Time for me to rant and ninny....Join me won't you?

[Sgt.Chilly]

Ugh....like almost every single time!

Whenever I start reading a new web comic I get these urges to find out what sort of interesting information wikipedia may have dug up on the comic and it's creator.  Sometimes I'll learn about characters names being references to some other person's works or just what the intercourse  this one character's ethnicity is.

At any rate more often then not, I see the phrase (in different forms but meaning the same thing) '...heavily influenced/based on anime and manga style of drawing...'  and it's really annoying!  It's a such a generic way of describing something!  It would be like if the Wikipedia entry on Halo said 'the game's design was influenced mostly by games with guns and aliens.  Games about aliens with guns are also major influences.'  Gee thanks for clearing that up!

It astounds me the scope with which that statement holds.  How would anyone actually use that kind of description in real life?

HyperGreed: So what is that show House like?
TimeMage: Well it's a show about medicine.  They solve medical problems like in other shows about medicine.
HyperGreed: Is that why they were wearing doctor's coats and discussing medicine?
TimeMage: Most likely.

And 'Manga/Anime' as an influence?  Isn't that a little open ended?  I mean is the way the characters designed in  Samurai 7 even bear the slightest resemblance to Astroboy?  Don't even get me started on how roundabout the whole idea of a 'westernized' version of popular Anime style of drawing.  Especially, since anime in itself is actually based (in it's most original form) on that of the exaggerated characters from the early western cartoons like Looney Tunes and Felix the Cat.

Yes that's right.  The reason why you're a weaboo is because a bunch of Japanese doods saw Felix the cat and Bugs Bunny with their wide eyes and over the top facial expressions and thought "This is a very free and unrestricted way of depicting body language. I think it would be useful in appealing to the masses." And over time as resources were more available, artists could start depicting their characters with more anatomically sound designs.


...........Sorry about that..................


I just. I don't like organization or labels.  But I really can't stand it when people try to label and generalize art.  Anime isn't a form of art.  It's a lie perpetuated by people who want to categorize something so it will much more easily fit into their list of 'things they just don't get'.

Moron:'Oh what kind of show is that?'
Lazy Fan:'It's Animated series about socio-political impact of over developing technology to the point of disrupting the status quo.'
Moron:'It looks weird for a cartoon.'
Lazy Fan:'That's because it's drawn in Japan. Most people call this style Anime.'
Moron:'Oh it's from Japan. Okay.'


*Edit*

Too Long? Then don't read.

[Nayrman]

in terms of drawing in the "anime/manga' style, they usually mean the Toriyama style of comics...(think DragonBall, YuYu Hakusho, even Bleach a bit...)

it's usually that because after DB became so popular everyone tried to rip his drawing style off

[Sgt.Chilly]

in terms of drawing in the "anime/manga' style, they usually mean the Toriyama style of comics...(think DragonBall, YuYu Hakusho, even Bleach a bit...)

it's usually that because after DB became so popular everyone tried to rip his drawing style off

It's still a vastly generic description which doesn't pin down the true nature of the person's artistic style.

I'm aware of the popularity of Toriyama but aligning him with such a open ended title could easily lead to vast misrepresentation and inaccurate understanding of an artwork that just happens to share some otherwise commonly occurring characteristics.

[Friendly Hostile]

...Ignoring the general whining, anime is an actual art style.  A heavily overdone one, but a style none the less.  Regardless of what influenced the Japanese to begin drawing that way, it became a distinct style, since it has various elements and aspects that people immediately recognize and associate with it.

[Sgt.Chilly]

It's called bullpoopting.  They love to do that to lengthen the article.

Actually what I do is Psuedo-poopting.

I'm not really trying to sway anyone to my point of view.  I just vent, go on and on about trivial information that has no real impact on anything, and finally ninny about something like 'generalization' or 'ignorance' or whatever.

I find it helps to put my qualms into perspective by ranting about them.