Just read about WB's thundercats roar.
‘ThunderCats Roar’ Series Set For Cartoon Network From Warner Bros Animation
It's pathetic, what the heck are they thinking. It's blasphemy!
At this rate they should just sell the franchise to a big Japanese Anime studio, I am sure they would want to do it properly. As the original was also animated by a lot of fame Japanese anime artists. Like mentioned in this article:
ThunderCats and the impact of Japanese animation on film
"The original show was done in Japan, and many people probably don’t know that," Spaulding told
MTV. "A lot of the artists went on to be in Studio Ghibli, and worked on [Hayao] Miyazaki’s first film. So
ThunderCats does have a footprint in Japanese animation."
Among the animators who worked on the
ThunderCats opening was Masayuki Yamaguchi, whose other credits reads like a tick-list of the best anime of the 80s and 90s. Highlights include the cult classics
Gunbusterand
Doomed Megalopolis, three
Evangelion movies, the
Fist Of The North Star TV series, odd-ball comedy
Project A-Koand the beautifully-made space drama
The Wings Of Honneamise.
Another animator on the intro was Tsuguyuki Kubo, who came up with ThunderCats' character designs and would later go on to become animation director on Naruto and Bleach.