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Anime is dying

Whofan

Fleet Captain
Anime is, and always will be, the very stuff of nightmares. You look at it initially, and wonder why anyone got so far into it’s abysmal lack off value. There is nothing for it to go off of except smut and story lines dedicated to twisting the perception of the viewer. The oldest anime was crudely made and devoid of any originalityAnime, is to some, better than all other forms of entertainment. These people called ‘otaku’ (who spend an inordinate amount of time watching these lackluster cartoons) don’t seem to realize that they could be better using their hours contributing to a much higher purpose in life. We get to have these wee years in our childhoods for cartoons and toys, before we know any better, then we need to move on to more important matters. A man, especially a man, is nothing, when all he can conceivably do is watch either some vomit-inducing, moe, ecchi, hentai, or play eroge dating games while committing autoerotism in front o his PC storing many GB of pirated data
Yet, I can see what would get a poor soul into anime. Manga also. It has to do with a lack of acceptance. A huge lack of belonging and desire to interact with other human beings. This mental disorder of delving into an inexcusably tawdry form of escape just goes to show how much it hurts for some people to be alive. I can sympathize, but don’t much care to leave it be that what some people do is acceptable by any social standard. When all a person does is gawk at a screen with animated characters for most of his/her life, they are unmistakably degenerates.
Anime will die off, then maybe rebuild from the debris of an era where Japan was the home of corrupt businessmen. It could be worthy of reproach, perhaps rivaling Disney’s reign of racist and hidden sexual imagery.

So be careful what you show to your children. They just might become otaku some day if you mistake an anime for a sweetly ”innocent” American cartoon.
 
I am a devoted anime hater, and I endorse this post.

Not to say all Japanese animated cartoons are bad though, just a helluva lot.
 
What message? Whofan's rant makes it sound like some otaku set fire to a bag of poop and left it on his front porch. It's obvious he has no idea what he's complaining about.
 
Anime is just animation. A technique. You can tell any kind of story with it. Some will be good, some won't be. It's not the entire Japanese animation community's fault that you've only seen ones you don't like.
 
What message? Whofan's rant makes it sound like some otaku set fire to a bag of poop and left it on his front porch. It's obvious he has no idea what he's complaining about.

This is typical of his posts.

Some anime is amazing. Some anime is crap. Anime is nothing but a medium through which to tell a story.
 
I said it wasn't all bad, but the problem I perceive with it is that there is just waaaay to much of the out of control stuff. Even in the stuff that's supposedly "safe" there is a strong pedo element that really disturbs me.
 
What message? Whofan's rant makes it sound like some otaku set fire to a bag of poop and left it on his front porch. It's obvious he has no idea what he's complaining about.

This is typical of his posts.

Maybe, but it just seems like he's whackin' this bag pretty hard all of a sudden and I'm wondering what really set him off. It can't really have been just some lame Pokemon movie.


I said it wasn't all bad, but the problem I perceive with it is that there is just waaaay to much of the out of control stuff.

But the worst of that stuff is only available in places where adults know what they're looking for going in. It's not like it's in your local grocery store on the rack next to "Children's Illustrated Bible Stories."

Even in the stuff that's supposedly "safe" there is a strong pedo element that really disturbs me.

'Scuse me, but the most disturbing pedo subtext I've seen in my life started as a comic about a detective in a batsuit that was created in the UNITED STATES:

Lewis on "Drew Carrey": "Batman's car has a morals clause? He kept a little boy in a cave!"

It is not unique to anime, and just like in any other art form, you don't have to subject yourself to themes you don't approve of. There's no gun to anybody's head.
 
Anime is, and always will be, the very stuff of nightmares. You look at it initially, and wonder why anyone got so far into it’s abysmal lack off value. There is nothing for it to go off of except smut and story lines dedicated to twisting the perception of the viewer. The oldest anime was crudely made and devoid of any originalityAnime, is to some, better than all other forms of entertainment. These people called ‘otaku’ (who spend an inordinate amount of time watching these lackluster cartoons) don’t seem to realize that they could be better using their hours contributing to a much higher purpose in life. ...

Such as posting poorly-formatted rants on internet message boards?
 
Edit: Forget it, stupid BBS coding.

Anyway, extra irony for the rant coming from someone named "Whofan". Are all Whofans to go out and do something 'more productive' too now?
 
He makes a very good point. Even the creators of the product believe the industry will be undergoing a contraction soon.

Ichiro Itano said:
Nowadays people are more concerned with creating a 'product so it seems like content is probably becoming a little too similar. As for young Japanese out there who want to become creators, I hope they'll be high-minded and try to make something on the level of District 9.

Yoshiyuki Tomino said:
All I can say is that the creative process in Japan is obviously showing a decline.

Katsuhiro Otomo said:
The skills of traditional animators have become worse, and notable young animators have not come out to the scene. This is a big issue for the industry.

Mamoru Oshii's said:
I certainly think that animation is like a handicraft. If you ask me, it’s similar to the miracle that is shrine carpentry. Do you know how many people are weeded out before a single person rises to the top and becomes a qualified shrine carpenter? How much training is required? That’s why I compare animation to shrine carpentry: you simply cannot mass produce it. But now, we’re reaching our limits. If you want to know why, it’s because all the really talented animators that are sustaining the world of hand-drawn animation, the 20 or so of them, are all over 40. So think about it, in another 10 years, what’s going to happen?

Yutaka Yamamoto said:
Nowadays, good animation doesn't good sales, most otakus barely even notice good animation quality...

Your anime is always going to end up on Youtube. We're reaching the end of being able to sell home video. We're probably going to back to toy-funded business models of past: give anime away, try to sell toys.

Hayao Miyazaki said:
I think Japanese animation is facing a dead end
 
Uhh...did I just have a stroke or is the OP nearly unintelligible? Christ, take a breath and check your work before posting. I like a good rant every now and then, but it's counter-productive to post digital chicken scratch when trying to get your point across.

That said, based upon follow-on posts, I gather you don't like anime. Umm, OK? Care to provide some actual examples, rather than uninformed generalities?

I've been subjected to some pretty awful anime (Origin) and I own some pretty amazing work, too, (The Last Exile) no different than any other form of art. I hate modern "splatter paint on wall-sized canvas and call it art" art and love the Renaissance masters. Should I burn down the Louvre, because some art is shit? Is painting dying?

Also, cut back on the Jager Bombs before you watch Disney movies, anime or any other moving illustration. You'll enjoy them more.
 
Uhh...did I just have a stroke or is the OP nearly unintelligible?

He has a serious dislike for anime and has spammed the board with barely readable anti-anime drivel he made up or found around the net and dumped it here without bothering to follow it up. Don't worry, he's already received a spam warning over it.
 
Anime is vastly over-rated Japanese seizure-inducing crap.

Oh, what? There's a new series about some white Japanese teenagers who stumble upon magical forces in a near post-apocalyptic land? Well that DOES sound new and interesting!

And the female characters are going to giggle a lot and wear short skirts? So original!

No offense to those who like and enjoy anime but, for me, it's never done much for me and I've tried watching the better anime series and movies out there and I just can't stand it.
 
Well Trekker doesn't like anything, so obviously such a drastically different animation style is scary to his old-man-sense and automatically sends him into a hissy fit, seriously, he does it with nearly every animation brought here.
 
The OP is just a remarkably provocative post just about guaranteed to offend some anime fans on a personal level, since it contains not simply commentary on the content of the form but dismissive and insulting remarks about the kinds of people who enjoy it.
 
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