People and Animation - My rant...?
There’s always a relation made between children (typically 3-12 years of age) and animation. Of course, there definitely is, given that western animation, which is globally known, caters to the kids and that is the general presumption that’s made when someone hears of anime.
And if you still don’t believe me, here are some anime/cartoon series and movies I highly recommend you watch;
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| False Perception |
(´・ω・)っ Anime, if you don’t already know, is Japanese animation and has a unique art style; this is the most widely accepted meaning but there’s more. It in itself has a wide variety of genres, themes and cliches.
But even anime has kids-oriented shows like Pokemon or Dragonball, so what’s the point I’m making here? Would you believe me if I said that animation isn’t just for kids? You’d probably think some people like kiddy shows but that’s not what I mean. I’m here to say that even animation is just another medium for getting deeply woven, heart-wrenching, thrilling or comedic stories.
But hey, some adults still enjoy Pokemon and that’s a kids show but still, it’s their own prerogative.
You get the point, it’s not all poorly scripted stories in animation, that they’re just like movies that people can normally enjoy.
That raises the question, ‘where did this stigma for animation come from?’
I just defined anime distinctly different from cartoons and that’s because most of the latter are really for kids and pre-teens so everyone except most of Asia would think you’re a manchild for still enjoying animations. And maybe somewhere there’s an intersection between cartoons and anime, I don’t really know.
But I digress, Disney started the animation in the West (with some rivals, of course) and Disney was the one who made movies on folklore and moved onto kids movies and since then almost every animation was considered for the children to watch.
If you know the amount of effort put into animating even a 20-minute clip, you’d consider it a shame to be only made for the children, that too, when you come to know that a typical anime series pumps out an episode a week. Luckily, that’s not the case. Certainly, they’re underrated but there are a plethora of animations (some stunning) with serious themes of philosophy, murder, mystery, fiction and so on that add culture, personal experiences and analogies and not just some cheap moral. Like, some animations adapted novels like Les Miserables (You should look up World Masterpiece Theatre).
But even anime has kids-oriented shows like Pokemon or Dragonball, so what’s the point I’m making here? Would you believe me if I said that animation isn’t just for kids? You’d probably think some people like kiddy shows but that’s not what I mean. I’m here to say that even animation is just another medium for getting deeply woven, heart-wrenching, thrilling or comedic stories.
But hey, some adults still enjoy Pokemon and that’s a kids show but still, it’s their own prerogative.
You get the point, it’s not all poorly scripted stories in animation, that they’re just like movies that people can normally enjoy.
That raises the question, ‘where did this stigma for animation come from?’
I just defined anime distinctly different from cartoons and that’s because most of the latter are really for kids and pre-teens so everyone except most of Asia would think you’re a manchild for still enjoying animations. And maybe somewhere there’s an intersection between cartoons and anime, I don’t really know.
But I digress, Disney started the animation in the West (with some rivals, of course) and Disney was the one who made movies on folklore and moved onto kids movies and since then almost every animation was considered for the children to watch.
If you know the amount of effort put into animating even a 20-minute clip, you’d consider it a shame to be only made for the children, that too, when you come to know that a typical anime series pumps out an episode a week. Luckily, that’s not the case. Certainly, they’re underrated but there are a plethora of animations (some stunning) with serious themes of philosophy, murder, mystery, fiction and so on that add culture, personal experiences and analogies and not just some cheap moral. Like, some animations adapted novels like Les Miserables (You should look up World Masterpiece Theatre).
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| Anime Key animation (Genga) |
If you haven’t caught on, I’m biased towards anime; now I’m sure there are cartoons that are as “deep” but anime just provides a better selection.
And if you still don’t believe me, here are some anime/cartoon series and movies I highly recommend you watch;
- Hellsing Ultimate
- Violet Evergarden
- Code Geass
- Howl’s Moving Castle
- Patema Inverted
- Forest of the Fireflies
- Your Name
- Rick and Morty
- Gravity Falls
- Over the Garden Wall
- Todd McFarlane’s Spawn
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