I just thought I'd bring up something I found very interesting: Animatrix.
Did all of you watch this one? It's technically anime.
But in a way, it's not. It was produced for an American audience, with an American budget, and originally in English.
Now, other people can go ahead and bring up the different mini-films that the release consisted of, but I've always founded the "Haunted House" one the most interesting.
My reasons? Well, I first saw the Animatrix a little while after returning from Japan. So I got a few of the cultural references that most Americans won't get. There's a lot of symbolism, for example when they show the crosswalk. The little tune that plays is something you'll hear at every Japanese crosswalk. It means "get across the street by the end of this song!"
Then there's the phone conversation. It's really freaky hearing someone who is most definitely Japanese, talking about life in Tokyo, over the phone to a friend who also lives in Tokyo, and all of it it is
entirely in English. And not as though it'd been dubbed over, either. Her mouth movements are
very accurately synched to the English words, and so are her movements and the lingo she uses. It's sorta freaky. 8O
Anyone here visited Japan? Seen Animatrix? Want to comment?