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by , January 31st, 2013 at 02:37 AM (7074 Views)
I was hanging out with friends today, and one of the myriad of topics we talked about this time was cartoons. We talked about what we used to watch back in the day, got to hear about some equally nostalgic and obscure stuff courtesy of other people's childhoods and tastes, what we watched genrewise (us being 'mericans who watched 'merican TV all mainstream animation then and now is either comedy or action, so take a guess), and cartoons nowadays like Adult Swim and the like.
Not surprisingly, the flow of the subject shifted to anime, the discussion of which is a mixed bag in my usual group because some of them watch it, some not as much, and then there are the outliers who represent the extremes of either side who either watch none of them Chinese Girl Cartoons or those who WATCH ALL OF IT. Conversation went along the previously established tracks of train of thought and then went to industry trends, which naturally went to the topic of what is commonly known as "moeshit."
One of them was for its continued propagation because they felt that it hadn't run its course yet, and that meaningful stories can still be derived from something even if that something is at its core just an excuse to watch BESM'd girls do cutesy stuff for a half-hour. One insisted that it should just die already. And crash and burn like a plane whose engines had spontaneously disappeared in an act of God. Or at least reduced to a minimum if concessions had to be made because anime studios cannot possibly seem to part with anything that can cause a case of the warm fuzzies or hnnnng.
The other didn't give a shit because he's exclusively a /tg/ fag.
Either way, if moeshit is going to stick with us for some time in some shape or form until the trend truly does wear down, then the industry should go and exploit the next, untapped wellspring...
For needless drama, I'mma gonna go and put my revelation within a spoiler tag. Just to make it seem like it's a big deal when it really isn't.
Seriously Japan. Get on that. Its ripe for the picking.
So, what say you, folks? What sort of cartoons did you used to watch and what kind of reasons do you remember having for sticking around? Care to namedrop any? And what are on your thoughts on the proverbial topic of "moeshit?" Are you into the K-ON!s and IdolM@sters, the multitude of series past and present that forgo any service because who needs that in their plots, or do you like 'em together as part of your own personal PB&J of Japanese animation?
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