I maintain the usual opinion that anime's cartoonness is its main weak point; I mean, think how cool it would be if someone actually pulled it off without animation? But I have to admit, Cowboy Bebop would gain nothing with live actors and setting. The city scapes were impressively beautiful, and the plot and characters' powers were realistic enough that I soon stopped caring/forgot it was animated. Anime such as Princess Mononoke doesn't impress me nearly as much; shooting an arrow and taking a guy's limb off is just ridiculously unrealistic and brings its cartoonness to full attention.
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I maintain the usual opinion that anime's cartoonness is its main weak point; I mean, think how cool it would be if someone actually pulled it off without animation? But I have to admit, Cowboy Bebop would gain nothing with live actors and setting. The city scapes were impressively beautiful, and the plot and characters' powers were realistic enough that I soon stopped caring/forgot it was animated. Anime such as Princess Mononoke doesn't impress me nearly as much; shooting an arrow and taking a guy's limb off is just ridiculously unrealistic and brings its cartoonness to full attention.