<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(noahTHEpurdy @ Aug 21 2006, 04:24 PM) [snapback]108916[/snapback][/center]
I won't see it. To me, there's Japanese animation, and "anime". Japanese animation is simply old school kickass cartoons, like the original transformers, then there's this overexagerated Pokemon bullshit like the new Transformers, etc just to make bucks off the fat kids that hang 'round bookstores all day staring at Hentai. Fuck that, s'all I have to say.
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Japanese animation and Anime are the same thing.
60s Anime, 70s Anime, 80s Anime, 90s Anime, etc... As everything there are some bad and there are some good. Ya have to aim higher to view the good ones. Pokemon, Digimon, Monster Rancher, Harvest Moon, YugiOh, etc. It's all the same. Anime for kids. Same as Transformers was in it's era. You have an adventure which ends with a moral to the story, to teach kids a lesson while having fun. This type of anime usually suck.
Transformers is good because it was your childhood cartoon, remembrance of the past. If it was a happy life and Transformers had a part of that happiness, then you will always accept it as something better than what there is now. Althought is practically the same. Transformers, Mazinger Z, Astroboy... All those are the same type, in which they gave a moral to the story on each episode.
Others like Voltron, Macross (Japanese Version), Candy Candy, Heidi, Secret Garden, etc. They were based in novels. No morals to the story, lots of drama, not originally created for kids.
What US did to Robotech and Voltron in the complete change of storyline just to fit in as kids cartoons, that is a crime. :angry: But that's another story....
As for me, what I like about Transformers were the two movies that I saw. Saw a couple of TV episodes, but it was not the same.