Nate wrote:The one thing I will admit anime has over western cartoons is that anime tends to have a lot less stand-alone episodes.
skreyola wrote:When I spoke of deeper story, this is a large part of what I meant. And character depth is highly correlated to story depth.
Nate wrote:skreyola wrote:When I spoke of deeper story, this is a large part of what I meant. And character depth is highly correlated to story depth.
Not really, no. You can have a cool story but with a completely boring character, and you can have really interesting characters but not much of a story.
Kraavdran wrote:One possibility anime might have over the average western show is simply the fact that each character is quite unique.
Kraavdran wrote: One possibility anime might have over the average western show is simply the fact that each character is quite unique.
Kraavdran wrote: The American shows that I have watched sometimes make it hard to identify which character is who because they wear similar clothing,
Thunderscream872 wrote: I personally don't seen one as producing more memorable characters and the other.Kraavdran wrote: One possibility anime might have over the average western show is simply the fact that each character is quite unique.
I'm gonna have to partially disagree there. While some shows like Cowboy Bebop, Steins;Gate, Darker Than Black, Canaan, and Princess Jellyfish all have very different characters; shows such as Sword Art Online, Attack on Titan, Blue Exorcist, Seraph of the End, Guilty Crown, Beyond the Boundary, Angel Beats, and Date A Live have casts that are, for the most part, unoriginal, overused, and I feel like can be easily interchanged for the most part. Now, I'm not saying those are bad shows (Blue Exorcist is one of my favorite anime), but I feel like the characters (whether I like them or not) are predictable, which takes away from there memorability.
Thunderscream872 wrote:
I think it would make the shows much more unique. I'm not sayin I dislike the current MCs (Rin especially is awesome), but they just feel overdone, predictable, and tiresome. What I would prefer to see more anime do is have more than one character get lots of attention, sort of like the way Game of Thrones or The Walking Dead handle their casts.
Thunderscream872 wrote: All of that to say that one major thing I feel like anime has going against it is that you get a crap load of recycled characters from anime to anime, and while these characters might be enjoyable, they never get the time or development they deserve and are left more as pretty ornaments for people to cosplay as; because the MC (who is likely a short, 14-15 year old male with a boy band hair cut) is getting his story about how he has special powers and accidentally groped the transfer student told for the millionth time.
[/quote]Thunderscream872 wrote:Kraavdran wrote: The American shows that I have watched sometimes make it hard to identify which character is who because they wear similar clothing,
So, school uniforms = variety?
...sorry I couldn't resist...
Thunderscream872 wrote:I certainly don't expect a big cast of entirely original and unique characters in everything that I watch--I get that that is pretty much impossible to pull off.
Thunderscream872 wrote:Kraavdran wrote: The American shows that I have watched sometimes make it hard to identify which character is who because they wear similar clothing,
So, school uniforms = variety?
...sorry I couldn't resist...
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