Yeah they were very up front about it. One small point, the idea of having someone jack in by a port on the neck is older than Ghost in the Shell. It's kind of a mainstay of cyberpunk as a whole and was showing up even in tabletop rpgs in the late 80s.
Pacific Rim is such an obvious hommage to anime and Asian movies I can't even get how you can watch the movie and think anything else than "the producer must be a real fan". xD
no they didn't, check facts, on the other hand disney keep CLAIMING there is no connection with kimba mentioning the lion king is based on hamlet+bambi. Still, similiarities make think otherwise, alas I'm not sure they are honest, the most evident copied scene is the "Mufasa" in the cloud
The thing about this is that a lot of these concepts can't be directly tied to just 1 source. The misfit Naruto wanting to be "the best" can be traced back as far as Greek and Chinese mythology. People fall in love with inanimate objects a lot in Japanese folklore and tales, from which Chobits got its theme. And manipulating people's dreams to make them do something can be seen in the Bible! These are tropes. Tools used by writers for plot. Just because an anime happened to use it before a film has no bearing the fact that the trope existed long before the anime. Saying that the film stole from the anime makes tons of assumptions and is very closed-minded.
You deliberately picked the weakest comparison though. If you instead opted to discuss Paprika and Inception, the strongest and openly confirmed comparison by the director, then you're just being pedantic. Some of this list was bullshit, some of it was true. The overlying concept is also true, that there are some directors who borrow themes and concepts from alternative media without crediting accordingly. That's all.
Black Swan was also heavily influenced by Perfect Blue. Both films talk about two young girls losing grip of reality and experiencing hallucinations. Their both different, but there are countless scenes in Black Swan that are similar to Perfect Blue
It’s funny the director of Black SSwan states that in his movie Requiem for a dream, he used perfect blue for the Bath tubs scene but when asked about black swan, he swears it was not inspired by it it
So you're saying as long as a studio can copy a piece of work decades after the original, and do it with better technology, it's not plagiarizing? So a writer can copy Tolkien now, from characters to history to setting, but as long as he writes in decent pop culture language, changing names a little, he's not plagiarizing? Of course Disney plagiarized, it's one thing about paying homage, it's another to copy another studio's work and indecently claimed it's their original idea.
They should give credit where its due. Notice the harsh intellectual property rights they enforce in the US. Yet the Film Industry gets away with copying ideas and not crediting them properly.
This meme is repeated every time The Lion King is brought up (and I did used to believe it myself) but doing some research I don't think anyone stole anything. Kimba aired on US TV in the 60's when many of the people involved in The Lion King would have seen it as kids. For sure there are influences that carried over, but the artists, writers, directors insist it was unintentional. As for the big name similarity, "Simba" actually means lion in Swahili, so its more a clever homage to its African roots than plagiarism. If they were going to steal, why make it so obvious?
Ok, so I'm only on number 1 and I'm already confused. The Matrix did not "steal without getting caught" from Ghost in the Shell. Not only did the Wachowskis acknowledge that the film was heavily inspired by GitS, due to how similar some of the scenes would be they asked permission from it's creator before they started filming. There was also a triple DVD pack marketed as 'Anime that inspired The Matrix' that included GitS, Akira & Ninja Scroll. They made every effort to inform people of what inspired The Matrix because they wanted the medium to grow and be appreciated in the West.
On a side note Cyberpunk and Shadowrun people have been plugging themselves into the Matrix since the mid 80s. Hell Reeves even did a cyberpunk movie in 1995 [Johnny Mnemonic]. I think the genre actually originated in the west. Regardless of where it is from they were not new ideas in 1995 anymore so than they were when The Matrix came out.
Not only that, but the "plug in the back of the neck" has existed as a way of jacking in to cyberspace for a LONG time. It existed long before Ghost in the Shell was a gleam in someone's eye. It's been around since AT LEAST the 80's. It existed in the old rpg Cyberpunk, which came out in 1988.
I know, like isnt that film based on a graphic novel series? Also there are a lot of references in both the movie and the books to geeky movies or anime so they might just be references and nothing more
You can't really call these "stolen without getting caught" if half of the Film Makers make a personal reference to the material in question. Also that Naruto and Scott Pilgrim comparison was kind of weak.
For Naruto/Scott Pilgrim he was basically saying "The main characters have strong ambition to become recognized/famous." Hm. I've never seen that in any other move before. Have they never seen a Disney movie?
Well, some publics tend to be very sensitive with plagiarism, and if that specific public wasn't triggered with those films, I would call it not getting caught...
Don't see how Scott Pilgrim took from Naruto....... you guys also only gave that segment about like 20 seconds. In which you said basically "Scott Pilgrim is Naruto because they both want to achieve a goal A HINGER DINGER DURGEN"
Agreed. Neither's plot is particularly original. It's hard to say one steals from the other when they're copying pretty much all the common tropes of their genres.
Not to mention they used goals that weren't even similar. Naruto wanted to be a hokage and Scott wanted to win a band competition....like shit that's not even close.
I actually worked in one of the bars featured in the movie [ not at that time!!] But I have done production work on sci-fi and Fantasy films as well! ENJOY !!
Zeren Centris Sadly, the difference is usually whether you've decided it's inspired or ripped off. Even if the ripped off source was given an opening credit.
"It is clear to see that Star Wars Episode 7 took directly from the popular sci-fi anime Psycho-Pass with its use of technologically advanced weaponry." -Screen Rant Seriously, I think you guys are getting "stealing" confused with very common genre specific keystones.
yup, in early interviews Lucas referred to Star Wars as Space Fantasy. Heck is you look back to the 30-40's fantasy and sci-fi were not different or distinct from each other.
Episode 7 was clearly stealing from Episode 4 and Episode 4 couldn't have stolen from Psycho Pass because Pyscho Pass came out after Episode 4 but before Episode 7
"Avatar ripped off some anime movie" Avatar - 2009 Princess Mononoke - 1999 Dances with wolves - 1990 Also that Gigantor/Pacific Rim comparison was painful.
There were rumors that Pacific Rim was going to be the live action Evangelion movie, but the deal fell through after they already started making it. So they finished it as Pacific Rim instead.
Hey princess mononoke and avatar also ripped on the true story of the colonization of the Americas jeez there are plenty of heart moving and interesting story in reality through draw your Inspiration as well not everything is imagined out of thin air
So is Her and Chobits. It basically boils down to ''both are about lonely men who fall in love with machines, so obviously Her stole from Chobits'' despite the premise itself being far older than fucking Chobits. Even Blade Runner explored something similar to that premise to an extent.
Also, the main character of Chobits wasn't lonely at all, Hideki Motosuwa was a jovial man who made friends easily, rather than being a lonely man who falls for a computer. At most he is a fish out of water, or a country bumpkin who doesn't differentiate between persocoms and people because he did not grow up with the distinction societal-ly drilled into his psyche at every turn. By the time he leaves the farm (literally) the person he is is too ingrained for this to change.
NerdyCroatianGuy Josh Trank did say he made Chronicle if he could make something like Akira, which is the movie he took inspiration from. Too bad the next movie he made was Fanfucking4stic.
+Black Parade if I remember right Psycho Pass was actually a spiritual succesor to a fanmade visual novel continuation of Equilibrium which again was partially influenced by Blade Runner... so I guess you are not wrong xD
+partyontheweeknds xoxo Do you really watch Inception. I agree that some shots were come from Paprika but the whole movie was different.(Even Nolan admit he took inspiration from Paprika). Anyway, I like Inception more than Paprika.
Wait what? perfect blue was compared to requiem of a dream and neither had to do with dream tech, are you thinking paprika and inception? I don't remember a dream reading tech in perfect blue but it's been a long while since I've seen it. If your thinking about paprika though both movies had Dream reading Tech and if you watch both movies you can see a lot of things in inception drew inspiration from the anime.
If anything, Transcendence is CLOSER to the Digital World arc for Yu-Gi-Oh!, specifically the character Noah, but event that's still a bit of a stretch, most likely just a coincidence.
I think he was referring more to the land itself fighting back (the beasts themselves going after the humans because of the destruction of the forest due to mining). Avatar was a huge rip off of multiple things, but I found Fern Gully was more wronged than Princess Mononoke.
the only thing borrowed from Naruto is the Ninja Hand Seals that Gideon uses to summon a sword which I believe is mentioned if you turn on special features on the blu ray
It is actually. The director, Guiermo del Torro, said that he is a huge anime fan and said it himself he took inspiration from Neon Genesis Evangelion.
More from G Gundam, with it's nation themed robots like Russia and Chinese robots and the protog robot looking liking a American football player, and they have to be controlled via full body motion control like in G Gundam, with the ending have both a guy and a girl teaming up controlling the robot to beat the big bad. Don't forget Mazinger Z with it's dome cockpit that lower itself and attaches itself on the robots head and of course that Rocket punch,
watch Dai Guard anime then watch pacific rime they stole the whole plot of that anime monsters coming from a different dimension in the ring of fire AKA the pacific rime . People building robots to fight monster that take a team of people working in sync and the robot is out dated by the end of the anime
Avatar was it's own thing I wish the top list channels would shut up about this anime shit I don't hate it but spamming this anime shit all over youtube is killing me and I consider this whole list a load of shit no one stole anything from anime THE END
Stories from mouth, written words, music, tv, movies, etc. all fall together at some point. They build off each other. People have taste in different types and some stories are just presented better.
Pacific Rim isn't a ripoff of Tetsujin 28. It takes heavy inspiration from Go Nagai's Mazinger Z. Del Toro himself is a huge fan of Go Nagai, and even thanked him personally for his influence.
SaitohYatate Yeah there’s tons of extras and behind the scenes material from the Matrix that references Ghost in the Shell. There’s even a companion piece to The Matix trilogy called The Animatrix. Someone might need to explain “homage” to the author.
You're waaay off on Scott Pilgrim copying Naruto... Scott didnt want to win the battle of the band or he did until he met the girl of his dreams "Ramona" he then wanted to fight her ************* to win her over then stay with her forever ^ ^ ^ watch the movie or read the comics to see who he has to fight or reply on my comment and spoil the movie
Matrix is also spot on. But, Naruto???? where was that coming from? i could equally argue Mario because it has heavy influence from that. (Been aWhile since i watched it) Now that I think about, and as long as I am correct, it might actually be similar to Mario, at least plot wise.
i didnt understand how the battle of the bands was like naruto wanting to be hokage, yes they both want to be at the top but tons of plots are like that, he could have replaced naruto with one piece as luffy wants to be pirate king, useing such a largely used plot simularity and connecting it to a single show is just stupid imo
Yeah, the thing is Scott Pilgram was doing it to win the heart of Ramona not the battle of bands. All Naruto wanted to be is a hokage and the best ninja. Believe it!! But if the creator of this channel want them to relate to each other. He should've said Naruto wanted to be hokage, in order to impress Sasuke as Naruto main goal in Shippuden.
"Can you guess"- Snakes on a Plane- "this movie from these emoji?" I agree with a lot of the comments about how Scott Pilgrim didn't steal from Naruto. You said they did, but gave close to no examples of it happening. You said Scott used some of Naruto's phrases but just went to the next video instead of listing some.
it's a joke son. want to win battle of the bands vs wants to rule an entire village like how does someone see even the slightest similarity between those two?
"Requiem for a Dream copied one scene from Perfect Blue." Yeah, but Black Swan was essentially an American remake. Dude's been trying to make a live action Perfect Blue for years.
I do get irritated at the rampant misuse of "stealing ideas." tak8ng influence from another source isn't stealing from it. and all literature and movies take influence from what's come before them. you're making it sound like they did something unethical....
I totally agree. If Star Wars didn't borrow ideas from various productions, it probably wouldn't have been as good. Its gonna get to the point to where almost all ideas "run out". And everyones gonna be "stealing" in a way.
the reason we call it stealing is becous disney taught us to... but we dont listen to disney dont we... well some do... but in fact, disney made copyright on bs a trend... and fox made copyrighting someone else's content a thing as well... and china's copyright law is high and reversed... like, you cant COPY from them but they can STEAL from gumball...
Tyger42 Theres a difference between taking ideas, and directly copying scenes, such as the bathtub scene in Requim. Inception may be inspired by Paprika, but it's also very different, especially the idea of Limbo, I haven't seen anything but small clips of it, but I'm pretty sure that's not in there.
Also, the hallway fight scene, Train on road scene, final scene, intro scene, the diner scene, the bathtub scene, and bassically everyting, there's a difference between having a similar plot, and taking ever scene, which is something Inception doesn't do.
"always ahead" - most certainly not. The vast majority of mangaka is too absorbed with copying each other rather than looking at life and taking that as inspiration.
Except multiple anime and JRPGs have taken ideas from Star Wars among other "American" franchises. I don't think any nation is really "ahead" in any sort of way. People have been able to express ideas and weirdness across the board.
Quentin Pillet Thats exactly my point. People are always so concerned with "stealing" from other properties. All movies are simply copies of something else one way or another
+WallyWinka Such stories were already used in books, such as Karl May's "Winnetou" in which Old Shatterhand is a white German who, after saving Winnetou and Intschu Tschuna from the Kiowa and after battling for his life at the pueblo of the Apatches, becomes a chieftain of the Mescalero tribe. Old motives getting reused, I agree with you WallyWinka.
wait... so naruto wanting to be the most powerful ninja.. resembles scott pillgrims quest to win the battle of the bands which he was only doing it to.. do it? just wanted to fight the twins?? and that makes scott clearly modeled on naruto? The movie uses some naruto catch phrases?? Daniel lee o'malley not Bryan lee o'malley?? Pacific rim takes directly from gigantor cuz.. they have big robots?? this video is a freaking mess
David ryan but there all true. Paprika a classic movie aviously gave inspiration to inception. And some directors of movies even said they got inspiration from anime.
Asura Izumi Exactly. That one was most likely from not being able to draw real similarities between the two. Probably because there really weren’t any noticeable similarities.
Under Screen Rant's logic, it should be a rip off of DBZ and every single other anime with city destroying battles... Not like it never EVER happened in comics or animated series with Superman...
Funimation are the translators, not the studio... that's a mistake. Birdy the Mighty was made by Madhouse and A-1 Pictures, not Funimation, who are merely the importers... you should be careful.
Back when the day of anime was actually not just about a bunch of high school girls around a guy or imaged idols singing; when anime is trying to teach a lesson to human; when anime is actually be remembered forever; when each good anime is considered a classic; when Giant Robots/Heroes fighting Monster are boy’s true ”love”.
Stolen refers to the directors or writers took the idea from anime and passed it off as there own. The majority of the movies on this list the directors said they were inspired by these works or they credited them. The others were just overreaching. Avatar is not a copy of princess momoke, it is a tale of people being invaded by other people and has been done before and many many times in the history of story telling. Scot Pilgram and naruto was just bogus beyond belief. Serial Experment Lain copied from Lawnmower Man which was also the inspiration behind Johny Depp film. This list is just bogus. A perfect example of Hollywood stealing from Japanese cinema would by The Magnificent 7 which was blatant copy of Samurai 7.
The director of requiem for a dream is a huge fan of perfect blue's (and paprika) director and he literally bought perfect blue's reproduction rights for the US so that he could put several scenes from perfect blue into his films (you can see this quite easily in requiem for a dream and black swan). That's called homage in my book.
Rey Rei Ulises Serio There's a difference between Homage and Stealing. Pacific Rim pays Homage (as they bloody well said themselves) To old Kaiju and giant robot shows like Gundam, Gigantor, Godzilla and the like. Ghost in the Shell was inspiration for parts of the Matrix, again, it's an homage. Just look at their animated collection. Also, If you think Avatar was stealing from Princess Mononoke, then they stole from a great deal of other places too, Nausica And the Valley of the Wind, for another Ghibli film. Fern Gully, POCHAHONTAS. Avatar was such a blatant "Well this story has always been popular, lets make it prettier" that you can draw parallels between it and GREEN PEACE, for christ's sake. As for Requiem: Ya can't steal what you already own. That's not how that works. Anyway, just needed to rant for a moment *deep breath* I'm good.
The only legitimate connections in this list were Ghost in the Shell, Akira and Perfect Blue. All the rest were just contrived padding to make this into a top 10 list. For example: Avatar was clearly a rip off of Dances with Wolves and has nothing to do with Princess Mononoke.
The ghost in the shell ones also were pretty popular cyberpunk thropes. The green text, basically that is caused by the old monitors. The cathode ray tubes. They had green on black text, and the fading effect. The plugging in thing, also used in neuromancer in 1985, and artificial brain interfaces was a field that is being researched since the 70's at least, and used in roleplaying games like shadowrun since 1989. The matrix is just part of the cyberpunk genre, just like the matrix.
I'll accept the Satoshi Kon ones. I'd even accept that Guillermo del Toro probably watch the synchronous pair episode of Evangelion. The rest of the examples garbage, including the matrix one. Back in the day, text was green.
You know, Chobits wasn't the first story to have the idea of a man falling in love with an AI. There are literally countless examples before that. Comics, movies, novels, shows, anime...
Bigger sin here is Mang-ga. I have never understood how people double the g when they pronounce it. It's Manga. Mah-n-ga. and A-Kir-A sound russian to me. Should be Ah-key-rah.
you're right but in western europe (where im from) both are correct... and david is right to... manga isn't dubble g... but a-kir-a is actually right... i know it seems weird but japanese can be pretty weird sometimes... like how they say o-hi-yo to great but thats also how you pronounce ohio a state from america LMAO
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DaftBrit Absolutely. The creators even had to back down because they realized they could never win against Disney. It's just not right. Paprika and Inseption are dead on. Others like the Naruto one is a stretch.
The storyline was a mixture of Hamlet & Bambi but a lot of the visuals show similarities to Kimba. Kimba/Simba, Kimba also has a sage baboon, bumbling hyenas, a Zazu-like bird and an evil lion with an eye ailment(Claw). Mufasa's iconic scene standing on the rock edge looking out, similar scene with a white lion in Kimba. A few of the animators even admitted to knowing of Kimba while working on the project though they still claim no relations between them.
Scott Pilgrim was written by BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY, not DANIEL. Also, with the exception of the Perfect Blue scene, this list is lazy and inaccurate. Slightly similar concepts do not NECESSARILY mean that anything was stolen. There are tons of examples that exist where anime was stolen from, these aren't it. And to suggest a talented author like O'Malley stole from Naruto is just offensive. I'm assuming you did almost no research and read this on a forum somewhere. Which catch phrases are you even claiming were stolen? You can't make a claim like that and then not even say what they are. And how in the hell is winning the battle of the bands at all similar to becoming a ninja leader? You may as well say Pitch Perfect is based on Naruto by that logic. Or Glee. Hell, any movie or show where a person has a goal to accomplish must be based on Naruto. Also, as point of fact, Naruto itself borrowed heavily from anime that came before it so using it as an example as an originator of anything makes you seem woefully uninformed. Throw some credit to Dragonball or Yu Yu Hakusho or JoJo or Hunter X Hunter before you mention Naruto.
Pretty lousy list. Most of his examples that were stolen from anime, anime stole from others first. And yeah most aren't even more than cursory similarity
True, for instance what people know as the "naruto run" actually originated from my personal favorite anime "Inuyasha" since it was known to have that famous run since the beginning of the series besides if anyone considers my information to be false, then do your research Inuyasha was made October 16,2000 while Naruto was made October 3,2002 still don't believe me? Google it, since people trust Google.
I don't think you can call it "stealing" when a person buys the rights to something so they can use it....that's pretty clearly admitting the source....also, a lot of your connections are rather tenuous at best.
Almost all of these could be coincidence or just common tropes and themes. I mean, Superman copying Birdy? She's practically a knockoff of him to begin with.
+Kami Nana LOL as if superman had no such fights in comicbooks(like the one with doomsday and many others where characters were sent flying through multiple buildings). Not to mention super powerful characters fighting in city, do you expect it to look any different? So they are just grasping at straws.
Its completely fine I know all of them too We are just good anime Weeb are people who try to be Japanese and disrespect the culture in the process The things I like about japan Are swords Anime and manga And some j pop Nothing else really
The green screen is from the old green screen computer monitors. It's not something the animator simply dreamed up. As for Chobits, this wasn't a story about a guy who is desperately lonely, but a cautionary tale about what can happen when we let technology take over our lives. The male leading character was neither lonely, depressed, nor introverted. Unlike the leading character of "Her". Hideki Motosuwa of Chobits is an outgoing collage student who finds an discarded android, and activates it, naming her Chi. Chi isn't like the other androids either, she's an AI who is later proven to be self aware.
This is one of the best comments here! Thank you for explaining the "Grand Canyon" size difference between Her and Chobits. For the record...Chobits was a damn good anime!
Shows they didn't really watch Chobits. If anything it was the teacher's husband that became to involved with his persocom. Hideki's friend gets the teacher in the end.
I just saw "Kimi No Na Wa" (Your Name) yesterday and I seriously feel like Japanese anime films are extremely underrated/looked over. I can't stand anime shows because of the excessive budget cuts, fillers, flashbacks, lazy writing, one dimensional characters, incomplete stories and fan service. The films on the other hand are absolute masterpieces imo, especially when compared to the soulless done cg films of the West which are full of SJW propaganda.
@Kaboom I don't go to anime forums. I'm just a film lover that has noticed these things myself. I was going to mention Paprika > Inception until I saw the end of this video lmao.
scott pilgram was gayer then fuck seriously that shit had nothing good the actor looks like a pussy bitch no lie dont even compare it to my favorite anime show
Just, horrible comparisons. Scott Pilgrim is nothing like Naruto, it is a real stretch to say Scott, who does not really care about the battle of the bands, is similar to Naruto, or that the character model is based off him instead of a geeky kid. And Superman has had fight scenes like that, in comics, for longer than you have been alive probably, at least the 80s. Really do not see the similarities between Looper and Akira, aside from an element that attempts to make the viewer think? You guys are really just trying too hard.
Scott Pilgrim and Naruto? You think Looper's character is modeled after Akira? Really? Wow man, you must be desperate for content cuz I doubt you've actually watched any of these at all.
We can take solace in the fact that this is a Screen Rant Video so nobody actually woke up and said, "Wow, I can't wait to make quality content, for a cult fan base" only to produce this.
A LOT of these things were simply coincidence... Similar thinking producing similar products. The Zach Snyder one about the Man Of Steel's fight scene stealing from an Anime? Um, no... There are fight scenes in the Animated DC Universe where they are similar. Superman Versus Shazam. Superman Versus Doomsday and Darkseid. Etc. A LOT of these things were not stolen. Also, if one guy bought the rights to an anime to use a scene in his movie, it is literally the furthest thing from being 'stolen.'
Regarding Avatar and Princess Mononoke, there were a lot of concepts predating the two, FernGully for an example is far more like that of Avatar, another one is Dances With Wolves.
Thing about the Matrix though is that literally EVERYBODY knows it borrowed heavily from Ghost in the Shell. The Wachowskis have even admitted to and given credit to Ghost for the Matrix.
Indeed. The Wachowshi's were fans of anime. Thats why they even used anime studios to help them with the Animatrix. So its less like "stealing" and more like a homage.
although the incidences of being "plugged in" came from so many other movies and stories and other anime that are prior to Ghost in the shell. Dune, Star Wars, even Gi joe comics prior to 1995
I think they stole most from the Dune prequels books from 1967. As did ghost in the shell and Terminator. The whole idea of "The One", machine consciousness, and the man vs machine war.. was from the Dune story line.
So, Darren Aronofsky stole a scene from Perfect Blue by purchasing the rights to use the scene? If that's the case then I've stolen pretty much everything I own! Also, learn the difference between paying homage, taking inspiration from, and stealing. For example, every alien invasion story is not stealing from HG Welles' War of the Worlds, nor is every time travel story stealing from The Time Machine. You can take a core concept, like entering people's dreams or falling in love with an AI, and explore it in different ways.
Dude. The movie "HER" and "Chobits" was just a vision from the future. Look at today, 78% people love their phone or other gadget. You probably read this in phone now.
actually i would throw my phone away, and i would be clearly fine (but all the missing calls from mom, jezz) maybe i'm the one of the stupids, maybe i'm one of the smarts, but i think electronics are not to love, but to use. I also think facebook is heresy.
Raptor 09 neon Genesis evangelion isn't a traditional mechanical anime, its a deconstructive anime with very deep philosophical meaning about life relationship loneliness and aspects of Christianity to it. Whereas Pacific rim is obviously a visual galore movie where you should just turn off your brain off to watch. Thus, no Pacific rim is definitely not based off of evangelion
I'd sooner compare Pacific Rim to any season of Gundam than Evangelion. I mean Evangelion was a masterpiece of an anime, even if it had some parts that I didn't really liked. While in Pacific Rim, there are some huge plotholes, and the best part about it was the awesome soundtrack. and the huge mechs smashing the face of those kaijus was sweet too, but mostly the soundtrack. As for Evangeion and the Christian subtext, I do seem to recall a scene where the protagonist jerks off to a girl who's in a goddamn hospital and is unconcious... I'd rather not bring up any possible religion related to a series like this, be it Christian, Jewish mithology, etc.
Man of Steels city destroying fight scene "OBVIOUSLY" comes from anime influence. Or maybe, you know, literally every Superman cartoon series and animated movie ever made? Also, Joseph Gordon-Levitt was fitted with prosthetics and make-up in Looper to make him look more like Bruce Willis, so that him being a younger version of Willis would be more believable. That he looks like an anime character is pure coincidence. And finally, "Scott Pilgrim uses some of the catch phrases from the Naruto Anime." Such as? A few examples would have been nice. Without them it sounds like you are bullshitting. You make it seem like every time something is even a little bit similar that it absolutely MUST have taken the idea from anime. I'm not saying that Hollywood film doesn't take inspiration from anime, but you are making a hell of a lot of unwarranted assumptions.
Im ok with Hollywood taking inspiration from Anime because almost all of those movies are my favs. And if it wasn’t for Anime there wouldn’t be a lot of American movies that would interest me from this Era. And to say Anime didnt change the way hollywood directors see cyberpunk style today is insane. Dont believe me? Just watch any American movie that has no Anime inspiration at all.
Superman was a comic hero before television even began. They would have though of exploding crumbling buildings, and the movie took inspiration from the comic (superman ones) so to say that it is copied or anime influence is coincidental, otherwise, totally bullshit!
Classic Joker well the video is saying that the superman movie copied a scene from an Anime. Not that superman was inspired by Anime. But if your one of those People that think Anime didn’t change the game on how hollywood movies are made today your in a Bubble surrounded by things beyond your knowledge.
Avatar is not like Princess Mononoke, because in the anime they clearly show the technological development isn't due to greed, but that it gives equality and oportunity to people who often get shunned by society. In Avatar, almost all the emhasis is on greed, which is more similar to the US animations with a similar topic.
Jim Cox (who wrote the screenplay for FernGully) is a close friend of james Cameron who showed Cox his screenplay for Avatar in 1989. If anything Cameron ripped off Diana Young's book FernGully: The Last Rainforest.
Take the story of Pocahontas and change the names and you have the story of Avatar. The story has been used in many different things. The only thing that made Avatar groundbreaking was the 3D.
Avatar for me is no 1 MOST overate movie ever. Avatar is almost rip off of other movie too scene by scene, plot by plot. most obvious is Disney's Pocahontas, Dances with wolves, ....etc.
The hell is this list? I think they forgot the fact that they might NOT be influenced by Anime. You know coincidences CAN happen. I mean what the hell.
