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ADV Confirms Cable Anime Channel
Juanvaldes writes "ADV Films has confirmed reports that they are working to create a cable television channel dedicated to Anime. Currently they are releasing very few details about the channel itself. All that has been publicized at this time is that the channel will run 24 hours a day and will break its content into four categories, Action Zone, Sci-Fi, Comedy Incorrect, and Horror/Martial Arts." Hope I can get access to this one as soon as it comes out.
Use the SAP audio channel for the Japanese, use closed caption for the subtitles. Problem solved.
Some would argue that only animated films from Japan would be considered anime, other's would say that it's the style - the large, expressive eyes.
Is a VanGoh only one painted by the one-earned artist or anything with swirly lines?
Animé is animated shows/movies from japan; Akira doesn't have huge freakin eyes, its still animé, and the PowerPuff Girls have HUGE eyes, it ain't animé, its Hanna-Barbera.
I've talked to some who consider some shows to be anime - like branding The Matrix and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon to be "live-action" anime.
So, the animated Matrix shows would be animated-live-action-animé then?
To consider these movies to be animé is to be both ignorant and illogical. These show are much more related to hong-kong action movies than to japanese cartoons. Hell, one of 'em has 2 big hong kong stars, and they both have a legendary hong kong stunt/fight choreographer. And animé is there for the "animated" quality, not the "asian action" quality. japanese cartoons don't all have crazy action and insane violence, some are cute little romantic bits, wich don't make it big in the states for various reasons.
Personally, I define "anime" as being related to the style - again, the large, expressive eyes, usually made in Japan but not always, often (but not always) dealing with subjects suitable for the 12 and older group.
I strongly disagree.
Anime is one thing, your own weird personnal definition dillutes it into a vague something else.
As far as I can tell, "Animé" is a japanese word taken from the french "dessin animé", and it refers to all animated works. When migrated to the english language it refers to japanese animated cartoons. Wether they be violent or not, big eyed or not, and it definatly does not refer to non-animated works.
you can compare the Matrix to animés you know, but keep the apples and the oranges separate, please.
As for Transformers, its a bastard thing, but since it was mostly made by US people for the US market, I says it doesn't qualify.
Of course, when you have mixed international teams, it gets iffy, but you're better off recognising the mixed nature of these individual works than to change the meaning of the word "anime" to make it include 'em.
Just my $0.02. And yes, I agree - The Matrix is live-action anime with plenty of Judeo-Christianity imagry.
And the animatrix is animated-live-action-anime?
The matrix is a movie with PLENTY of influences, including animé, US superhero comics, hong-kong action flicks, french film-noir, italian westerns, Alice in wonderland, etc. Don't twist a word to make its definition fit an exceptionnal movie, you'll just sink into incoherance in no time.
You can't take the sky from me...
The single thing which makes anime better than other cartoon styles is their constant willingness to treat it's viewers like adults. There have been other examples of this, such as Heavy Metal and Heavy Metal 2000, but they are rare. The movies which treat their audiences like adults *and* are good generally get a following of fans. Cartoons tend to have a stigma for this very reason -- most people associate them with childrens shows. When a very mature and adult movie(or TV show) comes out, most people scoff at it as "those damn kids shows". :)
Second, Anime tends to be able to beter portray emotion, action, and other concepts than traditional animation. I've yet to see a more subtle, or more recognisable depicion of emotion than the simple "pulsating eyes" trick done in anime to show sadness. In regular animation, the laws of physics are generally followed, but in anime, they are usually willing to drop such laws if it makes the action seem faster, or if it helps a joke play out better.
Plotlines in Anime movies and TV shows, are for the most part, very in-depth. Most characters have a history beyond the story, or in the case of a show like Dragonball Z, you get to see the story progressing, and in the case of DBZ, you get to see the characters change and grow. It shows a depth to the writing that simply doesn't exist in Other cartoons, or indeed, other TV shows and movies in general.
In other words, the art form is just the receptical. If someone wrote a movie which had such literary elements it would likely be immensely popular(like, oh, I don't know... the anime-inspired The Matrix?)
It's been a long time.