| What are some of the movies and shows you watched? |
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| I suppose the reason for this is that most people are attracted towards things that distant from what they experience everyday. Also anime cast are idealized to make us feel attached. The characters are unrealistically perfect. Live action films have their limits, they can only do so much with a “real person". |
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| I think this happens because in real life movies, we know that there is someone acting as the character. But on anime, the actual charecters are telling the story. |
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Gabriel10419 said: I think this happens because in real life movies, we know that there is someone acting as the character. But on anime, the actual charecters are telling the story. This is absolutely true. I couldn't agree more. |
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| It's because movies are only about 1-2 hrs while Anime(each season) are around 12-24 episodes basically 6-12 hours. So Anime gives you more time to get emotionally invested in the characters than independent movies. I don't think I've ever seen a person getting attached to a character in an independent movie that is just about 2 hours. If the movie is a franchise like the MCU, Lord of the rings and so on then that's a different story. |
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| Uh what kind of movies you guys see to give this trash opinions. I have been as or more emotionally compelled with the movies that I have watched as with anime. Some comments here seems completely out of touch and ignorant, kind of disrespectful towards some masterful pieces that have been done in the cinema and your own overall perspective, like look for good movies at least once lmao. I could say that I prefer anime over cinema because I prefer the culture and that animation is extremely enticing to watch because how it can creates and provide a singular outherworldy vision, but I would never ever think to say that anime is more emotionally relatable than movies, that just shows that you haven't watched a single good movie in your life. Indeed, In my opinion the least interesting things while talking about movies are franchises like MCU, quoting Scorsese, they are just a theme park, like many animes, I would say |
i can’t answer your question but i understand what you mean. i don’t even remember the last time i cried to something that wasn’t related to anime, if it wasn’t anime i cried to then it was manga.  also this ^ |
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Howdym8 said: Well it does matter. If you've seen only a handful then you just haven't found something you like yet, but something you would like is out there. There's not enough information here to figure out why you haven't emotionally attached to live action movies or TV like you have anime.XJ-9 said: What are some of the movies and shows you watched? I'm talking about all of them in general so it doesn't matter what I watched. It all feels the same unlike anime that hits me right in the feels. |
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| Cuz anime is unique and much better. |
| BANZAI NIPPON. Nippon is the Land of freedom. Nippon is the Land of Peace. Nippon is the Land of Justice and Prosperity. In Nippon, we trust. We love Nippon, we love Anime. Anime love us, Nippon love us. ๆฅๆฌ |
Gabriel10419 said: I think this happens because in real life movies, we know that there is someone acting as the character. But on anime, the actual charecters are telling the story. this is super close to what I think. anime attempts to portray the emotion itself while in a live action you see someone's portrayal of the same emotion. there's a filter or middle man delivering the same thing which might or might not resonate with the viewer. anime simply gives you a more pure experience. it's more fail-safe. |
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| Not at all. Green Miles made me cry like I hadn't for my entire life. Have yet experienced such an emotion again. |
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| Because we enjoy anime more than real life shows |
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| Anime are more colorful and color vibrant than real life movies. Your brain understand it more often then real life movie But if you watch some Bollywood movie that color difference you will not notice and this is truth. (in bollywood they actually boost color ) |
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| where’s my fellas that don’t get emotionally attached to either? I find it hard to cry while watching any form of fiction to be honest |
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snowykevin said: where’s my fellas that don’t get emotionally attached to either? I find it hard to cry while watching any form of fiction to be honest Yeah I only have a handful of fictional works that make me cry but I feel like it takes a lot |
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| That just sounds like you watched bad Hollywood movies. It's nothing to do with the medium, a good movie can no doubt make you feel far more intense emotions. |
| Well I for one already loved Lain. |
| Probably because rule 34 of anime characters is more interesting than rule 34 of Hollywood actors. Freudian shit. |
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| i'll be honest many hollywood movies and especailly shows have bad characters,but i have seen many good ones too i get emotionally attached to anime characters more because anime are usually longer and we get more time to understand and connect with the characters, for me its the same with hollywood shows as well, for example. when i was watching stranger things, vikings and a few others and i have seen many movies, where i was emotionally attached to the characters, maybe you haven't watched good hollywood movies or maybe, its because you know that in a movie, characters are acting |
Beat_JerkerSep 4, 2021 11:41 AM
| People defending cinema to be seen as objective hipsters kek |
| uhh, for me they are on par, and I even think that I have become more fond of movie characters than anime. the examples I remember the most are A Dog's Purpose, marley y yo, click and Reign Over Me. while with anime, the only times that they were even in terms of feelings was with the grave of the fireflies and the shoujo shuumatsu ryokou manga. I think my biggest problem with anime is that mostly emotional scenes are exaggerated or even sometimes, they seem silly and unreal to me, the clearest example I had with that was with a silent voice, it is supposed to be a sad movie but never I cried, nor did I feel sorry for the characters. |
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| It's elementary Watsons. At least in my particular case. The answers on the question why multiplication such as anime is feels more emotionally realistic it's because... — I can see a lie in emotional states of real video, because there is actors, and they play a role, not living a real life in movies, those I don't like to watch in high quality, only in low quality. At least I think that I can see a lie. — The second reason is that Asia, Japan multiplication for an example has amore idealistic narravites in average than for an example Hollywood, especially a modern Hollywood. It's simply different culture. |
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| I'm...not really emotionally attached at all to anime (maybe that's just me?). But i am to 2 movies in particular because they remind me of happier & more innocent times in my life. Their probably things of comfort to me and i like rewatching them, btw they are The Land That Time Forgot & Dinosaurus! |
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| I do the same thing for both so it isn't really "I'm into 2d charactersism." It's more likely how the series execute it in an effective way. |
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Gabriel10419 said: I think this happens because in real life movies, we know that there is someone acting as the character. But on anime, the actual charecters are telling the story. I agree with this, and it also sort of explains why I find it easier to form emotional attachments with both anime and book characters than characters in live-action TV or film. Not that I don't form attachments to the latter, it's just less common and usually takes longer. I also think that there's a kind of non-threatening cuteness to animated characters that makes them endearing, plus in a cartoon setting we can accept characters acting in an endearingly childish, silly and cutesy way that would be strange and off-putting if actual people behaved in the same way. |
| I rarely watch live action movies, I'm just starting to get into them, so I don't feel the same type of connection as with animated movies, since I've been watching a lot of them since my childhood. I think that it may be a case for some other people as well |
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| I feel attached to both, the last movie I felt attached to was Hustlers because it reminded me a lot of the friendship dynamic I have with my best friend. |
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| perhaps it's because it's characters instead of human actors? It easily differs from person to person but that could be a reason |
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| Personally I feel more attached to video game characters than anime or anything else. Yeah I can get invested in the story and characters in other mediums, otherwise why would I be watching them, but it just doesn't compare to me. Having direct control over a character, especially one I created myself, leaves a much bigger impact on me. Some things just have more of an impact on you than others and that varies from person to person. Maybe it's easier to latch onto fictional characters in general because they're able to do and experience things in unique ways that aren't possible in real life. It's probably similar to why so many people become obsessed with celebrities. |
FanofActionSep 6, 2021 2:48 AM
| I wouldn't generalize either of these mediums. There are many TV shows/movies that know how to tell a story or portray characters, many doing it better than anime. The inverse is also true. It all comes down to what shows/movies you watch from both of these mediums. |
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| For me it really just comes down to tropes. I enjoy a lot of common anime tropes, I enjoy VERY FEW movie/TV tropes, especially Western/American ones. Oh, and the kind of stories I like best are all supernatural in nature, so unless it's a super big budget thing like the MCU or LotR, real life simply can't properly portray the stories I like well. Heck, even when there is a big budget they often fall flat regardless (the Disney Live Action remakes' existence makes me sad). I just like that animation can do what live action can't, and I like that Japanese media refrains from using American tropes. |
| I doubt real life movies could make me feel like wanting to live and die at the same time like some animes/manga did |
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| maybe cuz movies focus more on plot and the progression of the movie, while animes have some downtime with the characters that doesnt take up a huge amount of a 1-3 hour time or because it feels odd to get attached to a character that is essentially a real person that looks liike that character in movies while anime the characters can look like anything and we dont see the voice actors to rlly feel odd about getting attached to them or maybe its cuz we get attached to things that look nice, and in most animes, everything is too simplistic to really look bad |
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| Clannad After Story ruined me forever. I laugh when I see a real person die in a tv series or movie. |
| As someone said before, in movies you know the are acting, nevertheless, in anime the characters are not acting, they are saying the things. It feels genuine. That's I guess why I like it |
| Animation is a better format for drama than live-action. The blend of real things and not-real things in live-action constantly gets in the way of genuineness, whilst with animation everything is not-real so it can just concentrate on being an imitation for the viewer to identify with. |
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