What was anime to you?
What was anime to you?
Leo Baker
Matthew King
stories unbound by milquetoast teenage realism
worlds that weren't limited by special effects
characters that didn't feel stilted by "acting"
color, sound and frisson
moving art.
Like Bruce Lee said, motion pictures should be about motion, anime gave motion to art in a way western animation hasn't done since maybe the 70s. Sure, we'd get a passable disney movie once or twice a year, but that wasn't enough, and it was before CG shat everything up with generic eyebrow wankery.
As bad as the first Fatal Fury OVA is, I still think it's a more important piece of art than anything put out by anywhere else in the last 20 years, Obari's designs moving are the work of an almighty madman trying to drag you to his madness, I can barely bring myself to fap to Obari hentai from my admiration of his form.
Evan Ortiz
A fantastic world full of infinite possibilities, each as its own universe. But.... after a few animes I realized that everything was the same repetitive shit and only some rare cases were fantastic works worthy of praise. Sad that 90% of anime is about everyday things of daily life, drama, romance, comedy, etc. It's all the same shit.
Landon Wright
A way to cope with the lack of love in my life
Carter Walker
a form of entertainment
Caleb Ramirez
Adventure and not giving a fuck about gay shit like tonal consistency or conventional ideas of maturity.
Liam Reyes
reality
Landon Ward
anime is fun things, and fun things means no one gets left behind
Blake Thompson
Oliver Smith
JAPANESE CARTOONS
Luke Martin
Fap material
Mason Wilson
an abstraction of reality, free from its messy nuances. heavier abstraction than live action, requiring a deeper investment in order to suspend one's disbelief. but with the reward of a more purified form, able to deliver emotions more powerfully than anything in real life could. a distillation to achieve an unrealistic impact. transcending the real to find the true.
this is why i fap to it.
Connor Moore
Life, and it is still today.
Josiah Reed
In a sense, since you're not living the scene in any given media, the whole experience is dimished by realism unless there's some overcompensation by exxageration.
It's why even ascii roguelikes can be more immersive than cinematic shooters if I'm to use dirty Any Forumstard language.
Caleb Diaz
What does the scouter say about his power level?
Logan Edwards
A lot of different things. An escape, a view into interesting story’s, admiration for beautiful animation, all of that. Still is
Nathan Stewart
I watched grave of the fireflies after drinking a bottle of cough syrup. When the bombs went off and the air raid sirens were blaring I shit and vommited all over the bathroom.
Asher Hughes
Tpbp
Jose Flores
>What was anime to you?
Anime has been and always will be just a hobby to me, just the same as playing guitar, hiking, playing games, or reading books.
It's literally something that I've been indulging in for the past thirty years.
For some people, anime is the entirety of their existence. I can't understand that mentality myself.
Levi Wright
Austin Miller
Escapism