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Bozobub:

--- Quote from: Engr.Alvin on February 08, 2014, 01:04:14 PM ---i just finished watching k-on and starting to watch Sket Dance then see this post and i don't understand him.
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Err, using moeblob anime as an example doesn't exactly help your point ^^' ...

Saras:
The Japanese do seem to have gotten the habit of fetishizing youth, and have major nostalgia goggles for their good ol' school days. Or at least the Japan represented in anime does.

Having said that, "School" in anime is just a short hand for setting up a world, it quite rarely has anything at all to do with anything actually school related. It isn't any different than old fairy tales starting by a campfire told by an old wise man, or a greek myth being retold by a soldier that came back from a war. It's just an entry point used to put some familiarity and connection between us and the story. It is NOT what the actual story is about.

Given that most anime is indeed produced for those that are still in school, it's not hard to see why it's put in a location where... they generally are. It's a pretty standard way to put some connection between the viewer and the world the story takes place in. Conversely, you can use this as an argument that anime has indeed "grown up" a bit, as the shows from the 80's and the like used common aspects of childish fantasy to connect the viewer to the story, robots, space, little glorified soldiers, battles between super powered heroes among friends in the primary school yard and the like. While the story itself can be made entertaining to an adult, without a doubt, the connection point itself, the entry point is designed for the 8-year-old mind.

So in a sense, the medium got out of kindergarten and entered it's awkward puberty stage. :D Give it a decade or two, and I wouldn't be surprised if it would shift into college.

Mimishiki19:
I can't buy that and neither can highschool kids.Because they are kids and have no money for Blu-Ray Volume 21 of panty shot school anime X.

Shohei-kun:
A lot of the more current slice of life anime aren't all that good. There is nothing wrong with using a school setting or having a school anime per se, but don't put all school anime into the same category. Consider when they were made first. The older shows can get away with it for obvious reasons. Blame the newer shows. They need to do something more innovative and they aren't doing that.

DmonHiro:

--- Quote from: bangbus on February 08, 2014, 12:24:24 AM ---
--- Quote from: DmonHiro on February 06, 2014, 07:05:17 PM ---I don't like sports anime

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what's wrong with you?

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I'm not American, I'm European. Most of us don't glorify sports like Americans do. If we don't play a particular sports, we usually don't care to watch it either. The exception to this seems to be soccer, where people like to identify with a certain team, and consider their victories as theirs as well. It's really sad.

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