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21. 

    Fiona
    

    But anime has always been generic. That's never changed.

    Posted 6 years ago #
22. 

    Mikorio
    

    Fiona said:
    But anime has always been generic. That's never changed.

    *SLAP*

    Monster? Higashi no Eden? Umineko? Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei? Gintama?

    How are any of these 'generic anime'. What is your definition of generic anime anyway? Shoujo styled? Tentacle hentai? Nekomimi maids?

    Posted 6 years ago #
23. 

    Nin
    

    I was thinking of replying to that comment, too. XD I was halfway through typing a post but then realised there was too much to say to someone who says that "anime has always been generic".

    Posted 6 years ago #
24. 

    nocturne
    

    There's a school of epistemic thought that suggests the way our minds work are as vessels that only take in what it experiences, and cannot produce anything without that sort of input. It cannot produce anything, as they say, out of thin air. Anything produced by the mind that does not exist in the natural world (e.g., magic) is the result of conceptualizing the negative of something that exists in the natural world (in this case, the entirety of the natural world itself). However, this imagining of something that does not exist in the natural world is always based on concepts of the natural world, and thus fall within the same trappings of any other production of the mind.

    The next question is how many permutations the mind is capable of with the phenomena it experiences. Naturally, the number of types of things in the world are finite, with each type of phenomena essentially being the same as experiences of the mind. In fact, one could suggest that we can only put every phenomena available to us into categories because the number of all phenomena isn't limitless; despite the incredible number of celestial bodies in the universe, there are only so many types of them, with each type of celestial body such as main sequence stars, quasars, dwarf planets, gas giants, etc., essentially being the same thing as far as the mind is concerned. This means we can only have a finite number of permutations since the number of types of phenomena are finite as well -- however large. What this implies is that no thought we ever create is truly original, and thus any production of the brain is always somewhat generic.

    So yeah, through this reasoning one could make the case that all anime -- and all forms of media itself -- is prosaic to some degree.

    Posted 6 years ago #
25. 

    Dark Mage
    

    I love this new version of I'm turning Japanese almost as much as the original.

    Posted 6 years ago #
26. 

    giascle
    

    Char said:
    I love this new version of I'm turning Japanese almost as much as the original.

    I hate it, but the video had an Aya itasha so I'm not complaining.

    Posted 6 years ago #
27. 

    Kortaku
    

    Sigh...I do wish I was there in akihabara though

    Posted 5 years ago #
28. 

    Huey
    

    Why do people bump month old topics?

    Posted 5 years ago #
29. 

    gundam4ever2
    

    I found a replacement for the down video
    http://www.twitvid.com/4E77A

    Posted 5 years ago #
30. 

    Shi nai weaboo
    

    Fiona said:
    But anime has always been generic. That's never changed.

    Your dumb

    Posted 5 years ago #

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