Arguably, Japan seems to have been able to maintain a sizeable market in serious (i.e. Granted, they were on a scale that doesn’t even come close to something like Pokemon, which has an episode count of well into the thousands at this point, but the quality was much the same.Īs for the actual types of shows? Personally, I seem to be able to enjoy something as sugary as Paniponi Dash just as easily as Akira. There were plenty of horrendous cartoons put out for years (decades?) before things got funkier in the 90s. Anyway, my opinion towards the medium is that it is certainly no better or worse than western stuff. Here’s a quote I couldn’t resist sharing:Ī decade after I worked on shows like the Transformers and being ashamed of it, young Spumco artists in the late 90s would come up to me in awe and recite whole storylines about how Gangamons beat up Rotundabeast with his triple tread whitewall tires while his half-human, half-koala girlfriend chewed eucalyptus paste in delight and bore him 17 new Astroboys and girls – all with spiky hair as a reward. he has a grand total of three blog posts on the subject. ![]() That’s why they make so much use of recurring backgrounds, limited animation (to the point of using only two or three positions for the mouth, and often having that the only moving thing on the screen) and action scenes that are as generic as you can get. I intend to post about the origins/differences in a later post anyway.Īnime in general suffers from budgets that would make most Western animators weep for days on end. I’m going to be lazy for right now and send you to Wikipedia, who is just as vague as you can get on the subject. Some consider it any animation to come from Japan, others consider it a more specific form of Japanese animation. Indeed there is much debate about just what is “anime” exactly. No one form of animation is perfect, despite what Pixar would have you believe. This happens in reverse as well I should point out. What I do know is that I was willing to cough up $50 for the boxset plus the End of Evangelion and I’ve never regretted it.įans of western animation sometimes tend to deride or sneer at anime. It may be the characters who continually collide and explode (or implode as the series progresses) or the overall story arc, I don’t know. It is by far my favourite for reasons I am still not absolutely sure about. I will freely admit that this is still the only anime show I have on DVD (unless you count one disc of FullMetal Alchemist episodes). It was only once I moved to the US the first time that I discovered (not entirely by accident I must admit) Neon Genesis Evangelion. No joke, there’s not a lot of otaku (fans of anime, among other things Japanese) in Ireland, or at least not back in the day when I was growing up. As for myself, I don’t love it to death but I don’t exactly hate it either.įor the longest time, my only exposure to the medium was Pokemon and the like. On the other hand, anime seems to have its fair share of fans and detractors alike. ![]() Unlike the Philly Cheesteak place in Mechanicsburg, PA, where there is no middle ground you either leave bursting at the seams or still wanting more, anime does have its casual fans. It’s one of those things, you either love it or you hate it, for the most part that is.
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