Well, first blog post.
Well this is my first subject. A website that I frequent everyday called Toon Zone, has a thread in the Cafe Board called "Top 10 Worst Types of Fans" While the Topic Creator or TC as I like to call them brought this list, they aren't the focus of my rant. The focus is on another poster called... Game Freak 4.
Not sure what it is, but the fact that he seems to hate anime because it is foreign is starting to piss me off. It wouldn't be that bad, if the way he said it didn't imply that anything not American made must suck or is inferior. While liking anime is an acquired taste, I just think that cutting out Anime is like Cutting out meats for animation. Something that you don't need really (after all vegetarians are able to survive without the need of meat.), but is fun to partake in and is more about having different tastes. American Animation is like the grains & whole wheats in my book, since well it varies, some are good, and some are bad, but the body needs it to expose yourself to it. After all on my side of the globe, American cartoons are more abundant, henceforth they are consider that group in animation for me.
Sure he doesn't mean it the way that he post it since most of the times he giving off generalization and such. My advice is, if you're going to make a generalization about something, state it, or else I'll think that you're talking about your personal experiences or beliefs. Like my personal experience is that while Naruto, suffering from a shitty story, it still has one hell of a dub, same with Bleach. Sure people complain about Naruto's VA, but hey people complain about Goku, Ichigo, and Luffy's VA not fitting the character, but nothing is perfect and there is no such thing as "pleasing everyone" anyone who has that idea of "Pleasing everyone" isn't being realistic.
Also don't get me started on that forum that is in his signature. That is flamebaiting in one of its finest forms. Some of the some post consist of "THIS IS GAY!" "THIS SUCKS!" "THIS IS FAIL!", what do those have in common, that is trolling. Now you might think that this is hypocritical of me, considering that I am a poster at TZ Watch, and I am even a Moderator there. Some people think that the website that I'm on is just bashing members on TZ, but we do actually offer constructive criticism from time to time, believe it or not. Sure we often question why such and such poster behaves in a certain manner, but we have matured a bit over how we do it now, why we think that certain people are flawed, or why they are awesome in our eyes.
However Game Freak 4 is getting annoying with his anti-anime agenda. In another thread called "C.H. Greenblat on Chowder, Anime" He shows off his bias again by saying that Japan doesn't do "Cartoony" cartoons. I for one call BS on that. I look at shows like SGT. Frog, High School Host Club Ouran, One Piece, Bo^7, and several more, and I see that they are very cartoony in a sense. However, he hasn't responded to it, I think he may have blocked me. He said that the Japanese side has an annoying fanbase, is that true? Maybe, but that just shows a bias and is even more immature as writing off all fans of Japanese Animation as that part of the fanbase. After all there are some parts of the American Animation fanbase that is annoying as hell. Writing off that one side suck, another rule is immature and shows your affiliation. They are both bias, and are no better than the other side, and if you think that you are better than than the other side, that is stupid.
So basically what I'm getting at is that it doesn't matter which side of the globe animation comes from, they all have both good and bad shows. Quit Saying that Otaku are bad when a certain other animator fanbase is just as bad as the Otakus.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
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