It's okay to "like." And unhealthy to obsess.tbh i dont obsess over anime a lot of people do but i dont i just really like japanese culture- tbh i do hate when people like japanese culture and say stuff like "Japan is MVP best country" even though some of those people are the same people who called japanese people dog eaters-?? literally it makes me so mad and thats coming from me a japanese person
I said "typically geared." Yes, some are definitely made for kids. I've seen some growing up. But many had themes that were difficult for me to understand as a kid. Some had greater emotional depth, this is "not to say that other animated art cannot have this depth.
there are a whole slew of non-anime cartoons aimed at adults: Rick and Morty, Archer, King of the Hill, Venture Bros., Family Guy, Futurama, South Park, Beavis and Butthead, etc.
anyhow, my opinion wasn't that there was and wasn't an alternative. I just don't understand how/why young people at large are so gaga over anime. the art style is blah, the tropes are redundant, and omg the fxxxcking inner monologuing for everything is the worst.
Nah i messed up not knowing that my response was on that next page. I've been MIA from here for so long, and is currently malfunctioning
I think reading is really the act of consuming stories. If a group of friends is sitting around a campfire with one of them reading a book aloud, is only them allowed to say they read and consumed the book? Stories have been passed down orally for thousands of years. I think audiobooks still count as books because either way you’re consuming the content somehow
reading is reading. It's in the word. Telling stories is telling them. You absorb the information different from listening to something than being able to read it and form it in your mind, looking over the words and digesting them (and learning new words and how to spell them, too).
I only just saw this now, but speaking as someone actually in the library profession I can say with certainty that they are books. It's just a different medium, that's all. It's great for people who visually impaired or dyslexic.
So much this. I've had ideas for fantasy settings that deviate from that, but it seems nobody is interested.
100% in agreement. There is so much fun to be had with fantasy in non-eurocentric settings. I'm tired of non-euro settings being relegated to side characters or worse: savage enemies. I think people are missing out on massive amounts of creative fun by not branching into alternate fantasy settings.
Nostalgia as well. That's mainly why I still like it. I grew up with it and it got me through some tough times (I didn't have the best childhood). However, re-reading it as an adult I noticed things I didn't notice as a kid, such as all the plotholes and simply how poorly written it is in general. Not to mention all the lazy worldbuilding that lacks proper research.
Yea I agree.
Magic is actually a very fun element to incorporate into stories if done well, but I do agree that if all the story's problems are solved with magic then it's poor writing. I sort of like Tolkien's approach to magic tbh. It's there, but it's usually subtle and present in the background. It's never some game changing deus ex machina plot device.
