06/21/04: Suwacchi Anime Diary - June 21, 2004
The weekly column by Michihiko Suwa, the Yomiuri TV producer
June 21, 2004 Original Japanese text
How are you? Recently, I went to New York. Don't you listen to that story this time?
Since I wanted to go to somewhere, I went to Beacon train station, where it took one and half hours by train from Ground Central Station at the center of New York. Because I like to go to suburbs from inner cities, I was looking blankly at the Hudson River while on the train. At the destination, Beacon train station, there was a contemporary art museum called Dia:Beacon that exhibited a famous artist named Andy Warhol and other modern artists' works. The museum’s premises were very large and each work was large, too. I went to there for the first time. The variety of senses of the artists surprised me, which was very pleasant.
And more, I checked animated cartoons airing on TV in the mornings of Saturday and Sunday in New York. But I have felt that Japanese animations are better than US ones. In the US, anime is popular. InuYasha has also been broadcast on a cable TV irregularly since 2002. Owing to the larger number of TV channels in the US, without motivation to obtain information about favorite TV shows, one cannot often aware of broadcasts of the shows. Unfortunately, my Japanese female friends working in New York who I met did not take notice of the broadcast of InuYasha, either. But because they all had known of Ms. Rumiko Takahashi, we enjoyed a talk about InuYasha over drinks. They promised and said to me, "I will surely watch InuYasha". I think that even if people live in New York far away from Japan, things that they used to watch in Japan encourage them.
Besides, a curious movie was released; fashion of people walking streets was great; and I saw exciting things with my own eyes. In a very spacious avenue called Fifth Avenue, I could watch a very big parade by chance. New York was filled with energies, which made me decide to work with a fresh mind after the return to Japan. I'll put the energies I obtained in New York into Conan and InuYasha.
June 21, 2004 Original Japanese text
How are you? Recently, I went to New York. Don't you listen to that story this time?
Since I wanted to go to somewhere, I went to Beacon train station, where it took one and half hours by train from Ground Central Station at the center of New York. Because I like to go to suburbs from inner cities, I was looking blankly at the Hudson River while on the train. At the destination, Beacon train station, there was a contemporary art museum called Dia:Beacon that exhibited a famous artist named Andy Warhol and other modern artists' works. The museum’s premises were very large and each work was large, too. I went to there for the first time. The variety of senses of the artists surprised me, which was very pleasant.
And more, I checked animated cartoons airing on TV in the mornings of Saturday and Sunday in New York. But I have felt that Japanese animations are better than US ones. In the US, anime is popular. InuYasha has also been broadcast on a cable TV irregularly since 2002. Owing to the larger number of TV channels in the US, without motivation to obtain information about favorite TV shows, one cannot often aware of broadcasts of the shows. Unfortunately, my Japanese female friends working in New York who I met did not take notice of the broadcast of InuYasha, either. But because they all had known of Ms. Rumiko Takahashi, we enjoyed a talk about InuYasha over drinks. They promised and said to me, "I will surely watch InuYasha". I think that even if people live in New York far away from Japan, things that they used to watch in Japan encourage them.
Besides, a curious movie was released; fashion of people walking streets was great; and I saw exciting things with my own eyes. In a very spacious avenue called Fifth Avenue, I could watch a very big parade by chance. New York was filled with energies, which made me decide to work with a fresh mind after the return to Japan. I'll put the energies I obtained in New York into Conan and InuYasha.
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