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Posted April 28, 2013
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HiPhish: Those giant eyes make them look like anything but Asian.
Those eyes are from Disney. Anime from the 60's/70's have a completely different style where people were more lifelike. Then Disney grew in popularity, and the likes of Osamu Tezuka adopted the style.

Of course this sort of copying goes the other way too. Many Japanese consider that Walt Disney's The Lion King was heavily based on Osamu Tezuka's Kimba The White Lion...
Posted April 28, 2013
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HiPhish: Those giant eyes make them look like anything but Asian.
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bansama: Those eyes are from Disney. Anime from the 60's/70's have a completely different style where people were more lifelike. Then Disney grew in popularity, and the likes of Osamu Tezuka adopted the style.

Of course this sort of copying goes the other way too. Many Japanese consider that Walt Disney's The Lion King was heavily based on Osamu Tezuka's Kimba The White Lion...
Except, I was always under the impression that The Lion King, was based off of Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Posted April 28, 2013
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mrmarioanonym: I hate hate hate anime with a passion. All girls look like little school girls with giant boobs. That is just disturbing.
Actually there are very distinct "cookie cutter" character molds for anime; especially so for "harem" anime. That being, one or more female character with larger breasts, several with average sized breasts, and at least one who is flat-chested. As for thinking most look like school girls; not surprising. A very large number of anime (again, especially "harem" anime) focuses on high school aged characters. This in turn will likely be because many Japanese consider high school to be one of the better times of their lives - before they have to join the soul-draining work force.

And as others have said, there is plenty of anime out there that doesn't use these "cookie cutter" characters. Perhaps you should try expanding limited exposure to anime so you get the chance to encounter these other types....
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Theta_Sigma: Except, I was always under the impression that The Lion King, was based off of Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Who knows for sure; but the story, characters, and setting are very very close to the original Kimba.
Post edited April 28, 2013 by bansama
Posted April 28, 2013
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mrmarioanonym: I hate hate hate anime with a passion. All girls look like little school girls with giant boobs. That is just disturbing.
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bansama: Actually there are very distinct "cookie cutter" character molds for anime; especially so for "harem" anime. That being, one or more female character with larger breasts, several with average sized breasts, and at least one who is flat-chested. As for thinking most look like school girls; not surprising. A very large number of anime (again, especially "harem" anime) focuses on high school aged characters. This in turn will likely be because many Japanese consider high school to be one of the better times of their lives - before they have to join the soul-draining work force.

And as others have said, there is plenty of anime out there that doesn't use these "cookie cutter" characters. Perhaps you should try expanding limited exposure to anime so you get the chance to encounter these other types....
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Theta_Sigma: Except, I was always under the impression that The Lion King, was based off of Shakespeare's Hamlet.
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bansama: Who knows for sure; but the story, characters, and setting are very very close to the original Kimba.
Oh I'm not saying you're wrong, I mean I could very well be mistaken. That was just the impression I was given, but then again it would make sense they took inspiration from another culture as well. Hell I mean, Dragonball, (obviously) Saiyuki, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, and more, were based off of Saiyuki/Journey to the West.
Posted April 28, 2013
The "good-shit" ratio is skewed quite a bit, so finding a show I like can be difficult. Right now I have on my shelf:
Fullmetal Alchemist
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
Mushi-shi
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
Baccano!
Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt
Gankutsuo: The Count of Monte Cristo
Desert Punk
Trigun
Afro Samurai
Samurai Champloo
Cowboy Bebop
Eden of the East
BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad
Posted April 28, 2013
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Theta_Sigma: Oh I'm not saying you're wrong, I mean I could very well be mistaken. That was just the impression I was given, but then again it would make sense they took inspiration from another culture as well. Hell I mean, Dragonball, (obviously) Saiyuki, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, and more, were based off of Saiyuki/Journey to the West.
You're right. They might have taken some cues from Kimba, but The Lion King is straight up Hamlet with animals, right down to Timon and Pumba being their Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

Now, The Lion King 2 is Romeo and Juliet with animals but, needless to say, it wasn't as good.

OT: Anime is just an animation style, so it's just as varied as anything else, from giant robots to pre-pubescent magical girls, there's something for everyone.

As for me, I cannot stand Shonen. I prefer Seinen, and a few Shojo every once in a while, like Chobits. My favorite one was Time of Eve, but I'm not sure which of these categories does it fall into.
Posted April 28, 2013
Personally? I can't stand 99% of it. In fact, the only Anime that I like is the stuff that showed up on Cartoon Network when I was younger.

Cowboy Bebop
Samurai Champloo
Fullmetal Alchemist
Trigun
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Outlaw Star (This may not have been on cartoon network, I can't remember now.)
Ghost in the Shell (The movies and the series.)

However, Neon Genesis Evangelion is really what killed Anime for me. I watched it, and at the end I felt like when I watched the movie Inception. The entire sordid series is really just some nonsensical look at a child's psyche, in the same way that Inception is just about accepting what you have. Every Anime I have tried to watch since then has just been too weird or nonsensical. I'm too afraid of encountering another Evangelion with its utterly putrid endings. (Yea, both sucked. I don't care what the fans say.)

Anime really is one of those things that just doesn't interest me. Its more like, I ran into a few shows that are classified as Anime and they happened to be really good. As a whole, I avoid it.
Posted April 28, 2013
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OneoftheLost: Personally? I can't stand 99% of it. In fact, the only Anime that I like is the stuff that showed up on Cartoon Network when I was younger.

Cowboy Bebop
Samurai Champloo
Fullmetal Alchemist
Trigun
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Outlaw Star (This may not have been on cartoon network, I can't remember now.)
Ghost in the Shell (The movies and the series.)

However, Neon Genesis Evangelion is really what killed Anime for me. I watched it, and at the end I felt like when I watched the movie Inception. The entire sordid series is really just some nonsensical look at a child's psyche, in the same way that Inception is just about accepting what you have. Every Anime I have tried to watch since then has just been too weird or nonsensical. I'm too afraid of encountering another Evangelion with its utterly putrid endings. (Yea, both sucked. I don't care what the fans say.)

Anime really is one of those things that just doesn't interest me. Its more like, I ran into a few shows that are classified as Anime and they happened to be really good. As a whole, I avoid it.
You have not watched the Rebuild movies?
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sauvignon1: The "good-shit" ratio is skewed quite a bit, so finding a show I like can be difficult. Right now I have on my shelf:
Fullmetal Alchemist
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
Mushi-shi
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
Baccano!
Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt
Gankutsuo: The Count of Monte Cristo
Desert Punk
Trigun
Afro Samurai
Samurai Champloo
Cowboy Bebop
Eden of the East
BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad
Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood is better in everyway, and a much better ending to the series, I watch every single episode and I was on the edge of my seat wondering whats gonna happen next. Have not felt that way since DBZ.
Post edited April 28, 2013 by Elmofongo
Posted April 28, 2013
Well, I like some anime. I don't watch any of the new anime though. I have box sets of Trigun, Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo that I watch every so often. I'd like to buy Berserk, Hellsing, Outlaw Star and Fullmetal Alchemist sometime in the future. I read the One Piece manga though. Tried to watch the newer streaming episodes during the Marineford arc at the library but they spent too much time on what happened the week before. I hate how 4kids ruined pretty much any chance it had on Cartoon Network.
Posted April 28, 2013
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CowboyBebop: Well, I like some anime. I don't watch any of the new anime though. I have box sets of Trigun, Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo that I watch every so often. I'd like to buy Berserk, Hellsing, Outlaw Star and Fullmetal Alchemist sometime in the future. I read the One Piece manga though. Tried to watch the newer streaming episodes during the Marineford arc at the library but they spent too much time on what happened the week before. I hate how 4kids ruined pretty much any chance it had on Cartoon Network.
I really recommend the Berserk films, they are really well done and are going to go further into the manga than the series did. Hellsing Ultimate is worth getting, I highly enjoyed how much closer it was to the manga, and the rather lovely story even with the few changes made. If you get FMA, just get Brotherhood, honestly it's a lot better (as previously said by Elmofongo. I was so happy when 4kids lost their license to distribute (and utterly neuter) One Piece, I need to get the series on DVD/Blu-Ray later (Funimation version), I always did enjoy the manga, and I am glad Funimation got to fix the utter bastardization that 4kids did to the series.
Posted April 28, 2013
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CowboyBebop: Well, I like some anime. I don't watch any of the new anime though. I have box sets of Trigun, Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo that I watch every so often. I'd like to buy Berserk, Hellsing, Outlaw Star and Fullmetal Alchemist sometime in the future. I read the One Piece manga though. Tried to watch the newer streaming episodes during the Marineford arc at the library but they spent too much time on what happened the week before. I hate how 4kids ruined pretty much any chance it had on Cartoon Network.
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Theta_Sigma: I really recommend the Berserk films, they are really well done and are going to go further into the manga than the series did. Hellsing Ultimate is worth getting, I highly enjoyed how much closer it was to the manga, and the rather lovely story even with the few changes made. If you get FMA, just get Brotherhood, honestly it's a lot better (as previously said by Elmofongo. I was so happy when 4kids lost their license to distribute (and utterly neuter) One Piece, I need to get the series on DVD/Blu-Ray later (Funimation version), I always did enjoy the manga, and I am glad Funimation got to fix the utter bastardization that 4kids did to the series.
Is it bad if I post a dedicated one piece website that has all the episodes in counting with english subs to you?
Posted April 28, 2013
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Ric1987: I like anime(not in general though, some of it good and others are terrible like anything else).

Anyone who thinks they hate anime in general should try watching something like Monster. Not all of it has lolis, giant robots, and spiky hair.
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Crosmando: Reading the manga is the only way to experience Hellsing. The OVA's (Hellsing Ultimate) have some cool fight scenes, but yes as a whole they are very boring, you can tell basically they have to make each OVA 40 minutes long, adapt a part of the manga, and on a limited budget, so what you get is these really long "speeches" as I call them by the characters, it's so obvious they do it to string out the episodes as long as possible.
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Ric1987: I can't agree here, if someone hates Hellsing Ultimate they will not enjoy the manga. It's a pretty faithful adaptation.
It IS a faithful adaptation, I'm not saying it isn't, in fact some of HU's scenes look like they just got pages from the manga and colored them in. My problem with HU isn't that it isn't faithful to the manga, but that they stretch it out horribly to fill in the 40 minute OVA time (overly long character speeches). But to be fair, there's very, very few anime that don't do this.
Posted April 28, 2013
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Theta_Sigma: I really recommend the Berserk films, they are really well done and are going to go further into the manga than the series did. Hellsing Ultimate is worth getting, I highly enjoyed how much closer it was to the manga, and the rather lovely story even with the few changes made. If you get FMA, just get Brotherhood, honestly it's a lot better (as previously said by Elmofongo. I was so happy when 4kids lost their license to distribute (and utterly neuter) One Piece, I need to get the series on DVD/Blu-Ray later (Funimation version), I always did enjoy the manga, and I am glad Funimation got to fix the utter bastardization that 4kids did to the series.
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Elmofongo: Is it bad if I post a dedicated one piece website that has all the episodes in counting with english subs to you?
Does not bother me in the slightest. "Have at you!" Woo, pirate AND Castlevania reference in one quote.
Posted April 28, 2013
I like anime. Not every anime or styles, but I like it. There are some things that are much forced to accept.

Anime that I really like:
Serial Experiments Lain
Haibane Renmei
Texhnolyze
Legend of the Galactic Heroes
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
Death Note
Hajime no Ippo

There are other, maybe some even better, those are the ones I can think of right now.
I haven't watched any new anime, I don't know if there's anything good. The most recent was Steins;Gate (2011) - it was good.
Posted April 28, 2013
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Elmofongo: You have not watched the Rebuild movies?
Nope. Never heard of them until now. I... mean.. wha... Ok. How many times are we going to change the ending? Ugh. I'm going to avoid them for my sanity. :P
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