Anime, Otakism and the Rantings And Ravings of Japanese Popular Culture
Like how Kuroyanagi has melodramatic reactions to bread, we too have reactions to anime. Kuroyanagi’s level however, is far out of a regular anime fan’s reach, so we can only settle for the basics.
The mandatory hawt Tsukino picture that comes with every Yakitate Japan related post
Kuroyangi’s reacto-meter has only 2 drastic ends. Either the bread tastes godlike, or crap.
Anime on the other hand, should be categorized into 3 different reaction levels. Or at least I think it should.
Great anime needs awesome storyline and/or animation graphics. No doubt that without them, an anime would be 100% crap. But, it seems that with quite a large number of anime possessing these 2 traits. Hence, there is intensive competition within the anime industry, with anime series to outshine each other in the various aspects. However, how successful an anime (note: I dont use the word ‘awesome’) is would have to be dependent on it’s viewers.
Hence an additional trait has to be included. It happens to be the classification of anime.
The classification of anime can be divided into 3 main parts. The genre, the target audience and the theme. The genres are similar to the ones that exist within mainstream movies/dramas, with common genres such as ‘Action’, ‘Drama’ and ‘Romance’. For the target audience, the sex and age group of the audience is considered. Common classifications include ‘Shonen’, ‘Shoujo’ and ‘Seinen’. And finally, themes. As stated in this post’s title, this is what I will be writing about in detail.
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