If you’re reading this post, chances are, you love anime. Even if you don’t love anime, you like it, and if you don’t like it you must at least be interested in anime, and if not that, welllll…you mighta made a wrong click somewhere back at that bondage website.
If you love anime, then you must have a reason. I mean, c’mon, even little girls know why they crush on the boy that eats glue. It might seem at times that love is inexplicable, but that’s BS.
Anime has awesome visuals, superb storytelling, and has way better subject matter than its live action counterparts. Then there’s all the bishishonen/ shoujo, nekomimi, moe, tsundere, weird ass love triangles, incest, yaoi/ yuri, magical powers, giant teen steered mechs, monsters, and on and on.
I love anime because of it’s:
- Potential as a visual masterpiece.
- Dynamic storytelling.
There are many little, fangirl reasons but that’s another post. If you could name one thing about anime that endears it to you, what would it be? What is it about anime that has made you the fanboy/fangirl you are today? What’s your fave reason for luv’n anime?
Hmm, one of the big reasons I like anime is because almost always get some kind of closure. A show doesn’t go on and on forever until it’s canceled (with the exception of certain shounen shows), and because of this there’s always something new you can watch. Always a new premise, a new story, and a new world keeping things interesting.
Put this in contrast with western shows that are usually kept running until they lose their sense of direction and become stagnant, unpopular, and cancelled.
I voted for storytelling.
Living in the Hollywood area, it seems like a lot of the problem with the film industry in the U.S. right now is that the cost of entry is way too high. There’s lots of great scriptwriters with awesome stories to tell, but when it takes a cool $50mil to turn that story into a reality, most studios and investors don’t want to take a big risk on an unusual story or untried format.
Although the low wages of Japanese animators is oftened decried in the industry, even without that consideration, to produce a manga or anime is still a tiny fraction of the cost of a U.S. style feature film.
That, as well as the ability to create a manga first and then animate the successful ones, means that far most create and fringe stories are being made in the anime industry. As a result, we’re able to see creative works that authors have crafted that would never have been financially feasible here in the U.S.
I that’s why I find that I enjoy anime and manga far more often than I enjoy American TV or film.
Being that anime is a visual medium, I chose visuals as my first choice.