Comments on: A light response on literature and anime as media. http://www.short-circuited.com/2008/04/30/a-light-response-on-literature-and-anime-as-media/ Where posts go to die. Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:20:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Ryan A http://www.short-circuited.com/2008/04/30/a-light-response-on-literature-and-anime-as-media/comment-page-1/#comment-121 Ryan A Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:51:56 +0000 http://www.short-circuited.com/2008/04/30/a-light-response-on-literature-and-anime-as-media/#comment-121 Euler was the captcha word. lol I think the indie-anime realm is still unexplored, and looking at indie-films, I would like to see some of these efforts in anime. Everyone is joyous, but nobody cares... popculture. Independant film and music, art, and other media in Japan are flourishing, so it is only a matter of time before more "Shinkai"s come along... question is, would we, being in the loop of pop-anime realm be aware of it, would it come in the form of manga first (plenty of those already), or would it evade 4chan, suki and the likes? Charmandar salad in my belly! Euler was the captcha word. lol

I think the indie-anime realm is still unexplored, and looking at indie-films, I would like to see some of these efforts in anime. Everyone is joyous, but nobody cares… popculture. Independant film and music, art, and other media in Japan are flourishing, so it is only a matter of time before more “Shinkai”s come along… question is, would we, being in the loop of pop-anime realm be aware of it, would it come in the form of manga first (plenty of those already), or would it evade 4chan, suki and the likes?

Charmandar salad in my belly!

]]> By: Michael http://www.short-circuited.com/2008/04/30/a-light-response-on-literature-and-anime-as-media/comment-page-1/#comment-120 Michael Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:39:04 +0000 http://www.short-circuited.com/2008/04/30/a-light-response-on-literature-and-anime-as-media/#comment-120 Literature as a medium I believe is created by many people to provoke thought as its primary aim (of course that is in general). The hackneyed novels are the exception I believe, because even J.K. Rowling wrote Harry Potter (as bad as that is, IMO) to stimulate the little ones to think. Even those dime-a-dozen novels, with their limiting setting, sometimes give way to works of exquisitely crafted art. (Whenever someone cannot escape his conditions and has to write about it in trite books, sometimes a genius crafts their own way out in their own works.) My point still stands. There isn't any excessive commercialization in literature (solely) unless it is translated into other media (like Lord of the Rings), whereas even the most independent anime, like Shinkai's works, find their way on to DVDs. Literature as a medium I believe is created by many people to provoke thought as its primary aim (of course that is in general). The hackneyed novels are the exception I believe, because even J.K. Rowling wrote Harry Potter (as bad as that is, IMO) to stimulate the little ones to think. Even those dime-a-dozen novels, with their limiting setting, sometimes give way to works of exquisitely crafted art. (Whenever someone cannot escape his conditions and has to write about it in trite books, sometimes a genius crafts their own way out in their own works.)

My point still stands. There isn’t any excessive commercialization in literature (solely) unless it is translated into other media (like Lord of the Rings), whereas even the most independent anime, like Shinkai’s works, find their way on to DVDs.

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