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| 17 Jun 2012 10:40 PM |
| That is what weeaboos always say. Not everyone cares about anime, and video games were invented in the United States in 1947. |
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Nussack
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| 17 Jun 2012 10:41 PM |
I like anime, only because Japan is original with their modern-day cartoons. In America, you get these cartoons that are so typical and are mere marketing campaigns, like MLP.
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victor142
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| 17 Jun 2012 10:42 PM |
Anime is a pretty basic concept. The drawings in anime generally follow the human instinct of what it considers "cute", e.g. big eyes, disproportionate limbs, which is derived from allowing us humans to consider our children "cute" and thus be protective of them.
I'm sure it would have eventually been invented by some other culture. |
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| 17 Jun 2012 10:43 PM |
@nussack
*cough*pokemon
*cough* yu gi oh
*cough* bakugan
*cough* sonic x
*cough* duel masters
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| 17 Jun 2012 10:43 PM |
>Implying video games were initially intended for mainstream purposes, and weren't made in computers costing millions.
>Implying the video game industry would go anywhere at all following the 1983 Video Game Crash without Nintendo |
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| 17 Jun 2012 10:44 PM |
@victor
The anime eyes were stolen from Disney Movies such as Bambi and Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs. |
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theo1170
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| 17 Jun 2012 10:44 PM |
| I have never watched a decent cartoon that came from Japan, not once. |
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| 17 Jun 2012 10:44 PM |
"Implying the video game industry would go anywhere at all following the 1983 Video Game Crash without Nintendo"
The video game crash was only in North America. |
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| 17 Jun 2012 10:45 PM |
"Implying video games were initially intended for mainstream purposes, and weren't made in computers costing millions."
Games for computers don't really cost millions of dollars. |
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| 17 Jun 2012 10:45 PM |
>Only in North America
Okay, name me one corporation in the Video Game Industry at the time that was not based in Japan, but was still making video games that they knew nobody wouuld buy. |
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| 17 Jun 2012 10:46 PM |
@Italy, "that they knew nobody would buy"
Someone is sure to buy them
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| 17 Jun 2012 10:47 PM |
>Someone is sure to buy them
You do realize that the only reason people bought the NES was because it was marketed to be used with R.O.B., but Super Mario Bros just happened to be amazing. |
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| 17 Jun 2012 10:47 PM |
Yu Gi Oh died after their first debut in 2004. - Yufioh is still going on
Pokemon is just living off of new pokemon releases, that show sucks now. - But they are still marketing toys and video games and card games to kids
Bakugan is not that great to begin with. - But they are still marketing toys and video games and card games to kids
Sonic X has been forced to rarely televised childrens channels. - But it was marketing the Sonic video games
What the heck is duel masters? - ..........
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| 17 Jun 2012 10:48 PM |
"Okay, name me one corporation in the Video Game Industry at the time that was not based in Japan, but was still making video games that they knew nobody wouuld buy." Activision |
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victor142
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| 17 Jun 2012 10:49 PM |
| Yu Gi Oh, Pokemon, etc. are still billion dollar money generators. |
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| 17 Jun 2012 10:50 PM |
OP, his point is that the anime listed are irrelevant, and do not speak for all the anime produced in Japan.
Rather, I suggest the following:
>The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya >Gurren Lagann >Cowboy Bebop >Neon Genesis Evangelion >AKIRA >Clannad >Death Note
There's a list that does a bit better job of representing the anime most people refer to. |
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| 17 Jun 2012 10:51 PM |
As for Activision, their sales were in the toilet by 1984, as were the sales of ANYTHING in the video game industry at the time.
It wasn't until the release of the NES that the industry FINALLY came back to life. |
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| 17 Jun 2012 10:51 PM |
@italy
He said Japanese cartoons don't market and try to sell stuff to kids, that's why I listed them. |
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| 17 Jun 2012 10:52 PM |
thats because japan actualy makes good shows with good plots not just terrible sitcoms heres an average american show
person 1 im hot person 2 thats because ur on fire laugh track for 5 minutes while person 1 slowly burns to death |
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| 17 Jun 2012 10:52 PM |
| And Activision was successful |
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| 17 Jun 2012 10:53 PM |
No, you listed them because you were trying to assert that anime is not original and/or are identically conceptually to Western animation.
The list of anime I quickly complied says otherwise. |
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| 17 Jun 2012 10:54 PM |
"By 1982, a glut of consoles, over-hyped game releases, and low-quality games from new third-party developers less well-prepared than Activision began to appear, overflowing the shelf capacity of toy stores. Partly due to this surplus, the video game industry crashed, beginning in December 1983 and stretching through all of 1984. Almost no new games were released in 1984."
-Wikipedia.org, History of video game consoles (second generation) |
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| 17 Jun 2012 10:54 PM |
thats because japan actualy makes good shows with good plots not just terrible sitcoms
------------------------------------------- That is an opinion and Japan also has sitcoms.
heres an average american show
person 1 im hot person 2 thats because ur on fire laugh track for 5 minutes while person 1 slowly burns to death -----------------------------------------------
That sounds like dark humor, which is common in British entertainment |
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Nussack
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| 17 Jun 2012 10:55 PM |
@super
Pokemon was never intended to be a marketing campaign, it just became popular and they needed to expand their franchise to keep people happy.
Those are too mainstream anyways and poor examples of anime. I'm talking Code Geass, Death Note, Bleach, Naruto, Elfen Lied...you know, GOOD anime.
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