| What are your thoughts on Chinese anime? Do you think they're worth watching? Which ones would be a good starter? How is Chinese voice acting ? Is it different from japanese anime? (Don't go into politics and let political bias influence your views.... just keep it anime) |
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| it's a nice change of pace to understand anime without subtitles names in chinese anime are impossible to remember though A good starter would be link click or mo dao zu shi |
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| How can it be anime if it is not made in japan?! |
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| I haven't really been paying attention to any, but I love Big Fish & Begonia. It's a Ghibli movie better than the ones Ghibli makes. |
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| Mo Dao Zu Shi Scissor Seven Link Click Legend of Hei (movie) Are good starters Quality wise they're not that different from japanese anime, but I'm kinda avoiding their 3D stuff. |
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| Most of them are kinda bad Some are good Mainly the slice of lifes For some reason china is amazing at making slice of lifes but most of the time it goes unnoticed |
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| I watched two Chinese animes.. One was about two brothers, one dead, one alive and the dead brother's wife was police detective. They work together to solve supernatural cases involving ghost. I kinda like the story but not the animation and didn't know what to think about voice acting.. it was the only one i saw at that time. Second was a short one, about food and cute baka girls.. Loved the ending song - summer beach barbeques |
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qx26 said: it's a nice change of pace to understand anime without subtitles names in chinese anime are impossible to remember though A good starter would be link click or mo dao zu shi Like you said, i can't remember the names.. and i can't differentiate between names and get confused.. |
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| I only watched two. the animation and art are perfect, really beautiful. but I found it a bit complicated to understand the story, it seems a bit confusing. and since Chinese and japanese are two very different languages (and I'm used to japanese), it's hard to understand what's going on. the ones I watched were Mo Dao Zu Shi and Tian Guan Ci Fu fandom people always say that when you start consuming the work through donghua (chinese anime) it's more difficult to understand the story. they recommend that you should read the books first but that's just in the case of these two I mentioned, I don't know about other donghuas or if they have books |
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| Well, I have only watched Nu Wushen de Canzhuo. It was a pretty fun show. |
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| I watched two so far, one of them was good (Shiguang Dailiren), the other one wasn't (Da Yu Hai Tang). Most of them look pretty cheap, so I'm not feeling very motivated to try them. The language definitely needs getting used to as I haven't listened to it as much as Japanese. |
kwknives said: I only watched two. the animation and art are perfect, really beautiful. but I found it a bit complicated to understand the story, it seems a bit confusing. and since Chinese and japanese are two very different languages (and I'm used to japanese), it's hard to understand what's going on. the ones I watched were Mo Dao Zu Shi and Tian Guan Ci Fu fandom people always say that when you start consuming the work through donghua (chinese anime) it's more difficult to understand the story. they recommend that you should read the books first but that's just in the case of these two I mentioned, I don't know about other donghuas or if they have books I can understand only two Chinese words, nihao and wo ai ni. Thanks to shampoo from ranma.. I can speak Japanese and understand (not kansai accent and aomori accent is difficult to understand even for the japanese outside aomori) but not too good at reading and writing. |
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| They do a TON of 3D only stuff and I really don't like how that looks. Also not a fan of the really intrusive ads that are often literally a PART of the show and therefore not exactly skippable ๐ That said, there are ofc stellar standout titles that are absolutely worth watching (Link Click made it into my top 10 without trouble, for example), but the ratio of good to lazily produced quick cashgrab feels overall higher than for Japanese anime. Also, there's an inflation of overpowered MCs even far beyond what Japanese isekai is plagued with, and almost regardless of genre... Names and expressions are something you get used to just fine if you consume enough Chinese media, but it's helpful to keep a notepad ready when you are just starting out. For me personally, I still prefer Japanese because it just comes more naturally to me since the pronunciation is very similar to my native language, but it's not like Chinese doesn't work too. There are subs either way, so...๐คทโ๏ธ |
| If you're into Shounen I'd definitely recommend Douluo Dalu. The biggest issue I faced when I started with chinese stuff was how much did I hate the language. Leap forwards in time to the present and now I think mandarin sounds cool af even better than japanese I absolutely love it. Another issue I had - and I still haven't fully resolved - is how alien the way of thinking in chinese media is. This is not something I would talk about publicly because when it comes to china one treads a step from of being called a racist, nevertheless part of what makes chinese media so interesting is precisely how curious their line of reasoning is. |
ryo-san said: What are your thoughts on Chinese anime? 1st of all Animation from China is called "Donghua" not "Anime". I have tried to watch around 30 different Chinese titles over the past few years. While the Animation is becoming more impressive, there is a lackluster to the voice acting that is hard to ignore. Voice actors in Chinese Mandarin is extremely low compared to Japanese voice acting. Quite Frankly listening to "Donghua" in Mandarin can give me a headache if I try to watch more then 3 episodes at a time. There is an incredible lack of emotion with Chinese Mandarin voice acting in their animations and this is true to date. This might actually just be due to the fact that there is over 100's of different dialects in china and any film or TV is generally always produced in Mandarin unless it's from Hong kong. Which in some cases they will use Cantonese. Pretty much most Chinese "Donghua" is historical related and pretty much all "Donghua" is state funded media which is basically government controlled. So there is an extremely limited amount of freedom of creative expression even when almost all "Donghua" are original net animations. Since most western nations don't even trade with China anymore, it's incredibly difficult to get your hands on merch or any DVD/Bluray of any "Donghua" outside of Asia. Subtitles for Chinese "Donghua" are even more loosely put together than subtitles made for Japanese Anime. So it's likely what ever is being spoken in Mandarin will be miles off in translation when watching with subtitles. I personally don't enjoy "Donghua" at all and have seriously have given it a try before. I simply just view it as a cheap knock off of Japanese Anime since any of the series that do manage to barely break the stale mold are "Donghua" that are purposely created in the shadow of the culture that surrounds Japan's Anime. Which makes it slightly more palatable to watch creating the illusion that "Donghua" is some how becoming on par with Japan's industry. When in fact they are still light years behind existing without it's own identity to be celebrated. It's likely going to take China decades before their "Donghua" has it's own cultural identity like Japan has with Anime. This can't be rushed or forced even with impressive animated sequences when most western nations today won't even carry "Donghua" merch in their stores. |
| Mo Dao Zu Shi Link Click Quanzhi Gaoshou Tian Guan Ci Fu Very interesting gateways to chinese anime |
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| I have watched Scissor Seven only. The characters are all unique and entertaining on its own way, art style reminds me of mob psycho. I thought the plot was a little to nonexistence but there actually a plot but very slow. Tho I watched in English & Japanese dub(2 times each episodes), I rewatched some episodes in Chinese |
| "What are your thoughts on Chinese anime?" If OP means donghua, I liked several of those: Mo Dao Zu Shi aka Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation Cike Wu Liuqi aka Scissors Seven (third season was a bit meh) Ling Long: Incarnation aka Spirit Cage: Incarnation Doupo Cangqiong aka Battle Through the Heavens (first season is really cheap but it's last season has the best 3D CGI battles ever made) Xing Hai Qi Shi aka Knights on Debris Xian Wang de Richang Shenghuo aka The Daily Life of the Immortal King (now this is an interesting take on cultivation) Da Wang Rao Ming aka Spare Me, Great Lord Lie Huo Jiao Chou aka Drowning Sorrows in Raging Fire The Kuiba franchise (3 movies and a prequel series?) Jian Wang 3: Xia Gan Yi Dan Shen Jianxin aka JX3: Chivalrous Hero Shen Jianxin You Yao aka Are You Ok Shi Zhi Ge - Hua Yu Yan De Kuang aka Song of Time Qian Qiu, Shan He Jian Xin aka Thousands of Years Moshi Juexing Zhi Ruqin aka The Invasion of Awakening (alas went to trash in its final season) Mindiao Ju Yiwen Lu aka Bureau of Paranormal Investigation Daomu Biji Zhi Qinling Shen Shu aka Tomb Robber Notes Qinling God Tree Hong Huang aka Rescue Eternal Desert Yuan Long aka Carp Reborn (trashy fun) Ming Zhi Zhou aka The Totem Warrior "How is Chinese voice acting ?" I like it pretty much but I guess it needs some using to. Anyway I always try to go with the original dub of any title. "Is it different from japanese anime?" Donghua feels very different to me...this is why I go for shows from it, quite exotic experience. |
alshuMar 6, 2022 11:27 AM
ColourWheel said: It's likely going to take China decades before their "Donghua" has it's own cultural identity like Japan has with Anime. This can't be rushed or forced even with impressive animated sequences when most western nations today won't even carry "Donghua" merch in their stores. This is an important consideration. Link Click may be critically acclaimed, but it's obvious most people outside China will never watch it. And so many English translations of Chinese pop-culture seem to cater to anime fans, as if China and Japan are interchangeable. |
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| I liked Mo Dao Zu Shi, but sometimes I had a hard time telling which character is which because their designs and faces were all similar and even their voices kinda blended together. |
| Who are you and why do you show your hostility towards a complete stranger whom you've not once spoken with before. Are you seriously asking to get blocked? Well, if that's what your intent is; to tempt me into throwing hands with someone as lowly and insignificant as you, then i may grant your wish provided you articulate yourself a bit better when trying to spite a person of my wavelength. |
| Chinese 'anime' have a name. They're called donghua. |
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| The only chinese anime I've seen is Link Click and I enjoyed what it had to offer. I'm down to give more chinese anime a chance. It feels like the people who give them shit don't do much research or even watch it at all |
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| The only chinese animation I've watched is "Mo Dao Zu Shi". The art was really pleasing and I enjoyed the story, too. |
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| Good content is good content, country of origin shouldn't really be a barrier. However, I will definitely not watch a Chinese show if it is blatant CCP propaganda as I do not want to really be subject to the ideals of a genocidal and totalitarian government |
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Lucifrost said: ColourWheel said: It's likely going to take China decades before their "Donghua" has it's own cultural identity like Japan has with Anime. This can't be rushed or forced even with impressive animated sequences when most western nations today won't even carry "Donghua" merch in their stores. This is an important consideration. Link Click may be critically acclaimed, but it's obvious most people outside China will never watch it. And so many English translations of Chinese pop-culture seem to cater to anime fans, as if China and Japan are interchangeable. Too many users on MAL are too young to understand how long it took Anime to actually make a foothold in the western world and beyond as for being viewed as anything more than just cartoons. Even during the 80s countless lines of merch being freely traded all across the world coming out of Japan and still Anime was still commonly just thought of as cartoons in America. I remember back in the early 90s I subscribed to AnimeUK while living in America and kept at it until they stopped publishing. Manga was simply just viewed commonly as comic books and large scale Anime conventions were non-existent as anything that was large enough to fill an actual convention center was simply fused as a niche side show at comic book conventions until close to the turn of the century. Chinese "Donghua" has actually been around since the late 50s and it still doesn't have any sort of celebrated identity beyond being just being viewed as a cheap knock off of Japanese Anime. It's never had any appeal for anyone one beyond China's children until far after the turn of the century. Since almost all Western Nations around the world have basically stopped trading with China, It's not likely for China's "Donghua" will be heading anywhere than where it stands now. "Donghua" been widely accessible in Japan for decades before the west ever even knew it even existed and even the Japanese people from Osaka to Hokkaido don't even have interest in "Donghua". I should know I have been to both places before and in between. The Japanese people really don't have a very fond view of it. Until I personally start seeing western websites popup strictly catering to "Donghua" fandom, be able to go to a "Hot Topic" to find the latest "Xia Gan Yi Dan Shen Jianxin" merch, or even read some random debate on a western forum over who has a better "Donghua" waifu, Chinese "Donghua" will be nothing but a small shadow in the world of animation. I can't stress it enough that Chinese "Donghua" is light years behind Japanese Anime and I will probably be long dead before "Donghua" creates it's own cultural identity like Japan has with Anime. Simply having impressive animation coming out of China is not enough and it never will be. |
ColourWheelMar 6, 2022 1:41 PM
| This is a metaphysical conundrum. To what extent is it possible to think about something which in itself is a contradiction in terms? |
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| @ColourWheel Thank you for your insight. I love learning about international pop-culture trends. |
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| My basic thoughts are that it is not anime, and should be allowed to find it's separate identity from Japanese anime. |
| Tbh I haven't seen one I really liked yet, but that's probably because I haven't seen a whole lot of them. |
| Thanks everyone for the info.. So okay, Mo Dao Zu Shi as it was what most suggested and incarnation spirit cage sounds my kind of supernatural mystery from the title... I had no idea they were called donghuas... |
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| I'm going to skip regurgitating the vapid discussion on anime vs "donghua" (hint: it's practically a white-people thing). I've been watching a ton of Chinese anime lately. In general, I'd say that Chinese anime characters are more mature and older. The typical Chinese character is between 16-25, as opposed to 12-16 in Japanese anime. That means even the shounen-esque Chinese anime are closer to seinen in tone. Although there are still some fanservice tropes, like characters having sex after inadvertently being "poisoned" by an aphrodesiac (lame), they occur much less often than the comparable Japanese anime. I have to say this makes Chinese anime a lot more tolerable -- even on average. The second thing Chinese anime has going for it is that it's mostly based on web novels, which are more textual than they are graphic, a format that allows for more depth. Also, some of them are BL (yaoi), which is somehow a big thing in China, but thanks to government censorship, all the more explicit stuff is in between the lines. So the animators have to show the relationships through subtext, which ironically make it more meaningful. If you're completely new to Chinese anime, I'd suggest the following: 2D: (in no particular order)
3D: (yeah, I know it's hard to get used to it at first, but these should not be discounted)
Obviously, there are more, but this should be more than enough to get anyone started. |
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| @katsucats For the record, I am not trying to have a go at you here. It's a bit unfair to throw in race into this discussion since it really hasn't been brought up until your post. I always hate it when I see race being brought up in any discussion. More so when it's as petty as being about the Anime. I am personally Korean which is far from being "white-people". So I think you need to view an opposition to "Donghua" from perspective that isn't about race. Although both "Anime" and "Donghua" are both animated mediums, mixing them all together as if they belong together is actually an insult to the culture that Japan has built around Anime for decades. It's as if you have some classic rock radio DJ starting off their set playing "Eminem's - Rap god" introducing it as one of the new classic followed by "AC/DC's - Back in Black", "Aerosmith's - Sweet emotion", then suddenly busting out "Logic's - Homicide ft. Eminem" then going back to spinning another "AC/DC" song. Unless China doesn't want "Donghua" to eventually have it's own cultural identity it's only going to keep living in the shadow of Japan's Anime. Now I could go into an outrageous conspiracy theory that I have heard before... --- Suspecting the Chinese government really wants is to eventually take over the culture of Anime by infiltrating Western Anime fandom. Slipping in enough palatable "Donghua" titles in Databases like MAL to the likeness of Japanese Anime to the point that new and future western fan won't be able to tell the difference between the two. Just to culturally appropriate Anime using cold war tactics till more Chinese "Donghua" exist than actual Japanese "Anime". --- I swear to to you this is not something I made up but have actually heard from someone tell me who is even more against "Donghua" than I am (probably one of those "white-people things" you were talking about in your previous post since the person I heard this from is actually white).*sarcasm* Since it doesn't seem like "Donghua" is ever going to suddenly disappear from MAL (which honestly I wouldn't mind if it did). I think MAL and MAL users have a responsibility to help educate new and future Anime fans, so user like the OP of this thread don't go on thinking that "Chinese Anime" is an actual thing (not having a go at the OP either). I apologize right now if I happen to offend anyone. |
ColourWheelMar 6, 2022 8:04 PM
| Let me respond to two things in particular here. ColourWheel said: It doesn't really matter what race you are. You're still being led on by white-empowered Euro-centrism. Let me explain. Anime, from a Japanese perspective, is just a contraction of animation. Disney is anime. It doesn't specifically refer to any cultural medium. It's not some exotic thing. Manga literally means comics and nothing further. Since you're Korean, you should know that the Japanese kanji for manga is exactly the same as the words they imported, namely the Chinese manhua and the Korean manhwa. They mean exactly the same thing, down to the way they're written.I am personally Korean which is far from being "white-people". So I think you need to view an opposition to "Donghua" from perspective that isn't about race. So what does donghua mean? In Japanese, it would be douga. Its kanji literally means "moving picture". Nothing else. In fact, Japanese used this world before the Americanized contraption was popularized. Nobody in any Asian culture thinks donghua means Chinese animation in particular. Nobody in any Asian culture thinks anime means Japanese animation in particular. Period. These are ideas sold to you by the marketing and fetishization by white people, period. Now, you can use the words donghua to refer to "Chinese animation" and anime to refer to "Japanese animation" if it pleases you, due to Western convention if anything, but please spare us the lecture. It is not written anywhere that these are the words that mean these things. It is not fact. In fact, "anime" in Western usage was invented in the 80s to make Japanese animation easier to sell because the term before that, Japanimation, was too long. Then fans started adopting this marketing logic to manhwa and donghua, etc. But nobody uses "peliculas" to refer to Spanish movies, or "animer" to refer to French animation. Do you know why? Because these are Euro-centric cultures. ColourWheel said: The word that you use has nothing to do with its cultural identity. No one is going to be confused when they watch Chinese or Korean animation and don't hear Japanese being spoken.Unless China doesn't want "Donghua" to eventually have it's own cultural identity it's only going to keep living in the shadow of Japan's Anime. ColourWheel said: There is a lot of bigotry in the anime community, sadly. All the nerds were virtue signaling when they wanted to appear more cosmopolitan for defending Japanese culture, but sadly revert back to xenophobia when it comes to other Asian cultures. That's why the typical MAL reviewer rated this masterpiece -- Seoul Station -- terribly because they "found the voices annoying". But these McCarthyist Asian culture haters are just ignorant, plain and simple. First of all, the precursor to the xianxia genre (diety fantasy), which is the dominant genre in Chinese anime, is wuxia (martial fantasy), which was invented by Hong Kong and Taiwanese authors exercising veiled political criticism of colonialism and communism by dressing it up in fiction. The most popular wuxia works had plots of, for example, the protagonist upending established social order because the classifications of "good" and "evil" seemed to simplistic. This moral relativism is exactly what the Chinese communist government tried to censor when they disowned Confucianism and Taoism, etc, and prevented people from pushing ideologies contrary to the government.--- Suspecting the Chinese government really wants is to eventually take over the culture of Anime by infiltrating Western Anime fandom. Slipping in enough palatable "Donghua" titles in Databases like MAL to the likeness of Japanese Anime to the point that new and future western fan won't be able to tell the difference between the two. Just to culturally appropriate Anime using cold war tactics till more Chinese "Donghua" exist than actual Japanese "Anime". --- The Legend of Condor Heroes had also been appropriated by Japanese anime under the name Shin Chou Kyou Ryo. Surely you don't think the Japanese government was helping sell Chinese propaganda? The other dominant genre in Chinese anime is BL (i.e. boys love, yaoi). And the Chinese government just did a mass media censoring of dozens of popular actors and their works for being too "feminine" and pushing a liberal vision of masculinity. Anyone who watches Chinese anime and sees the moral relativism and the frankly gay shit and think the Chinese government is behind that doesn't know shit about the Chinese government, and probably just want to buy into Donald Trump's racist rhetoric about the trade deficit, while they somehow simultaneously fanboy Putin's fascism. Do you know why? I bet these people's parents also thought "Chinese cartoons" (i.e. Japanese animation) were communist imports meant to destroy American values, while they shot up Eagles records for being Satanic. It's just ridiculous. |
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ColourWheel said: I'll cap my rant off by noting this. The OP said "Chinese anime". Obviously, being prepended by the "Chinese", OP did not think that "Chinese anime" was Japanese, nor did it indicate somehow that he didn't think "anime" was by default Japanese, given that he specifically clarified Chinese anime. So I fail to see what OP supposedly thought was or was not an actual thing...Since it doesn't seem like "Donghua" is ever going to suddenly disappear from MAL (which honestly I wouldn't mind if it did). I think MAL and MAL users have a responsibility to help educate new and future Anime fans, so user like the OP of this thread don't go on thinking that "Chinese Anime" is an actual thing (not having a go at the OP either). This seems like just a trite semantic disagreement, like your issue is with the specific terminology of a casual word than anything of substance. This is why I said what I said in my original post. This isn't, or shouldn't be, important to anyone besides people who for whatever reason want to put Japanese culture on the pedestal, to distinguish it from other Asian cultures. Sociological terminology calls that fetishism, but I'd understand why that term is controversial and hurtful to the people who perpetuate it (... :/) ColourWheel said: No offense taken. I doubt anyone else is offended either.I apologize right now if I happen to offend anyone. |
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| they censor things. like I'll start avoiding sony if they censor things too. very simple, if they make a pure anime without booba in first place then it's okay but if they remove fun things from the show it feels like a bad adaptation already. by keeping anime only yes I'm talking about anime only not chinese cartoon :> |
hazecloud said: lmao Sony does censor things. That's why they make movies that target MSRP ratings. Anime censors things also, so that they could be played in their time slots. Acting as if all anime adaptations are good and everything else counts as censorship smhthey censor things. like I'll start avoiding sony if they censor things too. very simple, if they make a pure anime without booba in first place then it's okay but if they remove fun things from the show it feels like a bad adaptation already. by keeping anime only yes I'm talking about anime only not chinese cartoon :> I frankly don't give a shit if anyone hates Chinese anime. It's just so excessively obvious when it's politically motivated and people act like it's not. |
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katsucats said: ColourWheel said: It doesn't really matter what race you are. You're still being led on by white-empowered Euro-centrism. Let me explain. Anime, from a Japanese perspective, is just a contraction of animation. Disney is anime. It doesn't specifically refer to any cultural medium. It's not some exotic thing. Manga literally means comics and nothing further. Since you're Korean, you should know that the Japanese kanji for manga is exactly the same as the words they imported, namely the Chinese manhua and the Korean manhwa. They mean exactly the same thing, down to the way they're written.I am personally Korean which is far from being "white-people". So I think you need to view an opposition to "Donghua" from perspective that isn't about race. So what does donghua mean? In Japanese, it would be douga. Its kanji literally means "moving picture". Nothing else. In fact, Japanese used this world before the Americanized contraption was popularized. Nobody in any Asian culture thinks donghua means Chinese animation in particular. Nobody in any Asian culture thinks anime means Japanese animation in particular. Period. These are ideas sold to you by the marketing and fetishization by white people, period. Now, you can use the words donghua to refer to "Chinese animation" and anime to refer to "Japanese animation" if it pleases you, due to Western convention if anything, but please spare us the lecture. It is not written anywhere that these are the words that mean these things. It is not fact. In fact, "anime" in Western usage was invented in the 80s to make Japanese animation easier to sell because the term before that, Japanimation, was too long. Then fans started adopting this marketing logic to manhwa and donghua, etc. But nobody uses "peliculas" to refer to Spanish movies, or "animer" to refer to French animation. Do you know why? Because these are Euro-centric cultures. I know Anime was born from Disney but you don't see "Dragon Ball" along side "Peter Pan" and "Snow White" as if they all belong together simply because they are all Animations. Anime might have started off as a contraction of animation but close to the late 80s anime started developing it's own unique culture. Call it fetishism if you want. The term "Japanimation" was actually coined by 'Central Park Media" which was in the 90's though that term didn't last long for the reason you originally described. The thing is the term Anime has been used way before that. I even remember my parents who use to frequent Japan as missionaries from Korea quite often calling Japanese animation "Anime" even back in the 70s. Every time my father would watch the VHS tapes he brought home he even called them Anime. Also you are actually misinformed when you say that "nobody in any Asian culture thinks "donghua" means Chinese animation" because the Japanese sure do know the difference. If you have actually spoken to enough real Japanese "otaku's" that live in Japan, they will be insulted if you call animation from china "Anime". Just because they aren't some form of authority I still respect their views. It's the Japanese fans that perpetuate the culture more so than any outside influence. I have met plenty of doujinshi artist in Japan who have probably gone on to becoming todays artist in the industry. Even they share the same view. Regardless if you think it's "white-empowered Euro-centrism." I am just explaining things from my own perspective growing up where I have been around anime pretty much my entire life. Now I can't read or write in any Asian language but I can speak Japanese quite fluently since I been married to a Japanese woman for almost two decades now. I have simply learned it just from living with my wife, even though she has a very strong Osaka accent. The reason for my lack of literacy is simply because I have spent a majority of my educated life in America. Now I am not going to talk about Korean manhwa because I don't see it being actively flooded in the MAL database. But just after reading your lengthy reply you really seem to have you own strong opinion of this and there is really no point to continue debating. It's obvious you have a completely different perspective. I still think it's a disservice to the culture when simply calling anything that is animation made outside of Japan "Anime". This includes American Animation, Korean Animation, or even animation from Afghanistan if that actually exists. |
ColourWheelMar 6, 2022 10:31 PM
ColourWheel said: It didn't just start as contraction. It is contraction and it still is contraction. Contraction is a common feature of the Japanese language. It's so anime that it's listed in Japanese anime listing sites (see Frozen and Mo Dao Zu Shi). You do see Dragon Ball alongside Peter Pan in that they're both anime. Japanese people understand that Peter Pan is not Japanese anime, it's American anime.I know Anime was born from Disney but you don't see "Dragon Ball" along side "Peter Pan" and "Snow White" as if they all belong together simply because they are all Animations. Anime might have started off as a contraction of animation but close to the late 80s anime started developing it's own unique culture. Call it fetishism if you want. ColourWheel said: I doubt it, unless it's politically motivated, since plenty of Japanese and Chinese nationalists hate each other. Japanese people have no problem calling Disney works anime. They have no problem adapting Quanzhi Gaoshou as a light novel, and dubbing a Blu-ray of Mo Dao Zhu Shi for its local audience -- all under the moniker of a "TVใขใใกๅ็ป" -- which translates exactly to "TV anime douga".Also you are actually misinformed when you say that "nobody in any Asian culture thinks "donghua" means Chinese animation" because the Japanese sure do know the difference. If you have actually spoken to enough real Japanese "otaku's" that live in Japan, they will be insulted if you call animation for china "Anime". ColourWheel said: That's your perspective, but nobody in Japan cares if people use a word for what it is meant to describe.I still think it's a disservice to the culture when simply called anything animation made outside of Japan "Anime". This includes American Animation, Korean Animation, or even Animation from Afghanistan if that actually exists. The Japanese people in the comments call Mo Dao Zhu Shi a "Chinese anime"... like I did.  If doujinshi artists really got offended from calling animation "anime", then I wonder if they burst blood vessels every time they deal with Japanese anime industry standards and Japanese dictionaries. Or perhaps you're just misunderstanding that Japanese people not considering Chinese anime Japanese (rightfully so) doesn't also confer that Japanese people don't use the word anime to describe anime? Ask your Japanese wife if this is the case and I'll concede. I will say that people in Chinese speaking countries regularly call Japanese anime "anime" along with "riben donghua" because they understand that anime is by definition (the Japanese word for) donghua. And at least officially, this understanding is symmetrical to the Japanese. |
katsucatsMar 6, 2022 10:55 PM
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katsucats said: . The Japanese people in the comments call Mo Dao Zhu Shi a "Chinese anime"... like I did. And? Anime in the west has different meaning. It means strictly Japanese animation. It was always like this. Japanese people has many words borrowed for example English but they mean something different or slightly different (wasei-eigo). It doesn't matter what anime means in Japan. In the west people started calling Japanese animation like this to make it clear that they mean Japanese animation and only Japanese. |
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| @katsucats It's obvious a lot has changed since I been in Japan. It's like my entire view of the anime industry has been turned upside down since I have last been there in 2010. Everything you have been sharing these past few post would have been complete taboo back then. But I am still not completely convinced unless I have experienced it myself. since I have plans to eventually visit relatives in Osaka in 2024, I might just have to take a trip again to Akihabara. I will get back to you on all this again if you really wish. For now I will believe what you have been saying. Because I doubt you are trying to purposely dupe me. But I find it interesting that you been selectively quoting me which makes me think you aren't refuting everything else I been posting. |
ColourWheelMar 6, 2022 11:43 PM
| 99% of chinese sucks. There is few that I enjoyed (like Mi Yu Xing Zhe). Japanese anime are way better |
| I've watched 4 so far, they're improving in all areas but it still isn't on par with Japan |
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ryo-san said: and incarnation spirit cage sounds my kind of supernatural mystery from the title... If you are talking about Spirit Cage: Incarnation aka Ling Long: Incarnation it's actually a dystopian sci-fi action horror with some social commentaries...and I recommend it. If you search for supernatural mysteries those shows fit the description better - Lie Huo Jiao Chou / Drowning Sorrows in Raging Fire, Mindiao Ju Yiwen Lu / Bureau of Paranormal Investigation and Daomu Biji Zhi Qinling Shen Shu / Tomb Robber Notes Qinling God Tree. |
alshuMar 6, 2022 11:59 PM
rsc-pl said: You can call it whatever you want. But it should be clear to anyone exactly what anyone means when they say "Chinese anime", and if you're offended by that notion then it would be on you.And? Anime in the west has different meaning. It means strictly Japanese animation. It was always like this. Japanese people has many words borrowed for example English but they mean something different or slightly different (wasei-eigo). It doesn't matter what anime means in Japan. In the west people started calling Japanese animation like this to make it clear that they mean Japanese animation and only Japanese. ColourWheel said: I wouldn't dare say that a lot has changed since 2010. This is my understanding of how the word is used. I might suggest that perhaps people have reservations that Chinese anime is on the same level as Japanese anime, or that they think it shouldn't be included under the umbrella of a Japanese cultural export. But my hunch rightly or wrongly is that they wouldn't be held up on the word "anime" itself, since as you would be able to see by searching for it on Google, it is commonly used to describe all kinds of animation.@katsucats It's obvious a lot has changed since I been in Japan. It's like my entire view of the anime industry has been turned upside down since I have last been there in 2010. Everything you have been sharing these past few post would have been complete taboo back then. But I am still not completely convinced unless I have experienced it myself. since I have plans to eventually visit relatives in Osaka in 2024, I might just have to take a trip again to Akihabara. ColourWheel said: Please do so.I will get back to you on all this again if you really wish. For now I will believe what you have been saying. Because I doubt you are trying to purposely dupe me. ColourWheel said: I tend to quote what I think are the most important points. I'm not going to dispute you on the coinage of the term "Japanimation", etc. That isn't central to the debate, and I'll simply take your word for it.But I find it interesting that you been selectively quoting me which makes me think you aren't refuting everything else I been posting. |
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