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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Skade" data-source="post: 1149028" data-attributes="member: 3320">I could buy that.  I don't know that is true though.  I think, rather, that Teen Titans is trying to do something not wholly Japanese nor American.  Our style of comic book superhero is pretty differnt from theirs, and Teen Titans because it was so tied to the 80's, needed a revamp to work I think.  It's the same reason that the new New Mutants series (comic not animated) is taking a fresh start, and a very different style from the old series.  I called the Batman series "aninoir", because I could see both Japanese and film noir influences in it.  Justice League added a fair amount of art deco to the design, and Teen Titans takes cues from the modern world.  Teen Titans has not only used Japanese comedy techniques, but utterly American ones as well.  In the mad mod episode we had the whole chase scene through the corridors, complete with musical interlude - a very Scooby-Doo sort of thing.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  I think Teen Titans uses whatever they want, and hopefully will develop into its own internal style as Batman, Superman and Justic League did.   Exactly. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Huh? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  You are defintely right about definitions.  I don't even know that it should be strictly defined. A few years ago when American animation hit a bad slump I really got into anime, but I have never felt Japanese animation was inherently better, only more suited for adults.  Emo?  Not to derail, but what is this?  Would you give me a little bit on this style of music?  maybe a few artists you think I should check out?I don't really think of myself as an expert, or an "otaku" as some might say.  I'm certainly not an anime purist.  Most people I have met who call themselves otaku tend to be very dismissive of American animation, and usually American culture in general.  They take their obsession with Japanese culture to a point I would never dream, nor would want to.</blockquote>

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