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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 2051553" data-attributes="member: 151">Gantz isn't horror...it's very dark Sci-Fi....as bleak and unsettling as Beserk! is, at points.  The difference is that Gantz is chock-full of modern social commentary on the state of Japanese society in a tone very different from the sunshine folks might be expecting, except perhaps for the works of Satoshi Kon (he of "Tokyo Godfathers", "Paranoia Agent" and "Millenium Actress" fame). Beserk, like Hokuto no Ken, features some fairly detailed art that would be very hard to animate on a reasonable budget.  Kentaro Miura is like George Perez or Geoff Darrow in that regard.  Their art styles are hyper-detailed, and very hard to reproduce in animated form.  Beserk settled on a compromise approach, I think.Now, on another note, I'd like to offer up an opinion as to why someone might choose to do animation rather than live-action for anything other than things that would be prohibitively expensive to reproduce (such as super-heroes, sci-fi and the like).  That reason is style.  Look at the upcoming movie, Sin City.  It looks fantastic...and it also looks like they'll be spending a large amount of effort to reproduce the distinctive graphic look and feel of the original comic.Consider that animation allows for camera angles, visual styles and artistic choices that can't be reproduced anywhere else except for a prohibitive budget...or possibly at all, in some cases.  This is one reason that Samurai Jack is so highly lauded: it's LOOK is so polished and delivers what the animator intended.  Another classic example is Batman: The Animated Series.  Done on black backgrounds, it had a very distinctive, sometimes surreal visual quality.  Compare the character designs on the first couple of seasons of B:TAS with the Gotham Knights versions (as seen in World's Finest, for example) and then with the Justice League version.  Contrast with the Batman Beyond and The Batman versions.I'm not saying that animation is the ideal for some stories, possibly many or most stories.  What I am saying is that it's a tad short-sighted to paint animation as inferior simply because it can be done live-action, in the same way as it would be foolish, IMHO, to say that there was no longer a need for painted art once photography was invented.</blockquote>

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