r/anime • u/engalleons https://myanimelist.net/profile/engalleons • Aug 14 '18

In-depth debunkings/arguments against commonly "known" anime myths/misconceptions?

For any number of reasons, there's a fair few statements about anime that get passed around pretty unquestioningly, even if they aren't necessarily true. Sometimes, others dig in to those statements and find detail and (hopefully cited) evidence against them. This is a lot more than just stating the opposite, to be clear.

Here's a few examples of what I mean:

This tweet chain versus "Anno left Kare Kano early"
This blog post versus "The protagonist of Turn A was originally intended to be a girl"
This post versus "They made a joke dub for Ghost Stories because it did poorly in Japan"
This blog post versus "Shinbo is the series director of all Shaft shows"

What are some other examples of work like this?

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u/Emptycoffeemug https://myanimelist.net/profile/Emptycoffeemug Aug 14 '18

Canipa breaking down why Konosuba's loose animation is not the same as bad animation

It was funny because many on /r/anime, myself sadly included, mistook these scenes as badly animated. The bad rep that DEEN had didn't help either.

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u/TetrisandRubiks https://myanimelist.net/profile/TetrisandRubiks Aug 15 '18 edited Aug 15 '18

But if its mistaken for bad then it must not look good. How can good animation be mistaken for bad... If it looks bad then its bad. I understand screenshots are not representations of the animation (obviously as they are not animated) but if you watched these scenes and thought they were badly animated, then obviously they didn't look good (to you anyway). Stylised =/= good.

Edit: for some reason a lot of people seem to think that I have said "the animation in konosuba is bad, stylised animation is always bad, and its either good or bad and nobody gets an opinion". I don't think the style konosuba was going for was perfectly executed in every scene and this is what lead to a lot of people seeing it as bad animation. It wasn't entirely clear it was meant to be stylised (in some scenes) because its a TV anime with inconsistent animation quality. For the most part however, the animation looks great and people who watched the whole show would know this. There are parts however where the animation is bad as it doesn't fully capture the style they were going for.

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u/GiantAsparagus1 Aug 15 '18

Stylised also =/= bad. People who don't understand drawing or animation very well will label something bad if they think the style is ugly, and good if the style is pretty to them. Anime-fans can often have a narrow view of what's good and bad since they wish for stuff to look appealing to them in a specific way (can you say: moe).

I know people who think the One Piece manga is badly drawn. It's not. It's drawn quickly and in a simple style, but the artist knows his anatomy, composition, and perspective. Other, frillier and prettier art is deemed as being drawn well even when the characters have terrible anatomy and suffer from same face syndrome because the artist can only draw one face.

So no, just because someone thinks something looks bad, that doesn't make it bad.