Saying all anime looks the same is something your 50 year old parents would say after only seeing what DBZ looks like.
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Nolan Sanchez
>Filtered by innovation
Lol no, don't be autistic. Some innovations benefitted anime like widescreen resolution or digital colouring for better colour mixing. This 3dcg is incapable of doing justice to Ichikawa's art and is a cancer to the medium.
Aiden Foster
I stopped giving a fuck when the protag went from a happy go lucky girl stuck in a dire and dangerous world as her race was being hunted to a callous scheming bitch. Also known as haircut "character development". It was really good, up until that exact point.
Jace Scott
>Anime and manga have a very wide range of styles
Yes, there are plenty of styles in Japanese animation. I'm not denying this at all. I know because i've seen over a 1000 Japanese animation series.
>If your only idea of anime style is 2D though then I guess we can post 2D western animation here too.
I obviously mean the iconic style associated with japan and what the English definition of the word refers to. I.e. attached image
Levi Butler
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That poster is a troll. Anybody who's seen 10 jap animations knows what the anime style is.
Jason King
Fuck you.
Michael Cooper
No.
Kill yourself.
Eli Smith
But there's tons of anime that don't look like that. To what degree varies but it's stupid to say there's a single style that anime adheres to and regardless of something being made in Japan/by Japanese people excluding it because of that. Not to mention that Houseki no Kuni's anime has the kinds of stuff you're saying is "anime style". If anything I'd say the manga strays more from a generic anime style than the anime does even taking into account the CGI.
Robert Walker
>To what degree varies
This is the thing though. You have stylized variants but to an extent, some fundamental things remain much unchanged.
>Not to mention that Houseki no Kuni's anime has the kinds of stuff you're saying is "anime style".
Some parts yes but but some parts no. It's got that sharp grading for the characters bodies but then they're not 2d and look noticeably off.
>but it's stupid to say there's a single style that anime adheres to
You're somewhat misunderstanding. By "style" i didn't mean an extremely specific thing but that anime do share some fundamental characteristics that make it feel like anime. E.g. having generally anatomically correct characters, being 2d and having sharp blocky grading unlike the realistic gradients 3dcg/live action has. Other non fundamental characteristics being large eyes, colourful hair, shiny hair rings etc.. These things make anime look very distinct and recognizable especially when compared to western media.
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japanpowered.com
Both anime in attached image are stylized variants of the anime style. They look vastly different but still manage to feel like anime and recognisably so.
>If anything I'd say the manga strays more from a generic anime style than the anime does even taking into account the CGI.
You are right but that's a bit of an unfair comparison because Houseki no Kuni lacks human character's.
Christian Perry
Good post.