Comments on: Ask John: Why Hasn’t Tokyo Tribe 2 Reached America?

By: GATS

GATS — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 09:00:42 +0000

Well, in Tokyo Tribes’ defense, DBZ has Mr. Popo [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chXraiRdCOA ], and that hasn’t stopped a lot of black fans from embracing it.

By: seanny

seanny — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 21:40:07 +0000

haha, I saw (half of) Tokyo Tribe 2 as well. I would’ve watched more of it due to the bizarre subject matter, if its production values weren’t so apocalyptically low.

Here’s a fun and loosely relevant fact, though. Jamie Vickers, an American animator, was working for MadHouse at the time. He did the ending animation for the show, and some of his other work is along those lines (like, urban/hiphop comic art)

http://www.catsuka.com/news/2011-11-10/light-of-love-de-jamie-vickers-clip-pour-yameen-et-lady-alma-en-fait-un-pilote

By: MarcusD7

MarcusD7 — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 21:13:22 +0000

The plot is kinda ridiculous…. for some reason there are like a million black people in Japan, the gun laws there are non-existent, crime is rampant, and all/most of the black dudes are thugged-out gangsters.

Imagine if you had crazy Japanese Yakuza running around South Central, it’d be similarly ridiculous. It’s kind of like Saints Row done wrong.

The only good animes about black people living in Japan are usually the sports animes where the black dudes are just regular guys in Japan (albeit athletically gifted) and aren’t particularly portrayed as being innately criminal.

By: terebi-kun

terebi-kun — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 20:04:50 +0000

Being south american, I never appreciated the possible controversy that some of the portraits of hip hop culture could bring, bute they sure seem likely.

About the show itself: awful animation and a ridiculous story, but great background work and a surprisingly good soundtrack by renowned japanese DJ Muro.

Looks like good material for a film franchise.