Who saw this at age 10 back in 92?

It was also one of my first exposures to anime and I had no idea at the time that it was, just that it was visually incredible and kind of scary which I loved. I think I saw Vampire Hunter D right around the same time when everyone was still calling it "Japanimation" eeegh.

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Otomo wasn't involved if that's what you mean, but it was the same animation company doing the bulk of the work.

You should realize though, it's not exactly a Japanese animated film. A lot of key animations and sequences were done by American animators first, some older guys, some younger, various studios and backgrounds (although all probably Cal Arts grads at some point, as it goes).

Personally, I think the hybrid of animation works best for the film, since I can't stand the prick like overacting animating styles of Californian animators and I can't stand the flat, slow, and non-moving animations that plague many Japanese productions. Of course Akira suffered none of this, so it was nice for the company to bring their skill into looking it so great.

I think the biggest failure with this movie is the idiotic American screenplay. I'm a big fan of the old McCay comics, and while they are no indicator of good story, dialogue, or character development, none of it was as idiotic as the plot to this movie, some of the lines, or the general voice acting styles. Oh well, I'm solely in it for the visuals, as with the comic. I just think they could have tried a lot harder to write a decent story. Winsor McCay gets a pass because he practically invented animation and newspaper comic format with such illustrative style, so obviously dialogue wasn't the guys strong suit nor what he was trying to achieve. Seemed like he just liked drawing pretty pictures. So when you get a separate person to write a script, it's ridiculous that they failed so bad.

Also that video game was good. I think I played that first as well, as my first exposure to the Nemo movie was from the video release. Guess that made me 7 in 1992.

I was around 12 or 13 when this came out. Loved it(as did my siblings). Was stoked to finally get the DVD and even more stoked that it had deleted scenes put back into the movie.

I remember when TBS and Cartoon Network were airing the anime movies with Vampire Hunter D(edited for kids, since the original shows nudity and more gore), Robot Carnival and Twilight of the Cockroaches. I remember Unico and Jack and the Beanstalk as well. Both came on the Disney Channel back in the 80s(my grandparents actually recorded them on VHS). Same for The Last Unicorn. Of course, I was always a Voltron fan, as was a fan of Robotech and Mighty Orbots, but then again, a LOT of other American cartoons were being animated in Japan, and all had some scattered anime influences(such as The Littles, M.A.S.K, Inhumanoids, Kidd Video, and even Dennis the Menace, The Real Ghostbusters and Inspector Gadget). Of course, I remember Nickelodeon's anime, like The Mysterious Cities of Gold(which, interesting fact, has the theme song sung by the same guy who does the Code Lyoko theme song, Noam Kaniel), The Adventures of the Little Prince, Belle and Sebatian, Mapletown, The Noozles, The Littl Bits and Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics(I think the latter two were done by Saban). Saban seemingly had an eye for Japanese property(he'd eventually bring over Power Rangers, which he'd strike gold with), also brought over Gulliver's Travels, The Little Mermaid and Around the World in 80 Dreams. That was early 90s. Man, that was a nice time!!

I was 5 in 92 and I remember this movie scared the crap out of me

I remember renting a lot when I was little (like preschool aged). Then later on my parents recorded it when it came on Disney Channel (I think).

I was born in 92,I did not see the movie til I was about 5 or 6

















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