Name that anime

Tsuji Mania · Post by **Tsuji Mania** » Wed Oct 09, 2002 12:18 am

Yeah I thought that's what you were talking about, but I knew it couldn't be since that is certainly no Japanese anime...

CaTaClYsM · Post by **CaTaClYsM** » Wed Oct 09, 2002 2:10 am

you mean its not a cartoon? looks pretty animated to me.

Chaos Angel · Post by **Chaos Angel** » Wed Oct 09, 2002 8:58 am

Tsuji Mania wrote:I believe you were reffering to Koalla Walla World. That was indeed drawn by Japanese artists, as was Bell and Sebastian and numerous other cartoons that appeared on Nickelodeon in the old days.

Actually, the show RadicalEdo was referring to was called The Noozles. There is some info here, but not a lot aside from the Japanese title, Fushigi na koala Blinky (The Wonderous Koala Blinky, according to the site) and the Japanese, English, and Korean VAs.

http://us.imdb.com/Title?0302211

It was about two koala's and their human friend, Sandy. Blinky constantly "slept" in a comatose state, and everyone thinks he is a stuffed bear. He only woke up when Sandy "noozled" him (rubbed noses). Blinky had a watch that could freeze ti8me, as I recall. His sister, Pinky, had a bag full of wierd enchanted artifacts, like the watch, and she could travel between dimensions, most opften between Earth and their home, Koalla Walla Land, where humans were forbidden to enter. Koalla Lalla Land was highly xenophobic and they hated humans. As I recall, <<<<SPOILERS>>>>

the series had a very bittersweet ending when the citizens of Koalla Lalla Land attempted to seperate their world from Earth, but since the two were interconnected, this would destroy BOTH realities. Blinky and Pinky were able to prevent the seperation from occuring, but they were unable to return to Earth, and Sandy, as a result. Although, I believe I never got to see the final episode, because the last episode I remember seeing, Blinky and Pinky jumped on top of a coloumn of light and were taken away into the sky, and Sandy just stood there watching and was wondering to herself if she would ever see them again.

I used to watch that show all the damn time, if you haven't figured that out by now.

I wonder if they'll put Invasion America out in video stores? I haven't seen it out yet, but I only got to see ep 1, so I'm curious about the rest.

Tsuji Mania · Post by **Tsuji Mania** » Wed Oct 09, 2002 12:42 pm

I specifically said, it isn't a Japanese anime. It's certainly animated, but it's not conceived from Japan.

Tsuji Mania · Post by **Tsuji Mania** » Wed Oct 09, 2002 12:44 pm

Ah the Noozles! Had I know the real US name I could have searched it and found out all that info. For years I've wondered if I remembered the name correctly or not. Thanks very much!

Chaos Angel · Post by **Chaos Angel** » Wed Oct 09, 2002 2:05 pm

No problem. ^_^

RadicalEd0 · Post by **RadicalEd0** » Wed Oct 09, 2002 3:00 pm

oh man!

chaos u rock! thats exactly it
man, i mustve been like 3, and all i remember is that there was this show and I watched it all the time but I remember it being really strange like, and I remember that scene where teh two koallas go into the beam of light and such..

ya.. it all makes sense now
wow, that show is pretty messed up sounding, cool 8)

RadicalEd0 · Post by **RadicalEd0** » Wed Oct 09, 2002 3:06 pm

well its no wonder i turned out an otaku 10 years later

man.. i wonder if they have this on kazaa

CaTaClYsM · Post by **CaTaClYsM** » Wed Oct 09, 2002 3:46 pm

threre are 3 defenitions of anime, the japanese one (which means cartoon) the one which means cartoon from japan, and the one which means the specific style typicaly used in japan. Invasion America falls under 2 of the 3 defenitions and it was animated in korea, which is japanese enough for me.

Tsuji Mania · Post by **Tsuji Mania** » Wed Oct 09, 2002 4:01 pm

There is one definition of anime.

Animation.

The ignorant American fanbase has adopted that term to mean animated cartoons from Japan, just as they've taken otaku to be a positive conotation, when in fact it was when Tsutomu Miyazaki molested, dismembered, cooked, ate, observed rotting and mailed bones back to the parents of several young girls that the term otaku became wide-spread for someone obsessed with something. Being an otaku is nothing to be proud of. Otaku are the anti-social kids who sit in the rooms all days huddled in little balls and will one day snap, and say for instance, sever the head of a classmate and post it on the school-yard fence as happened not so long ago.

Getting back to the point, should you ever visit Japan and say, "I like anime!" This question will no doubt follow,

"Oh really? So which Disney movie do you like the best?"

However if you say "I like Japanese anime" then your conversation partner will usually express some shock.

And may God help you if you say smiling, "Yup! I'm an otaku!"