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Posted: 4/22/2009 7:41 PM
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Kuwaga
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The emotions are exaggerated for a comical effect. Exaggeration is applied in our culture too in comedy, it's nothing special really. You find the characters more sympatic that way, you see stuff where you think "Wow. Sometimes life is really like this.", you laugh because you feel superior to the characters (because normal human flaws are exaggerated). It's a working concept. There are also good mangas like Gantz or Deathnote where the eyes are drawn in more realistic ways. The Deathnote anime is really great, the anime version of Gantz sucks though btw. Coincidentally, both of these mangas/animes hardly try to be funny, but are more on the serious side. That doesn't mean big-eye animes can't deal with serious topics too though.
Posted: 4/22/2009 8:47 PM
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Kuwaga wrote:
The emotions are exaggerated for a comical effect. Exaggeration is applied in our culture too in comedy,
Agreed. It's not like it hasn't been used in live-action productions as well. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slapstick
Posted: 4/23/2009 1:44 PM
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If you can deal with subtitles, Lag, try watching the anime Monster. Deep storyline about a German doctor in Nazi Germany iirc, and not "anime" style at all... but it is still anime :P
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I very much agree with this post.
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Posted: 4/23/2009 2:59 PM
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Sticky wrote:
not "anime" style at all... but it is still anime :P
What is the defining point of anime? The internet doesn't agree with itself on the issue.
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Posted: 4/23/2009 4:31 PM
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Derakon
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I don't think you're going to get a definition that everyone agrees on, mainly because "anime" is basically Japanese for "cartoons" (I'm sure the translation isn't literal -- if nothing else, "cartoons" carries a "for kids" connotation that "anime" doesn't have -- but they're used in similar fashions). It's not like American cartoons have a defining point to them. There might be more stylistic variation in American cartoons than in Japanese ones, but then again they've also been around for about four more decades so they've had more time to proliferate. Anime itself has done plenty of evolving.
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Posted: 4/23/2009 5:12 PM
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LagDotCom
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Huh. Seems like anime needs to go on an object-recognition course.
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Posted: 4/23/2009 5:17 PM
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Xkeeper
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LagDotCom wrote:
Huh. Seems like anime needs to go on an object-recognition course.
personally I think somebody just needs to stop the hatorade re: "anime, but not" I believe that was
not really (in the exaggerated style anime uses), but still anime
in the sense that it's still anime/manga-styled art. i.e., it's the same thing, just more normalized instead of exaggerated.
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Posted: 4/23/2009 6:27 PM
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Fast fact: "Anime" is the imperative form of Spanish "animar", "to excite, to encourage". As in, "Encourage your kids to read over the summer!"
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Posted: 4/23/2009 6:55 PM
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Derakon
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Incidentally, a lot of cartoons, American and Japanese alike, are made in Korea these days. And Batman: The Animated Series was animated by a Chinese outfit, if I remember correctly. In any event, LagDotCom, you're perfectly within your rights to dislike a style (especially if you have specific reasons for disliking it), but that doesn't mean that the style is flawed or inferior to other styles.
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Posted: 4/24/2009 5:15 AM
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I don't know if I have ever laughed harder than the time Simpson's said "I hope you had as much fun watching this cartoon as the Koreans did animating it"
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Posted: 4/24/2009 8:27 AM
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LagDotCom
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Xkeeper wrote:
I find this argument, when coming from somebody who has an avatar that violates that exact statement
Wha? His arms are crossed, mouth in a sneer, AND eyebrows in angry fashion. I doubt they could have made that any more obvious except by making his head fume and boiling red.
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Posted: 4/24/2009 7:51 PM
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some gestures are just dumb.
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Drama, too long, didn't read, lol.
Posted: 5/2/2009 12:25 AM
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Posted: 5/4/2009 8:59 PM
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hmm... this is familiar...
"Genuine self-esteem, however, consists not of causeless feelings, but of certain knowledge about yourself. It rests on the conviction that you — by your choices, effort and actions — have made yourself into the kind of person able to deal with reality. It is the conviction — based on the evidence of your own volitional functioning — that you are fundamentally able to succeed in life and, therefore, are deserving of that success." - Onkar Ghate
Bisqwit wrote:
Drama, too long, didn't read, lol.
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