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I don't think Studio Ghibli is considered anime except under the broadest of umbrellas. Miyazaki himself didn't want to lump his work under that definition.
Yeah, I'm stretching but I doubted the OP knows that distinction and many just see Anime as being anything animated and from Japan etc.
I'm hoping to keep the OP from giving up on a huge genre and ability to share something with her kid or at least find something "sorta anime" to get their feet wet.
If I'm going to watch cartoons, I'd rather see the old ones from my childhood that were so intricately drawn and had plots (well, sort of). The huge eyes, no nose and knee socks are creepy---like adults admiring children for the wrong reasons.
But no skin off my nose if anyone else likes it.
The OP seemed to want opinions, so we're giving them. I don't call that "judging" but maybe some feel any opinion expressed is "judging". Too much of that going around....
I did like the animated "Archer" series though, due to the humor.
The OP seemed to want opinions, so we're giving them. I don't call that "judging" but maybe some feel any opinion expressed is "judging". Too much of that going around....
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Originally Posted by Jdawg8181
Sure but should ppl in their 40’s like anime? in my opinion … it’s for kids
You were saying, Sand&Salt?
Jdawg, why does it matter to you what people in their 40s like? It's not harming you at all. If it makes them happy and doesn't detract from any of their responsibilities, what's the problem?
Like I mentioned upthread, I love Disney, and I'm almost 48. I've got plenty of people in my life who think it's silly, but I can love Disney and hit the parks as often as possible and still have a full time job making good money, all my bills paid, and have no debt (other than my car). I'm a kid at heart ... Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
I don't like the oversized heads and huge eyes in most anime
I don't either. And I don't like the way the style has spread everywhere in the past couple of decades, for example to Disney -- compare earlier female characters with later ones and the eyes just get bigger and bigger. Compare Cinderella to Rapunzel and you will see what I mean.
Walk through a doll aisle at Target and the baby and toddler dolls have gigantic eyes. They weren't that way when I was a kid. Seriously, those baby dolls would have given me nightmares.
Even the American Girl doll company, which kept a traditional look in its main line for decades, gave this year's "Doll of the Year" bigger eyes.
I do suspect that huge eyes in anime and elsewhere are supposed to look adorable but they just look creepy to me.
I don't understand Asian culture at all. Not anime, not car design, not their icky shows with people laying in worms or insects or gooey muck. Just don't get it.
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