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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 3732827" data-attributes="member: 158">This kind of topic discussion is REALLY hard to pull off without unintentionally insulting someone, but I find it fascinating enough to try. <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=":)" />The kinds of stylistic elements that immediately send me thinking "anime" are things like:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Enlarging one facial feature MUCH proportionally larger than the rest of the facial features to express emotion (huge smiles but small eyes in one shot, or huge eyes, but slit-like mouths in another shot on the same character)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Character shots that either linger over one facial expression for many seconds, or repeatedly revisit that expression in cut scenes back and forth</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Action shots that are repeated several times to enhance the effect</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">character names that refer to actions, or common words ("Guts" in berserk, Cloud Strife in FF7, Alucard in Hellsing) </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">hair represented by "spikes" in differing patterns, usually to represent the "tousled hair" look</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">strong references to specific martial arts styles or "secrets" that one character knows but others don't.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">characters, even the protagonists, whose motives are inscrutable to the viewer (namely me), but often have to do with an unspoken code of honor or rules that they are loath to break, and when they do they seem far more upset about it than the situation would seem to warrant. Even Star Wars kind of borrows this meme when describing why anger is so inimical to the Jedi... it's only through further movies and writings where this is better explained.</li> </ul>Caveat: not all japanese anime has each of these elements, and some shows that are mroe "western animation" has some of these elements. However, these are all elements that most anime I have seen share. There are some, doing a little poking around, that don't seem to have these elements (Sorcerer Hunter, Witch Hunter Robin, Monster), but these seem to be the least referred to anime, more often hearing of Lodoss War, InuYasha, Naruto, Escaflowne, etc. which seem to share many of these traits, and unfortunately most of these traits, especially together, turn me off to that style. I'm not looking to be convinced, but trying to clarify the whole, "you don't like anime? You don't know what you're talking about" thing.</blockquote>

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