Name: : Anonymous : 2007-04-22 6:43 ID:Vd+Tx+/v
About two or three weeks ago I never really understood the hype about Anime / Manga. That's not to say that I hated it or anything, I just never understood why it was so popular with such a large following.
I finally started watching a series and realized how much improved this was over most American animation. To me, it's due to the story, characters and the foreignness(sp?) of it. From the little that I have seen of it, Anime seems to beat most of the current American cartoons.
However, I have a question. I had always used to think that Anime was simply Japanese cartoons. You know, that ones that they play on TV once the kids have finished school. (Although, I knew that there are ones designed for teenagers and different age groups just like American animation.)
I've been reading about it recently and realized that that a lot of Anime isn't really appropriate for children. They used to play episodes of Cardcaptors (correctly titled Cardcaptor Sakura in Japan) over here years ago as an after school cartoon. I was recently reading about the original uncut Japanese version and I was very surprised to find that it contained quite a bit of homosexual elements.
I am not one to support censorship or anything (in fact I would have preferred to watch the subtitled Japanese version when it aired here), but are Anime series like this really played in Japan as an after school cartoon? It seems strange (well, to me a least) that in America, Anime series like the uncut version of Cardcaptor Sakura would never be broadcasted without a handful of complaints from parents, but in Japan it would be perfectly normal.
Thanks to any replies.
I finally started watching a series and realized how much improved this was over most American animation. To me, it's due to the story, characters and the foreignness(sp?) of it. From the little that I have seen of it, Anime seems to beat most of the current American cartoons.
However, I have a question. I had always used to think that Anime was simply Japanese cartoons. You know, that ones that they play on TV once the kids have finished school. (Although, I knew that there are ones designed for teenagers and different age groups just like American animation.)
I've been reading about it recently and realized that that a lot of Anime isn't really appropriate for children. They used to play episodes of Cardcaptors (correctly titled Cardcaptor Sakura in Japan) over here years ago as an after school cartoon. I was recently reading about the original uncut Japanese version and I was very surprised to find that it contained quite a bit of homosexual elements.
I am not one to support censorship or anything (in fact I would have preferred to watch the subtitled Japanese version when it aired here), but are Anime series like this really played in Japan as an after school cartoon? It seems strange (well, to me a least) that in America, Anime series like the uncut version of Cardcaptor Sakura would never be broadcasted without a handful of complaints from parents, but in Japan it would be perfectly normal.
Thanks to any replies.