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your post presumes that i am defending Western television or arguing that it's superior to anime. i said that Western film is superior to anime, because pissballsack said anime is superior to Western "media." i didn't elaborate on this in my first post because it seemed somewhat obvious -- the comparison isn't even fair.i don't watch television. i have not seen the wire, the sopranos, game of thrones, etc. i tried to watch better call saul and hated it.i was actually going to make another post speculating about whether or not the reason for my claim about anime is structural based on the nature of serialized media -- because japanese film doesn't really have this problem. but the inverse of this claim would simply be that film is forced to conclude by the nature of the medium, and so obviously japanese films are far more structured than anime/manga. (the comparator to Western films should obviously just be japanese films, not anime films in particular)i think i actually prefer japanese film to Western film. it's at least on par with most Western countries considered in isolation. maybe the way (which you dispute) that anime/manga/light novels tend to go on indefinitely or stagnate isn't because of japanese sensibilities or values, maybe it's for some other reason that isn't unique to japan. i don't actually have strong feelings about that, and i can assure you that i am a weeaboo, not anti-japanese. regardless, i do disagree with the notion that anime doesn't have a problem with concluding its stories. that hasn't been my experience watching anime at all. where are all of these anime with strong endings? one of the main reasons i lost significant interest in anime is because i was tired of being left feeling empty after the vast majority of 1-cour series.
your post presumes that i am defending Western television or arguing that it's superior to anime. i said that Western film is superior to anime, because pissballsack said anime is superior to Western "media." i didn't elaborate on this in my first post because it seemed somewhat obvious -- the comparison isn't even fair.
i don't watch television. i have not seen the wire, the sopranos, game of thrones, etc. i tried to watch better call saul and hated it.
i was actually going to make another post speculating about whether or not the reason for my claim about anime is structural based on the nature of serialized media -- because japanese film doesn't really have this problem. but the inverse of this claim would simply be that film is forced to conclude by the nature of the medium, and so obviously japanese films are far more structured than anime/manga. (the comparator to Western films should obviously just be japanese films, not anime films in particular)
i think i actually prefer japanese film to Western film. it's at least on par with most Western countries considered in isolation. maybe the way (which you dispute) that anime/manga/light novels tend to go on indefinitely or stagnate isn't because of japanese sensibilities or values, maybe it's for some other reason that isn't unique to japan. i don't actually have strong feelings about that, and i can assure you that i am a weeaboo, not anti-japanese. regardless, i do disagree with the notion that anime doesn't have a problem with concluding its stories. that hasn't been my experience watching anime at all. where are all of these anime with strong endings? one of the main reasons i lost significant interest in anime is because i was tired of being left feeling empty after the vast majority of 1-cour series.
