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NY Times on Anime

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the art-at-just-short-of-24-fps dept.

An anonymous reader submitted a NY Times story (you know what that means: annoying free registration required) about anime as Japanese Film's 2nd Golden Age. It covers a lot of ground, as well as a lot of really amazing films including (obviously) Miyazaki's work, but also stuff like Ranma 1/2, Perfect Blue, Cowboy Bebop and Evangelion to pick a handful of my favorites. In short, it's a good piece with its share of criticisms and commentary, but it's cool to see a mainstream source talk up something that was so much subculture just a few years ago.

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  1. Re:Good job, Taco by ethereal · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And, he correctly used "it's" twice, and steered clear of the "their"/"they're" minefield. Again, an excellent job :)

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  2. Re:Stephen King, author, dead at 54 by Bocere · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Where did you hear this? There's nothing on the AP about it. Or Yahoo. Or Reuters. Verify rumours before passing them on.

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  3. Re:Anime Sucks by 90XDoubleSide · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Anime Sucks. Honestly it does. Bad art, terrible plots, all sorts of really twisted underage-girl-rape subthemes. Why do people watch this crap?.

    Yeah, man. They have all those shitty flat-shaded cells and the dialog doesn't make sense. Everyone knows the only one doing decent animation is Disney Animation Studios...

    Oh wait, it's not 1982 anymore ;) I find the role reversal rather interesting, actually.

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