The Soul of Anime Quotes

“As others have argued in many contexts, we do harm to emerging ways of doing things by protecting old ways.”
― Ian Condry, The Soul of Anime: Collaborative Creativity and Japan's Media Success Story

“The textbook was born from analyzing actual movements, but these were still the exaggerated gestures of Europeans and Americans They portrayed ‘Western (bata-kusai; lit., smelling of butter)’ movements, like the way some Japanese who have lived abroad will spread their arms and shake their head when they say ‘Oh no!”
― Ian Condry, The Soul of Anime: Collaborative Creativity and Japan's Media Success Story

“in American animation the dialogue is recorded first. Even though that may sound like a little technical, procedural issue, it actually affects how animation is used, the aesthetics, and the entire approach to the idea of animation as performance. This is a central difference between American animation and Japanese animation.”
― Ian Condry, The Soul of Anime: Collaborative Creativity and Japan's Media Success Story

“It might be said that much work in cultural studies tends to center on an analysis of individuals as part of such larger social groups, especially race, class, and gender. Yet it might be beneficial to reconsider our scales of analysis in the process of doing ethnographic research by thinking in terms of relatively small social networks.”
― Ian Condry, The Soul of Anime: Collaborative Creativity and Japan's Media Success Story

“The platform that anime builds on, therefore, is not only characters and worlds but also the social energy that attaches to them.”
― Ian Condry, The Soul of Anime: Collaborative Creativity and Japan's Media Success Story