Warner Brothers have announced that popular eighties cartoon ThunderCats is to be revived, and Japanese animation studio Studio 4°C has been tapped to animate the series.
Cartoon Network is set to air the series, and they are quick to cash in on the anime connection.
Sam Register, Cartoon Network’s Executive Vice President of Creative Affairs, was quoted as saying the series will be “Warner Bros. Animation’s first anime series,” conveniently forgetting that the original was also animated in Japan by Pacific Animation Corporation, which would go on to became Studio Ghibli.
Indeed, they lay it on quite thickly in their press releases:
Roaring to life through WBA and Studio4°C’s use of the Japanese animated artistry of anime, “ThunderCats” characters Lion-O, Mumm-Ra, Panthro, Cheetara and others will spring off the screen with realistic cat-like characteristics inconceivable in previous incarnations.
Studio 4°C already has strong ties with Warner Bros., as they are also working together on the anime adaptation of Halo.
thunder… Thunder! THUNDERCATS!HOOOO! ^^
That’s good news. I’ve seen only a few episodes on VHS. Maybe next they can do Sailor Moon.
The Cheetara fanservice is going to be something to behold. They’ll probably turn her into a sex symbol like Jun the Swan in that Gatchaman OVA. Yeah, Jun was attractive but that felt like a more of a fan disservice.
Not just Cheetara. If I recall, there was also Mandara the Evil Chaser, Mumrana, and that female Thundarian commoner who appeared in the final season of the show. And don’t forget the Warrior Maidens. And who knows, maybe Wilykit will be used for l♥♥i-service. Unless, of course, they decide not to use any of the secondary characters from the old series.
Think there will be a giant Thundercats robo?
Thunder…
Thunder…
Thunder…
Thundercats!!!
HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
my childhood iz back!!!!!
I applaud this decision!
It been forever since I saw this show as a kid, let the good time come in (I wonder if they’ll design a game, one that didn’t suck; scratch that)