Today I had the realization that the only reason why people liked Kill la Kill so much and why it was so popular is because it's pretty much an Western cartoon, but Japan made it so it was "exotic". It's no different than westerners going to Shinjuku and proclaiming to understand "true Japan" although there's an H&M and a Starbucks and a Forever 21 next to them.
I don't think a lot of people liked Kill la Kill because they liked Kill la Kill, but rather they just liked the idea of liking Kill la Kill and are unable to stomach anime with Japanese values. It gives people the ability to signal that they LOVE ANIME while watching something that is pretty much Western.
Are there any other anime like this? I'd imagine stuff like Little Witch Academia or Carole and Tuesday are similar.
all miyazaki shit is anti-japanese pro-western propaganda but westerners don't even notice because it just looks normal to them
Eli Butler
Looks like Japanese animation to me
Wyatt Sanchez
How are any of Miyazaki's films anti-Japan?
Landon Hughes
Gainax never game a fuck about the difference between "anime" and "cartoon", and i doubt TRIGGER does either youtube.com/watch?v=brUwfQncCvI
Just because its a japanese take on a different format doenst mean "y-you dont like REAL animu", and your completely arbitrary definitions of "japanese values" dont detract from it either.
Jason Morris
I thought people only liked it because of the waifus and fanservice.
Thomas Ward
People like KLK so much because it gives the a funny feeling. Not many animes manage to even connect with anyone in the first place. KLK is literally magic.
Animation is animation you dipshit. Imaishi's style is certainly western-influenced and he references a shitload of stuff (as well as Japanese media) but I don't know how you can not think his works just feel anime as fuck. It's just not the bland anime style KyoAni and A-1 have been feeding you for years.
What levels? The characters are one dimensional. The story is retarded and like half of it is monster of the week. The action sucks because there’s no danger for any of the characters. Fan service is all anyone seems to talk about when talking about this shit show.
Wyatt Stewart
Do you have a jobber fetish?
Tyler Ross
Not much of a worse argument than the vague complain of it being a western cartoon despite being made in Japan by a Japanese studio. Please define anime for me user
Charles Morgan
You're really only conditioned to think that it's "bland" because you expect anime to work like American cartoons, and it doesn't so you get upset.
It's the equivalent of complaining that a mexican restaurant isn't authentic because it's not like Taco Bell.
Landon Nguyen
Yeah, lets discuss OP's argument: "Kill la Kill it's pretty much a western cartoon because I say so"
Jeremiah King
How would I think it looks bland if I somehow had the idea anime "works" like American cartoons whatever that means? Wouldn't the opposite be the case? I don't even dislike it, I just don't think anime should be limited to it and it being closer to western animation doesn't make it the same as a western cartoon. There are still certain techniques, proportions and storytelling elements being used that are unique to Japanese animation culture.
>How would I think it looks bland if I somehow had the idea anime "works" like American cartoons It would mean you didn't have enough experience with values of foreign media to differentiate them and thus you can only resort to base observations of your emotions. It would be like a jazz newbie listening to John Coltrane and thinking "wtf Coltrane is just playing random shit"
Jack Brooks
Imagine typing and posting this
Liam Nelson
KLK would only work like that for people who have a very shallow appreciation of Western animation and were never going to be much more than tourists anyway. No animation in Kill la Kill is as fucking weird as 5 seconds of Jim Tyer or as wacky of 10 seconds of Rod Scribner, or as autistically timed-to-the-frame as a Tex Avery MGM short
