Is Anime real art? - Or is it completely gay?

[Alex Hogendorp]

There has been discussion on whether anime can be considered real art or not as it is extremely weird Chinese cartoons made by basement nerds.

 

[Pruto]

Yes but so is shitting diarrhea on a paper sheet depending on who you ask.

Some cartoons are great, most of them are shit, I'm glad all reasonable art teachers ban you from using your autistic anime style because that aesthetic is a generic bad excuse for lacking talent, but in the end it can produce valuable shit as for example with the art of Miura or Araki.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Anime is a medium, like live action movies or paintings.

It can be art and isn't necessarily always or never art.

 

[imaginary friend]

Same question as "is what people call art real art". Nowadays, most of it isn't, but a lot of the older stuff (and some newer stuff, but keep your expectations low) is still worth experiencing.

 

[Pooner]

Yeah because nothing screams "real art" more than shokushu

 

[Look At You]

If you need to be an artist to be able to make it then I'd consider it real art. Non-artists are free to try though.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

It's the only good art, any good western media is good in spite of its poor art.

 

[Carmen The Aids Rabbit]

It's real alright. Real gay

 

[Book Thief]

Yes, but just because something's "art" doesn't necessarily mean it's "good." Art can easily be shit.

 

[Meat Target]

If Lena Dunham's parents fingerpainting with menstrual blood, HWNDU, mumble rap, or "Piss Christ" can be art, then so can cute little cartoon girls.

 

[dick brain]

If you mean art in the sense of storytelling, it can be. If you mean art in the sense of visual art, fuck no, and I say this as someone who watched 16 anime movies in theaters last year. It has as much artistic merit as those sprite comics people used to make on angelfire and geocities, it all looks the same and it all looks like shit. But I won't discount an entire culture's unique perspective on life, reality and the world just because they can't draw a human being to save their lives.

 

[Retard of the Month]

Sonichu is art.

 

[gamerweeb1]

“Sonichu is art.”

Sonichu has ascended beyond mere “art”. Its magnificence is beyond human comprehension.

 

[Seethan Ralph]

It depends, in my opinion movies like Akira, 1995 Ghost in the Shell, Miyazaki's movies and some other cult classics from 1980s and 1990s count. Other than that, not so much, and generally modern animu is mostly coom content. Or animu avatar material.