Anime is awesome

I've always loved anime and the more I watch it the more I love it. Especially when I hear a good story.

Every time people talk about anime, mostly from Japan, I always say it has a quality about it that sets itself apart from the TV shows in america. People don't understand that, the way it is created is efficient and cheap. You can create elaborate sets that are believable as the rest of the show, and your characters can easily change costume, scene, or anything else without adding to the cost of the production. What this means, is movie like ideas brought to day time TV. Many interesting ideas can be played with and fleshed out over a long period of time.

A good idea of how the medium inspires a better story is comparing the limitations of reality TV. I love a good medical drama like House or Law and Order, but I don't see many of the shows working as well as they could. Which is why we have a lot of reality shows. They are cheap to make and provide the bare minimal in entertainment. It costs too much to make a major production like Lost, or The Fringe, which is why there are only a couple of such shows being aired in one season. It's expensive and the pay off might not be so well. Part of the reason the pay off is so bad is because the sets, actors, or story might not be believable or generally good without enough technology to make it so. So that means the story has to change and hardly ever in a good way.

Anime works because the medium itself is basically limitless in what it can portray and the many styles of artist expression available. In real life we have many physical things to worry about such as set location and costumes. But most importantly you have to worry about having enough technology to make everything fit with the story to portray what you want to say.

As for a medium for story telling; I want what can portray the story as best as possible.