Oh yes what is it with some people that for some reason the mere mention of anime around them sends them into a foaming mouthed rage and the same peeves you listed above. I just shrug and think “wow… retard” because although your arguments are great and all – those mouthbreathing wankers are never going to listen to anything coherent and logical.

Anyway, yeh – I’ll watch whatever cartoons I please thanks – what are they the entertainment police?

Ugh bad typo on my post: I’ve heard people say* not I never hear people saying -_-

Yes! This!
I’m also rather annoyed when people think that “anime” is a genre of its own rather than a medium and that therefore that if they don’t like one anime, they won’t like any. It’s the same with manga or Western comics.
Someone mentioned dubs above: the main thing about dubs that really annoys me is when they give English characters American accents. L and the other Wammy House boys from Death Note spring to mind. They’re from WINCHESTER, damnit! D:
Oh, and censoring anime because “it’s all for kids”. 4Kids took all the fun out of Yu-Gi-Oh!. Curse you, 4Kiiiiids!

This was entertaining. I pretty much have the same problem with most people I know… that and they always assume they won’t like any just because they feel that all of them are exactly the same – kinda like what other people have said. One time in art class we had to do a poster for homework and we only had one evening to do it, so I drew it anime style and it turned out pretty good (don’t have it any more unfortunatelly) although I did have my sister’s help for certain bits I couldn’t seem to get right (we were aloud help). Anyways, so it got the point I was trying to make across etc. but because the teacher was unfamiliar with the style at the time she didn’t know what to say about it… that and we had to come up with original characters that weren’t copyrighted; my character was completely original anyway so it shouldn’t have been a problem -that reminds me… the poster was for a competition- so some wise guy idiot decides to stick his big ugly mug into the conversation and be all like ‘isn’t anime copyrighted?’ this ended up turning into a whole debate between me and the rest of the class who were adamant that the (already mentioned before) medium was copyrighted… of course the idiotic teacher agreed and decided that I couldn’t use that poster in the competition. This was foolish though, it’s not like I was using someone else’s character or anything and they all knew that considering they were all familiar with mainstream pokemon and I guess yu-gi-oh and the like. It’s almost like the whole place was missing the point… how would there be more than one anime by different companies etc if the style had been copyrighted as soon as it had come into play? Ironically i took art for GCSE and got an A.
Why are some people so stupid.
Llrael, don’t worry too much about accents. The thing is most dubs are done in America etc so sometimes it would be hard for them to find people with the right specific accents; that and if the American actor tried to do the accent, it would probably sound even more annoying. However, if the voice is annoying in general and such then I agree.

If you want to beef up #5 some more, throw in Kaiba, Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, anything by Studio 4c, Casshern Sins, Denno COIL and Mitchiko and Hatchin. Because, damn. So much variance there.

(Also, as a native brit… Hellsing’s dub is preeeetty painful. XD)

This is intelligent, but still poignant with the bitter after-taste of a rant. Bravo, this is well written.

Thanks for stickin’ it to ‘em!

By the way, I left a comment on your Elfen Lied article.

I do love several of the series that your screenshots for ‘all anime isn’t the same’ image. Shinchan and Eureka 7 rock.

I love the pikachu picture… XD

why characters have 4 fingers?
it´s very easy
that was done because one got bored of drawing all five fingers and after that, it became a part of the style
*got told in a documentary about cartoon/comic artists*

And I thought it was normal with 8 heads. Not 7

And damn… Dubbed anime is terrible…
BUT Trigun on english is very~ recommended!
The only anime that fits the American dialect as the story is supposed to be in a western-ish planet
Some voiceactors are very skilled, but sometimes… their talents gets wasted by making them voice the wrong personality or the reaction and volume in the voices are totally different like in Anime which the characters are pretty much standing still while in American cartoons, their arms and entire bodies are in constant motions

And Have someone seen animation from Europe?
there is some animations like Lucky Luke, Tin Tin and Sprint that is very entertaining both in art style and script
I recommend to watch at those styles as well, since I feel talking about western and Eastern styles involves only Japan and America ^^;;

This was a very nice article.
Nice comparisons.
And I really liked how you didn´t take anys side.
I enjoyed reading it

@ Sai

okey I´m sorry I went off-topic from your sentence.
you got a great point there.

ah, I´ve just been used to the 8 system, but of course there could be other
thanks for learning me a new thing.

I have never seen pleague dogs.
I better do

Thanks for your respond.

@KittenKiss

Obvious troll is obvious.

@Me “once you’re past the claws of popularity and discover there’s a million movies, books and graphic novels with much better storylines than any anime ever written, it suddenly doesn’t seem to be that awesome”

Truth. I grew up on anime and I still watch it often, but I haven’t come across an excellent story line in… years. Ironically enough, it has not only returned me to reading novels, it has sent me to reading CLASSICS. During the fall out of anime, it makes you appreciate story a heck of a lot more than you used to. I don’t put up with crap anymore. You can put Twilight on the same shelf as a lot of popular anime and not feel too guilty about it.

Animators drew four fingers instead of five because it was cheaper. In animation, time is actually money. Someone is paid to draw 12 drawings per second. If you can shave 20 minutes of their time by having them draw four fingers instead of five, that’s profit.

LOL! Thank you for the Korea comment. That is most certainly true of animation made for television- no matter what country the concept originates in.

One understands that humen’s life is not cheap, nevertheless we need cash for different stuff and not every person earns enough cash. Thence to get good personal loans or college loan would be a proper way out.

I love you for this ;w;
I especially hate how people say I don’t have my own style cuz I draw Manga style, even though I came up with MY drawing style ALL by myself
(I also have an american cartoon style based off the animated LotR and somehow they’re ok with that >____>)