Halo Legends

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Originally Posted by Warsaw

You fail to realise that what is mainstream in our sheltered Western lives is by no means mainstream in the birthplace of the genre.

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This is precisely the point, we are getting false idologies shoved down our throats that isnt true to the source material (true original anime).

Cant you see why this Halo legend thing links in? It would just be another iteration of the maze of anime.

In my opinion when western ideas meet eastern art, the end result is unappealing to me. I.e. the trailer for Halo legends, and its not even something I can put up with, like say to myself, I'll put up with the shockingly bad front just to hear the story. I just cant, it wont be Halo anymore.

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Originally Posted by ultama121

So you're judging all anime based on what people make mainstream in America?

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No, I have no idea what anime shows they have in America. All I know is the ones here are very poor and poor representation.

I do remember one anime show I loved when I was a kid. It was about some boy who lived on a planet, wasnt earth but it had grass and trees and everything. Cant remember the name, they had weird hair like a pom pom.

Ah, I didn't mean America, I just wasn't thinking, I meant other parts of the world.

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Originally Posted by ultama121

Ah, I didn't mean America, I just wasn't thinking, I meant other parts of the world.

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Well yes, I obviously know theres alot more to anime that just the stuff us westerners see. However Japanese anime is designed for Japan, not westerners, hense the big cultural shock for me and is a reason I detest the artwork. Well not the artwork, its more of the animation style. If it was a single frame drawn out then yes I would love the picture.

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Originally Posted by Limited

This is precisely the point, we are getting false idologies shoved down our throats that isnt true to the source material (true original anime).

Cant you see why this Halo legend thing links in? It would just be another iteration of the maze of anime.

In my opinion when western ideas meet eastern art, the end result is unappealing to me. I.e. the trailer for Halo legends, and its not even something I can put up with, like say to myself, I'll put up with the shockingly bad front just to hear the story. I just cant, it wont be Halo anymore.



No, I have no idea what anime shows they have in America. All I know is the ones here are very poor and poor representation.

I do remember one anime show I loved when I was a kid. It was about some boy who lived on a planet, wasnt earth but it had grass and trees and everything. Cant remember the name, they had weird hair like a pom pom.

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You're basically taking the route against this, just as a child would while their parents are trying to get them to eat their vegetables, after the child ate some disgusting rotten vegetable or seaweed or something else; "I DON'T WANNA BECAUSE IT WILL TASTE GROSS JUST LIKE THAT _____"

For one, just like the child, you won't know until you try it; or in this case, watch it. Two; how are you supposed to take in physics with the "NO ONE CAN GLIDE LIKE THAT," when Master Chief had a bomb blow behind him, giving him a huge boost, entered the earth's atmosphere, and crash into Africa without so much as a concussion.

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Well yes, I obviously know theres alot more to anime that just the stuff us westerners see. However Japanese anime is designed for Japan, not westerners, hense the big cultural shock for me and is a reason I detest the artwork. Well not the artwork, its more of the animation style. If it was a single frame drawn out then yes I would love the picture.

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Just because anime was started up and has its roots in Japan, doesn't mean it's just for Japan. Just because Coldplay/U2/(insert euro band that hit it big in America) came from Europe, doesn't mean they're just for Europeans. And you know what? I'm quite sure the animation done in Japan is done a single frame at a time more often than the shit on Western television right now.

I don't like anime in general. There are 2 things essential to ANY story: plot and art. And anime fails on both accounts.

1. The plotlines are ALWAYS confusing, IF they make any sense at all. I was watching an anime one time about a guy who talked to a girl at school over some Instant Messenger. They both liked each other, and so it seemed like they would get together. Then the guy goes to some Japanese holiday's special fair/festival thing, finds some random girl who had no connection to the story and was never mentioned before, and starts to date her. The end. It was like the whole half-hour of stuff which happened before the final scene even mattered. And don't even get me started on this whole S.O.S. brigade thing, which STILL confuses the fuck out of me. Also, I just can't believe that the guy is seriously using a sword twice the size of him with any kind of accuracy. You ever try to swing a sword which is 12 feet long? It doesn't go over well.
2. The artwork always feels lazy. They repeat the exact same 2 frames over again to represent someone talking, when it's just someone opening and closing their mouth. The characters in the background don't even MOVE. The cars are stopped at a green light. The people are frozen in mid-step. It's like they're walking in a street full of statues. It seems like someone slapped it together as fast and as cheap as possible to make a quick buck.

Long story short, I may like Hentai, but I don't like anime.

Anime IS not Halo.

English Mobster, two things back.

1. Just because you don't understand the storyline doesn't mean its that confusing. Even when they are confusing, they really aren't that hard to understand. Just put a little thought into it. :ugh:
2. You're overgeneralizing. I'm not even going to make a response longer than that.

Limited, a very large portion of Japanese anime plots and themes have roots in European history...just thought I'd toss that out.

English Mobster
1. Not true. Last Exile wasn't confusing. Blue Submarine No. 6 wasn't confusing. Akira makes sense, and so does Princess Mononoke. You just can't jump in during the middle of an arc, that's all...and you shouldn't be doing that with any story really. S.O.S. Brigade is not one of the better animes, actually. I think it's shit, tbqh. Also, the plots are thicker and more intriguing than most Western stuff...the only Western TV programmes I can think of that twist it up as much as anime does are Torchwood and Doctor Who, and both of those are set in the same universe (kudos to BBC for this, just watched Children of Earth and it was riveting).

2. I cede the point about lip motions. Then again, videogames did the same thing for awhile, so do a lot of western cartoons, and the lip motions are made more for the Japanese language than for English (since we all seem to speak it here). As for statuesque backdrops, I can't remember the last time I saw that...maybe it was in Pokémon, but that isn't exactly definitive either.

Uh I have tried it, which is why I posted saying I don't like it.

I never said it was unrealistic I said it wasn't very Halo. There are certain physic laws that apply to Halo.

Not everything adapters to everyones taste.

Cool, so a diff animator for each episode?

badass.

If they used Ghost in the Shell mechanics, then it would work. That would actually fit very well in the Halo universe. Gundam mechanics or anything flashy, forget it.