Why is anime trying to be artsy now?

I don't. And I have no fucking clue what the anime is about. I dropped the very first episode 5 minutes in.

It's artsy because it uses rotoscoping and hybrid animation techniques?
I think that's kind of interesting.

Other than that it's just bizarre anime, nothing new.

I really don't understand what you mean. Anime is art in itself, a specific form of art. So to say anime is artsy is like saying a Van-Gogh is artsy. The representation of the anime is all apart of the presentation.

I like anime because I like the specific style, and some times the "story telling" when it's not to cliche. If anime were drawn differently I don't know if I would like it as most art is beyond my understanding and appreciation like Jackson Pollock's. So I really don't understand this thread anime is always artsy, I mean my favorite art is in the anime style.

It's called developement. They have to make the animation more appealing, seriously, which kid would watch something animated with 20 and more years old technique when they have all those 3d pixarmovies released almost every month?
And oldfags demanding some classics really aren't the target group for most of the anime shows novadays.

Artsy, well i enjoyed Mononoke, Ayakashi, and Kitaro 0.o

Yeah cause Gankutsuou was horrible for it's animation budget ><

Okay, Trapeze aside, what other anime lately has been this "artsy" you speak of?

who cares, anime is an art and it can be artsy if it wants to be it's all about the creators style.

Hasn't anime always been artsy?
The first thing that got my attention about it was the different art styles

Just when are you going to accept the fact that you're just a nitpicker who can see nothing but the ugly side of the world?


For the love of life money, what else?


I sure do. It's AWESOME-SHIT! I doubt you're even capable of understanding why I think so hence I'll spare you of the details.


I'd like to ask the very same question. Though if I may add on what I think is "artsy" in the manner of his speaking, "White Album"<3 may very well belong.

Its just a different style?Maybe the author thought that style would portray their story best?
I would rant about why every anime have different eyes but I digress

I am a bit confused. Can someone define "artsy" in this context? I think I have a vague idea what the original poster means but just want to clarify.

There just following in suite of the video game industry if you havent seen story< graphics now days

its sad

A well known one, Bakemonogatari, Gankutsuou and Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei to name a few.

Probably to save money. No better scheme than to make it seem "artistic" and "refreshing" by making something new but will save your studio money. A good example is Bakemonogatari:

They have a lot of "Red Scene", "Brown Scene" etc. which the director thought he was being artistic but is easily seen through as a way to save money.

I don't like it either. It just makes it look cheap if you see through the disguise, and if it doesn't really look good, then it just fails harder and most of these artistic innovations don't look good in my opinion. I do a have to admit, there were some BG art in Bake that did please me, but most of the time it just looked cheap.

hold on, hold on, so...

is it the animation style you don't like or is it the way different animes are draw or what dude???

seriously i jus dun get wat you is on aboot

Both videogames and anime are visual mediums, they always have "graphics" because without them we'd just have electronic books and drama CDs. The particular nature and style of the graphics is dependant on the creator and what they're trying to convey or make the viewer/player feel. Some modern games use the power of the computers/consoles to try and be as realistic-looking as possible because they're trying to make the player feel like they're in a real situation whereas other use it to create interesting styles that weren't possible on older machines.

Okami used the processing power to create a world that resembled sumi-e artwork, to enhance and play on the mythological nature of the plot and characters and to also give a root to the paintbrush gameplay mechanic. If you played as a photo-realistic wolf in a totally realistic setting, the whole game would have felt different despite technically being the same game. Same as how the nature of the game would change if you played as a cel-shaded soldier in a cartoon world in Call of Duty.

So in that way, Lucky Star is using the supposed cuteness of the characters to appeal to you. It wouldn't work if the cast was all male and drawn like Akagi. Boogiepop Phantom is trying to make the viewer feel like what they're seeing is really happening, not just some fantasy tale. It's also meant to be very unsettling. It couldn't use the Lucky Star style to achieve this so instead it draws the cast realistically (comparatively speaking) and gives them more Japanese features like black hair and eyes rather than various blues, pinks and reds.

Trapeze is meant to be playful and surreal; the art-style captures this. It's meant to be about how the mental problems of the various patients are changing their perception of reality so the anime uses various levels of realism including live action actors, rotoscoping, 2D but with more realistic facial proportions and more typical anime styles. The style isn't usually separate from the substance but rather contributes to it. All anime has made a conscious choice about it's art style based on the style of the show, the feel of the show. Whether it's cheap and cheerful or "pretentious", a stylistic choice has been made for the same reasons.


Yeah because old classics like Pong and Space Invaders were very story-based unlike modern crap like Metal Gear Solid, amirite? Look at series like Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest, and the games tend to get more story-based as they go on. The same is true even for not particularly story-centric games like FPS; compare Doom to Half Life 2.

And Bakemonogatari's BDs sure are selling like candy.


This is mostly the reason why I ever could find it within me to admire such artistry. The animation companies responsible are much like saying "who gives a fuck about what you people think? We're doing this NOT because of YOU but for OUR own goddamn living expenses!"


You could criticize how certain animes fail, look fugly, cheap, or whatsoever for as much as you want. The bottom-line is that if you still wasted some of your precious time watching those sort of things anyway, it could only mean that you must have liked them to an even higher degree overall, regardless. -Nothing biggie.

Just for the record, I'm not the biggest fan of Bakemonogatari (nor Shaft for that matter), in terms of its animation (art)style in general, either. In fact, I actually do agree with you for the most part but whatever. I really couldn't care less with the topic here, particularly when the one who started it couldn't even be bothered to define a five-letter word that he came up with.

If there's anything else, I think Teclo pretty much covered everything up nicely. It entirely depends on some thing(s), if not on the viewers themselves...

I like it when an anime is a little different in animation techniques. It makes watching it interesting. Honestly, animes like Valkyria Chronicles look way to generic. The game just looked perfect. If they had used a similar style to that, it would be innovative as well. No clue on how that would be done though. XD

Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei had a lot of odd moments in art styles which I totally loved.

I just don't think it should take away on the story though, like the example in the beginning.