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Maidenoftheredhand
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Hi Sarah Hodge-Wetherbe
I am getting my MLIS now so I just wanted to say I love your response. 
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Quark
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I'm crossing my fingers that DVDs and the like will never become obsolete. I find watching anime on the computer to be almost like a chore. For example, I absolutely love Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai, but since I can't watch it on my TV, my motivation to watch it is practically nil.
Watching anime on the computer means that I have to watch my show in a smaller form, I can't get all comfy on the couch, I can't work on my knitting or pet the cats, and most of all, well, you can't exactly get a group of friends together to watch a show on the computer. Not only that, but getting DVDs in the mail, in the pretty box sets, is just plain fun. Putting the DVDs on the shelves, and looking at all the boxart sitting nicely together makes me feel like I've accomplished something. I know that in reality all I've achieved is spending money I shouldn't have spent, and making myself look like an uber-dork, but still. I've always found it amusing how many people I've seen online who say "I've got this great, revolutionary idea for an anime, but I don't live in Japan. I'm learning Japanese on Rosetta Stone. How do I become an anime director?" Sad, delusional, but at the same time, oh, so funny. Japanese culture is slightly interesting to me. I love how they can be so traditional, and old fashioned in some ways, but then at the same time be so modern, and tech-savvy. I'm also fond of the Japanese love for all things cute, and how bizarre their media can be. I also enjoy looking at Japanese cookbooks and trying out some of the recipes (but some of the recipes I've found sound downright scary). I would love to take Japanese language classes, but finding a class that takes place in the evening seems near impossible. |
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GATSU
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Berserkfury: I'm not a Watchmen fan per se, but I respect what Moore was trying to do with it.
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rinjichan
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I was teased in middle school for liking Sailor Moon but not much beyond that. That's because once I got into high school I became less about letting one hobby define everything I do. I don't wear or own anime t-shirts because I didn't want to be defined by the tv shows I watched. I like House MD but I wouldn't wear a House T-shirt. I still watch a lot of it, but I figure that I'd rather be myself than a hobby. I have more than just anime that I like, and if someone wanted to know what my interests were they'd be: Film, Literature, Writing, and Japanese Culture.
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BunnyCupCakes
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Lol,I'm ridiculed by my parents...LIKE EVERYDAY.
Since elementary to now in highschool,they still don't undertsand how I see it as an art form & entertainment. Eh,I'm used to it though. But I really have an urge to show my mom "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time".She would love it,but no. It's anime. *sigh* |
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TheVok
Posts: 613 Location: North York, Ontario, Canada |
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Agreed. One of the milestones I mentioned is hardware and so far there still hasn't been a killer piece of equipment for watching digital downloaded content on a nice big TV. It's kind of like e-books ... will Amazon's Kindle finally take the idea mainstream or will it still remain a niche concept shunned by most consumers? The iPod took the MP3 player into the mainstream and it may indeed be Apple that gets us watching computer files in our living rooms. Until then, though, XBox Live is a step in that direction, whereby a TV-connected and online-connected device is providing the necessary vehicle. Really, that's what we all need, isn't it?
Funny, evening classes were the only option I even know about here. Next week's my last for a while, though. |
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Dragynstorm
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Bravo! I can only gleefully imagine their faces. 
My roommate says that of course there is a middle ground, it's kiddy porn. I think he's kidding. I hope he's kidding. He has to be kidding. Last edited by Dragynstorm on Sat Apr 05, 2008 1:09 am; edited 1 time in total |
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SeedOfAnime
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I'm 24 years old and i love to buy anime DVD's 1 at a time with the artbox. and I'm happy thats it's starting to move to Blu-Ray, though it is slow. so yes i am one of thoughs people that have a 50" Sony HDTV and love to watch crystal clear anime on it. but i must say i still whatch alot on my computer too. but with that said i would be vary angery if they would get rid of the i want it in my hand right now dvd's even if its cheaper to go the digital down loads
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Cephus
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It's not really ISPs, as Zac mistakenly thinks, it's digital cable and Video on Demand that makes the difference. Most people can already turn on their TVs and pick dozens or hundreds of movies to start right this second, with the ability to pause, rewind and stop where they like. We've already got the ability and it will just continue to grow. |
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Ceru
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I found the first answer to the AnswerFans question to be a bit strange. I too am in college for animation and throughout all four years anime has never been a source of ridicule. For anyone. The Disney-or-bust students were very adamant about not watching it but never attacked anyone or brought up their anti-anime ism unless provoked. And everyone (in my year, at least), even the usual anime dislikers, loves Miyazaki.
At the same time however, it's important to note that we all also notice the low framerate and quality in anime compared to say, Disney or James Baxter or Dreamworks stuff. That goes without saying. Don't even bother to argue on the quality of animation please, because it irks me when dumb fans who know nothing about animation whine at me about the quality argument. To break it down, regular animation (cartoons) runs on 12 drawings per second (going up to 24 drawings per second for certain scenes). Anime runs usually on 6-8 drawings per second, and is sometimes bumped up to 12. This is a drop in quality of animation, the lag in movement is frustrating to the trained eye. Sure their moves may be more elaborate but they are generally unfluid and unappealing. Want to see beautiful animation? Check out James Baxter stuff or "Pyrats" a film by a group of students from Gobelins. All this to say, despite the evident flaws in animation in terms of animation and stuff, most of us enjoy it in varying degrees. For most it's a casual interest, for some it's much more than that. In our final year we each make a 2 minute animated piece (a heck of a lot of work, actually), and every year so far some bloke has decided to use the opportunity of "making a film" and instead makes a trailer for his or her anime. It's often quite painful. I'm rambling. |
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The Xenos
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I gotta say that little Hillary dig had me bust out laughing.
Hey, we all know Hillary is the anti-anime candidate, right? 
Oh, I also enjoyed the observation about your childhood not having a "massive community of other talentless children sitting around telling me how awesome my stupid ideas were". Ha! How true. I too kept things in a little sketch book and wasn't stupid enough to share them. Well, until I found an internet fanart forum to post them on in later years... but let's ignore that ever happened. |
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rti9
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No, no, no. Your post was much more interesting than the first answerfan. What you wrote about animation reminds me of American comics and Manga. Japanese entertainment is better in being pop culture. But when you compare anime to Disney, James Baxter, and Dreamworks to anime are you comparing movies vs. movies or American movies vs. Japanese TV? |
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Prodigiosus
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I don't think DVD's are going anywhere any time soon. I'd much rather lay in my bed and watch a DVD then spend an hour or more wiggling around in my never comfortable computer chair watching anime. I'm not a big fan of digital anything really. I have an ipod that I haven't touched since October and I just went out and bought a CD last week. I'm old fashioned that way. I can't stand my ipod and I don't like watching videos of any kind on my computer if it isn't necessary.
As for why I like anime, it's just very interesting. Sometimes it's just mindless fun for the sake of mindless fun (like Maburaho which I just finished watching), and sometimes it's just addicting because the story is really good. And being animated, it has the freedom to be all sorts of things that live action just can't replicate in the same way. I was drawn into anime the first time I had ever saw a "cartoon" character die...and stay dead. From what Looney Toons and Tom and Jerry had taught me, no matter what happened to an animated character, they always came back. Then I watched Akira (the first anime I ever saw) and I remember asking my sister at the end of the movie where the "injured" characters had gone, and she explained that "they were dead...the kind of dead that sticks." That was it for me and I've been hooked since. As for progression/regression of anime over the years, I don't think I've seen enough to have any opnion on that. I am happy that it is becoming much more accessible than it has been in the past though. P.S. go dems in '09! |
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Oronae
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Y'see, that's because you're going about it entirely the wrong way. I've got my computer set up so I CAN be both comfortably lying on my bed AND watching tons of downloaded anime (or posting this message) at the same time. These things CAN be done. |
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a.g.wong
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I didn't bother to ask how they could possibly prefer the soulless, expository train wreck that is Akira over something that is actually well-told, like Evangelion... Ha, that's what I get for choosing poor examples... even knowing how divisive Eva is to the anime fanbase, I went with my gut feeling. =) Basically, what killed the experience of watching Akira for me was the exposition. While the plot was as clearly told as possible for a story involving super powers, I cared nothing for the characters, so by the end all I was left with were some cool fight scenes. Eva suffers from a convoluted plot; a problem that is exacerbated by its unwillingness to clarify its shallow allusions to near-eastern mysticism. Admittedly, I hated the ending at first. It wasn't until watching it a second and third time (and writing a dissertation on it =), that I came to appreciate it. But the fact that it remains critically well-regarded despite its flaws is a testament to its strong cast of characters and engaging direction. I found the character relationships in Eva a lot more interesting than those in Akira (hence, "soulless"). But I stand by the comment about the FF movies... sure, Advent Children was successful compared to the first movie, but the only thing I can remember from that film is a split-second of footage with Tifa flirting at the camera--but then again, I didn't play FF7 (*gasp*! =). And while the technology behind The Spirits Within was amazing at the time, it couldn't cover up the lame story about a scavenger hunt. Incidentally, I've been reading this column for a little over a year, but never posted in the forums. <waves> I can see DVDs sticking around for a while too. But how do people feel about Blu-ray? I'm relieved that the next-gen format has finally been decided, but how much can anime benefit from the format (right now)? The benefits of progressive scan are already mitigated by anime's lower frame rates (Like Ceru states, they are shot on 3's or 4's), and the higher resolution for traditional animation in general makes less of a difference than with live-action. Then again, when Blu-ray discs cost as much as DVDs do now, it may not matter. |
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