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Not the ones I've watched. Then again I mostly watch Fullmetal Alchemist, Haruhi, Index and the like.
reading manga is no different from reading a book, and a lot of manga
are aimed at an adult audience (Golgo 13, which has been running
since the sixties, is a particularly noteworthy example). Manga in fact
makes up 1/3rd of all the published books in Japan.
Anime, on the other hand, is pretty much as you described.
That's actually a commonly misunderstood myth. In Japan, comics and anime are considered just as nerdy as comics and cartoons are in America. The main difference is that, as a teen in America, you are considered a nerd for being interested in comics, and as an adult, you are considered a nerd for being interested in comics. In Japan, it's somewhat normal for teens to be interested in comics and anime, but once you reach adulthood, you're expected to grow out of it and change your hobby to golf or something like that. The main difference between the two societies is that in America, comics are nerdy no matter what, in Japan, comics are nerdy if your an adult.
Somewhere along the Pacific Ocean, American weeaboos started misconstruing the teen audience as "everybody."
If you don't believe me, when you're thirty, go to Japan and enter a comic shop or internet cafe. You'll be seen as that creepy, manchild Gaijin nobody wants to talk to. Go when you're fifteen, and you'll just be that Gaijin nobody wants to talk to.
lol Vampire Savior combo gauge voice.
I was thinking manga was a case of the former.
Actually, kashchei was banned for being a complete mod sass when the mods talked to her, NOT for ragging on Chagen.
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@Scrye2 > @Glenn: Almost everything you said, I already addressed in my posts. Next time, please read the entire post instead of just a few lines, and you'll see that.
I did read the entire post, and what I post here is not just a private response to you but also a public response for others to read.
@Scrye2 > I even had Full Metal Alchemist in mind when I wrote that...you don't need to point this out to me.
Good to know that I thought of the same thing, as well as another example.
@Scrye2 > Music is one of the most important parts of doing so, but they always use the same 3 tracks, and when they don't, it's still not enough to distract me from the fact that they have like 20 seconds of a single image slowly sliding across the screen while an off-screen voiceover explains why they will win the ensuing duel.
> same 3 tracks
There are far, far more than three tracks in any soundtrack, even the shortest ones. Perhaps you're actually tired of hearing leitmotif tracks that play every time a certain emotion or character or dramatic situation occurs. I tend to find them unifying, the way a common tune or harmony unifies a set of musical variations, but YMMV.
then again...
> 20 seconnds of single image slowly sliding across the screen...off-screen voiceover...win the ensuing duel
Maybe it's that I'm not watching the same stuff you're watching. For one, I know I've never watched much of DBZ (outside of YouTube Poops that is), and that's the most famous show for having long and drawn out duels for no apparent reason. Same goes for a large amount of typical shonen action series--I just haven't seen them at all, despite their being some of the most well-known animé series. The first or so season of Pokémon is the main exception for me.
@Scrye2 > I already said, if they're not going to animate the damn thing, then all they're doing is making one of those "visual novels"
@Scrye2 > Anime fails entirely in this regard, because they hardly animate anything, thus making it more of a slideshow than a motion picture.
Have you actually seen a visual novel? A typical animé series, even if low-budget and shoddily-animated, bears little resemblance to the staticness of a visual novel. Now if you're going to argue that the animation shorcuts that make Japanese animation less smooth than western animation are akin to the difference between western animation and visual novels...well, I don't got much to say about that.
@INUH > @Juan: It's been awhile since I read Monster, but yeah, 20CB is the best manga I've read to date. It has a great soundtrack, too.
Wait, what?