Obscure Adventures in Geek and Nerd Culture

Now, if anyone can remember watching Disney’s Tarzan this frequently? If so, remember that the Johnny Weissmuller movies were much further from the sources (except the canon elements) than even the Disney films and tv show. That’s why the Disney version has become the most accessible and successful depiction of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan brand in recent years, admittedly still loose but but enough not to offend most of the staunchest relative purists, who have forgiven the Disney version for that reason.  The same might not be said for the canonists, since they frankly do not publicly tolerate anything that’s not canon, which is perhaps why they still basically revise the frick out of canon Tarzan in order to keep the soul frying fanservice as the only intact point of the story, partly thanks to the Shōnen Jump meme worthy implications of the ERB Universe Tarzan being an orc-like destroyer of both humans and nonhumans alike.

Isn’t it interesting when you’ve been looking for a ton of forgettable characters.

It’s now become clear that the original jungle books of Rudyard Kipling are for almost everyone but babies, mainly thanks to the Disney Jungle Book franchise.  It shall be noted that nobody can fully capture the Jungle Books of Rudyard Kipling even in comic book form. However, it’s easier to understand that the Jungle Books are much undoubtedly like Nausicäa of the Kingdom of the Wind, if rather more values dissonant since Rudyard Kipling would rather have been a much more certainly fucked up person than even Hayao Miyazaki. 

It’s pretty clear that the OG Kanada/Kozuma/Yamashita Pers-kun movement has now become not just irrelevant but now ultimately outcompeted by the Web, Neo and Alt Kanada/Kozuma/Yamashita Pers-kun movements. Unlike Kanada at least until recently, his funky disciple Yamashita still being more influential outside of Japan is perhaps why we get a ton of glitzy, giddy, goofy as hell anime art amongst others. I think the Kanada/Kozuma/Yamashita Pers-kun movements were named for just three guys, Yoshinori Kanada, his cheekier and more internationally relatable friendly rival Masahito Yamashita and Yamashita’s much more surreal friend Shinsaku Kozuma. The Web Kanada Movement is now a popular breeding ground for many limited frame animators throughout the world, and it’s perhaps due to an unsuspecting Studio Break fanboy expanding anime movement vocabulary altogether. Naoyuki Konno’s intricate symmetry and body language studies remain fairly unique, though some of his ideas have now been spreadi...