OT: Anime (Was: Re: Picture Books)

[Jim Hohman]

No: HPFGUIDX 840

You probably know this already but Princess Mononoke (Sp?)came out on 
video last week.   Jim



--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Dr M M <drmm at J...> wrote:
> >From: Neil Ward <neilward at d...>
> >
> >Ooops! Terribly sorry, Dr MM.  Actually, I wasn't talking about
> animation or
> >anime, I was thinking about illustrated books in the same style, 
but I
> >expect I still sinned by calling the artists 'cartoonists'.  You 
know, I
> >should have learned my lesson by now, since one of my brothers 
lectures
> on
> >animation and gets rattled when I tell people that he "watches 
cartoons
> for
> >a living" (in my cheeky, big-brotherly way).  
> 
> Hehehe, no big deal :)  I just had to say something. . . and btw, I 
envy
> your brother. . . What a fun job that would be :)
> 
> >So, fill me in: anime is the Japanese animation, but what is the 
comic
> book
> >equivalent called?  Is that also called anime?  Shouldn't it be 
called
> >illustre? What are the artists called?  Animartists?  Anime
> illustrators? 
> 
> The "comic book" equivalents are called "manga".  However, unlike 
U.S.
> comic books they aren't short fifteen page things and are rarely (if
> ever) in color.  They're basically graphic novels.  As for what the
> creators are called. . . I'm not sure.  I usually call them manga 
artists
> or illustrators or something like that.  They might have a term in
> Japanese that I don't know though.
> 
> >Continuing this very large OT aside about anime, the Sci-Fi
Channel 
here
> >just had a whole week of anime features.  I only saw bits, but I 
loved
> the
> >style.  I've also watched the Pokemon cartoons, sorry, ahem -
anime 
-
> and
> >they seemed like kids' stuff in comparison.  
> 
> Pokemon, IMO (and probably in most anime fans opinions), is an 
inferior
> subset of anime, barely worthy to don the name.  But Pokemon *was*
> intended for a children's audience in Japan, so in a way, you're 
right. 
> One of the interesting things about anime is there are so many 
different
> genre's of anime.  There's the traditional shonen (guys) / shoujo 
(girls)
> anime distinction, but there's also anime aimed at different age 
groups. 
> Card Captor Sakura (now airing as Cardcaptors -- edited of course
-- 
on
> Kids WB) is shoujo but it's also more for children than adults 
(although,
> that doesn't stop adults like me from adoring it).  An anime series 
like
> Marmalade Boy is shoujo, but as it's a high school romance (rather 
soap
> opera-ish) it's more for teenagers than children.  Pokemon is 
probably
> considered shonen, but it's for younger kids, whereas a shonen
title 
like
> Ninja Scroll (one of the few anime's I absolutely despised) is for 
adults
> (or maybe older teenage boys).  And then there's the "creators on 
crack"
> type of metaphysical questioning anime's like Evangelion, Serial
> Experiments Lain and Ghost in the Shell. . . . 
> 
> And of course, I must mention the *master* of Japanese animation: 
Hayao
> Miyazaki.  He's frequently called the Disney of Japan (and his
plots 
are
> *far* superior to Disney's IMO) and until recently his work held the
> Japanese box office record (inexplicably, Titanic beat it -- 
although,
> Titanic surpassed many far superior works in the US too. . .).  
> 
> Blech.  I'm getting terribly long-winded right now so I'll shut up 
:)  I
> tend to go long when talking about my favorite hobby. . . .
> 
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