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08-11-2009, 12:00 AM
...okay~ O.o;;
welp my mom watched Full Metal Alchemist with me and my brother... but she's not so into anime... and my dad was only into Dragonball... so... I think they understand I just think they dont understand completely.... (maybe the same goes for your parents) anyway I actually prefer to watch anime alone... |
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08-11-2009, 07:42 PM
The OP is wrong. Anime is like american cartoons. A lot of american cartoons do have plots. The issue is whether the plot is suited for your age or what else.
Death Note for e.g. is suited for my age (17). Naruto, Bleach are more for poeple the age of 9-13. Also there are anime for different kind of ages. Most of the anime come from Shounen Manga (suited for 9-13 aged kids). Naruto might teach you some morals, but the way the characters act are not so believable to older people, thus they find it ridiculous. What parents don't understand is that there are anime which are suitable for your age, but if you say the anime as a whole, they are somewhat correct. Quote:
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08-11-2009, 07:52 PM
My mom listens?... but she still doesn't get it alot of the time. ToT I wish she could though because my sister is always at work so i have no one at home to talk to about the newest anime or manga. So I get ya. my mom actually called inuyasha a cartoon when it used to come on Adultswim. I practically cried.
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08-11-2009, 07:54 PM
I think some other generations (aka parents) will have difficulty even with fully adult cartoons with complex subjects (Ghost in the Shell 18+). There's a 'cartoons are for kids' kind of standard among older generations. I think the kids growing up in the 1980s have started to change this as they've held onto some of the hobbies they had as children such as cartoons and video games.
My impression is that this is true in Japan as well as America/Europe though I think Japan has a bit more of a head start. Are there a lot of 40+ year old anime fans in Japan? More so than the states? edit:// fixed spelling and I wanted to add that comics/manga fall into this category as well. |
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08-11-2009, 07:58 PM
Hm, it seems to me like one of the defining differences between American animation and "Japanimation" is story progression. Cartoons are entirely episodic: something happens in episode 30, something completely unrelated happens in episode 31, and so on with no real change or developments in that universe. Whereas, anime consists of individual episodes taking place within the framework of a larger story.
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