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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Art Waring" data-source="post: 8739463" data-attributes="member: 7037141">You are lumping way too many things into the same category here.Anime is no one single thing. It is an incredibly diverse medium, and is not just wuxia fantasies or giant mecha.Anime can have a variety of elements. Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Armitage iii, Cyber City OEDO, all of them have cyberpunk elements and are more grounded than marvel films (no superheroes at all).Films like Tekkonkinkreet have more heart and soul than any western film I have seen. The characters and the world are vibrant and alive. They also don't need superpowers, they use their guts and the city itself as their playground.Princess Mononoke, Howl's Moving Castle, Caastle in the Sky, these are incredible adventures experienced primarily by mundane heroes. Howl is a wizard, but he is cursed and his powers come at the cost of permanently becoming a monster.Stuff like DBZ is completely off the mark, and using it at the set bar of comparison is wrought with misconceptions about anime and its place in entertainment.</blockquote>