08.24.09
Hetalia and the phenomena of MAD videos
The skill, ingenuity, and often times bizarreness of fan-made anime MADs never cease to amaze me (and Hetalia ones are no exception)…
08.17.09
How Japanese young adults feel about anime and fans (at least from my experience)
During my trip to Japan a few weeks ago, I spent most of my time with Japanese college students (between the ages of 18 and 23) who I stayed with at the dorms and who took us out during our sightseeing. I was curious how Japanese people my age would feel about an American female anime fan like me…
06.22.09
Cel vs digital: does animation style affect overall quality?
Ever since all anime switched from cel animation to digital animation back in the early 2000s, there has been some debate among fans about whether story/character quality has decreased even though animation techniques have increased…
03.22.09
What exactly do Japanese and American otaku like about anime?
This is a recent Ask John post that caught my attention. John points out that there is indeed a difference between what Japanese fans like about anime and what American fans like about it…
09.21.08
Is anime better than American TV shows and movies?
This is the most recent question on ANN’s Answerfans section of Hey Answerman!. It’s a topic I’ve been thinking about ever since I became a more or less “anime-only” fan. Being an American, why do I find myself watching only anime with no desire whatsoever to watch American TV shows? After reading the responses to this question on ANN, I can see that I’m not the only one who feels this way. Just about all the responses were in favor of anime over American TV and movies. Of course, since we’re all anime fans already, people could say that we’re just biased. But I honestly think that the favoring of anime over American entertainment by someone who is at least a little familiar with both, holds some merit…
08.28.08
Do the Japanese value fandom more than America?
For some time I’ve been puzzled about the difference between “fandom” in America and “fandom” in Japan, not just anime fandom but fandom in general. It seems to me that the Japanese place more emphasis on having people become totally immersed and supporting fans of anime and other entertainment, while America doesn’t really offer the same kind of hard-core immersion in its shows and movies. I’ll illustrate my points further in this post, and I’d also like to hear your opinion as well…
08.12.08
What is Anime? (the written definition)
When I first created AnimeYume.com over five years ago, one of the original pages on the site was a page introducing anime, why it’s popular, and how it’s different from American cartoons. Recently I’ve been looking over that page and I noticed that my writing skills back then were pretty appalling XD (I wrote it in 2003, my senior year of high school). So I finally took the time these past couple of days to completely rewrite the page. It’s now much longer and more detailed than it used to be, since my knowledge of anime has also grown over the years too. You can find the new and improved What is Anime? page on the main site, and I also posted it here on the blog for your reading pleasure…
08.08.08
Fansubs and what the R1 industry needs to do
This has been a pretty hot topic amongst the English speaking anime world lately, especially with the collapse of Geneon and with ADV barely holding on. Now I don’t know much about business, licensing, finance, etc., nor about the inner workings of US anime companies. However, from what I’ve seen being an American anime fan for almost ten years, I definitely know that there are some things that need to be done in order to help the R1 anime industry recover, outdo fansubs, and to also please the majority of fans…
06.21.08
Haruhi Suzumiya: masterpiece, piece of junk or simply overrated?
This is the “Question of the Week” for the Hey, Answerman column on Anime News Network. I usually don’t have the time or motivation to submit my own answers to things like this. But…since I’m on vacation now and I was kinda bored today, I decided to give this question a try. I’ve been rather Haruhi-obsessed this past year so I probably could’ve written a lot more than this but I didn’t want to overdo it XD Hopefully Zac will post my response, and if not, at least I used it as a blog post so it wasn’t a total waste ^^a You can check ANN next week to see other answers to the question. Anyway, here’s my (kinda long) answer…
09.16.07
Anime is a luxury…
From what I’ve seen during my years of anime fandom, there are generally two kinds of fans; those who mostly watch their anime by buying the official DVDs and those who mostly watch their anime via fansubs. Putting the limited amount of anime aired on English TV aside, DVDs and fansubs are really the only other sources for watching anime. But I’ve noticed that some fans who are dedicated to buying the official DVDs (and may also have morals which put them against downloading fansubs) have a poor respect and think little of fans who only download fansubs and don’t support the anime market by buying the DVDs. Since I’m one of those fans who watches almost all my anime via fansubs, I want to point out the main reason why I do so and don’t buy the DVDs when they come out; I’d like to buy them, but I simply can’t afford it…
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