Why do YOU, watch anime?

Tom the Fish · Post by **Tom the Fish** » Fri Nov 01, 2002 3:13 pm

Tsuji Mania wrote: Personally Seven Samurai is so cliche.

Cliche? What pre-1954 movies did it borrow from?

Tom

Alfirin Sereg Anuir · Post by **Alfirin Sereg Anuir** » Fri Nov 01, 2002 7:56 pm

Their are diffrent kinds of story lines that you don't see in english shows. Also they can do more things that can't be done in real life stuff

R-A-N-M-A · Post by **R-A-N-M-A** » Fri Nov 01, 2002 8:14 pm

I watch anime to live or live to watch anime, one or the other. But The first one I think is a better discription because anime is so fun yet impossible and I just love the drawings story lines and characters. Life would suck without anime.

Raistlin Mage · Post by **Raistlin Mage** » Fri Nov 01, 2002 8:45 pm

I watch Anime because it's style of animation is on a whole other level than normal cartoon animation. Anime also explores all different types of genres not availble in American animation. But most of all, Anime just plain ROCKS!!!

stormybaka · Post by **stormybaka** » Fri Nov 01, 2002 8:53 pm

It's entertaining it's fun; what other reason do you need...

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ie. do you want from a particular anime or theme, jpg or gif...etc...etc...

stormybaka · Post by **stormybaka** » Fri Nov 01, 2002 9:10 pm

These are the currents ritsuko akagi avs to date

Tsuji Mania · Post by **Tsuji Mania** » Sat Nov 02, 2002 1:16 am

Cliche? What pre-1954 movies did it borrow from?

You must not have read what I wrote. I said I recognize its originality, but everyone and their mother has seen the film. It's not even that great of a movie. It has some interesting character development but that's about it. I could never sit down and actually enjoy that film, I can only appreciate how it began a change in cinema in Japan, and eventually in America.

Six_Bullets_Shy · Post by **Six_Bullets_Shy** » Sat Nov 02, 2002 1:33 am

anime for me is a way to get away from myself. like reading a book I just let myself get lost in the story. everyone's life nowadays is so twisted with reality that it is a reliefe....no, release... to forget yourself and become absorbed into another world. Everytime I watch an anime I hate myself more for not existing in a different univers, or time. Anime to me is the 'could-haves, would-haves, or might-be' of man. I love anime, though it tortures me to watch in knowing that I will never be in a world the same as it.

The_Mad_Hatter · Post by **The_Mad_Hatter** » Sat Nov 02, 2002 4:17 am

Anime tends to have very original and creative ideas along with VERY well rounded characters, intricate plots, and best of all EMOTION! American cartooning offers very little, if any emotional interaction between characters. Even in better done American cartoons like Batman there is a serious lack of character development and emotional interactions and growth.

The only thing that I don't like about anime is that sometimes they tend to over emote, where as more subtlety would be better suited at certain points.

What I've always thought of as interesting, and I might be wrong on this, as I'm not that familiar with children's anime or if it's the norm to let preteen kids in Japan to watch some of the more R rated anime's, but generally speaking (from what I've seen) their cartoons tend to be more violent on the whole, certainly a LOT more emotional and yet, well, when was the last time you heard of a school shooting in Japan?

My point is that I wonder if depriving children of emotional content and story development in cartoons (which is the current mainstream source of children's entertainment) leads to such violent behavior. They lash out simply because they don't know how to express their emotions. And it was different back in say the 50's and 60's because books, and more importantly comic books were the mainstream source of children's entertainment. I dunno, maybe I'm completely full of shit, still, might be fun to get a government grant and do a study on it sometime. ^_^

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Six_Bullets_Shy · Post by **Six_Bullets_Shy** » Sat Nov 02, 2002 11:56 am

Heck ya... That makes alot of sense. It never struck me like that.. But one thing about Japan is the high suicide rate.... But that may be because of how they are with schooling as I understand. they are like really strict on it or something like that. I can't ever find a place to give me a good explanation. I do think that the U.S. would be better off if we had things like that. Anyone remember watching Voltron or Robotech when they was kids..I do. I don't remember mcuh but I do know that they weren't like all the other cartoons.

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