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Is it odd for adults to watch animation?
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Out of interest, what does Japanese Anime have that the others do not ?
That's a good question, I think it's going to be different for everyone who answer it, but for me? It kinda comes down to storytelling. If we look at what people normally consider genres of animation it comes down to either something for children, or if it's for adults, it's comedy. There doesn't seem to be a whole lot more scope for animation in America to do things that aren't comedy. In Japanese animation there's so many more genres, action, sci-fi, horror, romance, comedy, the story isn't limited to a certain genre just because it's animated.
I'll give you a good example of this, I'm currently in the middle of watching a show called Planetes, which is a very fascinating science fiction story about people who's job is to collect space debris. This'll give you an idea of it:
Another thing I find is that anime TV shows often have much better endings that a lot of other TV shows, they'll actually have closure to their plotlines. So instead of having a show where the plot just seems to go on and go nowhere, a lot of anime shows have a plot that follows through the whole series and gets resolved in a satisfying manner. Cowboy Bebop or Samurai Champloo being great examples of this.0 -
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Lone Stone wrote: »I liked animation so much i became an animator.
That's what I wanted to be when I was younger, I wanted a job with MANGA Entertainment
but I cant draw for **** so that was the end of that dream 
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That's a good question, I think it's going to be different for everyone who answer it, but for me? It kinda comes down to storytelling. If we look at what people normally consider genres of animation it comes down to either something for children, or if it's for adults, it's comedy. There doesn't seem to be a whole lot more scope for animation in America to do things that aren't comedy. In Japanese animation there's so many more genres, action, sci-fi, horror, romance, comedy, the story isn't limited to a certain genre just because it's animated.
I'll give you a good example of this, I'm currently in the middle of watching a show called Planetes, which is a very fascinating science fiction story about people who's job is to collect space debris. This'll give you an idea of it:
Another thing I find is that anime TV shows often have much better endings that a lot of other TV shows, they'll actually have closure to their plotlines. So instead of having a show where the plot just seems to go on and go nowhere, a lot of anime shows have a plot that follows through the whole series and gets resolved in a satisfying manner. Cowboy Bebop or Samurai Champloo being great examples of this.
Thanks Links, would yourself or anyone else have any good recommendations for anime on Irish Netflix ?0 -
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Ah, that's a pity Seph.
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood is another show that has a great storyline and weaves a huge cast of characters and separate plotlines together across a huge series, bringing everything together for an amazing ending. That's what I mean when I say that often times anime shows can resolve their stories in a very satisfying way, a good show has a story to tell and it will tell that story and wrap things up.
And elaborating further on the storytelling aspect, I think there's some that could've only been told as anime. Madoka Magica for example couldn't have been done on any other medium, because it's a deconstruction of the tropes the in Mahou Shoujo genre, so wouldn't work otherwise. Visually it's astonishing too, but it's visuals are part of the reason it works. Incredible show. And an amazing score as well, haunting and powerful.
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Planetes is brilliant, I love that opening sequence. It does have a lot of something that annoys me about anime. Everyone, regardless of where they're from, follows Japanese customs especially business practices.0 -
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