From: n9282081@henson.cc.wwu.edu (Rob Ketcherside)
Subject: Re: Central Park Media announcements
Organization: Western Washington University
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 22:20:25 GMT

In article <C1IuM7.24G@CAM.ORG> emru@CAM.ORG (Emru Townsend) writes:
>n9282081@henson.cc.wwu.edu (Rob Ketcherside) writes:
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>Folks, this is what's known as "stereotyping", and more or less responsible
>for a lot of the most annoying arguments I've ever heard from people on both
>sides of the pro/anti-anime fence.
>
>A lot of anime fans seem to actively dislike Disney.  A lot less (in my
>experience) Disney fans actively dislike anime.  But of all the people I know
>and meet, the vast majority, if exposed to both, appreciate the merits of
>both.

I'll asume that your general statements were directed inclusively towards
me.  I can understand how you could interpret my message as being
anti-Disney; however, this was incorrect (and probably my fault for
improper wording).  I enjoy Disney (I used to watch the Disney Channel for
about 1-1.5 hours every morning before school), except for the overt
amounts of singing in their movies (but then, I don't like musicals).  I
suppose, instead of addressing "Disney-lovers", I should have said what I
meant: "ignorant newspaper reviewers".  They've shown in the past that
they can't see beyond poor voice acting (I know not all, but many); they've
shown thet ability to clump ALL anime together:  Totoro, BGC.. I assume
they'll clump Wandering Kid with it.  

Who cares if it's just a handful of people that are completely turned off
to anime.  If someone who has a misinformed negative view talks to someone
with no view, the negative view will be passed on.  Even if it's only 3
people total that are disenchanted by WK, it's too many for me... I'd
rather have WK stay on video than having it floating around theatres...
but the choice isn't mine to make.


>
>Pardon me for getting a bit obnoxious here, but I've been running through
>several  "Disney/American animation vs. anime" arguments on Fidonet, Usenet,
>and a few local boards for the last two years because I think it's one of the
>silliest things in the world.  The anime diehards should realize that Disney
>fans are not necessarily mindless zombies who don't know better, and the
>diehard Disney fans (of which, as I said, there seem to be considerably less)
>should realize that anime has a lot of diverse storylines.
>

"not necesarily" is the key there... I have nothing against a Disney fan,
but I've met too many who would throw away the master of Akira for a copy
of a copy of the worst Hanana Barbara film (note: dramatization =).. If
you need examples, I can give you at least a few... of the newspapers, too
(although I'll assume that all anime fans realize teh oppression fo the
ignorant newspaper reviewers)

>Those of us who appreciate many different kinds of animation from around the
>world would rather hear more rational discussion and less useless
>stereotyping.
>

Sorry about the "useless stereo-typing".  I don't know how you managed to
assume that my "Disney-lovers" line meant that I only like Japanese
animation.. give me more credit than that.  Although, as I said before, I
wasn't addressing the group I meant to, by "Disney-lovers" I meant (and
will always mean) "people who like exclusively American animation".  Some
of my favroite cartoons have been Disney.. most of them have been
American.  But, like Japan, America has put out tons of crap animation
(although I think America put out much more good animation in the past
than Japan).  If someone can't see that Japan is producing more "good"
animation than America now, that's there business.    

>(Got that off my chest.  I'll sit down now.)
>-- 

Hopefully you interpret this message as what it was supposed to be: 
defense, not offense.


Robert Ketcherside
Pres. AIYA! Animation Club
n9282081@henson.cc.wwu.edu
AKA HunterD

 "Anime isn't just a hobby, it's a personal problem"
          -"Mister Ray" Irish