Anime Parodies of Anime

[EVA Unit 100]

I'm not sure if this would go in this forum or Movies, Music, and TV but I put it here because it involves anime.

So what parodies of anime have you noticed on American TV?

First of all MEGAS XLR comes to mind. All that show is is basically a bunch of mecha parodies thrown together with a loose plot linking them.

Samurai Jack has done several parodies of Akira, Totoro, Gundam, Metropolis, and Lupin 3rd.

Homestar Runner.com has the StrongBad Email "Japanese Cartoon." (My personal favorite of all of these)

Both The Simpsons and South Park have spoofed the Pokemon craze.

Freakazoid was spoofing anime before anime was cool over here.

Teen Titans has done some FLCL spoofs.

There were DBZ spoofs on Billy and Mandy and Codename: Kids Next Door.

There was an Animatrix parody on Codename: Kids Next Door.

Conan O'Brian did a bit a few years back about Cowboy Bebop.

Evangelion was loosely tributed on an episode of Invader ZIM.

Can you think of any other anime parodies on American TV?

[natetron46]

The only ones Ive seen there is the Simpsons one. They made a number of jokes about Pokemon. Didnt they even have a whole episode that was a parody? Honestly its no suprise, imo Pokemon is very stupid and puts a bad name on other anime so I didnt really care that they did that. And it was funny.

[BlueYoshi]

I've seen a parody of Fist of the North Star in GTO, if that counts. And in The Simpsons there was a showing of an anime that gave everyone seizures lol, though I don't think that was aimed at any anime in particular.

There are tons more that are on the tip of my tongue.

[Dagger]

[quote name='Wingnut Ninja']And in The Simpsons there was a showing of an anime that gave everyone seizures lol, though I don't think that was aimed at any anime in particular.[/quote]

A few years ago, there was an episode of Pokemon that gave seven hundred Japanese children seizures. I assume The Simpsons meant to reference that event.

~Dagger~

[Semjaza]

The best one I've seen was on Dexter's Laboratory. There's an entire episode that does nothing but poke fun at anime. I particularly remember a scene where the characters mouths just kept opening and closing while they said about a million words (most of them not needed) in a short timespan. Happens a lot in localized anime.

Another good one was during the Clerks Animated Series, but it mostly poked fun at Korean animation.

[Burori]

And not to mention the matrix eh tony? LOL.


Ya. Also I find dubbed versions of Japanese anime or movies somewhat of a parody to a certain extent. For example. If they need to say something in japanese and say it. When you put it into english the whole mouth fixture is off. I love that cause it looks so funny. :P

[Queen Asuka]

[color=hotpink][size=1]Freakazoid? Are you sure? I never remember that show poking fun at anime. Maybe I missed something...[/color][/size]

[EVA Unit 100]

[quote name='Queen Asuka][color=hotpink][size=1]Freakazoid? Are you sure? I never remember that show poking fun at anime. Maybe I missed something...[/color'][/size][/quote]

With a show so jam-packed like Freakazoid, EVERYONE misses something.

The actual jokes about anime were scarce, but there were several jokes making fun of stereotypical Otakus.

[Sosogomi]

[QUOTE=EVA Unit 100]With a show so jam-packed like Freakazoid, EVERYONE misses something.

The actual jokes about anime were scarce, but there were several jokes making fun of stereotypical Otakus.[/QUOTE]
Not mention Astro Boy...

[natetron46]

What was the deal with all those seizures? After that happened, even some of my friends (who watch anime) began to joke around. Such as, everytime we put in a video, one of them would drop to the ground and begin to "seizure". It was pretty funny, Ill have to admit, but I think seeing that stuff on mainstream shows like the Simpsons gives anime a bad name, which isnt deserved.

[Solo Tremaine]

[COLOR=#503F86]I don't think it necessarily gives them a bad name- jokes are made about anything and everything in The Simpsons.

One anime parody scene I saw recently was in Reboot Season 4- the My Two Bobs movie special. It was an odd Pokemon/DBZ parody in which they made a joke about how long characters in anime take to hit someone when doing a flying kick, heh. And there was more- take-offs of Pokemon monsters and attacks, DBZ hairstyles and what-have-you.[/COLOR]

[Queen Asuka]

[quote name='Solo Tremaine][COLOR=#503F86']One anime parody scene I saw recently was in Reboot Season 4- the My Two Bobs movie special. It was an odd Pokemon/DBZ parody in which they made a joke about how long characters in anime take to hit someone when doing a flying kick, heh. And there was more- take-offs of Pokemon monsters and attacks, DBZ hairstyles and what-have-you.[/COLOR][/quote]

[color=hotpink][size=1]YOU STILL GET TO WATCH REBOOT? I am so JEALOUS. It was my favorite show back when I used to watch it and it came on tv and all that good stuff. There was an episode where they had a bot that looked exactly like Sailor Moon and as it raised it's wand up in the air, it got smashed. Yeah, see, now I remember an anime making-fun-of-type-thing.[/color][/size]

[Daisuke hige]

South Park had a parody of Akira thats all I can think of other than things that have already been posted. Pokemon :ball: gotta catch 'em all

[Delta]

Isn't Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventure a parody of Neon Genesis Evangelion?

[Solo Tremaine]

[quote name='Queen Asuka][color=hotpink][size=1]YOU STILL GET TO WATCH REBOOT?[/size'][/color][/quote][COLOR=#503F86]Only on DVD ^_^; Unfortunately the UK's Reboot was cut half way through Season three, so I didn't even get to see the episode you were talking about (System Crash) until I got a multi-region DVD player. The two made-for-TV movies ([i]Daemon Rising[/i] and [i]My Two Bobs[/i]) were released on DVD fairly recently; although the first run of DVDs had distorted sound they were still bloody fantastic to watch. But that's getting off-topic a little ^_^;

Going back to Teen Titans, I find their use of anime expressions more of a parody than a tribute. Sometimes they just look a bit... out of place to me, and even though it shows that anime's influence is spreading there's something about them that just doesn't sit right. The show itself isn't too bad, that just irks me a little.[/COLOR]

[EVA Unit 100]

[quote name='Solo Tremaine']Going back to Teen Titans, I find their use of anime expressions more of a parody than a tribute. Sometimes they just look a bit... out of place to me, and even though it shows that anime's influence is spreading there's something about them that just doesn't sit right. The show itself isn't too bad, that just irks me a little.[/COLOR][/quote]

For me, I find it mostly a tribute, but there are some flat-out parody moments in the series. I remember 2 episodes spoofing FLCL, and I'm sure there were others that were spoofs. But overall, TT is more of an overdone tribute than a spoof of anime (although it does spoof the DC Universe quite a bit).

[Solo Tremaine]

[quote name='EVA Unit 100']For me, I find it mostly a tribute, but there are some flat-out parody moments in the series. I remember 2 episodes spoofing FLCL, and I'm sure there were others that were spoofs. But overall, TT is more of an overdone tribute than a spoof of anime (although it does spoof the DC Universe quite a bit).[/quote][COLOR=#503F86]Oh, I know it's not meant to be serious. I couldn't quite find the right phrasing for what I wanted to say ^_^;

But it reminds me too much of Totally Spies with the overblown facial expressions, and I didn't like Totally Spies at all. I guess I'm just wary of animations trying to encorporate anime visuals into themselves when they aren't strictly speaking 'native' animes. I'm not elitist; sometimes it just doesn't look too right. Although it's probably the style of the rest of the animation that adds to that, too.[/COLOR]

[EVA Unit 100]

[QUOTE=Solo Tremaine][COLOR=#503F86]Oh, I know it's not meant to be serious. I couldn't quite find the right phrasing for what I wanted to say ^_^;

But it reminds me too much of Totally Spies with the overblown facial expressions, and I didn't like Totally Spies at all. I guess I'm just wary of animations trying to encorporate anime visuals into themselves when they aren't strictly speaking 'native' animes. I'm not elitist; sometimes it just doesn't look too right. Although it's probably the style of the rest of the animation that adds to that, too.[/COLOR][/QUOTE]

Well, yes, Totally Spies does suck, but American animation using anime-esque styles doesn't.

Seriously, the Disney style is getting bland, the WB style lost a lot once the studio moved from using full animation (on the classics, Tiny Toons, Batman, Animaniacs, and Freakazoid) to using limited animation (on everything after Freakazoid with the exception of Justice League), the UPA/H-B style has been put to good use by some series such as Samurai Jack but put to bad use on others, and CGI is either blocky or too freakin' expensive for TV. I'm OK with the traditional "anime" style used on American shows. Besides, anime has used a multitude of styles as well (the typical style, the bubbly Tezuka style, the soft-edge Miyazaki style, the sketchy Dragonball/One Piece style, the freak-crazy FLCL style, the half-digital half-drawn style, etc.). And the nice thing is is that most of these anime-style shows put their own spin on the style. Teen Titans does this, MEGAS XLR does this, Avatar seems to be doing this, and overall I'm OK with anime-styled American productions.

What bugs me is when these shows actually start declaring themselves "animes". That is absolutely annoying (although since MEGAS is directed in Japan that could be considered a hybrid show).

[Guest niohki]

I saw an anime paroday in an episode of Family Guy. It was a parody of Speed Racer. The choppy animation, sparkly eyes, and mouth movements were so exagerated. It was pretty funny.