AHC: Sports Cartoon in western animation

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As the title says, the challenge is to create a sports cartoon market in Western animation, Like in the Japon animations.

Examples of Sport japonese animations

Captain tsubasa: A cartoon about football (the real one), it starts when the character is a child and continues until he becomes a professional, Still active in manga with the current arc in the olympics.

Hajime no Ippo: It follows the story of a guy who starts to want to be a boxer, He starts off as the typical underdog, a diamond in the rough that has yet to be polished but he has sparks of a great Boxer.

Major: A baseball cartoon, like captain tsubasa starts with the main character a child Until turn professional, it is more advanced than captain tsubasa the latest animations/mangas accompany the son of the original main character

Diamond no ace: Another baseball one, this one starts with the character starting on a professional team and developing

Ashita no joe: Boxing manga classic It follows the story of a poor orphan Man And ex-convict juvenile named Joe jabuki Who has a certain talent for boxing And the manga follows his trajectory from underdog in the world of boxing to the continental and world title dispute. Much like rocky balboa, This one has a tragic ending with the main character dying in the final fight.


Prince of tenis: Tennis manga follows the story of a young tennis prodigy, Unlike other Sports mangas and animations, this one already has the talent from the beginning without needing much effort, but as the story goes on, he finds opponents that push him to the limit.

Haikyu: manga about volleyball

Slam dunk: A classic basketball manga, It tells the story of a juvenile delinquent who joins the basketball team of his School because of a girl he falls in love with (the Girl part of the staff of the school's basketball team), Shows his growth as a basketball player, Starting with him not even knowing how to play properly to a good player Driven by rivalry with a teammate who is a popular with girls and Basketball prodigy who the main character thinks is a rival for the girl's love.

Some of these animations in their manga (comic) versions have real Professional team uniforms and logos (captain tsubasa a example) But in his animated versions he doesn't wear the official uniforms and logos (Captain Tsubasa), Some sports anime also use special powers/Movements.

How could there be sports cartoons in western animation? And what would they look like? Would it already start with the main character in the professional or would the character be a child playing in youth leagues In order to become professional?Or in the case of the United States, would you follow a young person in the NCAA?
 

Sekhmet_D

Math said:
How could there be sports cartoons in western animation? And what would they look like? Would it already start with the main character in the professional or would the character be a child playing in youth leagues In order to become professional?Or in the case of the United States, would you follow a young person in the NCAA?
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Hurricanes (1993) might answer at least some of these questions.
 

Nivek

Math said:
As the title says, the challenge is to create a sports cartoon market in Western animation, Like in the Japon animations.

Examples of Sport japonese animations

Captain tsubasa: A cartoon about football (the real one), it starts when the character is a child and continues until he becomes a professional, Still active in manga with the current arc in the olympics.

Hajime no Ippo: It follows the story of a guy who starts to want to be a boxer, He starts off as the typical underdog, a diamond in the rough that has yet to be polished but he has sparks of a great Boxer.

Major: A baseball cartoon, like captain tsubasa starts with the main character a child Until turn professional, it is more advanced than captain tsubasa the latest animations/mangas accompany the son of the original main character

Diamond no ace: Another baseball one, this one starts with the character starting on a professional team and developing

Ashita no joe: Boxing manga classic It follows the story of a poor orphan Man And ex-convict juvenile named Joe jabuki Who has a certain talent for boxing And the manga follows his trajectory from underdog in the world of boxing to the continental and world title dispute. Much like rocky balboa, This one has a tragic ending with the main character dying in the final fight.


Prince of tenis: Tennis manga follows the story of a young tennis prodigy, Unlike other Sports mangas and animations, this one already has the talent from the beginning without needing much effort, but as the story goes on, he finds opponents that push him to the limit.

Haikyu: manga about volleyball

Slam dunk: A classic basketball manga, It tells the story of a juvenile delinquent who joins the basketball team of his School because of a girl he falls in love with (the Girl part of the staff of the school's basketball team), Shows his growth as a basketball player, Starting with him not even knowing how to play properly to a good player Driven by rivalry with a teammate who is a popular with girls and Basketball prodigy who the main character thinks is a rival for the girl's love.

Some of these animations in their manga (comic) versions have real Professional team uniforms and logos (captain tsubasa a example) But in his animated versions he doesn't wear the official uniforms and logos (Captain Tsubasa), Some sports anime also use special powers/Movements.

How could there be sports cartoons in western animation? And what would they look like? Would it already start with the main character in the professional or would the character be a child playing in youth leagues In order to become professional?Or in the case of the United States, would you follow a young person in the NCAA?
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I think the crappy Hanna Barbera cartoons killed any chance for those to be taken seriously in the west plus the west live action is the standard, animation is lesser work mindset make it hard.

Argentina already have a captain Tsubasa before Tsubasa,it was called cebollitas ( little onions that was the name the child football school Diego Maradona was instructed) that got a remake thanks captain Tsubasa popularity. Of course in live action.
 

DTF955Baseballfan

When would Tank McNamara be able to make the leap from the Funny Pages to live cartoons? The sense cartoons were generally seen as more for kids - partly because, as someone said, Hanna-Barbera wasn't as good as it could have been - starting off with comedy might have been the best thing.

In fact, I remember him always saying the Norts Spews instead of sports news when I was a kid. After Mary Tyler Moore goes off the air, the popularity of Ted Baxter as a comical could make some executive decide to give it a chance. In fact, maybe Ted Knight is the first voice, though I think he died in the mid-1980s so maybe a younger voice would be better.

Yeah, you have to go a little way to get to the more serious stuff, but the Simpsons is a cartoon and so I think all you need to do is give it a few years and then have some spin-offs that are more serious.

If Tug McGraw's foray into the comics goes differently, and he is convinced to develop a syndicated cartoon, it might be the main baseball people watch from mid June to early August, 1981, with the only thing they would have to be careful of being oversaturation of the product.
 
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Nivek said:
I think the crappy Hanna Barbera cartoons killed any chance for those to be taken seriously in the west plus the west live action is the standard, animation is lesser work mindset make it hard.

Argentina already have a captain Tsubasa before Tsubasa,it was called cebollitas ( little onions that was the name the child football school Diego Maradona was instructed) that got a remake thanks captain Tsubasa popularity. Of course in live action.
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nivek, how about a pod in which the british comic book series roy of the rovers (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_of_the_Rovers) is animated and successful? , Perhaps this could lead to the creation of other Western serialized sports animations about a specific team or player.
 

Nivek

Math said:
nivek, how about a pod in which the british comic book series roy of the rovers (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_of_the_Rovers) is animated and successful? , Perhaps this could lead to the creation of other Western serialized sports animations about a specific team or player.
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That's perfect for European and Latin American markets , but you need an USA bases Sport for USA... We need a MLB and NFL based ones


DTF955Baseballfan said:
starting off with comedy might have been the best thing.
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Like gurazeni that have his comedy things yet is very serious?
 
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Nivek said:
That's perfect for European and Latin American markets , but you need an USA bases Sport for USA... We need a MLB and NFL based ones
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Shot_Hamish_and_Mighty_Mouse, An England with a strong animation industry, can create these serialized sports anime (mainly football)

Something from the comic "A rarity among the genre of football strips, the Hamish and Mouse story was extremely humorous in nature, with unbelievable and exaggerated tricks and skills shown by the two lead characters" and about one of the main characters "was famous for being able to hit the ball so hard that his shot could (and often did) burst the goal net." posted above "This time he scored, burst the net, hit the floodlight post causing the floodlights to collapse onto the pitch." It reminds me of those japanese anime kicks that practically turn into missiles (Hyuga from captain tsubasa) I think the best chance would be for England to have a strong animation industry and animate these football comics.
 

Nivek

Math said:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Shot_Hamish_and_Mighty_Mouse, An England with a strong animation industry, can create these serialized sports anime (mainly football)

Something from the comic "A rarity among the genre of football strips, the Hamish and Mouse story was extremely humorous in nature, with unbelievable and exaggerated tricks and skills shown by the two lead characters" and about one of the main characters "was famous for being able to hit the ball so hard that his shot could (and often did) burst the goal net." posted above "This time he scored, burst the net, hit the floodlight post causing the floodlights to collapse onto the pitch." It reminds me of those japanese anime kicks that practically turn into missiles (Hyuga from captain tsubasa) I think the best chance would be for England to have a strong animation industry and animate these football comics.
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Yeah that would be a good start,it would even preempt or have good synergy with captain Tsubasa
 

Dunbar

Mighty Ducks and Nascar Racers existed. Though those are more centered around crime fighting or whatever with the sports aspect being more side content
 
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Dunbar said:
Mighty Ducks and Nascar Racers existed. Though those are more centered around crime fighting or whatever with the sports aspect being more side content
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Yes, but I'm talking about cartoons that have a sporting aspect as the main thing, showing the character and his growth and aspirations in the sporting world he finds himself in.

I think England would be the best for this in the west because they already have comics that do this Focusing on a player and his sporting career (roy of the rovers), So the pod would be an English animation of Roy of rovers that is successful and creates a market in in the west for this type of animations that accompany the sport journey of the main character, As Japanese animations have.
 

Nivek

Math said:
Yes, but I'm talking about cartoons that have a sporting aspect as the main thing, showing the character and his growth and aspirations in the sporting world he finds himself in.

I think England would be the best for this in the west because they already have comics that do this Focusing on a player and his sporting career (roy of the rovers), So the pod would be an English animation of Roy of rovers that is successful and creates a market in in the west for this type of animations that accompany the sport journey of the main character, As Japanese animations have.
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I'm surprised they didn't put Roy, Hamish and Mouse in a special edition for the England National team
 

Lee-Sensei

Nivek said:
I think the crappy Hanna Barbera cartoons killed any chance for those to be taken seriously in the west plus the west live action is the standard, animation is lesser work mindset make it hard.

Argentina already have a captain Tsubasa before Tsubasa,it was called cebollitas ( little onions that was the name the child football school Diego Maradona was instructed) that got a remake thanks captain Tsubasa popularity. Of course in live action.
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In America. Aren't Bande Dessiné more accepted for adults in France?
 
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