CAA: Christian Anime Alliance

Cool, I never knew about this until I read it at ANN today.

Q: Did you always like cartoons?

A: I was always a hard-core Warner Bros. fan. Elmer and Daffy and (animator) Tex Avery. I collect a lot of Japanese anime. I am waiting to see "Steamboy." The Japanese are very aware that animation isn't just for kids to the point of making pornography. They make deeply dark movies, science-fiction movies.

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AHHHHH! That's crazy awesome!!! Robin Williams can sometimes be a little R-rated when it comes to his stand-up, but overall, I think he is one of the most hilarious men on the planet!! AND he watches anime! That's supercool, right there.

Wow, whooda thunk it. xD;

VioletEyedCat wrote:AHHHHH! That's crazy awesome!!! Robin Williams can sometimes be a little R-rated when it comes to his stand-up, but overall, I think he is one of the most hilarious men on the planet!! AND he watches anime! That's supercool, right there.

I love his line at the end of Good Will Hunting, but I shan't repeat it here.

My fav movie of his is "Dead Poets Society". That's pretty cool though could of done without the pornography comment. How is that good?

!! thats so awesome. i wonder if he got excited when they were shooting 'one hour photo' when they were shooting the part where hes trying to win the kid over by giving him that mass production model. i know i stood up in the movie theater and started freaking out ^_^

Steamboy looks good.I've seen the ads on tv.

Hitokiri wrote:My fav movie of his is "Dead Poets Society". That's pretty cool though could of done without the pornography comment. How is that good?

I think he was making the point about animation not just being for kids. But yeah, I coulda done without that too.

CDLviking wrote:I think he was making the point about animation not just being for kids. But yeah, I coulda done without that too.

True but a bad example to use. That's why most of the non-anime people think anime is just "cartoon porn".

O_O I knew I was a fan of his for a reason...that's just one more to add to the list

Coincidentally...I have the same birthday as Robin Williams.

same here, as in Robin Williams being my favorite actor, and that he likes anime.

Hitokiri wrote:My fav movie of his is "Dead Poets Society". That's pretty cool though could of done without the pornography comment. How is that good?

Perhaps, but is important that we understand that that is out there, too. If we just ignore it, it will come back to bite us.

Hitokiri wrote: That's pretty cool though could of done without the pornography comment.

Indeed. The world already knows that the Japanese create porn anime.

Well, I guess the writers of "Robots" (the new CG movie) knew that when they gave Robin Williams' character the line, "Give me big anime eyes!" when he was taking photographs of the main character.

Oh, and yeah, that toy in "One Hour Photo" probably played into that, too. (But I hated that movie when it got filthy toward the end.)

bad Robin, BAD! But I did enjoy the movie. Very funny and VERY creative.

Don't know if I should be impressed or question my choice of hobbies.

I'm feeling something along the same lines, Rev. Doc.

gotta love robin williams love him he could just take it down a little bitt in the cursing department but he is cool he goes to iraq to see the troops and hes an anime fan so he is cool in my book

While I was mildly suprised to hear Williams say it, I'm glad he mentioned the pornography bit. Notice how he worded it : "to the point of"--makes a HUGE difference. Osaka's right, if we ignore it or try to downplay that fact, it'll just bite us. But I think if we're honest that yes, that trash exists, it makes us look more informed and in turn informs the uneducated public.

Yeah, I was pretty excited to hear this. Apparently he also likes video games. I remember hearing him talk about playing Half-Life 2 and something else in an interview on a show called The Screen Savers. He also mentioned waiting to see Steamboy then, though I think he called it a Miyazaki film, which sorta confused me...