The Secret Of New Anime Releases

Anime is, to put it simply click the following article, animation that's made in Japan. I will give you some instances of anime that you might know. Speed Racer, Hello Kitty, Pokemon, RoboTech, Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball Z, and also a lot of the cartoons you find on Cartoon Network qualify also, particularly Adult Swim.

Thankfully our country has gotten the rights to translate the stories from Japanese to English, because the storylines in anime are actually good. Often they are better than what Hollywood shovels into your brain.

Anime isn't a genre; it's an art form; a medium. From now on I want you to think of anime as being equated with movies, books, music, etc; all the entertainment media. The same as you have movies for kids, movies for teens, adults, so it is with anime.

All of your entertainment comes in 31 flavors, right? Comedy, horror, drama, suspense, action, etc. You file similar movies on the same shelf within the store, don't you? But you should not be putting all anime on the exact same shelf because anime isn't a genre. It's a medium, like movies are a medium, like books are a medium. A medium can have any genre of entertainment in it; well so can anime. Anime isn't all sex and violence as some individuals will tell you. When I hear someone claim that anime is sex and violence, that immediately tells me that they watched probably one particular anime show that had that and after that they go "Oh well that's how it all is."

Now granted, some anime has that. Just like some movies have that. Much like some books have that. Does that make all books bad? No. So why should it for anime? Again, anime is an art form, not only a genre. Anime may have comedy, it may have horror, drama, suspense, action, hey it can even have porn or blood-and-gut, but that does not mean all of it has it! I'm not going to lie to you and claim that anime is all happy goodness and none of it has anything you do not want to see. There is nice stuff, and there is bad stuff, and there is everything in between, just like any other type of entertainment. If somebody came up to you and said "Hey man, we should really be censoring these 'movies' that people are discussing. They're all sex and violence. I mean every movie has that in it, and I don't think we should let our kids be watching movies." Would you believe that? No, you would go "Excuse me, but that does not apply to all movies leave me alone."

You've got a rating system in the movies, right? G, PG, PG-13, R, NC-17. Anyway, think about the movies. Simply because Lord of the Rings was PG-13, did that mean it was necessarily bad for kids to watch? That's opinionated. Okay, think of a movie you like but your kids do not like it since they do not understand it. The themes are over their heads and they do not go for all that characterization. In our movie rating system what would we rate a movie like that? It will not have anything the children should not be seeing, it's just that they do not understand. What do you think MPAA would rate it?

Now with anime it's the companies who distribute the anime who rate the anime. Their rating system is a little distinctive from the films: They will take all factors, not simply sex, violence, nudity, language, etc. but in addition factor in if younger audiences will be able to understand it. So on the back of an anime the rating could be OT for Older Teens, but really all they did that for was since the story is hard to understand. Now granted OT can be for the other stuff too, but you will need to understand that they think of everything once they rate.

You might have a G movie that is for little kids, and also a PG movie that they completely don't understand. The rating system didn't help in this case; you will need to read up on the film so you know what's in it, and that really goes for all entertainment, including anime. You'll need to read up on something you want to watch, read, listen to. It may be okay; it may not. You can not expect the rating system to do everything for you, since it won't.

Another rationale why people could possibly be against anime is that certain companies make only anime that a great deal of us do not want to watch; then when individuals get introduced to anime, they unfortunately see it from these companies, which is like taking an Amish person to a shoot-em-up movie. That Amish guy won't think well of movies next!
So realize that just as certain publishers publish certain books, and certain movie companies put out certain movies, so certain companies put out certain anime.

So by in essence, unfortunately, all anime is grouped together like it's a genre, and it is not. You can have a porn right next to Hello Kitty and who knows the main difference because "Oh it's all the same." Watch Hello Kitty and watch that porn! You will see a difference! Those are two extremes, through the way. Like I said, not all anime is porn; in fact most of it is not; the same as movies. And not all anime is for little kids, but I would expect more of it's for them than is for porn-seeking people.

So that is one extremist viewpoint of anime: that it's all sex and violence. Another view that men and women take on it's that anime is just like cartoons: it's for little kids, and it has nothing bad in it. Don't take that approach either. I just went over anime, so you know now that it's just like movies, books, and music: it may be good or bad, for little kids, for teens, for adults, could contain this or that. Just like we would not believe the stereotypes that all blondes are stupid, that bodybuilders have no feelings, and that life is definitely a happy ending, so we should not be casting anime as cartoons gone-bad.

But I do not want to lead you into the believing that an anime which has something like nudity is necessarily a bad show to watch. It is important to take into account that anime comes from Japan, and much like other countries that can come into contact with each other, you can find that Japan has different thinking than we do. Is the fact that to say that nudity has no effect upon them? No. An element that you might find objectionable, they may not. For instance, Japan has public baths, therefore their stories may include that. You could see in an anime a public bath scene by which the characters are talking while they can be in the bath. Public baths are part of Japanese culture; the nudity isn't sexual in any way, but many people see that offensive.

And anime often has sexual humor in it. Not anime for little kids, just for us elderly people. You may also see a person naked or partially for this reason, but it doesn't have to be sexual. What I'm getting at is the fact that the Japanese are willing to speak about a great deal more in their cartoons than we ever will in ours. They're a whole lot freer; depends upon you to determine whether that's the best or a bad thing.