a harry potter au where potions is taught by gordon ramsay
neville: *messes up his potion*
gordon ramsay: *holds neville between two slices of bread* what are you
neville: an idiot sandwich
Ahahahhaha! But you know, I imagine he’d do that more to someone like Fudge, or a seventh year goofing around. He’d be consoling to a weepy first or second year, like, “Hey, look, you just need to reduce the heat and then put in the powdered dragon scales– we’ll start again. Watch.”
Then some seventh year student just mucks up their potion– “You’ve used so much bat wing, Granger is starting a coalition to protect them!”
“There is so much lavender in this cauldron that Brown is starting to look nervous”
You’re comparing highly polished mainstream examples of iconic Japanese media to low budget, indie, and amateur american works. If you wanted to be fair the second image should look more like this:
The cultural exchange between American and Japanese art, particularly in animation, is hardly a one way streak.
Here we have Panty and Stocking, which boasts an artistic style that draws heavily upon modern western animation with it’s hard outlines and comical proportions. Shows like Dexter’s Laboratory barrow dynamic posses, dramatic framing, and highly expressive faces form anime and manga. Early anime and manga developed it’s distinct big eyes and childlike features by taking cues from western animation of the 20′s and 30′s
Betty Boop, in particular, was immensely popular in Japan. Her creators even made this short in appreciation of her Japanese fan-base.
WAIT I CAN ADD TO THIS ALREADY OBSCENELY LONG POST.
The entire Magical Girl genre is a big example of Western (primarily U.S.) and Japanese cultural exchange!
BeWitched (which was inspired by the 1940′s American movie “I Married a Witch”) was incredibly popular with young girls! This prompted the creation of the first popular Magical Girl Sally the Witch.
When the “Little Witch” Subgenre was big in the 70s the U.S. countered with animated Sabrina (from the Archie comics) which followed the same formula albeit with an older girl.
The 80s we start seeing more “flash of light” henshins/transformations being utilized along with the rise of the “Magical Idol” sub-genre in Japan it gave birth to shows like Creamy Mami and Magical Emi, in the U.S. it made way for Jem and the Holograms and She-Re Princess of Power (not a magical idol but still uses “flash of light” transformations). Jem was even a collab with U.S. doing the writing and Japan doing the animation!
The “Magical Warrior” sub-genre emerges in the 90s (even tho it has roots in the 70s with shows like Cutie Honey). This doesn’t catch on in America until the early 00′s with Atomic Betty (Canadian creation) and The Life and Times of Juniper Lee but we did see the start of it with the Canadian/Argentinian collab called Cyber Six. We also get W.I.T.C.H. and WINXClub in the early 00s from Italy which are both probably the most heavily influenced from Japan’s then current MG show structure.
Today we have Steven Universe, Bee and Puppycat, Star vs. the Forces of Evil, Lolirock, The Miraculous Ladybug, and if it gets picked up Twelve Forever which are all great Western MG shows that are influenced by Japan!
I could go on, I haven’t even scraped the ice berg on this! I have a whole hour panel I run on this subject called “Magical Girls from Around The World”
The point is the Magical Girl genre- and tbh animation in general- has been Japan and America (with some other Western countries thrown in) talking back and forth since the 60s. I leave you with probably the most direct influence:
can I add to this that Osamu Tezuka aka “the God of modern Manga”
was inspired by Bambi
into deciding to give big eyes to his drawings so that they would look more expresive. He also remained a big fan of a certain Jewish American animator until his death, oh yeah this guy
Walt Disney himself was also intrested in Tezuka’s work, with Astroboy being one of his favorites. A similar case exists now between John Lasseter (Pixar and Disney fame) and Hayao Miyasaki (Studio Ghibli) who are big fans of each other’s work.
Japan and America are less of a competition to those who work on it and more of an inspiration, it is very often the fans and not the creators who create rivalries between people that would be friends in real life.
I’m gunna write a list of problematic artists in the Wow community you should totally check out because they’re amazing STOP SUPPORTING BECAUSE THEY’RE SINNY SIN SINNERS WHO NEED A TIME OUT.
shithowdy : Commits the cardinal sin of making disgusting corpse people really friggin’ cute/Gives them personalities and shit/Potentially a hazard because they make me feel things for rotters and feeling any emotion at all might turn my tiny, icy heart two sizes too big- and it’ll kill me prolly/Stupid cute zombies
mad-maddie: Ruins your childhood by making video game characters look super freaking hot /really pretty night elves./They also tell the honest truth about the horrors of the customer service trade and that could be potentially educational and teach people to respect those who work in customer service/Possibly a cinnamon roll and that’s triggering to those who don’t like cinnamon
mori-sketchbook: Makes me commit terrible sins against my OCs/ Has really hot characters with hard to spell names/Is a kinky son of a gun/ Made Edyne cry once
cieatix: Makes me jealous with their remarkable anatomy skills >:CCCC/Really friggin’ cute and says nice things. Potentially triggering to people who are allergic to compliments/Keeps streaming when I’m asleep so I miss it and feel guilty for being asleep while they’re streaming
bylacey : Also really friggin’ amazing at the art thing/ Likes Lor’themar and there can be only one! / Really friggin’ amazing at drawing lips and that also makes me cream with jealousy!/ Potential appreciator of willies and man-abs
wulfgnar: Is a chihuahua and that’s a dog that’s perfectly sized to sit on a supervillain’s lap / Draws birbs and we all know birbs are evil/ Makes me keel over in pain with how good they are at the art thing/ probably an evil dog-bird hybrid who will fly in through your window and draw age-of-sail art on your walls and then hump your sofa
robinaa Way to fuggin’ cute to even be real/ Have you seen how cute their art is?/Way too nice./Potential murderer in the form of making you have a heart attack when they do nice things out of the blue because they do that/ Likes King Varian more than Lor’themar and that is the greatest of sins ever. God damn fight me IRL
THIS MUST BE THE LIST I’VE BEEN HEARING ABOUT
it seems legit
TOTALLY THE LIST
Any other is a cheap, problematic imitation!
It has come to my attention that there are even more heinous sinners out there in the WoW community on tumblr! I have taken it upon myself to spread the word of their actions!
lobstmourne: Is a lobster/How did a lobster learn how to type?/Probably an attempt to take the surface world and force us to wear rubber bands on our hands/not recommended for anyone with a shellfish allergy/can smell your fear/snip-snip
tevruden: Feckin’ corpse/ Undead shouldn’t make me feel things we’ve been over this!/ Speaks up when people are being shits and apparently on tumblr that’s a BAD THING FOR SOME REASON/ Potentially a death knight and we all know deathknights are problematic
