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Olmanek I started gaining an interest in
anime after watching Evangelion and being awestruck by it, plus as I was interested
in metaphysics and psychology at the time I actually enjoyed the ending, so that
helped a great deal, then I joined an anime club run at a local university who
did fortnightly screenings and so my interest increased and I became quite a fan
of the stuff. I quite like a well crafted series, but admittedly I also like some
of the more mindless series and one's which I can't really hope to explain why
I enjoy them as I do, Ghibli films being some of my favourites but ones which
I'm very reluctant to review because I'm never sure just what it is about each
individual one that I find so brilliant, this also applies for a number of series,
To Heart, Yokohama Shopping Log, Fruits Basket, Angel's Egg and various others.
The thing which I think sets anime apart from a
lot of others mediums of entertainment is that it isn't as restricted as others,
you can have a plausible and good looking series set 150 years ago with fantastic
fight scenes and characters as well as intricate and complex storylines and create
a world bustling with people and it's own environment and mood, to do as much
in a movie with human actors would require ungodly sums of money, hundreds of
additional background actors who serve no purpose other than to fill the background
and very talented main actors, an extremely talented director to capture the right
atmosphere, brilliant sets and clothing designs, all of these things can be created
by a single person in anime, which I think is something amazing, also as anime
has become so well refined, characters; their personalities and their designs,
as well as voice actors are increasingly getting better and better, the storyline
idea's are also showing signs of great diversity and improving rapidly, though
there is of course the occasional horrific abomination but compared to all the
good it's not a worry, in addition the animation is becoming more and more fluid
each year, and the music that accompanies series and movies is often already brilliant
but put into context it can become heart wrenchingly painful, uplifting, relaxing
or just fun, if you've ever read any of the old Japanese texts, often their poetry
and a lot of their mythology and stories, you'll see they have an appreciation
of nature and simple beauty, even the interest in Sakura blossoms shows this much
which is still common today, they naturally have a very humble and philosophical
understanding of things which I think allows for great creations. Anime is a highly
refined art form which has the diversity flexibility and capability and of no
other medium, and that's why I'm such an avid fan of it.
About
Olmanek I'm 16 and in my second last year
of High School and I spend most of my time either at school or just whittling
away my time with friends, the typical mindless teenager stuff. For interesting
events, I have jumped out of a moving train, and shattered the bones in my arm
while I was at it, I don't think people appreciate how much it hurts to jump off
of stuff. With my friends I've taken over large Janitorial rooms in my school,
brought in carpet, painted the walls and drilled in locks during out of school
hours, and also run A computer, TV and VCR through light bulb outlets (Not sure
of the exact way in which it was done, my friends are the one's with electrical
knowledge) and turned the place into a miniature base, converted abandoned signal
boxes into bases, converted underground world war 2 tunnels into bases, set up
a pirate radio station, and a small BBS, I also write columns for a counter-culture
newsletter/magazine which is distributed out at a local university that also has
a very cool Anime club which screens anime every fortnight, which helped me greatly
in getting so interested in anime. I suffer from light insomnia and so I've a
lot of spare time during the nights, during which time I like to mainly write
whilst listening to music and watch anime, I don't have any favoured genre, but
mainly I look for good storyline, good music and a bit of style, I also enjoy
some of the more mindless series which are just fun to watch, I guess I like a
bit of everything.
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