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* Why do so many animes not match the mouth's shape with the sounds? When a ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni (Visual Novel)|Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni]]'' character says "USODA", their mouth should be elliptical for the first two vowels. Granted, ''Higurashi'' doesn't have the most [[Off
** The /u/ phoneme in Japanese is different than the /u/ phoneme in English. Japanese has an unrounded /u/ -- so characters shouldn't round their lips when speaking it.
** Simply put, nobody cares enough. Lip syncing isn't exactly priority number one is most Japanese productions, they focus instead on getting good voice actors, and generally good animation in general. Lip syncing is the kind of "touch up" job they only do if they have any extra budget left after all the other bits are taken care of, and considering how most productions tend to have budget problems in one department or another, lip syncing is understandably rare in anime.
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* Maybe it's just me, but it does sometimes bug me that the character designs most of the time will have little differentiation. (Hence the idea of "anime style".) Save for some exceptions by the works of people like say Satoshi Kon or Shinichiro Watanabe, the designs of the characters in anime don't seem to have that much of a difference at least most of the time when you bounce [http://www.anime-access.com/articles/Summer_2010_Anime_Lineup from show to show] or even just bounce from [[Only Six Faces|different characters within the same show]]. I could understand using more realistic proportions for more dramatic shows, but even comedies will usually hold a similar style. My question is...why? Do the character designers just really like it that way?
** Anime seems to be [[Follow the Leader|very conservative and bandwagon jumping]], and it seems that there's not enough skilled artists/animators with their own distinct style. That and maybe [[Viewers
** I think this is more of an 'outsider looking in' problem. When I first started watching anime way back in 1999, I thought they all looked the same too. but after 11 years of watching hundreds of shows, the only things that look the same to me are the ones that share a mangaka or character designer, and even those can very. I think it's all perception, and these days, you show me two anime, they'll look as different to me as Family Guy and The Simpsons, while to someone who doesn't watch anime, they'll look as different as Family Guy and American Dad.
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* Why do anime fans call themselves "otaku"? It's really an insult in Japan, and it's not the equivalent of "nerd". You can argue that it's not the same in western countries, but it's an insult either way.
** Ignorance, I guess. The same could be said of "gaijin", though it's not on the same level.
*** Or it could be a variation on [[N
**** I have never called myself an otaku. I simply like anime, that is it. Case closed.
** Some people happily call themselves "fan-tards" and are fine with other people calling them fan-tards. Is otaku really much more offensive than that? Also, gratuitous Japanese.
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** In the Western world, romance between homosexuals (especially between two males) is seen as icky. That is one of major reasons.
*** I think I said something I wrong. I MEANT ones that are intended to be watched by males like: ''[[Zero no Tsukaima (Light Novel)|Zero no Tsukaima]]'', ''[[Love Hina]]'', or ''[[School Rumble]]''. I THOUGHT that was what male oriented meant.
*** Because romances aimed at men never do well in America. They prefer the sex comedy. I'm guessing it's due to fear of coming off as [[Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?|gay]]. In any case, the romance genre in America is associated with women and femininity, so to most American men, a male-targeted romance would feel dissonant at best and an affront to masculity at worst.
** actually they do this partially, since like said above a show solely focused on male oriented romance wouldn't attract much attention in the west what they do is throw this coupled with a lot of action, although it seems to always ends opaquing the romance part a lot.
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* What exactly happened to Anime being broadcast on American television? During the last decade, quite a few networks showcased anime. ''Toonami'' and ''Adult Swim'' stoodout, but there was also ''Pokemon'' and ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' on ''The WB'', FOX would show ''Digimon'' and ''Medabots'' on Saturday mornings, a couple other channels here and there. But now, there's very little left. [[Adult Swim]] barely shows anything anymore, ''Toonami'' is dead, 4kids shows a bit on [[The CW]] on saturday mornings... What happend? Was it just simultaneous [[Network Decay]] or was there something else at play?
** Lack of interest. Anime reached its peak in viewership on American television in about 2003, stabilized itself for a few years, and has declined ever since. When viewership declines, sponsors pull out, and when sponsors pull out, the show gets taken off the air. Sometime in 2005 or 2006, anime ratings plummeted while ratings for live-action kids' sitcoms mushroomed (particularly on [[The Disney Channel]], with shows like ''[[Hannah Montana]]'', ''[[Even Stevens]]'', and ''The Wizards of Waverly Place''). The guys in charge of networks deduced that anime is a fad that's passed and have turned their attention to making more of these sitcoms. This is the same reason Cartoon Network became increasingly live-action: Cartoon Network and other networks specialised in children's entertainment all want some of The Disney Channel's accidental thunder. All except [[The Hub]], for [[Merchandise
** [[Fan Sub|Fansubs.]] Back when ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'' aired they didn't have fansubs of every show and if you wanted to watch ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'' you ether had to buy the DVDs or watch it when it was on. But now every show is fansubbed, so everyone has seen everything the day after it aired in Japan. And when a show gets licensed/dubbed if you watch to (re)watch it all you have to do is watch the DVD/fansub. As much as I miss TV broadcasts of anime, the only people who watch them are anime fans who don't watch fansubs or fans of the show that want to check out the dub.
*** Fansubs have been around at least since the 1980's, and tape trading was a fairly common thing among the hardcore base (the same people that do the torrent thing today). Since you mentioned ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'', that brings up another possible reason: they tried to program 13 and 26 episode shows like they were 65-episode (5 episodes per week on a 13-week cycle) American syndicated animation, and ended up running and re-running the same shows to death.
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