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THANK YOU, Natti! I forgot to add to my last post: Why would Japan care about Balto anyway?

Mmmm...and that's just what was missing from the Balto cartoon...pink-furred wolves. Might as well give the sparkle dog/scene crowd some sense that what they do, in creating those horrid sparkley characters, isn't total garbage, right?

Look, I'm not picking on you here. You're entitled to your wishes and your opinions. But I think you can see where this has gone. And I think the discussion probably has run its course.


Well, it's possible they would care. The Japanese are no different than anyone else in being drawn to a dramatic or entertaining story. Certainly, if you delve into what interests the Japanese in entertainment, history, etc. you can find many instances when events elsewhere in the world, as well as some forms of entertainment, really catch on like wildfire over there.

But to tear down the Balto movie(s) by making it (them) into either anime or manga? Dear God in Heaven, NO.

Are we talking about "anime" as in CGI animation? If so, I think Balto would take well from some modern computer animation.

And a tv show I wouldnt mind either, taking it as they didnt see making another sequel, so they made a series. As long as the show wasnt on Nick Jr., PBS, or Sprout. or that would be degrading.

No. This: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anime

Oh then no, no anime for balto. It would ruin it.

@ JC: I was thinking more along the lines of: If american animation bussinesses won't touch it, why would a different country randomly pick it up and run with it so long after the latest sequel. It's not even popular among the public or in media and it just seems too ramdom.

Ah.

Even if another country picked up it and ran with it, they would come to realize that it was waste of time much too late.

You've got a point.... Is work on Balto again really worth it? I've come to a hard realization of that

There are also legal rights. Some Japanese company couldn't just use the Balto characters just like that. The only thing they could do legally is make their own characters, redesign Balto, make a whole new story. At that rate you don't have Balto, you have something else.

You got a point there Chief.

The name's Mighty, not Chief.

B.O.T.: Mighty's right, legal battles would be the hardest part. And if they didn't want to deal with that, they'd make something else and it wouldn't even be Balto related. We're kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place with that idea...
And like I've been thrown so many times before; Universal already dropped the Balto idea altogether!
Nothing more is happening with it, despite our desires...

I'd also like to add that making Balto into an anime would be a dis-honer to the true story behind it. In my view anyway. No offense to people who do like anime and Japanese people, but I can't help but notice how violent it is. Correct me if I'm wrong, all I've watched is Wolf's rain. But there was a heck of a lot of swearing, blood, and other violence that just wouldn't acceptable for either Balto or the serum run in general.