Comments on: Why I still watch cartoons…And like it! http://www.2phatgeeks.com/geekery/why-i-still-watch-cartoonsand-like-it/ What geekery is this? Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:54:26 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: milander http://www.2phatgeeks.com/geekery/why-i-still-watch-cartoonsand-like-it/comment-page-1/#comment-2030 milander Fri, 15 May 2009 08:57:33 +0000 http://www.2phatgeeks.com/?p=1163#comment-2030 Anime and manga are a cultural facet of Japan in the same way that bugs bunny etc are in the states. The crazy costumes, hair etc, the conventions and hentai (porn anime) are just the same as porn anywhere you just need to realise that the medium (cartoon/art) is different and as such has been exploited differently. America and Europe have porn comics but because using art as a medium to tell a story is musch much more ingrained in asian culture it is seen as weird... it isn't, it's just another form of expression which you can choose to avoid or indulge. From experience anime conventions are just the same as star trek conventions... or Lost/star wars/friends/etc etc conventions and all have their attendent weirdos and freaks. Anime and manga are a cultural facet of Japan in the same way that bugs bunny etc are in the states. The crazy costumes, hair etc, the conventions and hentai (porn anime) are just the same as porn anywhere you just need to realise that the medium (cartoon/art) is different and as such has been exploited differently. America and Europe have porn comics but because using art as a medium to tell a story is musch much more ingrained in asian culture it is seen as weird… it isn’t, it’s just another form of expression which you can choose to avoid or indulge.

From experience anime conventions are just the same as star trek conventions… or Lost/star wars/friends/etc etc conventions and all have their attendent weirdos and freaks.

]]> By: Melissa http://www.2phatgeeks.com/geekery/why-i-still-watch-cartoonsand-like-it/comment-page-1/#comment-1953 Melissa Sun, 12 Apr 2009 13:47:17 +0000 http://www.2phatgeeks.com/?p=1163#comment-1953 Heya Mik! Anime conventions are their own special thing, which...generally I tend to know absolutely nothing about. And I am okay with that! Some of them are good, some not so much. I tend to just like the cartoons! Heya Mik!

Anime conventions are their own special thing, which…generally I tend to know absolutely nothing about. And I am okay with that!

Some of them are good, some not so much. I tend to just like the cartoons!

]]> By: Mik http://www.2phatgeeks.com/geekery/why-i-still-watch-cartoonsand-like-it/comment-page-1/#comment-1952 Mik Sun, 12 Apr 2009 02:33:16 +0000 http://www.2phatgeeks.com/?p=1163#comment-1952 I noticed lately all down town there where people dressed in garish clothes with bright colored hair and carrying swords, most of them female. Then I remembered there is an Anime convention going on it town. Weird looking indeed. I still enjoy Tom & Jerry. <abbr><em>Mik posted: <a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/slightlymordant/DowS/~3/G8TWRC_t45g/" rel="nofollow">Whatcha lookin’ at?</a></abbr></em> I noticed lately all down town there where people dressed in garish clothes with bright colored hair and carrying swords, most of them female. Then I remembered there is an Anime convention going on it town. Weird looking indeed.

I still enjoy Tom & Jerry.

Mik posted: Whatcha lookin’ at?

]]> By: Melissa http://www.2phatgeeks.com/geekery/why-i-still-watch-cartoonsand-like-it/comment-page-1/#comment-1950 Melissa Sat, 11 Apr 2009 11:36:48 +0000 http://www.2phatgeeks.com/?p=1163#comment-1950 First: Your Dad is <i>awesome!</i> I was telling Shawn last night before passing out forever how kick ass it must be to be 77 and still that young. Second: cartoons are cool, they've always been cool. You want to come over before I go and watch some Thundercats with me? :D Bring your brownies! First: Your Dad is awesome! I was telling Shawn last night before passing out forever how kick ass it must be to be 77 and still that young.

Second: cartoons are cool, they’ve always been cool. You want to come over before I go and watch some Thundercats with me? :D Bring your brownies!

]]> By: Eve http://www.2phatgeeks.com/geekery/why-i-still-watch-cartoonsand-like-it/comment-page-1/#comment-1946 Eve Sat, 11 Apr 2009 00:36:47 +0000 http://www.2phatgeeks.com/?p=1163#comment-1946 You wrote: <i>"I watch anime because inside, I’m still a kid looking at an art form that tells amazing stories. I’m an adult searching for a tale to wind myself up into and I find some of the amazing stories told through animation. To me, they’re just as satisfying as those told on television or in a movie."</i> I agree completely! I've never thought cartoons were just for kids, and I think this is something I learned from my dad. My dad will be 77 this July. He's always enjoyed cartoons, and as a teenager, he took art lessons from a Disney animator. In the last ten or fifteen years, he started watching anime, and he's explained his appreciation for it the exact same way you did. <abbr><em>Eve posted: <a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lifeinthegardenofeden/~3/_rWS_jIRwRk/wordless-wednesday-04082009" rel="nofollow">Wordless Wednesday: 04/08/2009</a></abbr></em> You wrote: “I watch anime because inside, I’m still a kid looking at an art form that tells amazing stories. I’m an adult searching for a tale to wind myself up into and I find some of the amazing stories told through animation. To me, they’re just as satisfying as those told on television or in a movie.”

I agree completely!

I’ve never thought cartoons were just for kids, and I think this is something I learned from my dad. My dad will be 77 this July. He’s always enjoyed cartoons, and as a teenager, he took art lessons from a Disney animator. In the last ten or fifteen years, he started watching anime, and he’s explained his appreciation for it the exact same way you did.

Eve posted: Wordless Wednesday: 04/08/2009

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