Comments on: Totally Spies Books 1 and 2

By: bilge

bilge — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 01:14:58 +0000

cool

By: alek vidakovic

alek vidakovic — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 16:35:27 +0000

i love so much totally spies tv shows
new ebisode 9
quest mashins daed
i like jetix show

By: clover

clover — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 18:49:51 +0000

i like totally spies very much. cool

By: Leyla

Leyla — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 19:13:03 +0000

I love Totally spies i dont onder stand dat there are no tegne serie ond danish and in denmark!!! wy??? pleaze help me are they in denmark are not??!??

By: Johanna

Johanna — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 20:38:51 +0000

Cool, that’s neat to know. I appreciate you doing the research.

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 20:16:50 +0000

I finally got my hands on one of the 4th season episodes (50ft Mandy) and the comic is indeed quite close to the cartoon. They obviously copy&pasted most of the backgrounds, but not the characters (those seem to be newly drawn). The faces look different than the cartoon most of the time, but some of the poses look at least traced. Large portions of the dialogue match the cartoon word for word, though some lines were added later, like the Hulk reference, for example.

So it isn’t pure cels from the animation, but not very original either.

~Sebastian

By: Johanna

Johanna — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 17:25:47 +0000

Thanks for the background! I don’t know enough about cartoon history to be able to validate your point about being the first to blend Japanese and American cartoon styles so successfully, but it certainly seems plausible.

It could be made up of screen grabs… that would explain the lack of credits.

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 09:37:05 +0000

I liked the series a lot when it first ran on German TV in 2002/2003. I only watched the first 2 seasons, though, since the 3rd one started airing only this summer over here and I didn't notice until now. The gadgets always were especially hilarious, with their over-the-top invented names and I liked how it was (IMHO) the first series to combine european/american style cartoon with japanese elements (and succeed). I caught a few 3rd season eps on the net, but didn't enjoy them as much (though I don't know how much of that was due to the differend dub voices and language and how much was due to the stories). I bought and read the two new books as well, but I only recently noticed that the stories are apparently taken from 4th season episodes (which I didn't even know existed, since it started airing in the US only this spring). Is it possible that they were produced from frames taken from the show? It doesn't really look like other anime-comics I know, but it's certainly a bit slicker than other comic-styles. Episode Guide ~Sebastian