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Judging Anime as a Whole

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Judging Anime as a Whole 2014-08-25 07:59:38


Why does everyone seem to judge all anime, in its entirety, as one big entity? It's like how video games are all judged by paranoid mothers as violence-in-a-box, and western cartoons and Nintendo games are passed off as "for kids". Though anime itself considered a subset of animation/cartoons, the subset in itself is extremely diverse; judging Puella Magi Madoka Magica based on things like Naruto and To-Love Ru is like judging bands like Queen and Rush based on Justin Bieber and One Direction. So why do we generalize it so much?

Response to Judging Anime as a Whole 2014-08-25 08:07:04


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Response to Judging Anime as a Whole 2014-08-25 08:10:17


I wonder how many times I'll get called a butthurt weeb for posting this..

Response to Judging Anime as a Whole 2014-08-25 08:11:00


most anime is just moeshit nowadays


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Response to Judging Anime as a Whole 2014-08-25 08:29:16


You're right. It all depends on the show itself

Response to Judging Anime as a Whole 2014-08-25 16:51:54


I hate how people judge anime as a single entity. A lot of it is really good.

I enjoy a lot of the anime people don't like because they don't like the way it portrays women (NouCome is like 99% fan service, but it's funny as hell).

People just need to shut the fuck up and respect other people's opinions.


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Response to Judging Anime as a Whole 2014-08-25 17:02:35


At 8/25/14 08:10 AM, RandomDent wrote: I wonder how many times I'll get called a butthurt weeb for posting this..

You're not butthurt, you're actually pointing something that's true.
A lot of people say anime is for kids, and yes some of it is.
Then you got the more adult version of anime like Hellsing.
There are all kinds of different types of anime so you can't subjugate all anime.
Doing so would be like saying that something like all types of cereal has the same taste.


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Response to Judging Anime as a Whole 2014-08-25 17:10:31


Once things get a reputation in society, it sticks whether it's true or not. So, the people who don't know or don't care to know much about a topic, hear that general reputation and leave it at that. Western animation, for example, started off for all ages. Once it was made for TV, the quality had to drop and it was marketed for kids, which it where it's reputation of "only 4 kidz" came from.

Hell, people still believe racial stereotypes.


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Response to Judging Anime as a Whole 2014-08-25 18:22:13


Unfortunately, anime is one of those mediums that is not well respected in the West by those who aren't anime fans whether it's simply not knowing or caring what it is, to general xenophobia and everything in-between. It also doesn't really help that there isn't a lot of anime that is shown on TV anymore, and when it is shown today, it's only on late night Saturday, though in all fairness, it's like that for a long time and they have pretty much done well. In short, it's largely due to either personal taste, pop couture isolation, or simple ignorance/racism.

As a fellow anime fan, I am sympathetic to the OP's objections to an extent, but the realization is that anime is a niche market with a niche fanbase (a growing one, but still small) in the West, and partly because of it's foreign material, a segment of anime critics and haters use that as a crux against it. There are also a lot of other factors that go into this as well, (such as fan bases, what's being made, even the economics of it all.) but the disrespect aspect is the biggest bugaboo about anime.


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Response to Judging Anime as a Whole 2014-08-25 18:22:42


The only thing I can't handle from anime are the opening and closing themes being to optimistic. It depends on the characters to.

Response to Judging Anime as a Whole 2014-08-25 18:57:03


Anime is just pornography.


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Response to Judging Anime as a Whole 2014-08-25 19:15:59


This was a highlight of my topic on mature anime. There is nothing wrong with anime in concept, but in practice so many anime fall into the same patterns that generalization is not altogether inaccurate. That's not to say that I think that all anime is bad, but when someone recommends an anime to me I regard their suggestion with heavy suspicions.


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Response to Judging Anime as a Whole 2014-08-25 19:29:24


Truth. People either paint it as nothing but ultra violent borderline porn or stupid kid's shows with loud characters with crazy hair. It can't be both, now, can it? And if they see something that's good, they'll have the attitude that it's a rare exception. My sister used to take jabs at me all the time when we were younger for watching it. So, I've been getting her daughter anime for birthdays/Christmas. She loves Spirited Away and My Neighbor Totoro. hah!


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Response to Judging Anime as a Whole 2014-08-25 19:53:48


Judging certain things as a whole just doesn't apply.
Sometimes, it just depends on individual cases.

Response to Judging Anime as a Whole 2014-08-25 20:41:55


At 8/25/14 06:57 PM, Magical-Zorse wrote: Anime is just pornography.

I love that guro porn known as "Hokuto no Ken".


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Response to Judging Anime as a Whole 2014-08-25 21:30:09


I don't get dis thread. Anime will be judged as a whole as much as sitcoms will be judged as terrible, or pie judged deliciouse

or blacks judged criminals

Everyone's a critic


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Response to Judging Anime as a Whole 2014-08-25 22:40:40


At 8/25/14 09:30 PM, MykeiXWolfe wrote: I don't get dis thread. Anime will be judged as a whole as much as sitcoms will be judged as terrible, or pie judged deliciouse

or blacks judged criminals
Everyone's a critic

That's because people are generally ignorant and would dismiss one genre based on the small sample size. That's what the OP was getting at.

Everyone may be a critic but it doesn't mean all of their opinions would have the same value.


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Response to Judging Anime as a Whole 2014-08-25 23:50:10


I'm kinda guilty in this one.
When I see anime, I usually judge it like any other anime.
But not because of its story, plot, or it's for kids and stuff, but I guess it's the animation and similar art style each anime always seem to have.

Not that I enjoy anime. Right now, I'm watching Detective Conan.
And, I used to enjoy Full Metal Alchemist and Law of Ueki way back.

I really haven't seen a single person here who told me that anime was for kids which is really weird cuz everyone knows how anime can be gory sometimes.
Speaking of gore, man, I love the Corpse Party OVA.. or whatever it's called.


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Response to Judging Anime as a Whole 2014-08-25 23:55:40


Most likely because of the clichés, the abundance of very generic drawing style that seems to make a lot of these anime look exactly like any other anime that was done before.

I know it's wrong to judge the whole genre because of these things, though. And My Neighbor Totoro was good, so :) I also have to watch Grave Of The Fireflies.

Response to Judging Anime as a Whole 2014-08-26 22:59:26


At 8/25/14 07:59 AM, RandomDent wrote: Why does everyone seem to judge all anime, in its entirety, as one big entity?

i know ya can't generalize and shit, but a lot of animes still use egregiously bad clichés, like having that one male character who's dark and mysterious and had a crazy past, or having some female character who's nothing more than a sex object. even the good ones are like that quite often

the list of flaws within traditional anime is pretty long. i like anime a lot but i'm willing to admit that the genre could improve a little

Response to Judging Anime as a Whole 2014-08-27 00:07:54


At 8/25/14 08:11 AM, kirby1837 wrote: most anime is just moeshit nowadays

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Response to Judging Anime as a Whole 2014-08-27 00:15:07


I think it's silly that we even make a distinction between anime and Western animation, especially given the modern realities of outsourcing and international coproduction.

Hell, why even separate animation as a whole? It's a subset of film and/or television, but people tend to unfairly treat it as a genre. Beyond the most superficial level animated TV shows have more in common with live-action ones than they do with animated films, and vice versa.


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Response to Judging Anime as a Whole 2014-08-27 00:29:52


Because I don't fucking care.


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Response to Judging Anime as a Whole 2014-08-27 00:32:40


Because people are xenophobes and love hating on things they don't understand.


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