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 Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 4:15 pm
More Animated Than Life: By Sato Kenji(read this before going further) After I got through with this, I really got to thinking, are they really that hateful of their own appearance, that they would use animation to break away? Are the fantasies of anime more human, than the films that use actual humans in them? Is this a sign of people trying to reject their own reality?
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Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:17 am
While it is true that, throughout the world, since wesrernization, there has been a trend towards preferring a more "western" appearance, to the extent that, often, in manga, etc., we see attractive girls responded to by others as, "Oh, I thought she was (half)-western!" However, there is still the fact that anime and manga deal with things that are so blaringly fictional, usually, that we cannot just assume it is an attempt to break away from reality. Many things that are expressed in anime are done because they cannot be expressed as well in action. Does painting instead of taking a photograph, despite modern technology, signify an attempt to break away from the world? No, it shows a wish to express something through things other than what we can see otherwise. Likewise, special effects representthe same sort of wish to break away from reality.
The truth is, any form of fiction, from writings to animations, or even filmed movies, is an attempt to break away from reality or to idealize or dramatize it. Even massive tragedies are far from realistic, and simply changing the physical concepts in certain characters does not equate attempting to break away from reality any more. Perhaps the aliens studying us from Walt Disney films would be misguided as to our culture, but would they be any more misguided by, for instance, watching Star Wars? I think not. Art is, by its very nature, both influenced and separate from reality.
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