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by sunandshadow » Thu Apr 15, 2004 4:11 pm
My favorite anime, ooh that's a hard question. I haven't even seen that many, only about 30, but a lot of those had both moments I really loved as well as big flaws. I suppose if I had to pick... well, I really liked Ai no Kusabi, and I really liked Utena.
Has there ever been an anime fan-academy awards? I think it would be easier and perhaps more useful to say which animes we thought were the best in certain categories, like music, line art, character histories, use of non-literal drawing (like SD, shadowplays, drawn metaphors), best humor, best story, best dialogue... I would say every anime is strong in some areas and weak in others.
If I were going to try to create an anime I think I would try to find an anime that was good at each category and analyze how the anime achieved that success, then try to design my anime to do the same and thus be strong in all areas. Not that I would necessarily succeed at making it strong in all areas, but I think it would be a good design strategy to start with.
So there's another question for you if you like: what advice would you give to someone trying to design the best-ever anime?
"Have come to the conclusion that fandom is not a hobby at all but rather a combination non-competitive sport/full-contact tea party. Only, like, the Mad Hatter's tea party, and the Dormouse is totally hitting on the March Hare." - Ins