Comments on: [GUEST POST] Michaele Jordan on the Savior of American Anime

By: Isaac Sher

Isaac Sher — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 16:53:19 +0000

David, the Japanese use the term “anime” to refer to all animation — so to them, Walt Disney is described as anime right alongside Japanese works like DragonBall or Princess Mononoke. It’s only in anglophone countries that “anime” is used to specifically refer to Japanese works.

Another term that sometimes gets used in the states when talking about stuff created in the US or Canada that’s in a Japanese style is “animesque” (see http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Animesque for a discussion and explanation of the term on the website “TV Tropes”), which would cover shows like Samurai Jack, Teen Titans, or Avatar: The Last Airbender. The “OE” term is also commonly used with regards to manga — some manga purists get rather snippy about not wanting to call comics made by Americans as “manga” even if it’s clearly in the Japanese style, so the compromise term is “Original English Manga” or “OE Manga”. One of the best examples of this is the manga series “DramaCon” by Svetlana Chmakova.

By: Michaele Jordan

Michaele Jordan — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 16:13:56 +0000

Joe, I cannot agree more. The sound on Samurai Jack was excellent (as was everything about the show). David, cross my heart, I did NOT make up the term OE anime–I got it from a friend who runs anime conventions.

The same source gave me the newer term, Americanime, but I found that almost as awful as scientifiction.

By: David Greybeard

David Greybeard — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 12:22:55 +0000

American anime? OE (original English) anime?
Your whole article is laughable!

By: Joe H.

Joe H. — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 03:31:37 +0000

Just give me Samurai Jack on Blu-ray (with full HD DTS 5.1 sound) and nobody gets hurt.

Seriously — one of the great things about Samurai Jack was the sound design, especially the use of silence, or near-silence.