Reasons for some animes...

MistyCaldwell · Post by **MistyCaldwell** » Wed Feb 19, 2003 7:07 pm

El Banana wrote:
I have not heard of Fritz, but what I wrote was by no means my pov. I am into animation and comics a whole deal, which is why I'm annoyed by the general attitude towards comics and cartoons not only in america, in many other places too. Of course I know that not all animation was or is geared towards children.

Actually I was referring to the first post in here, not yours. I gotta learn to properly use the quotes..

El Banana · Post by **El Banana** » Wed Feb 19, 2003 9:59 pm

Ah

SO YOU IGNORED ME!!!

MistyCaldwell · Post by **MistyCaldwell** » Wed Feb 19, 2003 10:43 pm

How could I possibly ignore a dancing banana?

..alas...the poor bananas...they are to die out in 10 years if and left to their own..erm... devices.

El Banana · Post by **El Banana** » Wed Feb 19, 2003 10:44 pm

Ah, but the Dancin bananas, they're another story....not that I can dance worth shit.g

I'm in trouble

HellBlazer · Post by **HellBlazer** » Thu Feb 20, 2003 12:21 am

Heavy Metal anyone? The old and new versions...

kthulhu · Post by **kthulhu** » Thu Feb 20, 2003 12:24 am

The original was pretty kickass. Heavy Metal 2000 was the bleh.

derek_t · Post by **derek_t** » Thu Feb 20, 2003 6:24 am

The funny thing about all this. Most anime isn't aimed at adults but teenagers.

Its like a 5 year difference between our target age group (North America) and Japans and yet it changes everything.

I do think North American cartoons that are aimed at a higher age (I should point a difference to aimed at lower ages as compaired to aimed at everyone like Disney) try a bit too hard to make certain no one can mistake it for a kiddy story. I don't think most animes are adult oriented (not including the porn ones) but I do think it asks a lot more from an audience than your typical movie or TV show.

Take Cowboy Bebop, it has only 5 of 26 episodes related to the Spike/Vicious life is a dream storyline. Yet everyone seems to want to write their own theory on what happened before when Spike and Vicious worked together and theories on what the story meant.