[sad pug noises]
I’ve only ever got into anime shows for their quirky story or character personality development.
Not once was it for the design or terrible animation. If I ever do refer to breathtaking anime it would be studio ghibli but that’s about it. And even given its age, today’s anime really can’t compare. They just wouldn’t put in the work like they once did.
Not surprised a lot of kids get deep into it and then drop it fast as they grow older. Cutesy wears off when that’s the only thing going for it. It gets annoying after a while.
One of the reasons I turned towards manga more.
Cause its all this inbred focused grouped to hell and back pile of grey goo to me now.
Its all the same looking crap (for the most part) and I am not willing to treck the desert anymore to find the rate oasis.Counterpoint: 1963 anime girl
To be fair, the boy is the exact same shape, which I would describe as a weeble wobble with the limbs and head of a kewpie doll 😂
Well, they are robots, so it makes sense!
Meanwhile modern anime women
source of the image is Golden Boy, the dub is incredible
I was just about to say “I seem to recognize this single frame, it’s Golden Boy isn’t it?” Lmao one of the best animes ever.
Fr one of the reasons I can’t get into anime very much is because of how abstract and inhuman most characters look and behave. I know there are cultural and historical reasons for the style and tropes, but it makes everything completely unrelatable to me.
So I’ll forever be one of those guys who’s like “Cowboy Bebop is great but that’s as far as I go”
Hayao “I hate weebs almost as much as life itself” Miyazaki
Cowboy Bebop (ESPECIALLY the dub) was very much written and “acted” in a “western” style. Same with contemporaries like Outlaw Star and Big O (which is very much a referene to Batman).
In general? Rowdy Roddy Piper once said (paraphrasing) that pro wrestling is about explosive acting and emoting and film is about implosive acting and emoting. And ask anyone who has done theatre (which pro wrestling basically is)) and they’ll say something similar. Because when the camera zooms in to that single tear in Ryan Gosling’s eye? We can see it. When Ryan Gosling is on the stage behind twelve layers of plexiglass so we don’t try to lick his sweat? We can’t see that tear and he needs to make a big gesture to make it clear he is having an emotional breakdown.
And that applies to animated content. With very few exceptions (almost all short films), you can’t have the level of detail where such a subtle response will be noticed. Even the truly amazing finales of Cowboy Bebop was built on us having learned enough about the characters to fill in the gaps by that point.
So you get the very over exaggerated “acting” styles so that you know this fairly hastily drawn person is really feeling it. And that is true regardless of the country of origin for the cartoon.
If you watched cowboy bebop have you ever watched vash the stampede?
You mean Trigun? Ofc
And GitS and Eva and the other “classics”
Women aren’t dogs yo
Except for female dogs, but that’s not what I’m talking about here
