Comments on: Cartoons Then, and Cartoons Now http://tiltedfish.blogsome.com/2007/01/20/a-random-post/ Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:38:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Beetle http://tiltedfish.blogsome.com/2007/01/20/a-random-post/#comment-75 Mon, 22 Jan 2007 23:36:07 +0000 http://tiltedfish.blogsome.com/2007/01/20/a-random-post/#comment-75 Having spent so much of my life watching TV from American culture, it all starts to seem the same to me. But repetitive formulaic TV from another culture (e.g. anime) is interesting, under the "if I haven't seen it, it's new to me!" doctrine. I'm saving "running around trees in India" for after college. I recall a complaint somewhere (Something awful, maybe) about a computer game where you play paintball or lasertag or something, which raises the same issue. Having spent so much of my life watching TV from American culture, it all starts to seem the same to me. But repetitive formulaic TV from another culture (e.g. anime) is interesting, under the “if I haven’t seen it, it’s new to me!” doctrine. I’m saving “running around trees in India” for after college.

I recall a complaint somewhere (Something awful, maybe) about a computer game where you play paintball or lasertag or something, which raises the same issue.

]]> by: kenny http://tiltedfish.blogsome.com/2007/01/20/a-random-post/#comment-74 Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:58:53 +0000 http://tiltedfish.blogsome.com/2007/01/20/a-random-post/#comment-74 I think the surging popularity of anime/manga generally is very cool. However, there is bad in anything, and the fact that there are literally cartoons about playing cards bespeaks a certain laziness in the adaptation process. So when you play the card version in real life, you are pretending to... play a card game? That is like if Monopoly were about being a board game player. Where is the metaphor? I think the surging popularity of anime/manga generally is very cool. However, there is bad in anything, and the fact that there are literally cartoons about playing cards bespeaks a certain laziness in the adaptation process. So when you play the card version in real life, you are pretending to… play a card game? That is like if Monopoly were about being a board game player. Where is the metaphor?

]]> by: Kevin! http://tiltedfish.blogsome.com/2007/01/20/a-random-post/#comment-73 Sun, 21 Jan 2007 20:31:06 +0000 http://tiltedfish.blogsome.com/2007/01/20/a-random-post/#comment-73 Anime has gotten way out of hand in the past few years. It used to be just Dragonball, which was bad enough, but at least confined to people who liked standing around saying 'Arghhh!' Now entire walls at B&N are covered in crappy Manga. I'm wondering if this is good or bad. Good because they do have multi-episode plot sagas that involve some level of involvement and comprehension. Bad because the plots are so, so stupid, and every character has some variation on a DSM-IV syndrome. Anime has gotten way out of hand in the past few years. It used to be just Dragonball, which was bad enough, but at least confined to people who liked standing around saying ‘Arghhh!’ Now entire walls at B&N are covered in crappy Manga.

I’m wondering if this is good or bad. Good because they do have multi-episode plot sagas that involve some level of involvement and comprehension. Bad because the plots are so, so stupid, and every character has some variation on a DSM-IV syndrome.

]]> by: Anna http://tiltedfish.blogsome.com/2007/01/20/a-random-post/#comment-72 Sat, 20 Jan 2007 14:32:27 +0000 http://tiltedfish.blogsome.com/2007/01/20/a-random-post/#comment-72 Yeah plus some cartoon are really rude and innappropriate. Yeah plus some cartoon are really rude and innappropriate.

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