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Aug 18, 2002, 4:01pm

> And I'm telling you that just isn't the case. There are some anime shows
> that are all sex and violence (i.e. hentai), an there are some shows
> that have zero sex and violence (i.e. Card Captor Sakura), just like
> American shows/movies. The only thing that differentiates anime from
> American cinema is the drawing/animation style (i.e. big eyes, small
> mouth, weird hair, etc.) and Japanese cultural references. Those are the
> ONLY components that make anime anime. Any other components can be
> readily found in all forms of entertainment in varying degrees. You
> can't say sex and violence are the biggest components of *any* medium,
> much less anime, because those things merely define a sub-section of the
> medium, not the entire medium.

Is it me, though, or are all anime characters non Asian? It seems they have a hard time
doing the eyes for an Asian person in anime style.

--Bowen--

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