Anime Firearms ^_^

[sturmgewehr667]

but, some of those guns are cool

 

[Boba Fett]

I likewise laugh at Japan and their cartoons, which struggle so mightily to emulate the great gun culture of America

This is something of a misconception.

Though I would agree that Japan does have a good deal of interest in firearms, their anime has as much variety and genres as Hollywood or our TV series. It isn't so much about trying to emulate America as it is simply creating stories. They aren't obsessed with outer space anymore than the rest of us, yet a lot of their stories take place in a space/sci-fi setting. How do I know this? I've talked with the importers, actors, and writers.

At a convention, someone asked, "Why does it seem like there are so many anime series centered around Christianity or Catholicism? Is Japan obsessed with them?" One of the voice actors answered that it wasn't so much about being obsessed with them as it was that they provided a good base for a lot of stories. And those stories don't generally have a lot of basis in reality. Instead, they take a concept and expand on it fictionally.

That's generally what they do with everything in anime, even firearms.



As for your comments on Japan and Japanese entertainment as it pertains to firearms, yes, I would agree that your comments have weight in the discussion.

But you did not end your comments by saying this thread was fake. Or simply post

uhh..weird...Not my thing... so I can't contribute...

or

I can't believe people are talking about cartoons in a gun related forum.

The last one that called this a fake thread is what prompted my earlier post. Discussions about Japanese culture as it pertains to their entertainment are certainly fair game and I did not intend to indite your post in the group of offenders.

 

[Golden Hound]

I admit I've always kind of resented anime (and manga - they're not the same - anime is specifically things that are animated) because I always kind of felt like it was ruining American comic art by becoming so popular and emulated. America has an amazing tradition of comic art going back hundreds of years, from the great political satirists like Thomas Nast to the golden age of superhero comics and guys like Will Eisner and the old newspaper comics like Gasoline Alley, to countercultural artists like R. Crumb and Skip Williamson and then the great punk-rock "comix" guys like S. Clay Wilson, Spain Rodriguez and the Hernandez brothers.

There is this unbelievable history that we have of uniquely American comic art, that nobody else can touch, and now this manga/anime has come in and everyone is just aping it so much. New artists aren't even trying to develop their own styles because they're just too busy copying manga. The manga section at any bookstore is always like nine gigantic shelves, and the superhero-type comics get one tiny section and then within that section, even smaller, is "alt comics" like R. Crumb. The great art gets no exposure and young comics fans read nothing but the hacked-out Manga crap, which all looks the same to me.

One American artist who is absolutely amazing at drawing guns is Joe Sacco, who traveled in the former Yugoslavia and documented the civil war there:

The guy is amazingly good at drawing weapons and military settings. But who has even heard of him? Only a tiny percentage of comics fans, because the rest are too busy reading manga.

 

[Golden Hound]

The Japanese are known for taking all kinds of things to a "whole new level." Sometimes this is good, sometimes it's bad. In terms of sexuality, it's quite disgusting (I won't go into it, but some people here probably know what I mean.) It is a culture that combines very deep personal repression in some areas with intense creativity in others. Truly baffling to the Western eye - and I've always thought that any American "Japanophiles" who thought they genuinely understand Japanese culture were fooling themselves. Nobody can understand that culture except the Japanese. A lot of it can be summed up with this: they have powerful lives of imagination because their actual lives are very often repressive, boring and stifling. This means a lot of really out-there stuff gets pent up inside them, and when it comes out, it's quite dramatic.

 

[dante144]

Love the Mateba, and I own a Jericho.

 

[Kaeto]

In the Gunsmith Cats Anime all the sound effects were recorded from the real item. so when the main character Rally Vincent fires her CZ-75 the sound is of a real one firing.

 

[H2O MAN]

My MK14 SEI Mod 0 is featured in a few video games...

Botasky uses a suppressed MK14 Mod 0 in this Animated Series

 

[CypherNinja]

Botasky uses a suppressed MK14 Mod 0 in this Animated Series

Oh WOW!!! It's an animated version of Apocalypse Meow/CS1!

That's awesome, can't wait until it's fansubbed.

Also, I've always been partial to Masamune Shirow's "Seburo" designs for some reason, but the OP stated "real only" so....... poo.

 

[FiREhAwk]

I never did get into anime but am pleasantly surprised to see how detailed the Japanese get with some of these shows, I may have to youtube some of them. It seems they put alot of research into alot of these firearms as I do not believe they can own them there. Not revelent to this thread but did anyone one else here watch exo-squad, kind of an Americanized anime that ran for a few years in the 90's.

 

[theotherwaldo]

I have to research and often read most manga and anime reviews, in my position as a Children's & Young Adult Librarian. Some of them are pretty good. The kids think so, too.

Masamune Shirow's Appleseed is a personal favorite in both formats, though the nudity is a bit much.

 

[Aran]

Nudity is great. If it's a "bit much" that just means "not enough"

 

[rbernie]

And on that note, it's time to leave the fantasy world behind and recall that THR is a RKBA-focused forum that exists in the real world.....

I'm sure that there are lots of places where discussion of anime are appropriate. It's just not here, so much.