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Friday, April 28th, 2006
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10:06p - Aliens + Anime.
Seriously. Think about it. How many animes do you know of that actually combine aliens in a "monster" like sense with anime? There's aren't that many.
Excluding those that are similar to power rangers, or guyver (there's a word for those types of shows, I just.. don't know it.), and those that use what could be called an alien as a partner (digimon, pokemon, legendz, Kiba's a newer example this season) there's only 3 that honestly come to mind that treat aliens like an actual "probable" other race that might exist in the universe:
FLCL
Alien 9
Gunbuster 2
FLCL had more humans I guess, but the big ass bird was pretty cool, not to mention the fucked-up-ness of it just kind of.. made it all worth it. But I guess this is the weakest example for this.
Alien 9 I loved. It didn't get very far, if I remember correctly. It only had 3 or 4 episodes to it, but the Borg were awesome. They were something new(ish) and interesting. It wasn't an alien that looked like a human (note: NieA under 7, Urusei Yatsura), it was an actual "alien".
Gunbuster 2 (having not seen the original) had various alien life forms that weren't human or of a similar calibre.
In after thought, Uchu no Stellvia could -possibly- fall under that, I guess.. but the aliens there weren't really a leading force to the entirety of the show, and you never really saw any more than their ships, so placing a physical body (like I'd want to) to them isn't really possible.
So this makes me ask "why". Why does every season have school girls in short-skirt uniforms. Why does every season seem to have one or more shounen-ai or shoujo-ai related series (Princess princess and strawberry panic to be specific to the season). The quality of series' coming out is, in my opinion, dropping. It feels like.. everyone's just following the same pattern.. the same "okay, we need to fill this time slot. Quick, pull a type of show out of the hat". Yeah, it might be easier to do that. But gawd, why can't I see more original and inspiring worlds, characters, interactions and stories?? Or they're even going "Okay, which pervious series that did well, should we continue?" Eg. Hack.//Roots
It's depressing in a way, but also.... very inspiring. I think that.. there's a huge possibility for other people, original people, to take their stories and push it to something marketable. I know there's thousands of amazing writers, and artists out there with amazing original stories, But asking them to give that idea to someone else.. I can see that as being a horrible deterent.
But.. If you could push your story. If you could make yourself buckle down and work on it, lay it all out (eg. manga to anime series'). Then people would be less likely to fuck with it. And the better the story is, the more it will stay together.
::sighs::
With that said, though.. I haven't developed any of my ideas to such a point. But I WANT to. And I'd like to think that, at LEAST writing them down here.. slowly developing them.. is helping me achieve that in some small way. This is also my GOAL. I entered Sheridan and the field of Animation to see my creations come to life. This isn't something I'll just give up on. This is my life.
I know me nagging other people to develop their ideas is kind of hypocritical when I'm not overly productive right now myself.. but if I just gave up on other people, that would be even worse.
I don't want to see "Anime" fall into the same trap that the North American animation has fallen into. Cheap, rushed animation, with non-solid stories, little appeal... and no diversity from everything else (CARS, FTW.).
If you have a story that you love, please... for the sake of seeing your creations come to life, work on it.
current mood: determined (comment on this)
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