A preference of anime to western animation

Anonus

Why?

glennmagusharvey

Didn't we just have this thread like, a couple weeks ago?

Anyway:

1. more non-children's non-comedy works
2. more reliably available on the internet
3. art style preferences, probably

Imipolex G

boobs, violence

Odradek

Imipolex G said:

boobs, violence

Imipolex G

right, see

Anonus

glennmagusharvey said:

Didn't we just have this thread like, a couple weeks ago?

...oh my god we did

and I started it

durr

anyway

as for the art style preferences

most anime looks the same to me, and it's not a style I find very appealing

glennmagusharvey

I find that that "standard animesque" style is generally more appealing to me than the various forms of stylized cuteness or stylized...styledness that western shows often have, especially for children'comedy series (e.g. Dexter's Lab, Ed Edd and Eddy, Spongebob, The Simpsons).  They all have distinctive styles, but while they're distinctive, I don't particularly like them.  I'm okay with them (I don't dislike them) but they're not particularly appealing to me.

Anonus

Dexter's Lab's art style is derived from the UPA style

But people who have no familiarity with UPA act like it started there

Tachyon

Dexter's Lab looks significantly different from UPA cartoons, although the stylistic influence is obvious

The anime that look best are more realistic ones like Monster and zanier ones like One-Piece, and the anime that look worst are exaggeratedly 'moe' things like Kanon

lee4hmz

The characters in things like Kanon and Bottle Fairy look less like humans and more like the McDonaldland Fry Guys. :(

Sredni Vashtar

Kanon is a pretty unpleasant proposition for multiple reasons.

Having seen the remaster of Akira recently, and given my love for Masaaki Yuasa's work in general, I think that, beautiful art direction aside, I just prefer the character designs in the anime I watch to not be stereotypical, at least in terms of modern stereotypes. I like Kaiba's bubbly cartoon people and the angular caricatures of Kino's Journey, Monster's quietly expressive realism and Bokurano's diversity of the plain and irregular, ABe's angelic human aliens and Nekojiru's sketchy demon kittens.

As far as more stereotypical "anime" styles, Hiromu Arakawa and Ume Aoki are stand-outs in their fields, and shows like RahXephon undersell the tropes in a way that makes them work. I also have a certain appreciation for shows that define styles which are no longer in vogue - again, Akira, and Utena.

Obā-san

so i gather it's a heartwarming, Lifetime-esque drama about little girls with severe birth defects?

Sredni Vashtar

Yeah, that's the far, grotesque end of that particular style. Its roots clearly lie in the intense emphasis on the eyes as an expressive feature in shoujo manga, but it's taken to such a degree that it goes from stylisation to dehumanisation.

Salix Babylonika

I had always assumed those were animation errors, that shit looks like that on purpose?

Tre

I'm so scared right now

That picture is the stuff of nightmares

lee4hmz

Yon Assassin said:

so i gather it's a heartwarming, Lifetime-esque drama about little girls with severe birth defects?

Look at the eyes. Look at them. 

O_O

Previous Calica

Mo The Show said:

I had always assumed those were animation errors, that shit looks like that on purpose?

that's definitely a tween, like the famous "meduka meguca" images.  But the "real thing" isn't that much less horrifying:

Sredni Vashtar

Mo The Show said:

I had always assumed those were animation errors, that shit looks like that on purpose?

Oh, there are errors, but yes, it does.

Salix Babylonika

Wilhelm said:

Mo The Show said:

I had always assumed those were animation errors, that shit looks like that on purpose?

that's definitely a tween, like the famous "meduka meguca" images.  But the "real thing" isn't that much less horrifying:

ok no but that's like a significant difference.

Like that picture the art is just bland, the other picture above is actually frightening.

Sredni Vashtar

Mo The Show said:

Like that picture the art is just bland, the other picture above is actually frightening.

That's from Kanon; the first was from AIR, I think, which basically looks like that throughout.

Previous Calica

look at the girl on the far right though.

lee4hmz

It's like someone took The Fly (the Cronenberg version, dammit) and tried to make it cute. :O

Previous Calica

lee4hmz said:

It's like someone took The Fly (the Cronenberg version, dammit) and tried to make it cute. :O

uguu~

glennmagusharvey

I'm just going to state it plainly and simply:

Mouths do NOT go that high.

Not to mention they didn't really need to do eyes that big.

Calica

glennmagusharvey said:

I'm just going to state it plainly and simply:

Mouths do NOT go that high.

Not to mention they didn't really need to do eyes that big.

uguu~

glennmagusharvey

Lilly said:

glennmagusharvey said:

I'm just going to state it plainly and simply:

Mouths do NOT go that high.

Not to mention they didn't really need to do eyes that big.

uguu~

NO

GET AWAY FROM ME

YOU'RE WORSE THAN A LOVECRAFTIAN HOR--

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uguu~

Sredni Vashtar

More moe bull quotes and I kill you all post-haste~!

Calica

Sredni Vashtar said:

More moe bull quotes and I kill you all post-haste~!

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