Best Water Starter, hands down!

There's nothing I love more in life than cartoons, chocolate chip cookies and bad puns!

[eons-arts]

has anyone seen my son, its been a few years….

[jaubaius]

[nabi3000]

[narcissistcookbook]

the second eel at the end in its little cuck shelter 💜

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

eel deets from @whitefangthefightingwolf

[reikomakoto]

[missmaymaple]

ONE SCENE FROM EVERY EPISODE OF POKEMON

EP122: Flower Power

[anthrophobixx]

Dunno what to caption these

[holdtohealyourpartner-moved]

I'm curious. Tag this with your sexuality and what your favorite M/F ship is.

[thetursithan]

A great emotion, she witnessed her baby's first steps...

[hawfstuff]

[everyonelovesrobots]

where is the lie though?

[rip-roaring-muffin]

It’s a lie of omission.

You’re comparing highly polished mainstream examples of iconic Japanese media to low budget, indie, and amateur american works. If you wanted to be fair the second image should look more like this:

The cultural exchange between American and Japanese art, particularly in animation, is hardly a one way streak.

Here we have Panty and Stocking, which boasts an artistic style that draws heavily upon modern western animation with it’s hard outlines and comical proportions. Shows like Dexter’s Laboratory barrow dynamic posses, dramatic framing, and highly expressive faces form anime and manga. Early anime and manga developed it’s distinct big eyes and childlike features by taking cues from western animation of the 20′s and 30′s

Betty Boop, in particular, was immensely popular in Japan. Her creators even made this short in appreciation of her Japanese fan-base.

[mymahoushoujo]

WAIT I CAN ADD TO THIS ALREADY OBSCENELY LONG POST.

The entire Magical Girl genre is a big example of Western (primarily U.S.) and Japanese cultural exchange!

BeWitched (which was inspired by the 1940′s American movie “I Married a Witch”) was incredibly popular with young girls! This prompted the creation of the first popular Magical Girl Sally the Witch.

When the “Little Witch” Subgenre was big in the 70s the U.S. countered with animated Sabrina (from the Archie comics) which followed the same formula albeit with an older girl.

The 80s we start seeing more “flash of light” henshins/transformations being utilized along with the rise of the “Magical Idol” sub-genre in Japan it gave birth to shows like Creamy Mami and Magical Emi, in the U.S. it made way for Jem and the Holograms and She-Re Princess of Power (not a magical idol but still uses “flash of light” transformations). Jem was even a collab with U.S. doing the writing and Japan doing the animation!

The “Magical Warrior” sub-genre emerges in the 90s (even tho it has roots in the 70s with shows like Cutie Honey). This doesn’t catch on in America until the early 00′s with Atomic Betty (Canadian creation) and The Life and Times of Juniper Lee but we did see the start of it with the Canadian/Argentinian collab called Cyber Six. We also get W.I.T.C.H. and WINX Club in the early 00s from Italy which are both probably the most heavily influenced from Japan’s then current MG show structure.

Today we have Steven Universe, Bee and Puppycat, Star vs. the Forces of Evil, Lolirock, The Miraculous Ladybug, and if it gets picked up Twelve Forever which are all great Western MG shows that are influenced by Japan!

I could go on, I haven’t even scraped the ice berg on this! I have a whole hour panel I run on this subject called “Magical Girls from Around The World”

The point is the Magical Girl genre- and tbh animation in general- has been Japan and America (with some other Western countries thrown in) talking back and forth since the 60s. I leave you with probably the most direct influence:

[cari28ch3-me]

can I add to this that Osamu Tezuka aka “the God of modern Manga”

was inspired by Bambi 

into deciding to give big eyes to his drawings so that they would look more expresive. He also remained a big fan of a certain Jewish American animator until his death, oh yeah this guy

Walt Disney himself was also intrested in Tezuka’s work, with Astroboy being one of his favorites. A similar case exists now between John Lasseter (Pixar and Disney fame) and Hayao Miyasaki (Studio Ghibli) who are big fans of each other’s work.

Japan and America are less of a competition to those who work on it and more of an inspiration, it is very often the fans and not the creators who create rivalries between people that would be friends in real life.

[jaxblade]

[fire-shadow-dragon-god]

SWEET JESUS HALLELUJAH THIS SITE CAN PRODUCE SOME GOOD I LOVE POSTS LIKE THESE.

[darkmagickingdom]

Which villains do you think will get along with Lilo?

Lilo's crazy about monsters, she'd love the monstery villains. Big crab? Lizard monster who turns invisible? Guy who looks like Srump and is actually full of bugs? A magic zombie? A dark fairy? An octopus mermaid? The lord of the dead? A guy who knows voodoo? Three entire alien pirates?! The Headless motherfreaking Horseman himself?!

She'd be nerding out over those guys at first sight. Honestly I can imagine the cool monsters and dark magic guys are what got her to agree to show up in the first place. And of course she'd show up with Stitch, who keeps any of the villains from actually attacking her. Not that she needs a lot of help with that, a lot of the villains would kinda respect her just over how unafraid of them she is.

[livingwithrogues]

One of the Disney animators, Andras deja, who worked on both the Lion King and Lilo and Stitch did some sketches of these two characters together.

[darkmagickingdom]

These are ADORABLE and I whole-heartedly decree that Lilo and Scar are friends now

[championstar456]

Andre Dejas also animated Gaston and Jafar

[darkmagickingdom]

These sketches have singlehandedly added years to my life. Thank you for showing them to me

I love the implication that Lilo just gives off some kind of inexplicable “endearing-to-villains” energy and so they all just kinda pal around with her even if they don’t usually like kids

[terrific-togekiss]

Remember all those commercials of Stitch invading other Disney movies?

Should've also done Lilo showing up in other Disney movies and convincing the villains to stop being evil.

[damnfandomproblems]

Fandom Problem #14,119:

Has anyone else noticed that we get thousands of scenes of burly, masculine men playing princess and tea parties with their pink little daughters, but we don't get the reverse? Why don't we get high-strung, fashionista mothers getting down in the mud with her sons? Why don't we get mothers who are always sophisticatedly dress with perfect nails playing armies in the forest with her boys?

It's time we accept that fathers can be masculine but fatherly, being good at parenting. And that mothers aren't immediately perfectly and motherly when she has children. There are millions of women who find it difficult to connect with their children after giving birth. There are millions of fathers single-handedly raising his own kids without "a woman's touch".

I'm so sick and tired of mothers being seen as right and perfect and fathers being useless and bumbling.

[jammie-draws]

I wanted to doodle some top tier anime moms for mothers’ day so here’s some of my favorites.

[aqueerkettleofish]

For those who have missed it, a tourist in Hawaii decided it would be fun to chuck a rock (a BIG rock) at a monk seal. He missed, but he was captured on video, and when told it was illegal to interfere with them, said "I'm rich, I can pay the fine."

Is the best part that he got doxxed? No.

Is the best part that he got tracked down by a local and beaten? No.

Arrested on state at federal charges, looking at up to 5 years and 50K? Nope.

The best part is the local city council's reaction.

And the best part of that is the look on the attorney's face.

[prismatic-bell]

I love that even city council is like "we're not fucking narcs, we have no idea who that guy beating the shit out of him is." Extremely hobbified behavior.

[krystalmelodie]

Happy Mother’s Day ☺️💖💛 (based off their tomodachi life daughter)

[chronocrump]

[nexuplex]

I’m bad

[baggebythesea]

[tyako89]

[bedrock-to-buildheight]

No voice to cry suffering…

[yulecatt]

some varieties of pikachu