I've been taking Japanese classes for the last couple of years now at my local community college. Since then I've also started watching a fair ammount of anime, and I've noticed something: In most anime the potrayal (did I spell that right?) of firearms is very accurate, much more so than alot of American TV shows/movies.
I find it interesting that most of the people who make anime have probably never even SEEN a real gun, yet they do such a great job in comparison to other forms of media.
Some examples:
Cowboy Bebop
Gunsliger Girl
Full Metal Panic
Gungrave
And several others that slip my mind at the moment...
Of course, there are some pretty "fake" guns, but even then they are somewhat believeable. My favorite example of this is the beefed-up 1911 in .454, from the anime "Hellsing".
Has anyone else noticed this?
I find it interesting that most of the people who make anime have probably never even SEEN a real gun, yet they do such a great job in comparison to other forms of media.
Some examples:
Cowboy Bebop
Gunsliger Girl
Full Metal Panic
Gungrave
And several others that slip my mind at the moment...
Of course, there are some pretty "fake" guns, but even then they are somewhat believeable. My favorite example of this is the beefed-up 1911 in .454, from the anime "Hellsing".
Has anyone else noticed this?