Hopefully, I didn’t offend the big
time, hardcore Japanese anime fans with my so so so long rant. But anyways, Sammeh thanks for clearing up some
things for me. And yes, I do agree that Japanese animation is much more detailed to a certain extent, but I still
don’t understand why the animators couldn’t slip in a few extra padding, a few extra frames so that the
characters would simply move especially when the characters are static, solid as a stone and no movement
whatsoever for like 10 to 15 seconds or so because most people (i know anime isn’t reality but…) don’t really
talk in “static-mode” 
. When still frames start hitting the 4 or 5 second mark, I start losing
interest, and starting losing focus on the story, and I naturally start to criticize anime altogether. I kind of
loose faith in Japanese anime when still frames take over. 
Yes, a debate would be cool. Please forgive
my amateur-ish Japanese anime viewing experience.
Sammeh, can you give me an example of when STILL FRAMES
are actually valuable during an anime sequence. Have you see “NOIR,” or even "Boogiepop
Phantom" and “Lain: The Serial Experiments,” those are some of the animes that I would say that
STILL FRAMES add benefit to the show given the fact that these series are, I guess, thought provoking with action
sequences being less significant to the story/plot.
But something like Neon Genesis, I only managed to
see the first volume. And was turned off by many of the STILL FRAME sequences and hence never really got around
to seeing the entire series. Some people think it’s the greatest anime out there, but I just couldn’t sit thru
the flood of still frames.
For me personally, whenever I see an anime that has too many still frames, it
becomes kind of disheartening and I slowly get “turn off” and go back to my roots, American animation
(i.e. pixar, disney, etc, etc).
HERE’s ONE for you, I checked out the trailer to “GILGAMESH”
and thought that looks really really cool, and I might add it to my personal collection. But then after I watched
a couple scenes (don’t remember where, but usually the internet or something), and all of a sudden, I said,
"no way am I going to be adding that series to my collection…simply because of all the STILL FRAMES that
I witnessed"
Regarding STILL FRAMES, I thought I read somewhere that they have "more still
frames" because of a budget thing. Is this more accurate or what you’re saying "…it would take
longer to draw smaller, less important movements."
But I’m also wondering, it doesn’t really have
to be the smaller, less important movements, but just the overall larger movements…you know, when the picture
simply focuses on the anime character and their mouths “begin to flap” and there’s no movements in
either facial features (besides the lips), no movements in the arms, legs, fingers, body and etc.
I think
here at these points, the animators can take a few frames and insert it so that characters actually look more and
act more life-like rather than a picture out of a book.
Love to hear your thoughts on this Sammeh.
