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Topic Started: Aug 13 2011, 07:18 AM (546 Views)
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Aug 16 2011, 09:13 PM
Scorps
Aug 16 2011, 07:02 PM
I read the whole thing myself, and I have to say that the rant was indeed incredibly off topic and irrelevant to whatever discussion there was before it.

No one was talking about East versus West, so I don't know where that came from at all. If I read into the past discussion correctly, there was reference to animation going into decline in the States once more and anime's general impact on Western animation or something.

I do agree that cartoons today seem to be treating their audiences like tripped out druggies, though. A lot of the stuff that's showing on Cartoon Network have shown themselves to be absolutely ridiculous results of post-modernism. But there are the occasional (some of them hidden) gems that manage to come along in the form of Thundercats, Young Justice, Clone Wars, Generator Rex, Ben10 and the like.

Though I must say that I like Adventure Time and Regular Show. Adventure Time, while it doesn't seem like it at first glance, does indeed have a plot that it follows, if the more recent episodes (Mortal Folly and Mortal Recoil) are any indication.
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Yeah.

In general, animation has suffered greatly in the states. Not that current anime is breaking any ground nowadays.

Back to anime. Is the culture really that different? Or is there another reason anime on TV didn't do well?
Although foreign, European and Arab kids had no problems with anime growing up. Super robot, shonen, sports, shoujo, comedy, sci-fi, fantasy, educational, historical or children's literature anime. They all did well.
I remember kids would notice a difference between those shows and shows like Thundercats, Silverhawks, Mask...etc. I remember one kid saying "English" cartoons had no story and each episode ended with everyone laughing.


It's cool guys. I can see how you'd think my rant, which was was less rant and more exposition on history and context of two differing cultures, was off-topic with a comment like this predating it.

For the record though, Scorps, there's shows that blow the ones out nowawadays out of the water in terms of "ADHD" content that was out when I was a kid. Ren and Stimpy is foremost in my memory, though there's certainly other stuff too. It's not like wacky, insane cartoons are a recent thing.
I know full and well about those older shows - I was a kid once too.

And frankly, I actually enjoy said older shows. Probably just nostalgia for that old, 90s humor, though.
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