Jeffrey Sharp wrote:
> Well, this *is* cctalk... :-)
What would cctalk be without the occasional (OK, frequent) off-topic thread
:-)
> On Tuesday, October 15, 2002, Ben Franchuk wrote:
>> Anime is a kid's product from the US point of view, where everywhere
>> else it is respected prime time media ranging from general vewing to
>> very XXX rated products with all sorts of storylines ranging from
>> cute to horror and gore.
> Ben is right. I was introduced to anime last year (though I had
> watched Robotech as a kid), and I love it. There's everything from
> kiddie stuff (e.g. Pokemon) to heady, intellectual stuff (e.g.
> Evangelion) to stuff that can only be described as 'tentacle porn'.
I don't even want to know what you mean by that.
> I just watched the recent US release of 'The End of Evangelion'. It
> and the 26-episode Evangelion TV series that precedes it are IMHO
> currently the most entertaining thing one can play on a screen.
I'll have to try and track that down. Later.
> I agree, but it is also important to note that anime TV series
> typically have one all-important quality that most US animated TV
> series lack: continuity. US TV animation is episodic: crisis and
> resolution occur within 30 minutes, and there is no plot beyond that.
> Every episode starts in the same basic universe, and by the end of
> the episode, nothing has changed. Many anime series, however, have an
> overall plot, and each episode is just a tiny window into that.
> Evangelion, for instance, is like a 13-hour movie.
That's what I like (and hate) about anime - miss an episode and it's a total
pain to work out the plotline from there.
>> Cartoon network is not the place to watch Anime.
> Where is?
WinMX or KaZaA. Download, encode to suit your video editing card and then
play it back on a bigscreen TV. Shame about all the bad TV->tape->Divx rips
though.
Later.
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Received on Wed Oct 16 2002 - 11:19:01 BST