Anime Discussion Thread - Page 355

"That most utilize" is good enough in this situation. That argument you're presenting is horribly fragile and really has no weight here. I don't accept your definition because it has no relation to the word "quality" as it's used anywhere that I know of. Seeing as how there are a number of other options available to you in communicating your point, there's no reason to ascribe a new meaning to a word because, so it seems, you feel like it.

Graphics in a game are a sign of quality. A customer's personal evaluation of their experience with a company or store is a sign of that business's quality in their customer service. Story and gameplay in a game is a sign of quality. The fact that an anime is "mature" by your oddball definition of "mature" does not make it quality. It makes that anime "mature" by your oddball definition. The anime may be more endearing to you, but you're talking about apples and oranges here. There has to be some kind of less subjective marker or par by which to examine something. It just doesn't work, as a native speaker of the English language.

And as for your train wreck of a third paragraph, you seem to like it when traditional morality is called into question, and characters are forced to make more difficult choices than "good = good/bad = bad" or something like that. That's fine, but that's hardly a sign of "realism"...at least now how I understand it, and how I imagine most others understand it.

Too much disbelief has to be suspended to consider such anime as realistic period. Robots that roll around on rollerblades and a main character with a magic eye that mind controls people? Sure, it's interesting seeing the characters react to these ridiculously outlandish circumstances and situations, but why does that a character has to make a decision make the show realistic? That's a pretty shoddy standard in my opinion...