Kenryoku_Maxis said:
We get it, you don't like Anime. How about you take your own advice from your signature and stop trolling this thread about it. You aren't going to change anyones tastes. |
For me it isn't necessarily that I dislike Anime for its art style... its just that a lot of Anime is culturally influenced. The first time I starting digging into Manga I would see a normal looking teen character suddenly go on a rampage and alter in appearance so that the character looked like a characature of a screaming little kid, all head and mouth, etc. That sort of thing completely distracts from the story and suspension of disbelief for me, but Japanese consumers have typically appreciated it.
I remember asking a friend who's really into Manga/Anime about that particular approach, and he said "isn't it great? You really see the character's emotions." As someone who writes western fiction on the side, that flies completely in the face of the concept of allowing a viewer/reader to draw his/her own conclusions from hints and clues presented in body language and dialog. It seemed like a very immature and simplistic way of communicating something that should be done more subtly, but then I began to realize that it was more of a situation where there were Japanese cultural factors that made this specific technique appealing to that audience... as well as the fact that people in Japan had grown accustomed to it.
So... I don't care much for most Anime (or Manga for that matter), but I fully accept that someone in Japan likes Anime but might not enjoy reading an issue of Batman because it has a lot of American cultural aspects built in.
I really believe the answer is for Japanese companies to shift to techniques and stories that appeal to broader audiences... and I believe the Japanese are beginning to tire of Anime due to the simple fact that they have been saturated with it. Nothing lasts forever. Perhaps it's time for them to move on to other art forms, and the Japanese game producers might need to move along with them.
