Originally posted by masterbruce
there's a lot of psychological and relativism themes in DBZ.Is Vegeta a good guy or a bad guy?
Thats not nearly on the same level as some of the really good stuff.
Vegeta just switches sides constantly. Its more of a guessing game half the time.
By moral reletavism I mean things like:
Scar and Ed in FMA
Asakura in TMoHS
Almost every character in Monster
Raito in DeathNote
Originally posted by masterbruceI disagree I think the fluidity of the Capt. Marvel and Superman fight far exceeds anything I've seen from anime.
they're great by American standardsbut I think good Japanese animation makes JLU look like it was made by 4th graders
In Japan, animation is meant for adults. In America, cartoons are for kids, they're generally not taken as seriously.
Anime made be made for adults it doesn't change the fact I think besides the pretty images most of their fights lack any real fluidity and are mostly just stylized.
To me that kind of animated fighting comes of as lame to me. I'll take fluid over stylized any day which I think Americans do far better than Japanese Anime.
But that is just my opinion obviously you have a different one.
50 page martial arts fights are only utilised in stereotypical bullshit Shoen Manga (Basically Manga for 8-13 year old boys).
Hellsing (Yes, yes I know I never shit the f*ck up about it ; but it's a damn good example) is the prime example of non 50-page fighters.
Each chapter barely reaches over 28 pages. Fights are usually insanely quick with Alucard dominating his opponent in seconds due to sheer power. Usually the pages are full of mass blood sprays for Christ sakes ! Inbetween the fighting is some reasonably deep philosiphy on war and life.
Or better yet , heres an example.
Originally posted by grey fox(Warning : VERY Gory , seriously. I wouldn't watch this if you can't handle violence and some serious blood spray, so don't click if you don't like teh violence. For the rest, enjoy 🙂 )