Wow! The symbolism man.
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- Vincent Zobel
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- I'm a 2005 graduate of SVA (School of Visual Arts). I love drawing and watching anime (especially rare, hard to find pieces). Please do not upload/use/steal my artwork without my permission.
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Heh. This is exactly the tack Ray took in the recent AD discussion of whether anime qualifies as art and should be analyzed as such. It's interesting to see so many with strong opinions on the matter, doubly so here because you are an artist.
Hmn, interesting little discussion there. It's true that yes, anime can be examined for it's artistic merit, but at the same time I feel that over analyzing a show may detract from it's enjoyment level. Sometime, a show that presents itself as being deep and meaningful but really isn't compared to one with a similar premise. I kinda like it if the people working on it are honest about what the show presents to do, even if it's mindless fanservice. This is why I like shows like Rosario+Vampire and Akikan over ones like
Clannad and Kanon. The first two kinda KNOW that the shows are meant to be silly whereas the Key game adapted ones think their melodrama actually means something (not that I hate those either, it's just I prefer the creators to be honest in what they make). All that those shows have in common it that
they're about getting the girl (or girls) to be around the main guy.
Well, enjoyment is an inherently subjective thing. Your enjoyment may derive from different things than mine, which may in turn be different for the next person, and so on.
I think the problem comes when we adopt the dogmatic, even religious attitude that "your appreciation of anime must be the same as mine." As you say, it's a varied field, and has its Evangelions and Kanons as well as its Akikans and Excel Sagas.
Exactly. Because anime itself really isn't a genre so much as a medium for telling various genres, different
shows are going to appeal for different people.
Nostalgia tend to be a big factor in what shows are important for a person too. A show, no matter how popular it was in Japan won't mean much to you if you didn't grow up with it or with the particular astetic. But, a show that you knew about as a child can be important to you even if you find out that it something considered obscure in Japan (like the late 80's super robot show Granzort for example).
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