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I think one of the my main beefs with anime is that they try to capture significant, thoughtful, weighty themes with a 'childish' medium. It's a mixture that makes them interesting, but for me, never engaging the way a great actor can capture the emotions of the characters, or the way a director can model its events.
It's also the reason I don't nor will I ever read comic books. Sure you can do more with animation, especially in terms of scale, but it's the people that inhabit the story that should be important, and anime eliminates that factor in ways that simply can't be replicated by a good performance from a good actor.
Plus a lot of the anime I've seen- Perfect Blue, Paprika, Evangelion, Akira- is just way too hamfisted, and only works if I'm stoned really. Although I actually did like Perfect Blue. But that's because the story was engaging, original, and totally fucked up- it had nothing to do with the characters. A live action film would have made it so much better though.
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