The japanese are incredible...... [my opinion on japanese art/anime movies etc.]

[rainbowsoldier]

Sometimes i wonder if the japanese artists that make these have some sort of psychological problem because lets admit it, MOST famous artists had issues with themselves. But this could be just me. I am not judging them, and by having some sort of disorder is not apparently a bad thing and i am actually impressed by their art for a lot as a musician/artist myself.

 

they create stuff like anime/movies. For example, my best friend had shown to me a ghibli studios movie where it was based on ww2 era and it was so depressing even the whole environment etc. 

 

And generally speaking, i've noticed a similar patern in many anime movies that have a really depressing tone, its just the feeling that it gives me. I don't know what it could be sometimes, sometimes it could be the general feeling depressing(even if the story has a good ending) or the art.. 

 

I am not saying this as a form of hate but i just notice that the japanese are very emotional sometimes and they express it a lot through their art/music/stories. It could be me because i haven't watched all anime/anime movies out there and i am not an expert to judge but seriously speaking, i've never come across something so deep,meaningful and soul-touching art as those. Ghibli studios for example are beyond normal specturm when it comes to art, it may be something boring and generic to some people but some people actually notice a lot of stuff going on and sometimes they recognise feelings..emotions..something deeper than just a 'story', do you get what i mean?

 

Maybe they just are trying to get in touch with our deepest emotions and remind us of our childhood days by using stuff like..kids..innocence... 

even the colours they use, and the happiness and youth that runs within.. they are tryiing to find our weak spots and make us feel some sort of 'nostalgia' through it.. maybe it could be that...

our dreams that we may have forgotten in our concience... those beautiful nightmares we forgot from time to time in action in front of our eyes... this ugly but beautiful truth...

 

sorry for this post and if it came out weird, i was trying to let out my thoughts on this..

i am not a psychiatrist and i don't know anything about psychiatric stuff, i was just letting my opinion.

Edited December 27, 2016 by rainbowsoldier

[CosmicAZNGangstars]

you are just a weeb. Japanese art is silly and there is better ones in other countries. 

Edited December 27, 2016 by CosmicAZNGangstars

[rainbowsoldier]

you are just a weeb. Japanese art is silly and there is better ones in other countries. 

i am not an anime fan at all, i was just talking through an experience with their movies showcased on tv/shown by friends etc. 

[Sana Minatozaki]

i agree

you are just a weeb. Japanese art is silly and there is better ones in other countries. 

 

japan created mina , momo and sana , therefore japan is the best country in the world

[DMNDS&PRLS]

Japan animations are where its at. Satoshi Kon(RIP) has some awesome movies especially Perfect blue, very psychological, had american directors inspired from it.

Edited December 27, 2016 by DMNDS&PRLS

[Ygssssss]

yet you need to watch most pleasing visual music video that ever created IMO

 

[Larme]

yet you need to watch most pleasing visual music video that ever created IMO

 

Yesssss

[Tentacruel]

What really gets me is how, when talking about how deep and meaningful Japanese art is, they never fail to bring up anime (and Studio Ghibli in particular) as their primary evidence for it...

 

i'm always like what about the films, directors, novels? You never hear them espouse the works of Yasujiro Ozu or Kenji Mizoguchi or Heinosuke Gosho. Where is all the talk about landmarks in Japanese cinema like Sansho the Bailiff, Woman in the Dunes or Onibaba or (even the recent ones like Departures etc.)? You'd expect them to bring up someone as acclaimed and famous as Akira Kurosawa  but even that is a rare occurrence.

 

And then you get to novels, where you're less likely to hear about Yukio Mishima's work and more likely to hear about Norwegian Wood or 1 Litre of Tears and that's only because they were adapted into sappy dramas or films.

 

For the majority of fans, it begins and ends with anime and manga.

[The Jany]

want to know what is art? watch tatami galaxy

Edited December 27, 2016 by The Jany

[Suzy Quatro]

WW2 must have been a big issue to them given what happened to their country and people after it. As for the movie you're talking about, Grave of the Fireflies, it's so depressing and emotive because that actually happened to someone, the movie is just an adaptation from a novel narrating those events from the boys perspective; so he didn't die in the end but he did lost his mother and little sister in a tragic way.

 

Overall it might shock you the art direction and the deep/emotive subjects in anime but I believe it's just because they take advantage of anime to develop any type of material. If you think about it it's easier to produce an anime compared to a movie or live action series, and it also gives you more freedom as you can shape anything you want it as long as you can imagine it and draw it.

 

In fact some big movies in the western media have copied animes, like Black Swan by Darren Aronofsky, it is based on an anime movie called Perfect Blue by Satoshi Kon and even the bastard of Aronofsky bought the rights of that anime beforehand in order to not be accused of plagiarism. You know the oscar critics often praise these directors without knowing that their work is not original and would not even care for someone like Satoshi Kon, his animes also inspired films like Requiem for a Dream with the directors even copying the same shots from the anime.

 

Fight Club and Inception are also films that are based on some of his animes like Paprika and there are other cases like Matrix and Ghost in the Shell. So there are plenty of anime movies regarded as master pieces with direction that is on par with some of the best hollywood movies like Akira. Their filmmakers are also very good but that's not the topic.

 

As for the expressiveness and emotions anime transmit I also think it can be due to how uptight and controlled their society seems to be. It's impressive to me how the japanese travel in silence in the subway and in the football world cup in Brazil all the american and european countries where shocked of how well behaved they were by cleaning their seats in the stadiums and collecting all the trash in bags. So overall they are super clean and respective but they do it at the expense of putting the collective needs above the personal benefit and while it's impressive from the point of view of outsiders I'm sure that also makes them restricted persons who have a lot of things and emotions going on that aren't able to express. So maybe that's why they are so good at making animes, films or other forms or art where they express their thoughts and emotions in more abstract forms.