknowingly) to the story of Zuko and uncle Iroh. 😊
DAMN I never put that together. Now I gotta rewatch FLCL
Watched Netflix atla and I can say that I'm positivly surprised (but - yes - my expectations were low). I could feel that the spirit of the show was there, they really try to show the diversity of the atla world, and the characters felt realistic. I mean they understand that the cartoon have slithly different humour than movie should have (a little less goofy, more subtle). CGI sometimes lack quality but fights looks really good. Overall I had a good time and my eyes didn't suffer.
I didn't watch Avatar until the last episode aired and when I saw Aang vs Ozai it felt like the first time I saw DBZ so I went back and watched the whole thing (Nickelodeon started marathoning it)
"Anime" in Japan simply means "animation". Nothing else.
This long debate about what is and isn't anime has always been meaningless and the people who perpetuate this fake distinction don't know as much about the subject as they think they do.
We don't live in Japan nigga so it's not an anime
We don't live in Japan so it's not anime
@@philo2189 Foreigners misusing a word out of ignorance do not get to rewrite its original meaning. That's not how language works.
It's all animation. It means nothing to try and slice it into empty categories to appease purist sentiments.
@@cormano64 that actually is how language works. Every country different words have different meanings. A word that may be normal in America might be considered disrespectful in another country. So your point makes no sense. Even with symbols things are different based on what country you're in. The swastika doesn't mean the same thing in Japan like it does to us in America or Germany.
There's plenty of words we use in America that does not have the same meaning in Japan and vice versa. So stop being a "Ummm ACHTUALLY!! 🤓🤓🤓" Little nerd and get over it. That's not what anime means to us we're not in Japan.
anime is an art movement at this point.
For the people in the comment. What distinguishes anime as anime isn't the country it was made in, it's a combination of it being made for Japanese people with Japanese being the original language, the dubbing doesn't detract that it's an anime. Once you remove speech and sounds from an animated feature does the creator and the country of origin/work it's based on come into play. ATLA is a cartoon through and through, same as Castlevania and most Netflix "anime." If the original language isn't Japanese, it really isn't anime, just an anime style. Someone can draw in a Pixar or Disney style, but it doesn't make it such. Forget about the people using semantics to justify that anime is no longer restricted to Japanese dialogue, saying "anime is just animation in Japanese." In that case, everything of the similar nature but named differently due to cultural roots and language are the same also. Calling cartoons anime and Anime cartoons are simply an immature way of ignorantly destroying a culture. No one will mix up, or rather should mix up, the differences between a Webtoon and a Manga.
Simply put, if you are watching something animated dubbed while the original language is Japanese, you're watching a dubbed anime. It doesn't suddenly become a cartoon. It's an art/storytelling movement with cultural ties and history. It's a style that can be imitated but imitation doesn't make it an original.
Oh and we are discussing the usage of the word "Anime" and it's implications within the English language. Arguing that anime means animation in Japan, thus all animation is technically anime is nonsensical. If that's your take, I expect you to be speaking Japanese all the time and switching to animation when speaking in English. Language isn't precise which is why there are loan words from other languages. Using loan words doesn't make that thing the same as everything similar. There are fundamental differences to things and educated people should know that. Sigh, I just see the degradation of human intellect on internet discourse and it makes me so sad. Pretty soon you'll see people arguing that a Sari and a Yukata are the same thing as they are both traditional clothes of a country made from a large piece of cloth used to clothe a human being.
Samurai Champloo deserves everything.
And fuu is also fuu in Naruto.
superb video, i watched it but my browser closed and i didnt get to like immediately, but i liked it now and i just wanted you to know i watched the whole thing through
One thing that Avatar does that, in my opinion, makes it better than your typical anime is use constant motion in all of its shots. You’ll never find a scene in Avatar where something isn’t moving. Also it doesn’t do the thing where one character is having a fight or doing something amazing and then you gotta have another character watching in awe and explaining what’s happening. I hate that.
I love your passion for animes.
I feel like anime was already being taken so much serious even before The Last Airbender
Anime refers to all Manga characters and their respective details in drawings it shows the honor for style and skill sets of minde it depends on how you look at it if it’s inspired by another anime it’s still a inspiration for a western anime it shows Homer and respect to particular characters that they have adopted for their own style and character development arch which can be the legacy to that of Homer did know links was inspired by Peter Pan? This is basically the same thing.
I'm early on in the video but to me there is a spectrum of what is anime. From the most inclusive end which is things my mom would call anime (atla is one) to a hyper strict produced in Japan.