NY Times on Anime

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday January 20, 2002 @04:16AM 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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Re:Anime Sucks by 90XDoubleSide · 2002-01-20 07:35 · 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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