Anime, Japanese cartoons, hits the world with characters who shadow real-life people and events. Aired on TV and websites all over the world, Anime storylines and character designs have developed tremendously.
Instead of redrawing every frame, anime artists reuse similar-looking frames to save time and effort. Then, the artists use that time to perfect the storyline and character development in the show. For example, the artists add more plot twists to shock the watcher, or more emotion and relationships in the characters’ lives.
Most people have settled on the belief that anime has been getting better – the quality, designs, and motions. The rest believe that anime has been getting worse each year since 2010, because all they see are anime portraying gore or inappropriate moments taking the spotlight.
For example, many anime display very disturbing scenes, like kidnapping, and torturing, which not many faint-hearted fans can watch. One particular show, Gantz, is about aliens in power suits fighting humans with weapons while ripping heads off.
A reviewer says, “The way the writers decided their annoying characters should behave really tested my patience,” and “This is the most Japanese Anime you’ll probably ever see containing a lot of perversion and brutal, brutal violence.”
However, there are also shows that people of all ages can enjoy watching, like Miraculous Ladybug. The show is about a girl named Marinette going to high-school when she finds ladybug earrings that give her powers to save the city from akuma (‘devil’ in Japanese) attacks. Even though the plot is clichéd, the character designs are stunning and the events that take place represent high-school students in real life, from crushes to enemy relationships.
A reviewer explains, “We love the teen romances and drama of the characters which are so sweetly packaged amongst cartoon heroics and a great cast of characters. The love story lines are puppy love crushes that are part of the human experience and make sense as part of the on-going story arc and not sexualization of a children’s show as some reviewers have complained.”
All in all, whether anime has been improving or becoming worse each year depends on the type of show the watcher wants to see. There is violence, drama, romance, and more in anime, but anime will keep being something that everybody will continue to watch as it keeps spreading all over the world.
Sources: https://s3.amazonaws.com/appforest_uf/f1656284719014x984517939433084800/For%20the%20Most%20Complex%20Heroines%20in%20Animation%2C%20Look%20to%20Japan%20-%20The%20New%20York%20Times.pdf
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/tv-reviews/miraculous-tales-of-ladybug-cat-noir/user-reviews/adult
https://www.quora.com/How-is-anime-getting-worse-throughout-the-years
https://www.jpost.com/special-content/what-makes-anime-unique-in-animation-world-657662
https://sandbox.spcollege.edu/index.php/2019/10/the-rising-popularity-of-anime/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt034685/reviews
Instead of redrawing every frame, anime artists reuse similar-looking frames to save time and effort. Then, the artists use that time to perfect the storyline and character development in the show. For example, the artists add more plot twists to shock the watcher, or more emotion and relationships in the characters’ lives.
Most people have settled on the belief that anime has been getting better – the quality, designs, and motions. The rest believe that anime has been getting worse each year since 2010, because all they see are anime portraying gore or inappropriate moments taking the spotlight.
For example, many anime display very disturbing scenes, like kidnapping, and torturing, which not many faint-hearted fans can watch. One particular show, Gantz, is about aliens in power suits fighting humans with weapons while ripping heads off.
A reviewer says, “The way the writers decided their annoying characters should behave really tested my patience,” and “This is the most Japanese Anime you’ll probably ever see containing a lot of perversion and brutal, brutal violence.”
However, there are also shows that people of all ages can enjoy watching, like Miraculous Ladybug. The show is about a girl named Marinette going to high-school when she finds ladybug earrings that give her powers to save the city from akuma (‘devil’ in Japanese) attacks. Even though the plot is clichéd, the character designs are stunning and the events that take place represent high-school students in real life, from crushes to enemy relationships.
A reviewer explains, “We love the teen romances and drama of the characters which are so sweetly packaged amongst cartoon heroics and a great cast of characters. The love story lines are puppy love crushes that are part of the human experience and make sense as part of the on-going story arc and not sexualization of a children’s show as some reviewers have complained.”
All in all, whether anime has been improving or becoming worse each year depends on the type of show the watcher wants to see. There is violence, drama, romance, and more in anime, but anime will keep being something that everybody will continue to watch as it keeps spreading all over the world.
Sources: https://s3.amazonaws.com/appforest_uf/f1656284719014x984517939433084800/For%20the%20Most%20Complex%20Heroines%20in%20Animation%2C%20Look%20to%20Japan%20-%20The%20New%20York%20Times.pdf
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/tv-reviews/miraculous-tales-of-ladybug-cat-noir/user-reviews/adult
https://www.quora.com/How-is-anime-getting-worse-throughout-the-years
https://www.jpost.com/special-content/what-makes-anime-unique-in-animation-world-657662
https://sandbox.spcollege.edu/index.php/2019/10/the-rising-popularity-of-anime/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt034685/reviews
