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Jigsaw · 07-11-2007, 03:33 PM

Here's what I think now that I am older and a little wiser than last time. I will weigh out a few pros and cons of anime in general as well as American cartoons.

All right, we all know Anime is generally worshipped as what is essentially a god. Why? Because the things that anime "fans" have seen are often some of the better of the crop. If an anime fan becomes a fan off of the likes of FMA, Trigun, Basilisk, or the like, they will automatically worship the whole genre instead of picking that one show and saying its good. Saying the whole genre is good based on one thing? Stupid. I'm guilty of said bias, and yes, I openly admit that was stupid.

But the point is, as a fan of anime, I can still say its honestly better than the rapidly deteriorating American genre. In anime, there are many sucktastic shows. So many that it hurts. Usually, the only stuff that makes it stateside is either a masterpiece movie or some big fad over there. We still get crap like Naruto, but with stuff like Basilisk, most people do follow the genre bias concept.

Of course, we still get 4Kids sharts, and thousands of crappy fads. Even so, we do end up with many good things as a whole.

Anime has sucky crap. I know this. I believe that with all my heart. And sometimes the animation sucks very hard. But most anime fans blindly grasp on to our beliefs, or their beliefs considering my views are no longer as one-sided.

American animation, however, makes it a point to suck. In fact, it feels like they try to make the animation and drawing look poor nowadays. As cartoons slowly go into CG territory, classic hand drawn stuff progressively delves into a territory with horrible voices, art, and no story. My examples? Pucca, Shuriken School, Kappa Mikey, Anything on Jetix, and the list goes on. Even with diamonds in the rough like Avatar, you have a lot of rubbish coming along the screen.

Even so, there is an equal amount of suck on both sides. For me, however, Anime has a good side I prefer to the good side of american animation. With Basilisk as my witness, I stand by Anime. But don't get me wrong, there will always be crap. It's a universal law.

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