Exploring Anime: How It Captivates Audiences of All Ages

This blog discusses the vibrant world of colors and sketches to portray a story. Hence, the topic is called "Exploring Anime: How It Captivates Audiences of All Ages" 

Anime, A unique way to portray stories of different genres to the world, has become a sensational part of entertainment. Japan originated, this medium of entertainment became famous all around the globe. Ruling for decades, Anime has always maintained pace with live action storytelling. From a kid to an old man, Anime stole everyone's attention. But how did anime captivated everyone, let's find out.

Breathtaking Storylines 

Some people do not prefer anime as they think that anime shows are kids shows as these are all sketches and cartoonish. But what they are missing is a pure world-class story which can never be achieved through live action. The best thing about anime is, it is all sketch and animation. So there are no limitations in thoughts of manga artists. They can make impossible ideas in a brilliant way which messes up people's mind. Impressive story building, linear flow of tale, shocking events, awesome climax ; all these things makes an anime story flawless. Most of the anime shows holds mysteries and suspense for seasons which develops curiosity among viewers and captivated people of every age. 

Ocean of Genres

As there are no barriers or limitations of thought in anime, there is a massive selection of genres. For people who love punches and kicking, there is the action genre. For people who love mysteries and murders, there is the Psycho-thriller genre. For people who love romance and comedy, there is the Rom-com genre. For people who love daily lifestyles, There is the Slice of Life Genre. These are just a few of the popular genres around the world. There are others as well.  This type of collection of genres in Anime captivated everyone who loves individual genres of storyline. 

Magnificent Design

The uniqueness of anime is its design. Flawless scratches, Vibrant color that pops up, excellent details in the background, intensifying animation, everything is compiled in anime. The art and visualization, the animation, the voice of VA helps to give a rich and delightful experience in story telling. Different anime shows prefer different style of animation. But all in all, the magnificence of art can be seen in anime. 

Cool Characters

Every anime has different characters. In most of the medium of entertainment, aside from the protagonist and antagonist, other characters do not get the limelight they deserve. People are sort of used to these stuffs. But in anime, A random passerby can also deliver a strong and bold punchline. This is a very good quality in Japanese Manga artists, as they are quite smarter than others in delivering shock out of nowhere. Every anime has 10–15 characters more or less. Each and every individual gets equal stage as the MC of the show. Every character gets to show where they came from and how did they turn into what they are, which makes their character cool. And these cool characters became favorite to every individual of all age.

 

A Basket of Emotion

A great storyline is a compilation of emotions. In spite of following genre, every anime show delivers different events which affects a person's emotion in multiple standard. In a serious moment, anime shows can deliver a funny scene to lighten up the audience. The feeling of love-hate, happiness-sadness, laughter-sorrow and many more can be found in every anime shows. These shows hit your emotions in every spectrum. Just like a basket of gifts, you can say Anime is "A Basket of Emotions".

Evolving Style

Anime has been in the entertainment industry for decades. It mostly became popular in the 90s. Technology is developing along with the change of decade. And with technological development, the development in anime style also changed. In the past decades, anime were not so colorful and sharp. Anime producers used hard lines in the designs. And it was a very lengthy process. But now, as the technology developed, making an anime show became much easier and quick. The designs and colors also changed a lot. These types of changes are essential to grab the attention of the new generation audiences. 

Morals and Lessons 

Another reason why anime is preferred by most of the people is, Anime is not just a medium of passing time Though in most of the anime shows the righteous wins and the evil is defeated, they give different massages… These massages are based on true lessons and strong morals. Each and every anime show delivers a perfect lesson of life. Life gives you a lesson to be great, but anime will teach you, "Being great is good, but too much greatness can ruin you." There are a lot of lessons like this in every anime show. And these type of lessons captivates people all around the world.

Legacy

Anime has spread out globally. People from every place around the globe are familiar with anime. The most common name people are aware of regarding anime is "Goku". Whether the person watches anime or not, the influence of "Dragon Ball Series" spread in every city of the world. This show has inspired a lot of manga artists to create masterpiece. Some similar influential shows are Pokémon, Naruto, One Piece, Bleach, Hunter X Hunter, Cowboy Bebop etc… These shows are nostalgia for millennials. These shows created hype among people to watch anime. Many anime shows and manga will come and go, but these anime will go down in history of time due to their legacy.

Not for Everyone 

Though everyone can watch anime, there are some cautions. Not everyone can watch every anime shows. There are anime shows that are R-rated, contains adult scenes, gory, disturbing etc. People who are weak hearted can not watch such anime shows. One of the most popular manga among R-rated manga series is "Berserk". It shows gore, it shows rape and other disturbing things which a person cannot withstand. 

Conclusion 

In a world full of entertainment, Anime has taken a very special place in everyone's heart. At the end of the day people thrive for a good, mind refreshing, well time investing, rich and sophisticated entertainment.  Anime delivers it all to the viewers. In the end, we can say, Anime is like a little piece of happiness. That's how it captivates audiences of all ages.

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