Posted

Mar 27th 2009

NOTE: THIS IS PURELY A CONSUMER VIEW, THIS AT NO TIME REFLECTS MY FEELINGS ON THE QUALITY OF ANIMATION OF ANIME (Thats another headache for another time)


First, Hi! It's been awhile but I once again roam the interwebs

Second, I'm posting this on all blogs, so if you think this is a conceted circle jerk so people can disagree or agree with me, it's not, just really needed to spill some thoughts out loud

ANIME

In the current day and age it's a word that strikes joy or total discord

Now me personally, it's a word associated with mix feelings of contempt and anger, sadly.

NOW before you Rucky Star fans just smash your computers in that someone DOESN'T agree with you, listen

Anime has no RIGHT to be what it is. It's in the biggest animation bubble in this side of the GALAXY, it's thrived were almost all have virtually failed, miserably I might add

So why do I hold it with disdain? Because it's doing exactly what a capitalistic market does to art, it takes the art out of it!

You see, Japan culture is strikingly similar when it comes to America in the entertainment industry, we both know as a culture what we want, Japan has a distinct idea of their tastes as do we, the problem is, we (Note: WE, Japan and America) hate what we either don't understand, or what fits into our sense of "Good" material.

So Japan as a nation is infatuated with their pre-determined art style of "Anime", this of course covering all forms of relative media, wich is fine, but they, like all of our American Brethren hate what doesn't fit in there "norm"

Wich business promptly picks up on and make shows of what they like.

And the industry cogs turn, and grind out tirelessly the SAME thing

This is the real center of my problem with Anime

This proccess has cycled over and over till the "art" in Anime is destroyed, and any aspect that allured anyone that wasn't part of this trend dies

Now America had this same damn problem, in the 60's through the 80's we seemingly lost all of our talent in animation overnight, then in the 90's we had a good century of shows, movies, etc. that focused on the art, and then worried about predetermined likes of America,
then we went STRAIGHT back in the shitter for the 2000's

America has paid for it's machinations, and just LOOK at us! Animation almost died out completely here, and were STILL struggling to bring it back

But what of Japan? They have had the same folly as us, but they have exploded!

Does no one notice this cycle, or do they simply not care? Does the common studio know they made the exact same "Slice of life" anime show over a million times, and simply not care?

Japan's Anime trend is simply that, a trend, and this entire state it's in is the true reason I really can't stand for it's forms of "expression" as they were

This is the main reason you see a lot of backlash in relations to Anime. People just get sick of the regurgitation of ideas, over, and OVER again.

But hey, when I see something that isn't simply meant to sell naked figurines of it's characters, I praise it for all it's worth.

When I get a show like Paranoia agent, or a movie like Mind Games from Japan I think "Goddamn, why can't more of THIS come out???"

I've really looked at the source, and this is all I can really come up with, I don't think I'm wrong, but I'd love to be shown a more viable reason Anime is in the terrible state it is (I'm not going to listen to why anime as a whole is still "good". If there was a day for that it's been long gone)

Now I've been meaning to post this, but it should go with a post about the trend itself
http://www.cartoonbrew.com/anime/anime-is-dying.html

Looks like the ends are gonna justify the means soon for Anime, what they've been trying to pull is exactly what we've done (Americans) and they're gonna hit HARD