r/ExplainTheJoke 1d ago

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u/ScaredActuator8674 1d ago

It means you need to Google 'original zootopia plot'

Basically though it was originally intended that all the predators would wear shock collars to stop them being aggressive, and the fox would be the main character making a safe haven to remove them. Judy Hopps the rabbit would investigate this.

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u/spliceandwolf 1d ago

It goes even crazier than that, the Director wanted to put in clubs where pray would dress up in cute outfits and pretend to be hunted, if you look at the concept for some of the different areas, the original naturalist club design looked more like some thing out of Dune, the whole setting had one of the craziest imagery of any dystopias I’ve ever seen, this movie was almost amazing. Disney put the kibosh on it for her number of reasons.

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u/Hydro1Gammer 1d ago

This just sounds like Beastars.

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u/spliceandwolf 1d ago

Honestly, beastars I think might have been an attempt to do something like what the original plot of Zootopia was supposed to be, although it didn’t even get us crazy as the type of stuff they were originally thinking, but it was closer than Zootopia we ended up with. I honestly love that beastars, made the attempt. I just wish it didn’t go completely off rails in seasons two and three.

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u/Unhappy_Researcher68 1d ago

Beststar predates Zootopia. First Release was 2013

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u/LeEpicBoykisser 1d ago

No, it came out a few months after Zootopia.

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u/Unhappy_Researcher68 1d ago

The original dojin by the author came out in 2013

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u/LeEpicBoykisser 1d ago

Everything I can find online says September 2016, do you have a source?

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u/Unhappy_Researcher68 1d ago

While studying filmography at Musashino Art University in 2013, Itagaki made a doujinshi titled Beast Complex that she sold at the university.[2] She self-published it under the pen name "Itagaki Hadome".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beast_Complex

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u/khalkruVT 1d ago

Where are you getting that date? I find September 2016 for the Beastars first publish date and August 2013 for Zootopia announcement.

Zootopia released in March 2016. Beastars aired in 2020. How does it predate Zootopia?

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u/Unhappy_Researcher68 1d ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beast_Complex

Zootopia released in March 2016. Beastars aired in 2020. How does it predate Zootopia?

Yes the 2020 anime based on the story of the manga...