Haha, that was the title to my senior thesis.
Anyway, have you heard of this thing called anime? It’s crazy but it’s animation from JAPAN. Woooooo, scary.
With the upcoming release of Speed Racer, I guess people are paying more attention to this newfangled medium known as anime. Or at least USA Today is.
Racer marks not only a return to the brothers’ filmmaking roots; it’s the first of several big-budget gambles the industry is taking on a genre that remains unknown to many American moviegoers. (link)
Welcome to 2008.
The article goes on to cite Leonardo DiCaprio’s future Akira project, Steven Spielberg’s Ghost in the Shell and even Miyazaki’s award-winning (AND BEST MOVIE EVER) film, Spirited Away.
Excuse me, but what the heck is anime!?
But they also acknowledge that the genre appeals to a select group. “Generation X is very familiar with anime,” says Zac Bertschy, executive editor of the Anime News Network, a website dedicated to the genre. “But if you’re not in that age group, there may be a learning curve.”
Yeah, you know. The average American movie-goer will probably freak out with oversized eyes and boobs, high-pitched “Yatta!” squeals and multi-coloured hair.
Oh wait, guy2525 in the comments already got that covered:
Anime is all the same, just trash.. Everyone has over-sized eyes, the storylines are all the same, and don’t forget the one little character always has the same shrill “he, he, he” laugh.
SO MAYBE IT IS. It’s a lot better than the crap cartoons that are entertaining our youth today.
Sorry if I sound bitter about this, but I’m getting tired of hearing about anime as if it’s this newly discovered entertainment medium. Plus, didn’t I say that anime adaptations were the next step after all the horrible J-horror remakes?
I need to leave now. That photo above is beginning to freak me out.
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