That Stitch anime series is set to premiere in Japan in October.

Disney.jp now has a website for it.

http://www.disney.c­o.jp/character/stitc­h/okinawa/index.html­

The Okinawan girl is now named Yuuna. I can't read Japanese, so I don't know

what the website says.

The movie originally took place in Hawaii. This looks like a new sequel,

with Stitch and the other aliens moving to Okinawa for...some reason.

The movie originally took place in Hawaii. This looks like a new sequel,

with Stitch and the other aliens moving to Okinawa for...some reason.

In rec.arts.anime.misc­ Juan F. Lara <ljuan@ces.clemson.­edu> wrote:

The movie originally took place in Hawaii. This looks like a new sequel,

with Stitch and the other aliens moving to Okinawa for...some reason.

In article <5JydnSTE7M5zDlTVnZ­2dnUVZ_ozinZ2d@poste­d.rawbandwidth>,

Doug Jacobs <djacobs@shell.rawb­w.com> wrote:

I think it's a new continuity. Just like how "Tenchi etc" and "Digimon"

would have whole new continuities each season?

"Doug Jacobs" <djac...@shell.rawb­w.com> wrote in message

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To put Stitch closer to the Tokyo Tower?

"Lee Ratner" <LBRatner@gmail.com­> wrote in message

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On Sep 11, 6:55 pm, "Aje RavenStar" <whinebuc...@comcas­t.net> wrote:

Japan.

just fixing this so the quotations are properly marked. Sheesh.

Sigh. Missed the point (all things in anime threaten the Tokyo Tower at

some point!).

And being (xxx)centric is common to all varieties of media in their

respective culture, Japan and/or anime is no particular extreme in that

regard.

The Japanese are not the most cosmopolitan people in the world

and when they use non-Japanese things in their pop culture, they have

a tendency to alter it to make it more friendly to the Japanese

audiences. They are experts of pandering. Turning Lilo into a genki

Okinawa girl is one example of this. What they did to Thor in Mythical

Detective Loki is another. Most depictions of Thor in European and

American culture tend to stay true the Thor of Norse mythology. He is

shown to be a big burly man, often with lots of facial hair, and he

wields his hammer with pride. This would not do for the Japanese

audience though. So in Mythical Detective Loki, Thor's form on Earth

is a beardless, average size Japanese high school boy named Narugami

who wields a boken rather than a hammer. I really like Mythical

Detective Loki and I like Narugami but I was always slightly disturbed

of the changes made to Thor to make him culturally acceptable.

Narugami is a nice character but I really can't see him as an

incarnation of Thor.

Also, is it just me, or does Yuuna doing the hula look oddly like one of

Kamichu's characters trying to hula? 0_o?

http://www.youtube.­com/watch?v=YfnZBdeR­8N0

(Which brings up the point that taking the series out of Hawaii, and

keeping it inside the Empire, means that there's no longer any

kissup-correct obligation to portray Hawaiian life and culture

accurately, eg. no Nani job-searching or Ice-Cream-Guy mainlander--

And Yuuna's hula can be portrayed as Just Something Silly She Thinks

She's Doing, like Sana's rapping.)

It's like Japan...but it's not. It has its own culture which the Japanese

think of as exotic and charming.

I think it's a new continuity. Just like how "Tenchi etc" and "Digimon"

would have whole new continuities each season.

In article <cuOdnZEVjrD3UVfVnZ­2dnUVZ_gudnZ2d@poste­d.rawbandwidth>,

Doug Jacobs <djacobs@shell.rawb­w.com> wrote:

I think the Okinawans have their own language. They also have shirts with

flowers on them. ­

I'd be impressed if Yuuna and Stitch take a trip to the U.S. base in one

of these eps. Or fight a Chiropterran. ­

On Sep 11, 6:55pm, "Aje RavenStar" <whinebuc...@comcas­t.net> wrote:

You should know that in anime Tokyo or at least Japan is the

center of the earth and anything remotely interesting only happens in

Japan.

The Japanese are not the most cosmopolitan people in the world

and when they use non-Japanese things in their pop culture, they have

a tendency to alter it to make it more friendly to the Japanese

audiences. They are experts of pandering. Turning Lilo into a genki

Okinawa girl is one example of this. What they did to Thor in Mythical

Detective Loki is another. Most depictions of Thor in European and

American culture tend to stay true the Thor of Norse mythology. He is

shown to be a big burly man, often with lots of facial hair, and he

wields his hammer with pride. This would not do for the Japanese

audience though. So in Mythical Detective Loki, Thor's form on Earth

is a beardless, average size Japanese high school boy named Narugami

who wields a boken rather than a hammer. I really like Mythical

Detective Loki and I like Narugami but I was always slightly disturbed

of the changes made to Thor to make him culturally acceptable.

Narugami is a nice character but I really can't see him as an

incarnation of Thor.

Ummm, you've really never seen the long-lived Marvel Comics version

of Thor?

On Sun, 14 Sep 2008 01:27:06 -0700, Antonio E. Gonzalez

<AntEGM111@aol.com>­ wrote:

Yeah but at least he had a hammer.

David Johnston wrote:

And looks very Nordic. Yes, he's not the image that the NORSE had of

Thor (and in fact they've acknowledged that several times in the

comics), but at least he makes sense as an image of Thor.

And being (xxx)centric is common to all varieties of media in their

respective culture, Japan and/or anime is no particular extreme in that

regard. Plenty of examples of non-Nipponcentric anime stories. VanDread,

which doesn't take place on Earth at all; .hack//sign, doesn't take place

in

mundane world; Planetes, which takes place in space; Battle of the

Stars/Crest of the Stars, Galaxy Railway 999, Saber Marionette J, Outlaw

Star, all outer space shows that don't get anywhere near Japan;

In article <gaj9t6$rad$1@regis­tered.motzarella.org­>,

"Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)" <seawasp@sgeinc.inv­alid.com> wrote:

Could be worse, look what they did to King Arthur in that one

anime...

On Sep 14, 9:44pm, Captain Nerd <cptn...@nerdwatch.­com> wrote:

If you are talking about Fate/Stay Night, that is really bad.

Not only was the change only made for fan-service purposes, it was

justified with the worse faux-feminism.

On Sep 15, 10:02 am, Invid Fan <in...@loclanet.com­> wrote:

See spoilers bellow.

Fate/Stay Night Spoilers:

Saber the main character is really King Arthur. In the Fate/Stay

Night universe, King Arthur was a young woman who had to pretend to be

a man to lead her sexist subjects. This make the decision seem

feminist. The real reason was of couse because they needed a lead

woman for the lead man to get together with and for some reason they

decided not to use one of the myriad of heroines from Western

mythology. A really stupid choice IMO.

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Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:05am-0700, Lee Ratner <LBRatner@gmail.com­>:

My first guess was Joan of Arc myself.

On Sep 14, 9:44pm, Captain Nerd <cptn...@nerdwatch.­com> wrote:

If you are talking about Fate/Stay Night, that is really bad.

Not only was the change only made for fan-service purposes, it was

justified with the worse faux-feminism.

On Sep 14, 11:13am, David Johnston <da...@block.net> wrote:

He was also big and burly and like Sea Wasp said earlier, was

passible as a fictional Viking and made more sense as an incarnation

of Thor.

Depicting Thor is a beardless, average size Japanese high

school student was not necessarily a bad thing. I really doubt that

the Japanese audience, even a shounen one, would go for a bearded

major character. What I do find unacceptable was replacing Thor's

hammer with a boken. I really want to know why that decision was made.

On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 03:33:08 -0700 (PDT), Lee Ratner

<LBRatner@gmail.com­> wrote:

For the same reason they chose to turn Fenris into a cute little

puppy. Even in Japan people would expect Thor to use a hammer. Humour

comes from defying people's expectations.

David Johnston wrote: