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What makes an Anime good?
Neco:
I've only had a few make me go "wow", but more in the "I wish I lived in that world" sense, and not so much for any Message..
Gall Force: Eternal Story had a great impact on me for some reason, even though I was only around 12 years old when I saw it.. Maybe it was the whole creation story aspect, or just being attached to the characters. But it was a pretty decent story packed into 85 minutes, even to this day. The ending made me sniffle a little when I was laying in bed later that night, thinking "Why'd they (Rabby & Patty) have to die?"
I actually have rare comics for Eternal Story, that when I heard about from a friend, jumped at the chance to get them (he owed me), so he bought them off ebay. I've never really gone to those lengths for any other series, more out of dedicated to the series itself, than for a need to further any knowledge of the story or something like that. Although they don't really reveal anything (I haven't read them fully, I keep them sealed after a minor page tear incident). Just kind of recap the story in Comic form.
Ghost in The Shell, although I won't pretend to understand the whole message there, made me see technology and cybernetics in a completely different light.. I wouldn't mind having a full prosthetic body at all, now.
That's about it really, I guess. Not very often something comes along and impacts me though.. Not in the philisophical sense..
FLCL, Paranoi Agent, Evangelion - I just don't get it and have no desire to.
summertime:
If I had to summarize with one sentence only, I'd say it's an anime that makes you want to see more, cause such an anime can cover pretty much everything you look for in itself.
But, I must say I couldn't understand initially, why people in this thread started mentioning art. Up until now I always thought that there was no real difference in art, all characters had those big, disproportionate eyes and, you know, they all looked the same :D. The only way to differentiate between the characters (visually) was by their gender, eye color, hair color, clothing and hair style. Then I watched one episode of Monster and suddenly remembered thinking at it's beginning 'Wow, this anime deserves a good grade only for having such unique and realistic art'. So, yeah, here I am now, an enlightened man :). Still, what I appreciate most in an anime is the story and character development.
Neco:
The way characters are drawn is not "Art". You are confusing the STYLE of drawing with Art in that case. Anime & Manga are a style of Art that have common characteristics.
Art is a pretty broad term, otherwise, however. Art could mean the actual background Art, such as filler scenes, the background where the scene is taking place, the way the story is expressed and the mechanisms used to tell it, and convey the actual method.
Chef:
--- Quote from: summertime on March 28, 2010, 09:50:54 PM ---If I had to summarize with one sentence only, I'd say it's an anime that makes you want to see more, cause such an anime can cover pretty much everything you look for in itself.
But, I must say I couldn't understand initially, why people in this thread started mentioning art. Up until now I always thought that there was no real difference in art, all characters had those big, disproportionate eyes and, you know, they all looked the same :D. The only way to differentiate between the characters (visually) was by their gender, eye color, hair color, clothing and hair style. Then I watched one episode of Monster and suddenly remembered thinking at it's beginning 'Wow, this anime deserves a good grade only for having such unique and realistic art'. So, yeah, here I am now, an enlightened man :). Still, what I appreciate most in an anime is the story and character development.
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Characters in anime don't always have big eyes and what not. I also disagree with the poster above me who thinks anime is a style of art. I always thought anime was just short for animation and has become specific to Japan since the word cartoon is more popular outside Japan. Case and point, I would never call a cartoon made in America, no matter what its style, anime, and I doubt many other people would either.
In any case, when we talk about differences in art and style, I think we're talking more the difference between Kaiba, Kemonozume, Death Note, and I dunno, whatever in your mind typifies the most cliche kind of art style for anime. Even just the body shape of characters is vastly different between animes, and some people don't like it when it's not what they're used to and it's also not realistic. When someone talks about art they think is bad, I find they're usually talking about something like Kemonozume which basically makes the whole show look like a bunch of sketches (although I think it's quite good). Some people mistake that for laziness and that can ruin an anime for them.
forsaken:
Characters in anime don't always have big eyes and what not. I also disagree with the poster above me who thinks anime is a style of art. I always thought anime was just short for animation and has become specific to Japan since the word cartoon is more popular outside Japan.
+1
Case and point, I would never call a cartoon made in America, no matter what its style, anime, and I doubt many other people would either.
-1: I consider Avatar to be anime, but most hardcore weeaboos would probably fight me on that one ;) But generally you're correct in that western stuff is generally cartoons whereas eastern stuff is anime. The difference in my eyes is the artwork and artstyle as opose to just the geographic location where it was made.
Another distinction is content. Cartoons are merely directed at children, while anime targets all age-groups and handles a much wider spectrum of storyline, mature subjects and explicit content.
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