When you take the balls out of your mouth (hand since you are typing) and learn to speak English, someone might understand you.darkmaster wrote:Shadzar, Trinity Blood and Attack on Titan are what can be classified and "not balls" while Evangelion and School Days could, on the other hand, be classified as "balls".
The thing is in America, cartoons are for kids. Samurai Jack is made by the same person that made Dexter's Lab, and is his version of Amerime (is that a word for America Anime?). He was trying to jump ont he bandwagon of anime popularitydeanruel87 wrote:Samurai Jack I actually have watched a fair number of. I guess I didn't know if that was anime. I had no real problems with it. If I watched it 12 years ago I would have probably loved Samurai Jack but as a full grown man it's just not for me.
there is a huge culture difference between east and west, so the ideas of what a cartoona re and who for are very different and many forget they came from porn, like most other video technology advances.
thus a reason for Ghibli to be so popular is it doesn't try to fit any niche because of age, gender, or any other demographic, it just tries to tell the story with the Ghibli twist like Earthsea or Howls. Pokemon is popular because it has run so long and people grew up on it as kids, and never put it away. People are learning that you can like things as an adult that you liked as a kid.
Look at how 4kids turned the "black" pirate on Ussop's island pink, removed all the smoking and etc because they were making it 4kids, and thus why Funi has it now. Mainstream is dumbed down for American while many outside the mainstream or who have a big enough following to begin with are unaltered. Thus you get Naruto uncut now, the full version of DBZ Kai with the missing episode, etc.
Shonen just means for teenage males. Ruroni Kenshin story is about a samurai a master who gave up his was of killing and only uses his sword back when he has to fight and only for those who deserve its use. no longer a mercenary for a corrupt government. (again why Gintama uses a wooden sword for the same reason.) Like DBZ, GI Joe, Transformer, etc it is just made to appeal to a certain age of males.
Ruroni Kenshin, Yuy, Tenchi Muyo are all the same classification of Shonen.
really you ahve to look at the story. When i started watching an episode of Bleach I didn't think it would be good, then it came on TV and I saw what was going on after the first few episodes in order and it made more sense and had a good story. sadly the longer ones are slow to start, and ALL have stupid parts but they use those mostly to give comedic relief rather than have everything action or drama.
more along the lines of Cyborg 009 would be things like Kikaider and many more that resemble Ultraman.
again the question would be what kind of setting and what kind of story are you interested in to be able to tell what to suggest.