Anime has its own aesthetic details that Japanese artist have created to express a unique visual style. Japanese artist use anime’s distinct aesthetic details to develop their story telling abilities by using exaggerated stylizations of eyes, body language, emotions, and overall characteristics of each individual character. I believe that anime is considered an art form and has gained a large audience for its manga and anime animations.
At the exhibit, KRAZY!: The Delirious World of Anime + Manga + Video Games at the Japan Society, the exhibit allows you to view the details and dedication that each individual artist put into their work. Mamoru Nagano uses militaristic robots which have extremely intricate details to interpret a story and to express his individual personality. Takashi Okazaki created Afro Samurai which is set in a very futuristic feudal Japanese world with robots. Takashi uses a lot of gore and use of urban culture and Japanese anime aesthetics to create a character that has a video game, and an anime animation. The details and the effort put into each anime animation take skill and a creative imagination. The exhibit showed the use of color in some and the power of black and white manga and allows the artist to portray the animations of the story and characters in their own personal approach. The details in each and every illustration in the exhibit showed great detail and effort to create a masterpiece in each of the artist’s own distinct style.
Video games and stories are created using an anime style and have allowed artist to develop concepts and ideas to help evolve art and hopefully create new innovative designs for art. I don’t believe that any art form can be denied because each individual style has its own unique style and details. Every art form allows art as a culture to further develop and eventually evolve into something even better than what exist today. Classic games such as Super Mario and Pac man have stories that give them distinct characteristics that are known and have helped evolve games.
Art allows individuals to be creative and create individual pieces of art, in this case anime allows artist to create animations that are visually exquisite and unique. Two different artists could be given the same project but will never have the same result. The perception of anime or any type of art form can be debated but each and every piece of art uses the individual’s distinct style and personality, which brings the art to life. Anime uses distinct exaggerations in the characters movements and its emotions. Each individual style of art has been doubted, some accepted and some not but anime has a following in animated comics, cartoons, and graphic novels that is undeniable.
I believe that Anime should be considered an art form because of how it has its own very distinct detail and aesthetic appeal to today’s audience. The cliché of the over exaggerated details to develop the story telling has gained a main stream following.