[HPforGrownups] OT: Anime (Was: Re: Picture Books)

[Denise]

No: HPFGUIDX 856

kewl!  Any gifts would be appreciated?  Hint hint... lol.

I guess I will have to put the word in and wait until Christmas.

;P
Dee

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jim Hohman 
  To: HPforGrownups at egroups.com 
  Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2000 10:28 AM
  Subject: [HPforGrownups] OT: Anime (Was: Re: Picture Books)



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  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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