Superman Animated Series

<div style="text-align: right;"><img src="http://i641.photobucket.com/albums/uu140/mrjag/superman_left.jpg" /><!--right--></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://i641.photobucket.com/albums/uu140/mrjag/gifanim.gif" /><!--center--></div> Airing ten years after the 1986 reboot of the Superman comic book character, the animated series paid tribute to both the classic Superman of old and the newer "modern" Superman. Perhaps most significantly, Clark Kent displays the more aggressive personality used by John Byrne in his reboot of the comic book continuity. Elements of Superman from all eras of his history were included in the series. Similar to Batman: The Animated Series, Superman TAS was noted for its thematic complexity, quality animation, maturity and modernization of its title character. <div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://i641.photobucket.com/albums/uu140/mrjag/superman_saves_zps279c4351.jpg" /><!--center--></div> Notably, the evil computer Brainiac was not only now from Krypton, but was portrayed as responsible for preventing the knowledge of Krypton's imminent destruction from reaching its people so as to save himself rather than be committed in the presumably futile task of saving the population of the planet. In a lesser innovation, the ship that carried the infant Kal-El to Earth was designed to have a pilot and the autopilot used instead was programmed to land smoothly upon reaching its destination. This means that ship is in perfect working condition during Superman's adulthood and is used as his mode of long range transportation in space. The "new" Lex Luthor featured prominently in the series as well, voiced by actor Clancy Brown. Superman was voiced by Tim Daly. The only villains not featured in the series are General Zod, Ursa and Non from the films Superman and Superman II. <div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://i641.photobucket.com/albums/uu140/mrjag/SupermanAnimated_sf_zps212a5c78.gif" /><!--center--></div> While the series featured fresh re-creations of much of Superman's rogues gallery, the series' writers supplemented the supply of enemies by paying tribute to Jack Kirby's Fourth World creations which also introduced the villain Darkseid to the series as one of Superman's greatest enemies. Darkseid had been portrayed as a villain in Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show and The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians in the 1980s, but in the new Superman series, he was closer to the enormously powerful, evil cosmic emperor originally envisioned by Kirby. The tribute event extends to the supporting character, Dan "Terrible" Turpin, who is visually modelled on Jack Kirby himself. <div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://i641.photobucket.com/albums/uu140/mrjag/dpsm.jpg" /><!--center--></div> The characters of Superman and Batman were then spun off into a new animated series, Justice League, which also featured other popular DC characters, such as Wonder Woman, Green Lantern and the Flash. On November 24, 2009, Warner Home Video released Superman the Complete Animated Series, a 7-disc boxed set that includes all 54 episodes of the series as well as extensive bonus features. Several Superman TAS episodes were directed by Japanese directors. And also for every episode, Japanese companies like TMS-Kyokuichi Corporation, Koko Enterprise Co. LTD were responsable for Animation Services. Also, storyboard, sketches and stuff had also great participation of Japanese. List for Superman Animated Series Japanese directors: Kazuhide Tomonaga Hiroyuki Aoyama Yuichiro Yano Kenji Hachizaki Toshihiko Masuda - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman_Animated_Series" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman_Animated_Series</a> <img src="http://i641.photobucket.com/albums/uu140/mrjag/supergirl_left.jpg" /> <div style="text-align: center;"><object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://youtube.com/v/4C06rNqK1vo&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/4C06rNqK1vo&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><!--center--></div> <img src="http://i641.photobucket.com/albums/uu140/mrjag/superman-1.gif" />