Comments on: Anime is a powerful medium: anime as a powerful medium

By: blissmo

blissmo — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:33:20 +0000

@issa-sa:

Nope. It’s ugly either way.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:30:56 +0000

Lelangir:

WAIT, WAS THAT A TROLL COMMENT D:

nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

By: Lelangir

Lelangir — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:15:18 +0000

That last comment was completely relevant.

By: Lelangir

Lelangir — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:27:42 +0000

God knows I’ve never read that book.

My favorite animes are the least “deep” ones. I’ll take lucky star over kaiba anyday. LS has more braindead replay value than Kaiba for me anyway, I guess that’s where I develop preferences on watching, not “reading”.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:49:14 +0000

Baka-Raptor:

Ouch.

Yeah, I was thinking in that line, but I was trying to bring out both. Anime is a powerful medium primarily because of its ability to integrate different media, and I’ve shown in some instances where anime trounces literature. Thus, I decided to include both.

By: Baka-Raptor

Baka-Raptor — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:35:04 +0000

Your title confuses me. Wouldn’t it have been good enough to only say either “Anime is a powerful medium” or “Anime as a powerful medium”? I want my vote back.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:49:52 +0000

@IKnight

You could have used the Sternian aposiopesis.

EDIT: AND HEY, IT WORKS NOW!

@issa-sa

Oh, yeah, he also utilized graphs! Like lolikit.

By: issa-sa

issa-sa — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:45:43 +0000

Wow, I need to get me that book!
@blissmo: That was a joke picture I posted of Doraemon on my blog btw (but I have this feeling that you’d still say the same thing about the original designs -_-”)

By: IKnight

IKnight — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:44:05 +0000

‘del’ and ‘/del’ tags don’t work on your comments? Shame.

By: IKnight

IKnight — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:43:28 +0000

~~Get thee to a~~ While I think Tristram Shandy is very clever in its attack on the rules of novel-writing (and also quite funny) I can appreciate that it might underwhelm you. But apart from the famous black page, I’d forgotten how Sterne added those visual bits and pieces into the mix, and how much they bring to the text. Although all novels have a certain amount of visual paratext in what’s on (or not on) their covers, and so forth, it rarely adds very much.

Though I remember sections of text in The Madwoman in the Attic being separated by (fig?) leaves, which complimented the chapter on ‘Milton’s Daughters’ rather well. But then that’s not a novel.

I’m not sure I’d say that visual art’s best utilisation is in anime, though I’d probably agree that the visual pinnacles of anime do challenge for a place in a hypothetical collection of ‘humanity’s great artistic moments’. But the reason I can’t quite agree is because I know so little about art outside of anime itself, so I don’t have any evidence to go on either way.