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snow_RAveN

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« on: April 25, 2004, 01:01:39 pm »
it all started with astro boy then lots of artists jump on to the band wagon
so now we are stuck with *shudders* Gundam (add strange series title here) and FF (that wasnt to bad infact it was good )  

so i just want to know why people like these big eyes small mouth stuff and not the 80 table top game stuff where people have actual proportioned faces !




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« Reply #1 on: April 25, 2004, 01:07:04 pm »
Ever seen Naruto? I think people like it because it just looks cool.. i have been thinking about this for a long time.. Actually, if you look at the faces and other proportions, they are just plain wrong.. but perhaps because of the slick and streched view, we like it ^^
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« Reply #2 on: April 25, 2004, 01:29:10 pm »
I think its a popular style for two reasons

the first and foremost being Fashon, in that currently its quite a large pop culture source

secondly, the style: Some of that is the classic \"big eyes\" composition, whilst this characteristic is not as all pervasive as most beleive, it is a somewhat integral part in what is recognised by the west as its most distiguishing feature, and when one considers that in all facial expression the eyes are what show 80-90% of the emotion, not surpising when you consider that young babies whilst still developing their sensory abilitys first visualy recognise their parents/carers by their eyes

and some of the style is in not only the visual direction but also in the writing style. What with most stories being culturaly influenced it stands to reason then that if a story  is written from a different cultural perspective it will have elements  both exiting and unseen in the foreign cultures it is introduced to .


or you know, it could just be me...
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« Reply #3 on: April 25, 2004, 02:03:26 pm »
NA iam suffering form the same delusions to i like jap anime but i also like the US Comics it seems that even forgien artists are doing manga
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« Reply #4 on: April 25, 2004, 05:04:13 pm »
The show \"SD Gundam\"  (where SD stands for \"Super-deformed\" ), is a mockery of all things Gundam.  Its creator should be placed in a room with a certain member of planeshift whose name starts with an \"A\" for all eternity.

The other gundam series on CN is \"Gundam SEED\", which I don\'t know much about.  I saw some last night and the main character (who is male) looks like a girl...  ?(

I personally also like the more serious animation styles as well.  I also enjoy the more serious and political plots.
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« Reply #5 on: April 25, 2004, 08:17:02 pm »
imu anime sux... the more it spreads, the more horrid it gets!
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« Reply #6 on: April 26, 2004, 08:45:42 am »
I would disagree.  I personally am not attracted to the anime style (although  I haven\'t spent much time looking) but I am certain that it has artistic merit- if not for the sheer volume, then because it obviously it has its origins as a highly stylized portrayal of characters and emotion.
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« Reply #7 on: April 26, 2004, 11:40:30 am »
Favorite series, not in any particular order:

Neon Genesis Evangelion
Escaflowne
Noir
Trigun
Hellsing
Cowboy Bebop
Witch Hunter Robin
Serial Experiments Lain
RahXephon
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Hated Series, again not in any particular order:

Dragon Ball Z
Gundum anything
Shmanic Princess
Haunted Junction
Ranma 1/2
Chobits
Ah! My Goddess


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« Reply #8 on: April 26, 2004, 11:57:43 am »
Please avoid use of the term \'Jap\' there are those who take offence.

The style of large eyes and more caucasion skin was favoured in early comics throughout japan, I have an art project on it ill see if i can find it.

Those who say they hate \'all anime\' or like \'all anime\' are usually bigots. It is effectively the same as saying \'I hate/like all cartoons\' from Japan. The styles are varied and diverse between them.
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« Reply #9 on: April 26, 2004, 12:03:39 pm »
whell i like anime 4 its intelectually stimulating storys
unlike US sitcoms that force the SAME RETARDED *beep* DOWN YR THROAT ALL DAY LONG(languaged edited here)
& plus, im the kinda guy that likes uniq things, including animation styles, & so far, i have not seen ANY animetion style quite like anime
(btw, did u know that the \"big eye\" style came from disney?)
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« Reply #10 on: April 26, 2004, 12:58:07 pm »
Osamu Tezuka used the detailed eyes before Disney in an attempt to portray emotion.
Disney influenced his later chibi style with the excessively large eyes.

Again not all anime have interlectually stimulating stories or even good animation styles. Each piece of work should be considered different.
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« Reply #11 on: April 27, 2004, 08:27:13 am »
true- the ONLY requirements neccisary 2 make it Anime is:
1: it be animated
2: it be from japan
though MOST anime (atleast most the anime ive seen) is quite intelegent
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« Reply #12 on: April 28, 2004, 12:42:07 pm »
I\'m not a huge anime fan and mostly because of the whole exaggerated expressions.  But there is a lot of good serious anime out there.   But as I said I don\'t care much for the big eyed, small mouth stuff.

My likes and dislikes are very much the same as Cyrandir\'s.  I made sure I watched every episode of WHR.  although I do like Trigun I think it would be a much better anime if it were more serious.

But Gundam and DBZ are definently on my hate list.
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« Reply #13 on: April 28, 2004, 04:48:23 pm »
Here\'s some information about Manga and Anime. Ignorant people may read it first before making false assumptions.

http://www.mit.edu/people/rei/Expl.html

I love the more epic and serious type of Manga. \"Princess Mononoke\" (by Hayao Miyazaki)  is one of my personal Anime favourites, not to mention his masterpiece \"Spirited away\" (the japanese uncut version). \"Cowboy bebop\" and \"Akira\" is good too.

I also love Manga-comics. Fantasy Realms is my personal favourite, and then there is \"Blade of the Immortal\", \"GTO\" and \"RPG world\" (the last one is a very funny Parody of Final Fantasy 7. It\'s free to read online, so if you havn\'t read it yet, I suggest you do :) )
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« Reply #14 on: April 28, 2004, 04:50:57 pm »
A lot of the anime that gets played on TV gets butchered anyway, at least here.  Generally dubbing is done poorly and a lot of stuff is cut out to make it for a younger audience.

Again, like most people mentioned, not all of the art style is the same, some is very cartoonish and \"basic\" drawing, where as some anime is highly detailed.

Since there is so many different types of anime out there, I have always been able to show people at least one anime that they like (even for those who think all anime sucks because all they have ever seen of anime is pokemon & DBZ *shudder*).

The thing that annoys me though is that now some north american companies are starting to use the same art style since anime is becoming mainstream and they will just butcher it further.
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