Saulkar said:
Lastly, I hate the hyper stylization of everything related to fighting (including shouting out the name of your attack), I do not know what it is but I can tolerate this.
Lastly I cannot stand how anime mechs work. Why make something super large that moves like a human instead of just using a human.
Compare this:
I guess in the end it all boils down not to the art style at all which is greatly endeared to me but rather the stylised acting and the complete disregard for physics. Western mechs and gunfights are not anymore realistic (Except for Gears, they do not break the laws of physics in any way), they just try to acknowledge that physics actually exist.
To be fair, both of those things exist for cultural reasons. The name of the attack is announced because it's believed that one's spirit has as much power as one's physical body. The announcement is a way to channel that. The mech differences are due to the fact that weapons are perceived in a fundamentally different way in the east than they are in the west. Whereas we see them as tools, they see weapons as extensions of the self. It's all cool and metaphoric and junk. Extra Credits explained it way better than I did.
I'm not saying that you must like it because it's the way it should be, I'm just saying there's a reason things are the way they are. (And to be fair, the Japanese invented mechs. Mazinger is ~ a decade older than Battletech.) I got nothing for the defiance of physics, I think that's just rule of cool.
Also, barely anything moves in an anime because moving things costs money. Most anime is made with just enough to get the story along. And the story tends to take forever because of broadcasting constraints. If you don't fill your timeslot, it will be taken from you, and if you don't want to bastardize the source material, you pad it so the next manga volume comes out and you have something to work with. This is mostly a problem with shonen anime, and is not representative of anime at large, just most of the stuff that makes it to America.
OT: Obviously, I don't dislike anime. However, my favorite style is what Gainax puts out, (No coincidence, they also have a much larger budget than the average company.) while my favorite series is Lupin III. I feel it strikes a great balance between action and surrealism, and the characters have tons of personality. And the series itself has some great(interesting) history behind it.
