Pictures VS Words

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I think, It has been more than 10 days since I considered to open a request Metal Coin Railgun by kidoa but it seems no one cares :lol: oh well.

There is something on my mind as of late. How do you value a mixed form of art, such as: Comic/manga, movie, anime, or even a visual novel? Are you judge them based solely on the story/script? Animation, visual, effect? sound, music? Or you weight all available factors into consideration?

Well, something I've realized is that I'm someone who judge a book based on its cover. Whether its anime, cartoon, VN, or movie. I always ended up admiring its beautiful visual works. Because..., lets face it, there are more people working on animation, than on manuscript. On the anime industry for an instance. A studio could spent more than 300 mil JPY for anything other than story for a single anime season. And, sadly most of us perhaps ignores those aspects and start bashing movies or anime just because of their lack of story departement. For an art... I mean... drawing hobby-ist, I kinda dislike that kind of attitude.

For example: The newest ComixWave movie "Kotonoha no Niwa" (Garden of Words). It has stunning beautiful visual which I declared as "The Next-Gen of Anime industry" as of not a single anime studio could pull off what Makoto Shinkai did. Not even Sunrise or KyoAni or any other blockbuster studios. It was just beautiful, the detail, the thought of every aspect on visual art was just beyond human's language comprehension. And yet people still not satisfied by its "story". Keh..., seriously people.

Of course I can't blame them since most of our conversation when talking about movies or TV shows are always ends up on talking about plot and barely anything else. "Hey, did you watch **** movie yesterday? That detail they put into making spider was just amazing"... well, that kind of talk... never happens. Thus, unconsciouly people building their understanding on audio-visual entertainment as a different way to read a book whereas story is the only that does matter.

Of course it will be different in another community which we often calls "video gamer". As far as I know, they are the most fussy community if it comes down to "graphic" or "visual quality". Of course not everyone, but maybe most of them. Even though I often find amongst those people still TLDR-ing about story. Well, people have different choice, people have different mindset, people have different language. Actually, this explain why badly drawn manga is more popular than good-looking manga. And also explain why there are still a lot of people still enjoying novel and fanfiction. No offense, I'm just trying to comprehend with the whole situation :)

Best regards, kido_a
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