The Ghost of RubangB said:
Err... why not? I guess it depends on whether you think anime is a subgenre of animation or a strictly Japanese cultural phenomenon that nobody else can play with. There are tons of American mangas that are recognized as "mangas" instead of "comics," and that's based on the style not the country of origin.
@OT, I'm 2 episodes deep into Paranoia Agent, and just watched FLCL for the first time and then all of Evangelion for the millionth time. I'm mostly watching anime movies right now, but when I have time I got some Naruto to catch up on. Sounds like a great idea for this new Dragon Ball though. I watched the Frieza saga in high school, and I could have easily cut out 70% of it. Now after film school ruined my brain I could probably cut out 90% of it. |
That's true about manga.
I can't believe anyone can get through Evangelion multiple times. I was ready to kick Shinji in the nuts, strangle him, and drop him off a cliff by halfway through my first watching of that anime. I barely finished it, and only because of how many people had told me it was such an "important" anime and an "artistic triumph."
What I found was something made by a depressed psychopath and a show that was schizophrenic at best. It clearly had lost its budget halfway through the production, and ended with something the writer probably thought up while taking numerous very potent hallucinogens.
