Scarecrow wrote:I was also interested in animation and the japanese have some pretty creative ways of making keeping it artful on a cheap budget.
Since anime is a visual medium (basically a combination of a book and moving paintings if you will), they should both be good.
Ah, but you forget something. Anime also contains
sound! So the question is, would you watch an anime with good story, good art, and horrible music and voice acting? What if an anime had a story you enjoyed, art that amazed you, but the music sounded like it was done by a four year old on a Fisher-Price piano and they hired hobos off the street to voice the characters?
If it's not worth good art/style, then it's not worth my time.
Sorry, all I hear is, "Man, that woman is really wonderful, she's so sweet and caring, and the best guy a girl could ask for...but her nose is kind of big so she isn't worth dating."
Or how about, "Man, the things that Jesus guy says sound really intriguing, but he isn't wearing fancy clothes and his beard looks scruffy so I won't bother to listen further."
I don't have a vested interest in making you understand further. To be honest, if you only want to judge books by their covers and miss out on some really fantastic stuff, it's your loss, not mine. Though I think there's a saying about that...can't quite recall it though. But it has something to do with the real value of things not being in how they look. That sometimes the best things in life don't always look good. But if shallow physical attractiveness is all you care about, then all I can do is pity you. *shrug*
If it's such a good story, put some effort into making it actually look good.
There are so many things wrong and flat out ignorant about this statement that I won't even bother getting into them. Not saying you are ignorant, mind, just the statement.
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Bob wrote: The same idea behind white kids who like rap or soul or Jazz. As if liking something made by someone not your race makes you ashamed of your own race, or even STEALING it from another race, which I've heard too.
I don't think most people would say white kids who like rap or jazz are "that word." It's the white kids that try to act black, who wear FUBU clothing and the baggy pants and the huge gold chains, and talk like they're from the hood, G.
I like rap, but you don't see me acting like something I'm not. Similarly, I'll use Fish as an example, he really enjoys anime and manga. He's very into it, at least from what I see. He's enjoying something from another culture, but he isn't wearing kimonos and wooden sandals and eating ramen with chopsticks and saying "KAWAII" or "SOU DESU NE" and bowing to people. If he did, THEN he would be Wapanese.
There is a line between enjoying another culture and trying to BE another culture. Wapanese cross the line, anime fans don't.
