Disney and Marvel Anime

[ChrisIII]

Now that Disney owns Marvel, will Disney distribute the Iron Man and Wolverine anime? It's interesting because Disney already has a distribution deal/friendship with Ghibli/Miyazaki, I wonder if this will extend to Madhouse as well.

Then of course there's Squaresoft as well who has a deal with Disney with the Kingdom Hearts games. One of the questions people have is, will the Squaresoft characters, in addition to mingling with Disney, have Marvel heroes as well?

[NickGuy]

im pretty sure that disney has a clause in the contract that allows marvel to finish up other contracts they currently have.

[The Xenos]

Though speaking of Disney and anime, isn't there a Stitch anime going into its second season?

[ChrisIII]

Kind of interesting you should mention that, I think the Stitch franchise is partially an attempt by Disney to appeal to the Pokemon' crowd (Well, at least the cute monster/easily merchandisable aspect, not the whole 'gotta catch em all!"/card game aspect).


Of course this isn't the first time Disney and anime have crossed paths. I still remember the whole Nadia/Atlantis controversy (Which seems to now have it's spirtiual sucessor in the Delgo/Avatar thing).

[The Xenos]

And they also tapped into the anime fandom, or caught some crossover with it when they joined SquareEnix's Final Fantasy fanbase with Kingdom Hearts. Which makes the interesting rule at anime cons that certain Disney characters can be counted as Japanese enough to be in anime costume contests. Of course now that Disney owns Marvel, fans are freaking out wondering if somehow some Marvel characters could pop into a Kingdom Hearts game.