Anime on US cable TV

[M Arnold]

From: <tetsuwan at bellsouth.net>
> The anime influences were quite obvious from the first film. I do recall
> such suggestions being discounted by many people, even those who called

Actually when I saw the first Matrix film I thought the obvious influence
was Disney's Tron.  I think my point in the previous message was that they
do appear to be working at illustrating connections between The Matrix and
"anime" that, at least from where this anime fan is looking, aren't so clear
after all.

There's an interesting article on "experimental animation" at Midnight Eye
right now.
http://www.midnighteye.com/features/beyond_anime.shtml

I'm sure many of you know that Ichikawa Kon was an animator early on in his
career (later on as well--however his 2000 film Shinsengumi seems to have
drifted into obscurity after its short run at Euro Space).  I spent some
time watching a couple of the director's 1930s-40s shorts, and found myself
wondering if these sorts of films would fit under the rubric of "anime" at
all.  Have the Wachowski brothers hired Ichikawa to decimate physics with a
popsickle-stick-figure Animatrix short yet?

Michael Arnold