9eb915 No.82
Anime - is it a blight on the world or a blessing in disguise?
I'm going to actually say that certain anime series like Evangelion and Death Note make important critiques of human nature and can be seen as a form or art, while other more immature anime (weeaboo-tier stuff) is just a circlejerk of fandom.
>inb4 b-but muh waifu
19a9a1 No.106
>>82Watching Mushishi, but kinda got stuck at halfway, it just feels so repetetive and uncreative at times, like Hellgirl.
839e92 No.137
I suppose I can only be partially helpful, but, as an all-encompassing statement, animu is art.
I'm a musician by trade, so I listen to a lot of music.
Music is art, I think we can all agree on that. The trouble is that there's a lot of startlingly bad music out there. For every Ben Folds, there's a dozen Katy Perrys. For every IAMDYNAMITE, there's an army of Maroon Fives.
Film is an art form, but that doesn't mean Michael Bay doesn't make film.
With that pretentious bullcrap preface out of the way: In my somewhat limited experience, most anime tends towards Maroon 5 levels of "it fills a simple service with absolutely no reaching or striving to improve". Part of that, I'm sure, is also that they have a genre that western entertainment does not: Slice of life.
How exciting, or engaging, or thought-provoking can something be that is, by definition, exactly what you did today?
0d0ca0 No.145
>>137Just like with all kinds of media, most of it will be MCD, but there's space for art in there.
It's kinda sad how /a/ likes their "b-but muh waifu, weeaboo-tier stuff" so much, it's as if /mu/ liked Katy Perry, as if /film/ liked Michael Bay, as if /lit/ liked 50 Shades of Gray…