Make your 2006 predictions!

[rocklobster]

What do you predict for anime in 2006? Here are my predictions:

• Miyazaki will win another Oscar. Maybe not for best animated feature, but I'm sure he'll win something.
• Naruto will replace DBZ as Cartoon Network's premiere anime.
• More retro anime. Look for lots of old school stuff, maybe even on TV! Just because it's old, doesn't mean it won't gain an interest.
• Manga will be on Banned Book lists (it's inevitable. Deal with it.). It'll be the fundamentalists' next Harry Potter.

[Tenshi no Ai]

What do you predict for anime in 2006? Here are my predictions:

• Miyazaki will win another Oscar. Maybe not for best animated feature, but I'm sure he'll win something.
• Naruto will replace DBZ as Cartoon Network's premiere anime.
• More retro anime. Look for lots of old school stuff, maybe even on TV! Just because it's old, doesn't mean it won't gain an interest.
• Manga will be on Banned Book lists (it's inevitable. Deal with it.). It'll be the fundamentalists' next Harry Potter.

I wouldn't be surprised with most of those. As for retro anime, they DID bring Saint Seiya/Knights of the Zodiac on TV a year or so ago, and that show was from the 80s! Don't know just HOW retro they'll go though. It would be nice to FINALLY see Tenchi in Canada though, although I think Stand Alone Complex will just be replaced by Second Gig and Gundam SEED by Destiny. Sad that the more new "mature" anime don't run until one's been complete, but then they do show reruns after their run.

[Hitokiri]

Maybe I missed somehting but why would manga be banned?

[Tommy]

What do you mean by the manga thing?

Dragon Ball Z uncut will be gone and the 4kids One Piece will continue to attempt going as far as they can before they have to cancel it.

[Lady Macbeth]

(I think the "Banned Books list" refers to the annual list put out by the American Library Association: Challenged and Banned Books )

I don't see manga making the list. Books that hit the Challenged and Banned Books list are usually readily available in public or school libraries and/or are used in classroom curriculum, thus there are a large number of parent and action groups made aware of their ability to reach children.

Manga titles are not readily available in all libraries yet, and some stores will enforce the age restriction listed on the cover, so there is no reasonable way for a substantial challenge or ban to be enacted against them.

I can easily see Miyazaki winning another award. He has phenomenal vision and storytelling ability, and American audiences are starting to appreciate his films more.

Either Naruto or InuYasha will hit top place; since InuYasha is running up to its insubstantial end, it will probably be Naruto.

Not only retro anime, but more obscure titles will start seeing more airtime and limelight. Companies have this year started to recognize the profit potential in anime and manga.

[rocklobster]

What do you mean by the manga thing?

Check out this article http://animenewsnetwork.com/article.php?id=8008

[Myoti]

-4Kids will finally give it up and someone else will come to re-dub One Piece (more of a prayer than a prediction, but...)

[CrimsonRyu17]

Well, about Naruto replacing DBZ. I think they are going to do that, since Naruto is a big hit and its also become a favorite to almost everybody, and (no offense to DBZ fans) but DBZ is really loosing its touch for CN.

About manga being put to the banned list, I don't think so. I've seen manga grow big time in some of the book stores i go to everynow and then.

But thats just my predictions, who knows for sure what will happen.

[Tenshi no Ai]

Manga titles are not readily available in all libraries yet, and some stores will enforce the age restriction listed on the cover, so there is no reasonable way for a substantial challenge or ban to be enacted against them.

My old high school had a book club, which went on a field trip every year to buy new books for the school library. Some of the titles the members picked out were: Love Hina, MARS, and Confidential Confessions, all are which rated teen or OLDER teen.

...I mean that site posted showed Peach Girl and Marmalade Boy as being offensive? Reading up on Tokyopop's site when I wondered on what Confidential was about, I'm sure many people would be shocked and appalled :/ Well then again, not like the school library doesn't have controversial titles that would be related to topics that a student would do a thesis essay on :/


About the ocmment on age restrictions, suprised with the Chapters here, has 2 section of manga: some are in the actual gaphic novel section and are more of the "adult titles" which include a variety of Kenshin, Ranma, X/1999, Ai Yori Yoshi, Inuyasha, Tsubasa, and a couple shounen-ai titles :/ At the opposite side of the store, is the teen section where all of the more "lighter" teen titles are. Some are in both sections. I find this seperation sort of odd that they couldn't combine both to make one big section.

[Arnobius]

What do you predict for anime in 2006? Here are my predictions:

• Miyazaki will win another Oscar. Maybe not for best animated feature, but I'm sure he'll win something.
• Naruto will replace DBZ as Cartoon Network's premiere anime.
• More retro anime. Look for lots of old school stuff, maybe even on TV! Just because it's old, doesn't mean it won't gain an interest.
• Manga will be on Banned Book lists (it's inevitable. Deal with it.). It'll be the fundamentalists' next Harry Potter.

Whether or not Miyazaki does depends on the competition, which is stronger this year. Spirited Away was critically acclaimed in America and ran against Treasure Planet. Howl's Moving Castle caught much less media attention

Most "Retro" anime had a big following before it came to TV. Urusei Yatsura is arguably the most successful anime franchise ever (they stil make merchandise and doujinshi for that one almost 15 years after the final movie and 18 years after the manga ended. Most people who know anime know who this girl is:

yet, the franchise moulders away with the anime in the incompetent hands of Animeigo and the manga in the hands of Viz. Yet when people think Rumilo Takahashi they mostly think Inu Yasha, Ranma 1/2 or maybe some more obscure things like Rumic Theater or Mermaid's Saga. Not the series that made her famous So I don't think Retro matters unless it's immensely demanded in the first place.

Manga is not going to be banned, though I know some titles will be used as examples of "how perverse it is." First of all it isn't as well known as anime, second it isn't broadcast and third a volume can only be read by one person at a time. All of which limits the spread of availability. Bookstores put warning labels on stuff saying "Hey! Some of this isn't for minors!" and nowadays volumes have warnings and age ratings. Any protesting parent would probably be mocked for allowing their kid to read it.

(I think the "Banned Books list" refers to the annual list put out by the American Library Association: Challenged and Banned Books )

Ah the Good old annual ALA rant. Noticed the most banned books of 1990-2004 were all written in the 80's or earlier. In the Night Kitchen, Judy Blume books, etc. It's the usual suspects and almost always for content deemed innapropriate for the target age (in the 70's/80's, Judy Blume books were marketed to children and pre-teens). Almost none on the list were books written for adults.

[rocklobster]

I've seen some Stephen King on the list.

[Hitokiri]

Yeah, the idea of manga being banned sounds like a whole bunch of people starting to assume things and oever-react just because a group of parents are angry with some titles.

I will believe it when I can't buy manga at my local bookstore or see actual laws about it and even then that, to me, is discriminations and unconstitutional as well as restraining of art.

In fact, I will say the idea of believe manga will be banned is absurb even more so then Harry Potter. It's just as absurb as suggesting of banning Lord of the Rings or Narnia.

[Arnobius]

Moreover, I doubt that there will be any banning so long as there are adults who read and purchase this material. About the only real restrictions might affect minors only.

Admittedly that will probably affect most of the CAA membership but technically to censor is: to examine in order to suppress or delete anything considered objectionable.

So if we force anime/manga distributors to put clothes on Ranma or refuse to allow titles in America, then we can say we have censorship. If we restrict things to a certain age or above, I think technecally cannot be called censorship.

[spiritusvult]

Many things will happen

The year will come to an end.

[bigsleepj]

• All anime animators suddenly decide to form their own country. However the UN does not recognize their country (built on a small island) and thus there are no more anime imports.

[Arnobius]

*People get tired of harem anime/manga. Manga-ka found doing Tenchi clones or Love Hina clones will be drug out into the streets and shot... as will anime producers who decide to make a series out of it.