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The Significance of Anime
angkor writes "'More Animated than Life' - Fascinating article discussing the significance of animation to the Japanese and why it is not what Westerners expect."
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So what's the significance of tentacles, then?
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The guys maybe, but I got a couple of gigs of porn to show my disagreement.
My wife and I rented two adult anime videos some years ago. We watched 15 minutes on the first tape, before realizing how sick it was... what a heck, it might have been a bad anime... we watched 10 minutes of the second video, and it was even more weird and perverted than the first one. I guess we weren't enough pervs to get something out of it... 8P
And let's not forget the stirring romantic and philosophic exploration of the epic Legend of Overfiend series.
*wipes away a tear*
is a derivate of the amount of comments posted on a story titled "The Significance of Anime". Based on a recent empirical study, the significance of Anime is just a bit less than that of a "Indiglo Clock Case Mod".
I'll admit, I've seen my share of both.
Let's just hope they never combine civil war documentaries *with* porn.
*shudder*
It'd bring new meaning to the words, "We should flank to the left, and then take 'em from the rear!"
Emotional Content?
When I watch porn, I want to see acts of sex. If I wanted 'emotional content', I'd watch a soap opera.
Heh, yes, escaflowne has one of these characters.. The cat-girl, which I cannot remember the name of.
:)
Here's a little activity for owners of the series. Watch one of the first episodes, and count the amount of times the Cat-Girl says "Lord Van!". If 5 minutes have passed and you still have fingers and toes, you are not watching that early of an episode
OK, slashdot. WE GET IT. Anime is SO IMPORTANT that we all must stand up and take notice. We all must worship the silly cartoons where women are drawn like 12 year-olds with eye problems. We get it. Anime is SO important and SO beyond our conceptions that only you few nerds are capable of understanding. Right. We bow down before the might of Japanese animation. Only the elect nerds of slashdot "Get it". Verily they must bring the gospel of Japan to the world because god help us, the rest of the world JUST DOES NOT UNDERSTAND how IMPORTANT and AWESOME and SIGNIFICANT Japanese cartoons really REALLY are.
Sorry Rob, we haven't been paying Anime-fu enough attention. The world has not taken notice of your holy apostolic Anime web site. We have sinned, verily, and thy wrath is shown to all the world on Slashdot.org. You were right--maybe if you post JUST ONE MORE ARTICLE about how AWESOME and SIGNIFICANT anime is, and how we JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND, we'll all change our ways. We great unwashed JUST DON'T GET IT. North American culture == bad, neurotic Japanese culture == god. WE GET IT. Loud and clear, A-OK! North american animation is JUST NOT GOOD ENOUGH.
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"A live-action version of Princess Mononoke, for example, would be impossible to produce even if one could overcome budget constraints and the difficulty of its special effects. There are simply no young actors in Japan today who can wear the traditional clothing, duel with swords, or shoot arrows on horseback as convincingly as the animated characters in Miyazaki's film."
There obviously is an abundance of young American actors which can convincely duel with light sabers and crawl walls.
At least we'd know why they really called General McClellan "Little Mac".
"You're never ready, just less unprepared."
That you watched too much Smurfs as a child?
"what he meant was that to express within the Japanese cultural framework the same emotion expressed in English by 'I love you,' one must choose words like 'The moon is so blue tonight.'"
Does this mean that for Japanese to truly express the emotion behind, "You're so hot, I can't stand it!" they have to resort to phrases like, "My twin moons are so blue for you tonight."?