I think some of the big reasons for the huge anime push in the past decade are: - there's just tons of it, which means it's coming in cheap, as compared to local stuff which will go for a higher rate - anything we import already has years worth of episodes, which is easier to handle (and once again cheaper), and equates to less worries on the local end in terms of getting stuff done on time - it's already tied to merchandise, which once again equates to lots of money, and Japan is particularly atrocious for merchandising everything
Anime isn't necessarily any better than anything here. It's just new(er). Anime has the advantage of overwhelming quantity, and when you have that much to select from, then yes, statistically you'll find a fair crop of good stuff coming out of it. Meh, whatever. I've already made a lengthy rant about this in an older entry.
well I dunno, I'm just wondering what makes certain shows so "good" to these ppl, like I will ask "What is Naruto so "good" for?" adn I rarely get a response that adequately appeals to me. I don't know, am I being too judgemental?
For the most part, I don't really consider anime "good". What anime does better than anyone else though is creating the ongoing need to watch the next episode, through cliffhangers or unresolved conflicts etc etc etc without pissing off the viewers.
Take for example the Dragonball effect. You know it's a bad show, but you keep on watching because you just want to know what the hell happens. Then after a while you've invested so much time into it that you may as well keep on watching. Nowadays anime has learned from the dragonball effect and actually write better plots (marginally), but they maintain the drive by never offering conclusion.
Any show can garner moderate success if you can get people to watch enough to start understanding and caring for the characters. Once you do that, you can shove crap down the throats of your audience and they'll keep coming back because by then they've converted.
Well, it depends as to which course he applied for. I mean, for mine, we got interviewed by the profs. The film teacher and web teacher interviewed me, so I got in. Others were interviewed by the drawing profs. If I had them, they'd look at my pictures and deny me.
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Oh yeah, this is Shawn obviously >_>
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- there's just tons of it, which means it's coming in cheap, as compared to local stuff which will go for a higher rate
- anything we import already has years worth of episodes, which is easier to handle (and once again cheaper), and equates to less worries on the local end in terms of getting stuff done on time
- it's already tied to merchandise, which once again equates to lots of money, and Japan is particularly atrocious for merchandising everything
Anime isn't necessarily any better than anything here. It's just new(er). Anime has the advantage of overwhelming quantity, and when you have that much to select from, then yes, statistically you'll find a fair crop of good stuff coming out of it. Meh, whatever. I've already made a lengthy rant about this in an older entry.
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Take for example the Dragonball effect. You know it's a bad show, but you keep on watching because you just want to know what the hell happens. Then after a while you've invested so much time into it that you may as well keep on watching. Nowadays anime has learned from the dragonball effect and actually write better plots (marginally), but they maintain the drive by never offering conclusion.
Any show can garner moderate success if you can get people to watch enough to start understanding and caring for the characters. Once you do that, you can shove crap down the throats of your audience and they'll keep coming back because by then they've converted.
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Maybe it was becuase of that Silverstock incident....
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