| i also think anime is not mature enough to catch the interest of adults |
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On_the_Lam said: By "adults" I don't mean 20-25 year old grown men still living with their parents. Keeping in mind that 90% (purely speculated statistic) of all anime is moe/have moe designs, I personally believe that anime isn't really popular with adults, just like in the West. Probably not. Now some of the manga aimed at older audiences, lets just say 30-40 y/o might still be. I can imagine some guy on a subway to work reading some manga, but I can't see that same guy who has a wife and kids watching anime after work. |
| I imagine it's taken seriously in so far as it's a matter of national pride as a cultural export. Otherwise it's probably equally mocked. |
| I dont know man, are japan teens can afford BDs? probably one or two only~ |
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| I'm guessing it depends on their lifestlyes, but I'd say most of them look down upon anime. |
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| Not at all. They don't take it seriously. Not even the non moe ecchi anime is taken seriously by adult. |
But it's important to remember that a movie review is subjective;it only gives you one person's opinion. http://www.classzone.com/books/lnetwork_gr08/page_build.cfm?content=analyz_media&ch=30 It doesn't matter if you like LoGH,Monster etc.If you are a jobless or college/school dropout living in your mom basement, you are still an unintelligent loser. Taste in anime does not make you a better person.If elitist don't exist, casual pleb and shit taste also don't exist. |
| only things like sazae san and ghibli or so i heard perhaps you rather mean 90% of all anime is late night shlock but i can see this late night shlock probably gets taken about as seriously as adult swim |
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| No and that's why 99% of the production is made by 12 yo children. |
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| @On_the_Lam What do you mean by "taken seriously"? Well, there is a whole lot of people involved in making anime, and they are sure serious about it, because Japanese are serious about their jobs. But what other kinds of serious do you expect? Japanese politicians promising their electorate to end the anime menace? Grown-up women afraid to turn on the TV for the fear of being brainwashed by anime? |
| Probably not but i still think some might watch some now and then with their child after work or something, in general its more child-teens but some might interest few adults but idk myself since im not Japanese |
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| It is not as bad as in the west. They don't look down on it as a kid's cartoon. From what I noticed, they look at it just as tv shows, doesn't matter if animated or live action. I think most people like at least a couple of anime they watched casually on tv, just like we watch live action shows randomly and sometimes like it. There are time blocks with more mature shows, which are probably what most would like. But I think manga/novels are vastly more popular, they doesn't carry any stigma, I think. |
On_the_Lam said: flannan said: @On_the_Lam What do you mean by "taken seriously"? Well, there is a whole lot of people involved in making anime, and they are sure serious about it, because Japanese are serious about their jobs. But what other kinds of serious do you expect? Japanese politicians promising their electorate to end the anime menace? Grown-up women afraid to turn on the TV for the fear of being brainwashed by anime? Taken seriously, as in not brushing it off as children's/teenager programmes as is usually the case in the Western countries. I don't blame them, though. Why would they take an animated series seriously if the characters on said series have eyes that take 1/3 of their faces. 1) Well, as it was already said, the people you describe should be the majority of anime buying audience. Unless children, students and hikkikomori get a lot of pocket money to spend on anime. 2) As a 30 years old adult with a job (but not from Japan), I can tell you that "moe" designs work fine for adults. At least for adults that don't have children of their own - I guess I should talk to my fellow fans who got married and ask for their opinion. My theory is that it's the design that stimulates parental instincts. See also: Neoteny. Slice-of-life and simple plots work fine too. Because we come home tired and want to rest. 3) I fail to see how size of the eyes correlates with ability to take something seriously. Since my childhood, animation always had huge eyes, whether it's French Asterix and Obelix, American South Park, Russian Nu Pogodi, or anything Japanese. |
| My perspective is from that of someone living in a small city in a mostly rural prefecture of Japan and my casual observation would be "Anime is not the single focus point in life for most of the adult population here". The only measure I can offer is the size of audiences at the anime movies I've seen in theatres here. Ghibli movies attract anything from a couple of dozen to 40 or so people at a typical evening screening. An evening screening of the first Kizumonogatari movie...ten people (it only olayed for one week...two months after it opened in Tokyo). Thus, my answer to the original question is "No, outside of the big cities". On the other hand I've had plenty of people tell me "I took my kids/nieces/nephews to see the latest Doraemon movie". PS: It'll be interesting to see how big audiences will be for the new Shinkai Makoto movie when it opens here next week. It's at the top of the bill and will be screened five times a day. |
flannan said: i dunno.. it doesnt seem that far fetched for there to be hundreds of rich high school kids who bought animeOn_the_Lam said: Taken seriously, as in not brushing it off as children's/teenager programmes as is usually the case in the Western countries. I don't blame them, though. Why would they take an animated series seriously if the characters on said series have eyes that take 1/3 of their faces. 1) Well, as it was already said, the people you describe should be the majority of anime buying audience. Unless children, students and hikkikomori get a lot of pocket money to spend on anime. |
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| i'd say lack of free time is probably a bigger issue as far as how many watch anime i wasn't surprised to find out that only 30% of gamers are below 18.... i mean, kids generally can't afford what adults can and i know they for sure can't afford BD's unless ofc thats all theyre spending their money on. i'd think anime sales would be the same considering most anime/manga artists and creators are adults who are willing to work slave wages to make it. also don't forget the seiyuus as well. i'd say maybe more adults are into it, but ofc you said around 30+ and idk how that is in japan. but i still know that many or most artists and creators are that old |
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