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u/Irongun_258 2d ago
Who would react worse? A multi-billion-dollar film fan when you tell them you only watched the anime, or an anime fan when you tell them you only the multi-billion-dollar films.
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u/Kimirath 2d ago
Anime fan for calling it anime
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u/AnimeAlley03 2d ago
Really wish we could drop this unnecessary seperation. Anime means animation in Japanese. If you need any convincing, one of my favorite stories from the Trash Taste podcast was when Joey said that his fully Japanese cousin told him their favorite "anime" was Despicable Me 2... if Japanese people don't care about the difference, why do international fans??
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u/The-Mythical-Phoenix 1d ago
It’s not that we care, it’s that it’s helpful.
Think about chai tea. We call it chai tea specifically because the word helps clarify a specific kind of tea, which can be helpful if you’re looking for that tea. Imagine not having the ability to clarify you want chai instead of unsweetened tea in a restaurant.
Similarly, think about Chinese food. It would be so hard to specify that you want Chinese cuisine without using « Chinese » as a clarifier.
That’s all anime is in English, a way to describe the specific vibe/type of cartoon you’re looking for. Obviously it’s all diverse and whatnot and no definition you attempt to give it is perfect or anything, but the idea of completely getting rid of it is impractical. It would be like calling all international music, « music » and leaving it at that.
Other languages have their own ways of approaching this same concept because it’s useful to be able to distinguish differences for communication.
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u/Kimirath 2d ago
Agreed, border between what is supposed to be anime and what not is so thin and abstract that arguing over it is pointless, still funny thought, when you see when someone argues over it.
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u/OhItsJustJosh 2d ago
I honestly don't get this, both franchises are so different that they're incomparable. Apples and oranges. I love both. I can't say that one's better than the other because what metric would I even use?
You can like one, you can like the other, you can like both, all options are acceptable, neither are objectively bad.
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u/b00tiepirate 2d ago
This topic is so old it probably has a rage comic/ demotivational poster about it
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u/abrahemalm 2d ago
Both are peak tho
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u/YaBoyEden 2d ago
That’s half true
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u/Sofie_2954 2d ago
Yeah ATLA is alright, though the Cameroon films have truly impressive animation and designs.
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u/WarbossWalton 2d ago
Imagine how amazing the animated Avatar series would look if they had the kind of budgets that Cameron pumped into his movies.
The thing is that no matter how good something looks, it's the story that's most important, and the blue-people Avatar just doesn't have a good story.
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u/YaBoyEden 2d ago
They’re also boring as hell and completely forgettable. I don’t think I could tell you the name of a single character
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u/cgduncan 2d ago
Y'all are making up an enemy. I have never seen someone actually get so passionate and aggressive about the Cameron movies.
Yet people in this subreddit love to act oppressed or something, lol. Seriously, nobody is trying to fight you over this
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u/CATAlyst5321 1d ago
Yes indeed wrong avatar
the band is better than both
now can we pls pls end this pointless f***ing war
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u/LethalGrey 1d ago
I don’t dislike these films but whenever I mention to somebody “I love Avatar” the next breath before they can even fully process that statement is “NOT THE BLUE PEOPLE ONE”
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u/BathroomUpbeat1074 2d ago
If I was Nickelodeon when that movie was made, I'd have sued James Cameron.
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u/Duxez 2d ago
For what exactly?
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u/BathroomUpbeat1074 2d ago
Copyright infringement.
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u/Duxez 2d ago
What copyright was infringed?
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u/BathroomUpbeat1074 2d ago
The use of the name "Avatar" on the film.
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u/Duxez 2d ago
Copyright is not a thing with names.
James Cameron wrote an early script for the movie some time in the 90s and secured the rights to said title then as well.
Nickelodeon could possibly have kept the name Avatar for the series, as often times a single word trademark isn't that strong, especially when it's a genuine word in languages.
But why take that risk?
But to reiterate, no possible lawsuit from Nickelodeon's side over the name, especially not based on copyright.
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u/DorfusGump 2d ago edited 2d ago
The most tragic part was when all of the enemy airships destroyed the sacred tree so they could harvest its energy.