… and people get mad at me when I say this now bog standard, seemingly literally standardized anime art style is uninspired, boring, and fundamentally problematic.
I don’t think “people get mad” at that, so much as they get mad at you saying “turn off the anime, I hate the anime, don’t you realize everything in anime looks the same” when someone else is trying to enjoy something.
I mean, I don’t broadly say ‘all anime is bad, i hate all anime’.
I very much like a lot of anime, some of my favorite characters and plot lines in all of fiction are from animes and mangas.
It… just seems that a lot if anime has largely stylistically homogenized lately.
And a lot of that is because most anime is produced by a well oiled, unforgiving capitalist machine that optimizes for profit, not what I would call real creativity.
The exceptions where that is not the case… animes with more distinctive visual styles… tend to be a pretty decent indicator the overall show is better, in aspects beyond just art style.
Oh, and, I am always going to, on at least one level, judge people based on their taste in art, and also judge art based on itself.
Its fine, broadly speaking, for people to like things I don’t.
Its also fine, broadly speaking, for me to think that people who enjoy art that I find boring, uninteresting, … to themselves be boring and uninteresting, to having boring and uninteresting taste.
Its not really that hard to walk the line between objective critique and analysis, and subjective preference… if you are honest with yourself, and take care to deliniate these things when talking about them.
Unrelated: did you know that the term “bog standard” comes from the term “box standard” which means, essentially, vanilla. No modifications or additions, just the basic version in the box. This used to be on the boxes for things people bought.
Now it basically means the same thing but to a none native speaker bog standard would likely not make much sense, where box standard has the context in the term.
… and yes, English is a ridiculous nonsense language, we can and routinely do things like verb(ify) nouns, we have tons of idioms and slang that well… barely even make sense to many native speakers… we have tons of homophones like threw through, their there they’re… etc…
… and people get mad at me when I say this now bog standard, seemingly literally standardized anime art style is uninspired, boring, and fundamentally problematic.
True, my favorite manga all have a distinct art stile. But also a unique style in story telling and pacing.
I don’t think “people get mad” at that, so much as they get mad at you saying “turn off the anime, I hate the anime, don’t you realize everything in anime looks the same” when someone else is trying to enjoy something.
I mean, I don’t broadly say ‘all anime is bad, i hate all anime’.
I very much like a lot of anime, some of my favorite characters and plot lines in all of fiction are from animes and mangas.
It… just seems that a lot if anime has largely stylistically homogenized lately.
And a lot of that is because most anime is produced by a well oiled, unforgiving capitalist machine that optimizes for profit, not what I would call real creativity.
The exceptions where that is not the case… animes with more distinctive visual styles… tend to be a pretty decent indicator the overall show is better, in aspects beyond just art style.
Oh, and, I am always going to, on at least one level, judge people based on their taste in art, and also judge art based on itself.
Its fine, broadly speaking, for people to like things I don’t.
Its also fine, broadly speaking, for me to think that people who enjoy art that I find boring, uninteresting, … to themselves be boring and uninteresting, to having boring and uninteresting taste.
Its not really that hard to walk the line between objective critique and analysis, and subjective preference… if you are honest with yourself, and take care to deliniate these things when talking about them.
You are more than your consumer preferences.
That has been my problem with many Animes for many years. There is a boring sameness in many designs that just drive me away.
Unrelated: did you know that the term “bog standard” comes from the term “box standard” which means, essentially, vanilla. No modifications or additions, just the basic version in the box. This used to be on the boxes for things people bought.
Now it basically means the same thing but to a none native speaker bog standard would likely not make much sense, where box standard has the context in the term.
I genuinely did not know that.
Makes complete sense though!
… and yes, English is a ridiculous nonsense language, we can and routinely do things like verb(ify) nouns, we have tons of idioms and slang that well… barely even make sense to many native speakers… we have tons of homophones like threw through, their there they’re… etc…