Comments on: Anime Better Than Cartoons? Rebuttal Time Part 2 http://www.mangavender.com/anime-better-than-cartoons-rebuttal-time-part-2/ Recommending the best of the best Fri, 28 May 2010 01:47:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Jules http://www.mangavender.com/anime-better-than-cartoons-rebuttal-time-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-63 Jules Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:52:54 +0000 http://www.mangavender.com/?p=657#comment-63 Fair enough. When it comes down to it, what people prefer is what matters. Fair enough. When it comes down to it, what people prefer is what matters.

]]> By: hashi http://www.mangavender.com/anime-better-than-cartoons-rebuttal-time-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-62 hashi Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:03:07 +0000 http://www.mangavender.com/?p=657#comment-62 I'm not much of a Miyazaki fan. The animation is the least of my worries in an animated story: the story and characters are what count. Sure, there are "adult" themes in US cartoons. And of course US cartoons touch on history and culture. But I find so many more enjoyable shows in anime than in US animation. I have no idea what "better" means in this context. I just like more Japanese animated shows than US ones. Maybe it's the culture behind them that I prefer to the aspects of US pop culture that are embodied in US animation. Simpsons, South Park, Family Guy -- good, smart TV shows, but the two or three episodes of each that I have seen are more than enough for me personally. I like the kinds of anime -- shoujo romance for one -- that are simply not produced in the US, even by Disney. My favorite anime -- Simoun, Bakemonogatari, Honey & Clover, NANA, ef memories, et al. -- would never have come out of America. For me, they are deeper and stronger than any US show I have seen. I’m not much of a Miyazaki fan. The animation is the least of my worries in an animated story: the story and characters are what count. Sure, there are “adult” themes in US cartoons. And of course US cartoons touch on history and culture.

But I find so many more enjoyable shows in anime than in US animation. I have no idea what “better” means in this context. I just like more Japanese animated shows than US ones. Maybe it’s the culture behind them that I prefer to the aspects of US pop culture that are embodied in US animation. Simpsons, South Park, Family Guy — good, smart TV shows, but the two or three episodes of each that I have seen are more than enough for me personally.

I like the kinds of anime — shoujo romance for one — that are simply not produced in the US, even by Disney. My favorite anime — Simoun, Bakemonogatari, Honey & Clover, NANA, ef memories, et al. — would never have come out of America. For me, they are deeper and stronger than any US show I have seen.

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