The most common reason I have found people dislike anime is that the content that they have been exposed to really is (for a lack of a better word) shitty. This is usually due to them having seen one of the gigantic series (Naruto, Yu-Gi-Oh, etc). Now let me tell you something: most people who watch anime also strongly dislike those shows, this is because they are long, drawn-out, and ultimately don't have much meaning. I used to have a mentality similar to this, but then I came to a realisation: as it turned out I had been watching anime since I was 5-ish. I just didn't put the two into the same category because one was distinctly better than the other.
I try to put top quality animation on this blog, but if I only did that it would get boring, so today I am going to review an anime that I consider bad. The name of the series I chose to review is Diabolik Lovers (you can probably tell from the title that its going to be bad). This series fulfills all stereotypes one can make about it. It is about a girl who gets her blood sucked by vampires, the end. The only other thing I can say is that there was no storyline for the first three fourths, and then at the end there was a weak storyline that honestly didn't really accomplish anything. I chose this one as an example not only because it is just terrible in general, but also because of the use of vampires (something that most people can acknowledge is usually bad).
The message I have been trying to get across is this: if something is bad it's bad, but don't judge other things of similar likeness because of your experience beforehand.
And now some anime memes for your enjoyment.
As you read and think about more and more animation, or anime, you'll see that it is possible to use bad and good as general ideas for the quality of work: the images, the ideas, the drawings, the story, etc. This is called criticism (not the type you might imagine), and it is an impressive art. There are movie critics and dance critics and comics critics (Elkin) and more. If you wish to be an anime critic, you need to recognize the difference between a poorly achieved but honorably attempted work, and a work which is simply commercialized. Even commercialized works can be good (The Hobbit movies, for instance), without ever rising to the level of true art. Media is, after all, art, and there are movies so good, and books and dance and music and anime so good that you can barely spare the time to watch the junk any longer. This is something you achieve by applying all of your considerable intelligence to the process, and by reading a lot about it. Keep up the good work. Go deeper.
ReplyDeleteNaruto is considered 'bad'?????? I am offended.
ReplyDeleteSince the whole point of this post was to show that "bad" is entirely a matter of opinion I am saying that most people consider shows like that bad (not that it is "bad", just that some people perceive it as "bad")
DeleteSince the whole point of this post was to show that "bad" is entirely a matter of opinion I am saying that most people consider shows like that bad (not that it is "bad", just that some people perceive it as "bad")
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