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Must-See Films at L.A. Anime Festival
May Kasahara writes "The first annual Los Angeles Anime Festival is being held May 2-15. Among other films screening at the festival are Studio Ghibli's The Cat Returns (making its US debut), Memories, and all nine episodes of The Animatrix. However, the film I really want to see is the trippy-looking Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat In Space. More information, including a full schedule of events, is available here."
Animatrix at 9:15 pm. Running time 90 minutes. Walk a block from the Egyptian to Grauman's Chinese Theater and catch up with your buddy who's been waiting in line for you.
Plenty of time.
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That's your loss. Anime is a style not a target audience. Boycotting all movies presented in a particular style is incredibly stupid. Learn to distinguish the quality from the drek and you'll find entertainment everywhere, even in anime.
While I admit that there's a certain truth to that, there's also a truth to the fact that it IS just a style, and therefore the people who love anime because it's anime, and not necessarily because of the content are equally as wrong.
Personally, I like a lot of anime. I find that they often have decent stories, it helps me refine my rather poor Japanese skills (Even though I've been 'studying' it for three years. ugh.), and I find the art pretty decent. However, I realize that there are a great number out there that suck.
There are some people who can't stand the art, and therefore reject it as a medium. There are some people who refuse to give it a chance due to some series being bad. To both of them, that's their loss. But to love everything just because it IS in a certain style is also rather stupid, and I feel sorry for them too.
Note, I'm not criticizing you for this, you didn't say you were like that. I'm just making a somewhat relevant comment on a pet-pieve of mine. All the while simultaneously mispelling the word pieve, I'm sure.
It's a needs basis. Maybe The Matrix has it's own category on the premise that they understand many people want to filter out all articles dealing with it. A lot of news and information about The Matrix means that a lot of people who could care less may get upset. It just gives them a way to 'skip' the news. Dealing with the rest of your comment, Anime, by and large, is considered fairly geeky. Even if only ten percent of Slashdotters are 'into' anime, that's a large enough demograph to target.
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Yes, a great number of titles are targeted at "kids", which is people in college and younger. Other people (supposedly) do not have the time to watch anime.
But the age span of 'kids' is quite different. it goes up to about age 25, where cartoons in america plateau at about what, 9 years old?
But again, damnit.. anime is just a medium. There's nothing REQUIRING anime to be aimed mostly at college age students and younger, but the older working people here[in japan] often don't have much time to get in to a story like that, and the non-working people just seem to watch gameshows. Though my only experience is one family, from what I've read and observed, it seems to be true for a great majority.. *shrug*
Oh yeah, and kazaa was pretty helpful....
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I think the categories might be there since there are frequently stories in them. The matrix gets probably as much stories as half of all other movies combined here on slashdot, especially with the sequels and animatrix episodes. Therefore, people who hate the matrix and don't want to hear about it can filter it's topic.
Same with anime. I think having more fine-grained topics is GOOD. I agree with Apple as a topic. PC users who don't care/hate apple might just block it. Breaking apple down in to smallter categories might be a bit much. People who like apple hardware probably would be interested in apple software as well (since they do often go hand-in-hand there). Then there's the hardware buffs, etc.
I dunno, I'm all for smaller topics, not larger ones, but making them TOO small seems rather annoying/odd. (How many people have interests only in network cards, but not in Video cards, sound cards, or all computer hardware/technology? Breaking 'Hardware' down would be somewhat odd. Also, how often are there stories devoted to network cards to make it worth it?)
The matrix and anime are posted in to a decent amount, and they're there so you can filter them out if you want.
Everyone has his or her own interest. Over-generalizations are just simply pathetic. Anime is a hobby, something of interest to certain people, just like basketball, horror flicks, rock bands, what have you. In fact, quite similar to your self-insecure, need to over-criticize to show off your hollow shell, bashing.
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It also depends on what cartoons are being compared. I've seen Evangelion, Gundam, Outlaw Star, Vampire Hunter D, and Cowboy Bebop as far as anime goes (oh yeah DBZ). American cartoons to compare with these include....Transformers, Batman, X-Men...that's all i can think of now in the genre of action, fighting and robots. Comparing what anime brings and American cartoons leave out, American cartoons are definitely watered down, at least in the genre of robots and fighting. The question of why American cartoons are watered down is most likely because of the censors in the US. I guess they get away with more stuff in Japan.
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If you want to see what good writing can do for anime, I suggest you get the upcoming first season of Bishoujo Senshi Sailormoon on UNCUT subtitled-English DVD that ADV Films will release this July on a two-box DVD set.
Don't laugh folks: the original version shown in Japan is in many ways a VASTLY different show than the DiC English-language "adaptation" that was originally shown in 1995. The original version is a much darker series, with much more serious storylines and the end of the first season caused some controversy in Japan in the way it ended. I especially recommend watching the first seven episodes, which has some of the best-written stories outside of the Sailor Moon S (third) season.
Sorry, Gundam came before Macross (which is what was used to create Robotech). The father of giant robot anime is probably Tetsujin 28-go (Gigantor was the english version) from early 60s, though Astroboy from early 50s could also be considered the father of all robot anime, he wasn't a giant robot though.
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