subject: Checking Out Discount Anime Dvds For You [print this page] Places such as Amazon Marketplace, DVD Empire, and Deep Discount DVD offer good deals on buying Anime DVDs at discount prices. But, why would you want to buy them?
Anime (pronounced an-ee-may) is a style of animated drama that arose in Japan. The actions of the characters are meant to be at once very lifelike and serious but stylized and noticeably cartoonish. There are many adult fans of the genre, especially young adult fans. Anime fans are called Otaku. This word translates as fan in Japanese. To many Westerners who are not fans of anime, the word should be translated as loonie. Now, the Otaku can certainly get a little extreme, in the style of D&D fans from the 70s and 80s. Otaku do like to do things such as dress up as their favorite characterswho are not necessarily human beingsand attend costume parties exclusively attended by other Otaku!
However, the fact of the matter is that anime stories tend to be more sophisticated than the stories typically shown on American television, including American cartoons, thereby making anime a possibly healthier alternative for kids and young people to be watching. And anime is not really a cartoon, anyway. It is more like a drama, sometimes a fantasy drama (with things like talking wolves, shapeshifters, talking dragons, and such), which happens to be animated rather than filmed, therefore allowing more free play for the producers' imaginations. There is also room for the intentional comedic element that gets into the sometimes bombastically serious shows
Anime programs are serialsthey are not one-offs. So they have to be paid attention toagain, a quality that is more and more lacking in Western television (I.E. As a former teacher of mine said a while ago, You don't have to listen to [that is, pay attention to] boob-tube and you can catch the gist of the entire story.).
Anime DVDs, therefore, are great ideas, since they very often house an entire series or are a box set, allowing a fan to view all of a serial at her convenience.
