Movies are either dubbed in english or subtitled. Anime is romantic comedy. It s science fiction. It s horror. It s even pornography.
Story lines are intricate, realistic, dealing with love and death, melodrama, violence.
Many features tend to mix harsh reality with the engaging world of fantasy from ballet to battling evil robots, boxing to surgery, fighting fires to fighting space aliens. Anime is as much about character development as it is about action and battle scenes. They are three-dimensional, equipped with stupid little habits and major character flaws as well as with hopes and dreams in life that play into larger themes. Even the stuff aimed at children tends not to be as simple-minded as the American cartoons, Opel said. Children s anime will sometimes include the death of well-loved characters.