We don't do shipping here, we do waifus. Get it right.the korra thread actually seems to have turned into shipping favouritism
maybe they arent so different after all
Needs more wheelchair.Toph is the only option.
Yes, but it's the presence of those certain shows that made it work. It's not that moe or haremshit has really gotten severely worse as many say, it's that there isn't much to balance it out anymore.The underexposure of anime back in the day is what made it look cool (also the fact that only certain shows got brought up). The advent of internet communications and all that shit has only made it easier for people to realise that there's a lot of shit. Like a shitload.
Okay currently here are the shows from Spring 2012 I feel deserves an OT because of interest beyond just Animegaf:
Saint Seiya Omega
Lupin the Third - The woman named Fujiko
Eureka Seven AO
Kids on the Slope
AKB0048
Has anyone claimed the rights to make each OT yet? I think Dead is going to make the E7AO one, and I believe someone said 7th was going to do AKB0048? I'm claiming Kids on the Slope for myself, unless someone else claimed it earlier. I wouldn't mind doing Lupin either, unless someone else wants it. Maybe 7th is doing Saint Seiya Omega too? Not sure.
For Fate/Zero, we should just continue to reuse the existing OT, since it's a returning series.
I'm pretty sure 7th claimed the Koikelupin OT earlier in a another thread, not sure.
Also we have AKB48 fans in GAF?
I'm only making that one. It will be titled: "Saint Seiya Omega: We're going to catch everyone's hearts!" or maybe "Saint Seiya Omega: Athena, OPEN MY HAATO!".
I'm pretty sure 7th claimed the Koikelupin OT earlier in a another thread, not sure.
Also we have AKB48 fans in GAF?
We are all AKB0048 fans here. We just don't know it yet!
Is that some kind of assault rifle?
Upotte is already coming up next season.Counter Strike Anime
Get Hype
Upotte is already coming up next season.
There's an anime for that!
Rock Lee's Springtime of Youth (provided someone else doesn't make it)
There's an anime for that!
I thought Desmond already has that one up
I couldn't really tell if that was him. There are too many characters with orange-brown hair and that guy was one of them if I'm not mistaken.Another - End
And MC was the one who started it all by being a murderer...?
I'm not sure I'm aware of the difference.
Well it looked very much like him and they could have used a completely different design if we were not meant to come to that conclusion. Scene wasn't really needed for the story to work.I couldn't really tell if that was him. There are too many characters with orange-brown hair and that guy was one of them if I'm not mistaken.
Specifically comparing Cowboy Bebop to Avatar, I see the latter's handling of the constantly ongoing main plot in conjunction with the more stand-alone episodes at the beginning of each season as slightly different than Cowboy Bebop's almost entirely episodic nature with only a couple of episodes that involve the "main plot". Also, Cowboy Bebop's relatively open ending reflects Eastern sensibilities as compared to Avatar's more conclusive ending.
I'm sure you could point to counter-examples on both sides, and I wouldn't want to claim a sharp divide between them. Obviously there's a lot of cross-cultural influences going on. But I feel that Avatar is an essentially Western product written and designed from a Western perspective, and so statements like "Avatar does anime better than anime" don't really make sense.
Avatar is not anime because it was not produced, directed, or written in Japan.
Another - END
Although I'd love to call bs on the kill count lol.
Avatar is anime because both are animated in South Korea!!!!
Avatar is anime because both are animated in South Korea!!!!
I don't think it makes a lot of meaningful difference because you're ultimately associating elements which don't really have anything to do a show being western or eastern. Bebop has both stand alone episodes and plot arc episodes. Whether it has more of one or the other is simply a choice which is related to the specific show's design, not because it is "eastern" in any way. The same applies for the ending. It is very strange to make these connections when it generally doesn't seem true.
How is Cowboy Bebop's ending particularly different from something like Sopranos for example? Does this mean that Sopranos is a show where the ending reflects Eastern sensibilities? Of course not, let's not be silly here. Open endings are not unique to eastern or western storytelling. It is a narrative device for conclusions which is universal. Trying to suggest that a conclusive ending is uniquely western seems even dumber to me, considering how many eastern classics have very conclusive endings. I really don't see where you're going here.
It seems more like you simply picked specific differences between Cowboy Bebop and Avatar, and decided that these differences are more "eastern" or "western" based on some silly nonsensical rule which is actually untrue. My point of that Cowboy Bebop (and many other anime for that matter) share a similar format that Avatar does. The point is not that it is a western or eastern narrative format, but rather a universal one.
Trying to suggest that Avatar does things which anime does not will lead into a hole you cannot get out of, because I'm pretty certain that I can specifically find multiple anime series which in fact do handle narrative in the same way as Avatar does, and tackles the same elements that Avatar does.
In fact, I'll love to know how a show like Fullmetal Alchemist is different from Avatar. Just split the 64 episodes across 5 seasons, and you'll have something extremely similar.
Well technically that would be an argument for neither being anime. But if it's just in-betweening work or following the instructions of the creators, I wouldn't necessarily consider that primarily a Korean work, though I guess in Avatar's case you could call it in an American/Korean collaboration.
doesn't "anime" literally just mean "animation"?
doesn't "anime" literally just mean "animation"?
Anyone else find it interesting that shoujo movies seem to be dominating the west lately? Twilight, Hunger games, Snow white and the Huntsman, etc.
In Japanese, yes. When used in English, it's typically reserved for animation made in Japan.
It is not unusual for anime these days to be completely animated in South Korea, with the animation directors, key animators, in-betweeners, and paint/finish artists all being part Korean studios. The background art is sometimes also done entirely in China or Vietnam. We've also seen Korean storyboarders. I think that goes far beyond "in-betweening work".
Saw the Hunger Games, I thought it was a good movie (haven't read the books). If by shoujo you mean it has a teenage female as a lead character, I suppose I could call it that. Using shoujo in the sense of being a chick flick or being targeted to young teen girls, then no I would not call it Twilight.Anyone else find it interesting that shoujo movies seem to be dominating the west lately? Twilight, Hunger games, Snow white and the Huntsman, etc.
Until American studios watered it down even further by producing anime collaborations like Animatrix and Dante's Inferno. Final Flight of the Osiris was produced entirely in Square Honolulu, and Matriculated was not remotely Japanese, neither is the director Peter Chung! Over half of the stuff in Dante's Inferno was completely produced, animated, directed, and storyboarded by Korean studios too.
So yeah, I think we have reached a point where "anime" basically just means anything which looks like what a lay person would think anime looks like. If that's the case, then Avatar probably qualifies. But that just shows how silly all these definitions are to begin with.
Totally. It seemed like the last two episodes had 10 deaths each.
Saw the Hunger Games, I thought it was a good movie (haven't read the books). If by shoujo you mean it has a teenage female as a lead character, I suppose I could call it that. Using shoujo in the sense of being a chick flick or being targeted to young teen girls, then no I would not call it Twilight.
Until American studios watered it down even further by producing anime collaborations like Animatrix and Dante's Inferno. Final Flight of the Osiris was produced entirely in Square Honolulu, and Matriculated was not remotely Japanese, neither is the director Peter Chung! Over half of the stuff in Dante's Inferno was completely produced, animated, directed, and storyboarded by Korean studios too.
So yeah, I think we have reached a point where "anime" basically just means anything which looks like what a lay person would think anime looks like. If that's the case, then Avatar probably qualifies. But that just shows how silly all these definitions are to begin with.
Well I'm not arguing with that, I'm just saying that an animation's country of origin is generally considered to be where it's produced, not necessarily where it's animated.
Anyone else find it interesting that shoujo movies seem to be dominating the west lately? Twilight, Hunger games, Snow white and the Huntsman, etc.
Until American studios watered it down even further by producing anime collaborations like Animatrix and Dante's Inferno. Final Flight of the Osiris was produced entirely in Square Honolulu, and Matriculated was not remotely Japanese, neither is the director Peter Chung! Over half of the stuff in Dante's Inferno was completely produced, animated, directed, and storyboarded by Korean studios too.
So yeah, I think we have reached a point where "anime" basically just means anything which looks like what a lay person would think anime looks like. If that's the case, then Avatar probably qualifies. But that just shows how silly all these definitions are to begin with.