{"id":28875,"date":"2018-09-04T00:20:18","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T04:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=28875"},"modified":"2018-09-05T12:53:29","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T16:53:29","slug":"anime-impact-the-movies-and-shows-that-changed-the-world-of-japanese-animation-digital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/04\/anime-impact-the-movies-and-shows-that-changed-the-world-of-japanese-animation-digital\/","title":{"rendered":"Anime Impact: The Movies and Shows that Changed the World of Japanese Animation [Digital]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I\u2019ve made it no secret about my hatred for anime in the past, but over the years I\u2019ve softened on my stance considerably. I\u2019ve learned to appreciate the genre and medium quite radically. While I would never label myself an anime fan, I definitely have a ton of love for the art form and have fallen in love with Studio Ghibli, and films like \u201cAkira,\u201d \u201cGhost in the Shell,\u201d \u201cVampire Hunter D\u201d and the like. When I was offered a chance to review \u201cAnime Impact,\u201d jumped at the opportunity since I wanted to learn more about anime. I also am a big fan of Chris Stuckmann who is easily one of my top ten movie critics on Youtube.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAnime Impact\u201d is an impressive tome, a compendium of movie reviews and retrospectives of some of the most influential and controversial anime films of all time. Chris Stuckmann doesn\u2019t handle the duties alone, as he allows a lot of other critical voices to contribute to the book. However Stuckmann\u2019s influence can be felt immensely, as he pens the introduction and keeps the book a personal project. Stuckmann is well known for his love for anime, and it was refreshing to read. \u201cAnime Impact\u201d covers a humongous span of anime TV and movies, from \u201cAstro Boy\u201d right down to the 2018 \u201cViolet Evergarden.\u201d One the things that hinders \u201cAnime Impact\u201d is one of the elements that makes it such a fascinating read is that the book goes all the way down to the aughts.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not saying it\u2019s not possible for a film to have an immense impact on you when it\u2019s so recent, but the idea that the book is about anime that impacted its authors and was made this year, kind of undermines the whole nostalgia effect of the book. I had an easier time swallowing the concept when Stuckmann thought back to his childhood days watching \u201cSpeed Racer,\u201d or Jeffrey Timbrell fondly recalling his days in the eighties watching \u201cAstro Boy.\u201d That said what might alienate readers is the fact that \u201cAnime Impact\u201d is more about how the anime personally affected the authors and less about how they influenced a whole generation, or continued to.<\/p>\n

I think \u201cAnime Impact\u201d excels for that because Stuckmann clearly intends the book to be something more of a personal love letter to the genre, and he brings along some unique voices to echo his sentiment. Stuckmann even brings in Ernest Cline, author of \u201cReady Player One\u201d to contribute his thoughts on the very fun \u201cRoujin Z\u201d from 1991. \u201cAnime Impact\u201d is a breezy and interesting read and while a few of the writers tend to babble on a bit, everyone in the book offers some very personal accounts of how these titles changed their lives, and we get a proper sense of how important Anime continues to be.<\/p>\n