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At least I hope I did!
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Girls in anime are better than girls in American animation
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OtakuMan22
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Evangelion Unit 01
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Sorry, when I wrote what I wrote it was about 1:00 in the morning and I was to tired to deal with the rest, but the thread intreasted me. One last thing I also began thinking today, probably due to this thread, and that is I am a little tired of the stereo typing of men and woman in both anime and American animation, and I also realize that creating your own show might be a lot of work. Of course I think of this now, but any what I am going to try and do is watch more animes where there really is not that much stereo typing or non at all, I would recommend these if you plan to do that sameOtakuMan22 wrote:Just a quicky reply here. I am would to state for the record that I am AGAINST censorship. I think your idea is good and actually puts into words what I had in mind.
Do read the rest of the stuff I wrote. I try to make my position as clear as possible.
At least I hope I did!
~Otaku-Man
Arc the Lad
Berserk
.Hack//Sign
Escaflowne
Gasaraki
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Samuri X
Most of these don't have, what I consider anyway, stereo types. There might be a little, but, mostly I feel that there is none.
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EmilLang1000
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I just noticed... earlier you talked about Winx Club... unless I'm mistaken, I believe that show is from Europe, not America (one dead give away is the horrible dubbing job, along with the craptacular voice-acting); I believe I heard it's from Russia. That said, I understand that, yes, it is shown in America, and it does make the girls seem, well, girly, but you see that it's not just American shows? Girls ARE girly, at least for the most part.
I think most girls in American shows are usually both feminine AND tomgirly in one way or another; let's face it, you'll never see a damsel-in-distress girl in western animation that COULDN'T knock the main character around the block in one way or another, and are by no means complete push-overs.
That isn't the case in Anime; many girls are often protrayed as being weak, and are actually push-overs when worse comes to worse, though some do have a strong enough willpower and can lay it down when absolutely necessary.
At least in American animation (I just watched Danny Phantom this morning, and saw this exact scenario), the girls every so often, or several times, have to save teh hero with SUPERPOWERS.
And something just came to me, going back to comic books. There's one character that comes to mind that's probably the single strongest-willed feminine character in ALL of comic books, who doesn't take anything from ANYBODY, and she doesn't even have superpowers:
LOIS LANE!
Good God, think of how many times SHE'S told Superman off; most people are too scared of him to even talk back, and she gets right up in his face from time to time (both before and after she knew that Clark was Superman). Not only that, how many times has she been captured by some badguy or another and cried? NONE! She backtalks them and insults them like a madwoman, even though she's facing certain death.
If that's not a strong female character, I don't know what is.
I think most girls in American shows are usually both feminine AND tomgirly in one way or another; let's face it, you'll never see a damsel-in-distress girl in western animation that COULDN'T knock the main character around the block in one way or another, and are by no means complete push-overs.
That isn't the case in Anime; many girls are often protrayed as being weak, and are actually push-overs when worse comes to worse, though some do have a strong enough willpower and can lay it down when absolutely necessary.
At least in American animation (I just watched Danny Phantom this morning, and saw this exact scenario), the girls every so often, or several times, have to save teh hero with SUPERPOWERS.
And something just came to me, going back to comic books. There's one character that comes to mind that's probably the single strongest-willed feminine character in ALL of comic books, who doesn't take anything from ANYBODY, and she doesn't even have superpowers:
LOIS LANE!
Good God, think of how many times SHE'S told Superman off; most people are too scared of him to even talk back, and she gets right up in his face from time to time (both before and after she knew that Clark was Superman). Not only that, how many times has she been captured by some badguy or another and cried? NONE! She backtalks them and insults them like a madwoman, even though she's facing certain death.
If that's not a strong female character, I don't know what is.
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Knowname
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think 'stereotype' and drop it man, seriously. The fact that Blacks in anime are never true to life in any way is not news and neither is this, I don't see the point.
Oh, um... X-men and many other 'juvinile' superheros... I'm sure you'll find some. Anime has more (well... possibly... older anime women are usually the complacent old maid type... BUT IT'S TYPICAL ANYWAY!).
Oh, um... X-men and many other 'juvinile' superheros... I'm sure you'll find some. Anime has more (well... possibly... older anime women are usually the complacent old maid type... BUT IT'S TYPICAL ANYWAY!).