by BishounenStalker » Wed Jan 15, 2003 5:59 pm
I would've mentioned Thundercats and Gargoyles and the like, they ARE favorites. But I was trying to think of cartoons that weren't Japanese animated. Thundercats was done by Rankin-Bass, whose credits include the animated versions of The Hobbit, Return of the King, The Last Unicorn (which is now being remade as a live-action feature), Silverhawks, and Flight of Dragons, to name a few. These were made in English, but if you look at the credits, they were all animated in Japan and therefore count as anime (as if the style of R-B's animation isn't a dead giveaway).
The same goes with Gargoyles. The story and sound was done over here, but the animation was all done in Disney's Tokyo-based studio. Hence, it can be considered anime as well.
That doesn't make these two any less great shows. It's just that the thread specifically asked for non-anime.