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ANNCast - I Think We're Alone Now

I can't recall the last time I saw an anime character with freckles, scars, or even intricate tattoos.

Last season. Ritsuko from Kids on the Slope had freckles.

Fencedude5609 wrote:

DmonHiro wrote: I mean, come ON, there's not even a beach or hot springs episode to piss you off. Much to the despair of fujoshi everywhere.

Well, there ARE a few shirtless scenes....

Mesonoxian Eve wrote:

I'm very impressed Zac and Justin described how difficult it is to "turn off" film appreciation on most anything they view. This should help put a different perspective on their opinions if people remember this. It always bugged me when people often summarize a review with "Welp, there goes Zac hating on moe again." while ignoring the reasons for the opinion.

That was probably the most interesting part, to me, because I'm glad to hear about other people who do that too, who have the over-analytical sensibility that causes them to end up with a rather eclectic list of favorites because the things that really massage their narrative zones are often different than what the general populace seems to gravitate toward.

This also brings up a point that the person asking the question should consider: just as you shouldn't feel ashamed for viewing stuff passively, you also shouldn't view thinking of things critically as being "anti-entertainment."

Well, I don't think that either Zac or Justin are particularly fond of Code Geass and I wouldn't expect any of their likely guests to be either.

So nah, I don't think of critical evaluation as being anti-entertainment at all. On the contrary, I think it's rather essential for me if I'm to continue getting enjoyment out of anime for another decade or two. For now I've got this "reading assignment" from ANNCast, so I'm hopefully off to a good start.

Pick a year, not in any order. Get a regular participant and together pick a half a dozen shows. Not on the basis of best, but rather on the basis of interesting to talk about. Avoid shows already talked to death. Then discuss just as you did with the decade shows. You might even let the twitter types nominate one show for discussion.

Something like this would not be as hard to set up and would be just as interesting. Sometimes a show that tried and failed or succeded in spite of its self gives more to talk about than one everyone agrees is best.

When Daryl Surat starts to talk about Sakuga fans and Ichiro Itano, you can tell that he was influenced by the blog.

It's not surprising to hear ANN podcast is scraping bottom of the barrel. Thinking about it, I've noticed repeat guests 2 or 3 three times since I started to listen to the podcast three years ago.

Zac, may I suggest Ben Ettinger of Anipage Daily for another try? His opinion on anime isn't what you're looking for, but he has the eye for art that puts anime fans to shame. Come on, he analyzed Dir. Mamoru Hosoda's directorial style in 2004 on his blog. That's years before anyone else.

I consider him as Giorgio Vasari of Japanese animation because he introduced history of Japanese animation from biographical standing to us westerners.

When Daryl Surat starts to talk about Sakuga fans and Ichiro Itano, you can tell that he was influenced by the blog.

I suspect this is because for some reason anime fans tend not to really know what good animation is. I'm not saying they have bad taste in animation really, but more that they don't give the matter much thought and don't know about it. It kind of puzzles me a bit; why would people be so into an animated medium if not for (at least in part) the art of animation?