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[adiva_calandia]

Which Supernatural Character Are You?

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\o/ HELL YEAH.

So I think I'm gonna write one of my final papers on kabuki and noh influences in anime, specifically using either Princess Mononoke or Spirited Away as a case study. I'm sure I'm not the first person to think of this, of course, and I'll be going looking for other analyses along those lines -- but in the meantime, while I binge on anime on a gorgeous summer day research, anyone of the scholarly anime fans on my f-list have any resources I should look at?

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[newredshoes]

I think it's because I don't know much about anime, honestly. When I first found out about it, I was pretty biased against it -- the people I knew in high school who liked anime didn't impress me, and beyond a few other feature length movies, I've still only seen a very few scattered episodes of maybe two or three series.

So, to answer your question, I think it's because initially, I found Miyazaki incredibly beautiful, visually and story-wise, and haven't quite reconciled my croc-brain reaction with the intellectual understanding that yeah, from what I know now (mostly based on friendslist squee), anime can be freaking incredible.

[gramarye1971]

*nodnods* I understand that line of thought. I know that I tend to look at Miyazaki films in their own separate subgenre, so while they're still 'anime' in my mind they're distinct from your standard magical-girl series and your standard fighting-with-giant-robots series and your standard tentacle-monster-WTF pr0n. ^_^

For that matter, as with any other genre, there's a lot of crap drifting around when it comes to anime. I've watched more than my fair share of it at times. I keep a little list of series and movies that I'd show to people who've never seen anime before or who are only minimally exposed to the genre -- my gateway drugs, as it were.

[jothra]

Gotcha. I tend to classify anime as 'any animation made in Japan'.