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What do you find are some of the advantages you find in anime/manga compared to other forms of storytelling?
One thing that I'd say is an advantage is the general creativity and scale in aesthetics that can be present in the medium compared to in other methods of visual media in which budget constraints are a far bigger deal. For instance, Game of Thrones tends to cost millions to billions to produce each season and even had to make cuts such as less episodes for Seasons 7/8 and Direwolves not getting much screen time. Compartively, a manga of similar scope such as Berserk is able to do provide similar visual quality with it only costing however much Miura spends on art equipment, whereas even the most highly fluid animation of anime seldom cost anywhere near th $1 mil range from what I'm aware and the most you'll see from some of the more famed studios as far as budgeting goes is a split-second frame being not too good.
Along with this is also the far more even divide between age ranges for anime in previous decades than there were for kids. For instance, most cartoons of the 80s and 90s were for kids. Whilst some would be treat in a more mature manner than others, they'd still be victim to pretty weird censorship such as not allowing to say a character died. What few adult cartoons were made during that time were more often than not dumb, explicit fun (eg. Ralph Bakshi works) and what few well written or multi-faceted western cartoons were there (South Park, The Maxx, etc.) were of a major minority. Compared to that, anime has always had far more of a balance between child, teen and adult audiences ever since Osamu Tezuka established the typical standard of it and went about producing works for each of these age ranges.
One thing that I'd say is an advantage is the general creativity and scale in aesthetics that can be present in the medium compared to in other methods of visual media in which budget constraints are a far bigger deal. For instance, Game of Thrones tends to cost millions to billions to produce each season and even had to make cuts such as less episodes for Seasons 7/8 and Direwolves not getting much screen time. Compartively, a manga of similar scope such as Berserk is able to do provide similar visual quality with it only costing however much Miura spends on art equipment, whereas even the most highly fluid animation of anime seldom cost anywhere near th $1 mil range from what I'm aware and the most you'll see from some of the more famed studios as far as budgeting goes is a split-second frame being not too good.
Along with this is also the far more even divide between age ranges for anime in previous decades than there were for kids. For instance, most cartoons of the 80s and 90s were for kids. Whilst some would be treat in a more mature manner than others, they'd still be victim to pretty weird censorship such as not allowing to say a character died. What few adult cartoons were made during that time were more often than not dumb, explicit fun (eg. Ralph Bakshi works) and what few well written or multi-faceted western cartoons were there (South Park, The Maxx, etc.) were of a major minority. Compared to that, anime has always had far more of a balance between child, teen and adult audiences ever since Osamu Tezuka established the typical standard of it and went about producing works for each of these age ranges.
