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So tell me, the difference between what some folks call anime, and your garden-variety comic book?

The big eyes?

What exactly makes you "puke"?

That was very cool, actually... Although it could do without the big eyes ;)

"Big eyes" don't concern me much. I grew up watching Astro Boy as a young girl, didn't consider him to be anime. Just a kickass cartoon.

Then came 1960's Batman, if I was a good girl and ate all my supper.

I honestly don't get the big deal about anime.

Why is it any different than a cartoon?

Indeed. And? Why would I want to look at something ugly for any amount of time, if I don't have to?

I'm not sure what my garden-variety comic book is. There are plenty of artists in comics with widely different styles. Some I love, some I can't stand. But I think it's pretty easy to see that western comics don't look anything like manga/anime.

The way it looks. The way it moves. The way it... is. It's just a matter of taste. I'm not saying you should hate it too, that anime is objectivly crap. It's just that I can't stand it, just as I can't stand anything japanese really. It does not mean I hate Japan. It's just that my sense of aesthetics is uniformly western.

Actually the new "streamlined" look that's become somewhat popular among western comic artists has a lot in common with anime (and I like it even less than many anime styles). It also has little detail, very abstract proportions etc..

I don't really see that in comics, but the way the new animated movies from DC look does look anime-ish. And I really dislike it. My heart breaks when I look at that, and think back to Batman: The Animated Series.

Yeah, that show had an amazing look. Too bad that it also already embraced quite a nasty design in its last season. is how we remember and love the Joker and out of nowhere he began looking [url=http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120708002002/thebatmananimatedseries/images/3/3a/The_Joker.jpg]like this (and that really was still on the same show with the same voice cast, mind you). I have no idea what the hell happened there. I sometimes think that they may have experienced budget cuts and were forced to go for lazier character designs that are easier/cheaper to animate.

True, the orginal look was best, though some characters actually look at least as good if not better in the last season. Scarecrow's look is a vast improvement in my opnion, he finally lookes really creepy, and Batman himself looks good. I always liked the costume without the yellow oval more.

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