Hip Hop Anime????/

Psygnius · Post by **Psygnius** » Tue May 09, 2006 12:37 pm

amvwizard wrote:The reason I was wondering about a Hip Hop anime was because I saw Intial-D. I was so used to seeing street racing like it is done in movies like "The Fast And The Furious"

In "The Fast And The Furious" the whole racing scene revolves around your car looking "pimp". In Initial-D everthing is about driving fast with no real finesse or concern about looking "gangsta." At first that kinda made watching the show a little strange, But I got used to it.

Actually, to be more technical, Initial D was more about the drifts. Yes, it was about racing, but more or less, it was about drifting techniques to gain the upper hand. I guess the new FatF is about that too. Didn't really care about the first two FatF, but I'll probably see this one in theatres. Car drifting is smexy.

amvwizard · Post by **amvwizard** » Tue May 09, 2006 6:00 pm

Psygnius wrote:The Japanese, as a stereotype, look down on African American culture. Actually, they look down on a lot of other cultures too, with the exception of American culture.

However, a lot of the older Japanese people don't really like Americans either. There are many places in Japan that will not allow "foreign" people into their bars and clubs. And by "foreign", I mean anyone that does not look Asian. So in general, Japanese people fairly ethnocentric and since it's rare to see a black person in Japan, I would assume they do not create many animes with a black cast.

So a lot of animes do not really feature African Americans, with a few exceptions (like Tenjo Tenge, and a few of the Macrosses are what come to mind immediately).

I would assume it would be equivalent in the United States as us doing a TV show about Mongolia (and have it spoken in English) with a story that only pertains to their society. We are not really drenched in their culture, nor do we really care about a story that really has no affect on our own culture. It would turn out to be rather boring in our standpoint.

If you want "hip hop anime" it is best to find it in the US. And Boondocks is a great example of that.

Why don't the Japanese look down on American culture and they do on others???

Psygnius · Post by **Psygnius** » Tue May 09, 2006 7:37 pm

amvwizard wrote: Why don't the Japanese look down on American culture and they do on others???

There's a lot of American influence on their current culture, especially after WWII, when McCarthy kinda forced them to change. The older culture still resents the Americans, but the younger culture likes us, just based on their standards and how they were raised. They are familiar with our pop culture, and that just makes them more accepting to our type of culture. Japan is a very materialistic country, and our own country is a fair parallel to their standards, but not as bad (although we DO have iPod vending machines now, so we're not too far away from being the next Japan).

However, I guess a lot of them still don't like Americans IN Japan. As we are, and will always be known as the "gaijin" no matter what.

Psygnius · Post by **Psygnius** » Tue May 09, 2006 7:43 pm

EDIT: I didn't explain why they don't like other cultures, right?

The Japanese as a stereotype is fairly racist from what I've been told. The old and the nouveau cultures are still raised as somewhat "isolationists", only not as bad as they used to be.

So although they like the American culture, they still don't like the Gaijins.

Evangelion Unit 01 · Post by **Evangelion Unit 01** » Fri May 12, 2006 10:54 am

Isn't there something called pop culture sensation i think, and then what about super gals? That is a pretty awful anime thought.

Yunacat · Post by **Yunacat** » Fri May 12, 2006 1:03 pm

Hip-hop culture isn't big in Japan. It's far from that. The closest you'll find to anything like it is the Yakuza, which also like to be refered to as 'Gangstas' (it's basically like..the Japanese mafia or something). There's hardly any Rap music (And if there is some, it usually makes my ears bleed because it's usually horrible. I'd rather listen to American Rap and that's saying something considering i can't stand it.)and it's mostly Pop and Rock styled music, along with other music with other influences. Because of this, there aren't really any anime that seem 'hip-hop-like'.

The Boondocks has been mentioned several times in here, and it's not anime, it's American anime, meaning it's an anime-styled show made in America. It's the closest thing to what you are looking for if you are looking for the hip-hop style in an anime.

Samurai Champloo isn't really a hip-hop anime. I can't catagorize it, but it's definately not that.

azulmagia · Post by **azulmagia** » Sat May 13, 2006 7:59 pm

Tokyo Tribes is being made into an anime. That would be the first "official" hip-hop anime, I think.

Yunacat · Post by **Yunacat** » Mon May 15, 2006 10:35 am

azulmagia wrote:Tokyo Tribes is being made into an anime. That would be the first "official" hip-hop anime, I think.

Creepy.. Very creepy.. > >

dokool · Post by **dokool** » Mon May 15, 2006 5:27 pm

Yunacat wrote:Hip-hop culture isn't big in Japan. It's far from that. The closest you'll find to anything like it is the Yakuza, which also like to be refered to as 'Gangstas' (it's basically like..the Japanese mafia or something). There's hardly any Rap music (And if there is some, it usually makes my ears bleed because it's usually horrible.

No, no, no, you are wrong. You're trying to define Japan's hip-hop scene by the standards of the American hip-hop scene, which is something you can't really do. Yeah, Japan doesn't really have anything such as the east coast/west coast stuff, or gang wars, but they <i>do</i> have huge appriciation for American hip-hop culture, and even a decently-sized native hip-hop culture as well. There are a ton of hip-hop clubs in Tokyo, and an ungodly amount of clothing stores that sell hip-hop brands.

Hell, <a href="http://remixmag.com/mag/remix_dj_kentaro/">one of the top scratch DJs in the world</a> is Japanese.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_hip_hop for more information