Sunday, September 25, 2005
Familie
I saw this view on anime from a forum and i thought it was quite a funny observation. Enjoy:
"Anime has become one of my main forms of solo entertainment recently, replacing video gaming and watching television as being on of the top indoor activities I do.
There are, however, pet peeves I have about anime. The reason I stick with anime over regular televison is that I really do dislike most television shows, whereas I still like anime but am annoyed by some aspects of it.
Teenagers. They are simply everywhere in anime. Sure, adolescence is a very telling time in any person's life, and from what little I have gleaned about Japanese culture it seems to be even more important and influental there than it is in the United States. Therefore the fact that many, many anime series focus on teenaged main characters doesn't really bother me.
What does bother me from time to time is that adult characters seem to be intentionally forgotten or written out of most series, often by outlandish means or by the simple realization that a shitload of anime characters have dead parents. I think a screenshot from Jubei Chan 2 recognizes the sort of flaw I'm talking about quite well:
http://www.capnjiffy.com/animescreens/JubeiChan2/jubeichan2_109.jpg
And it's true.
What I would like to know is why anime directors/authors/whatever you want to call them seem to have an aversion to actual adult characters. Most adult characters that do appear are one-dimensional and only appear in between the meat of the story.
Yes, I know about the exceptions, so don't point them out to me. That isn't the emphasis of this thread. The emphasis is why in the series that are focused on teens do the adults play little to no role."
Just wondering... what is Ka Mun's and Joo Khai's opinions on this since they are big fans of anime? :)
"Anime has become one of my main forms of solo entertainment recently, replacing video gaming and watching television as being on of the top indoor activities I do.
There are, however, pet peeves I have about anime. The reason I stick with anime over regular televison is that I really do dislike most television shows, whereas I still like anime but am annoyed by some aspects of it.
Teenagers. They are simply everywhere in anime. Sure, adolescence is a very telling time in any person's life, and from what little I have gleaned about Japanese culture it seems to be even more important and influental there than it is in the United States. Therefore the fact that many, many anime series focus on teenaged main characters doesn't really bother me.
What does bother me from time to time is that adult characters seem to be intentionally forgotten or written out of most series, often by outlandish means or by the simple realization that a shitload of anime characters have dead parents. I think a screenshot from Jubei Chan 2 recognizes the sort of flaw I'm talking about quite well:
http://www.capnjiffy.com/animescreens/JubeiChan2/jubeichan2_109.jpg
And it's true.
What I would like to know is why anime directors/authors/whatever you want to call them seem to have an aversion to actual adult characters. Most adult characters that do appear are one-dimensional and only appear in between the meat of the story.
Yes, I know about the exceptions, so don't point them out to me. That isn't the emphasis of this thread. The emphasis is why in the series that are focused on teens do the adults play little to no role."
Just wondering... what is Ka Mun's and Joo Khai's opinions on this since they are big fans of anime? :)
# posted by tamanmaluri @ 16:47 
