Welcome, sit back and let the Cruel Angel guide you through the basics in Anime. Hopefuly this will help out beginners in anime, or those who just haven't watched that much anime yet.
Anime Vocabulary Vocabulary is
important, I advise you to skim through the terms if you haven't done so
already.
OAV/OVA/Movies/TV series, What's the difference?
I suppose this is the most common question that I've seen. First, OAV = OVA, which stands for original anime on video or something like that. The following chart represents what each are individually like.
| Type | Animation Quality | Character Development | Pithy | Form of display |
| OAV/OVA | High | Less than in TV series | Very | Released directly to tape only. |
| TV series | Ok, not great | Greater potential | Not usually | Broadcasted on TV |
| Movies | Usually high | Almost never | Very | In Movie theaters. |
Yup. There are actually a lot of categories, including one just about male homosexuality. My vocab list has them listed, but this is what they briefly mean:
I've actually heard people call Japanese perverts simply because of
the anime that they've seen. Then again, some of the Chinese guys I know
see sex in everything, Anyway, they're ignorant, ignore them. The turth of the matter is that
Japanese people are not more perverted than Americans. You have to understand
their culture. Nudity isn't the evil thing that it is in non-Christian
dominated areas (Shame of nudity comes from the Adam and Eve incident).
Group baths, public bathrooms, peeing in the street can be typical for
Japanese.
Of course, this doesn't cover the fact that nudity is a sexual stimulant
for guys, I mean, it is there for a reason... I'm just saying that it isn't
the only one.
Heh, sorry about that question, I watch anime with my parents and they
get on my case. Ok, violence... it's everywhere, trying to protect children
by covering them from the truth is a disservice. You stupid Americans!
Anyway, then again, it's not like they're glorifying violence (For instance,
sometimes there are large bombs that make a remark on the bombing of Hiroshima
and Nagasaki), television can teach without being Sesame Street sweet.
I've actually heard that Japanese parents are as concerned with the violence
that their children see as much as any parent. Just because they live half
way around the world doesn't mean we should assume they're all that different.
No, they're probably bootlegs. They're worse than mp3's, not only are
you not supporting the original Japanese companies and destroying the economy
of Japan, you're giving money to bad, bad men who are making a profit from
your cheapness.
If you're in Japan, yes. If the anime fansub is being released by a
commercial company? Then yes it's illegal. Otherwise, who cares. If there
isn't a commercial company releasing the anime, no one is exactly losing
money, right? I mean, most anime fans would never buy raw Japanese videos,
so it's not like Japanese companies are losing profits.
Plus, people who watch fansubs are punished accordingly with shoddy
quality video, bad translations, evil distributors, and other problems
that are different from the problems that come from commercials tapes that
are plagued with the stupidity of the companies that care more about money
than the fans of anime.
Oh baby yeah. Let's look at all the beautiful Asian girls that they
have oogled in recent magazines. In fact, look at all the live videos brought
over to America from Japan and China. If it's not martial arts, then it
usually has a sexy Asian woman on the cover, man, I hate people who use
women as sex objects. Everything went bad after they dropped Sailor Moon
man. By the way, got to love all the girl/girl action in the last issue...
Bastards.
Yeah, this is my favorite anime/manga magazine. Animerica Extra brings
over cheap translated manga with titles guranteed to be released every
month. Their articles are interesting and informative and relevent to the
anime community. They're not sexist or annoying. They cater to the fans.
Cr: 05-21-00 Up: 08-03-00
All the violence makes my parents wet their pants?
Are sonmay or any non-Japanese CDs any good?
Fansubs, are they illegal?
Mixxzine/Tokyopop, do they suck? Are they sexist? Are they filling
their mags with crap so that they can sell less manga for the same price?
Animerica, compared to the above magazine, are they not the force
of good in the anime American continium?
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