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Comparing comic and anime characters
Topic Started: Sep 10 2015, 02:05 AM (409 Views)
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Not sure where this goes

With comic characters it's usually pretty conclusive. With anime it's just "omg look how much faster he was going than before!" Well how fast was he going before? "Idk but look how fast he's going". It's so rare that an anime is actually conclusive and its annoying. In a comic book you get things like "he's lifting xxx,xxx tons"

I know it makes things interesting but after a while It's just like come on stop being so dam vague. What do you think? I'm not the only one annoyed at how anime is so unclear right?
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I think it comes down to cultural differences. In western culture we like to have every little detail explained thoroughly. In Japanese culture they are more accepting that it is fiction and the small details don't matter as much.


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Some animes do the specific stuff. Jojo for instance and Attack On Titan have all kinds of specific stuff.
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Well, yeah. But it's not as annoying because you gotta understand, in the case of Superman for example, he's obviously going to have a ton of feats showcasing his strength, speed and more, he's a character from the 30s who is still getting feats, and same goes for most Marvel or other comic book characters born in the 50s and 60s. When trying to compare them with Dragon Ball characters, for example, in a story that makes little to no sense that started back in the 80s, you're obviously going to get a tiny amount of feats.

But hey, just like lazerbem said, there's a lot of anime that state one character's level of power in very detailed ways. It's just that people who write manga and anime with powerful characters are usually more invested on writing about the struggle or determination of the character, or something like that. In some comic books they detail the characters so much that it becomes ridiculous. But there's also a lot of comics where power means little and the explanation is really vague. That's, if you're referring to superhero comics, not comics in general.
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In general for the purposes of knowing exactly what they can do, especially with other versus, it can get annoying. Heck that's where lolcalcs originated I imagine. While reading or watching it is usually vague because it's not that important.

That said I would definitely say dbz is the most annoying of these. I'm pretty much convinced everyone in the Dragon Ball universe would near blind in our universe with how much the whole "moving so far onlookers can't even see them" is pulled. Burter in the anime is the only one I felt really captured the soured thing, and that was one scene. It's anything too considering how people usually consider them ftl, but they don't look or feel ftl. Like https://youtu.be/xpWOO9nRvIU (warning, flashpoint spoilers) is what I think when they're moving super fast. In dbz, it admittedly makes sense with deserted areas, and it isn't the focus like it'd be in Flash, but I'm never thinking that they're going faster than light. So in this case quantifying speed would be really nice here. Since there's little to go on besides them disappearing. But they're obviously not at that speed because of events in the plot.


That said, in a story, we don't need exact stats. :p we just use then so we can argue over who would win. :rofl:

So yeah, I'm annoyed by this sometimes. Especially if they don't leave any sort of reference point.
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Generally, comics are more sci-fi and because of that, have harder feats. Animes tend to be more mystical, therefore, not as many hard feats. You can see the reverse happen too. Shazam is usually scaled off of fighting Superman because he is magic and Gurren Lagann has plenty of hard feats to go on.
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Anime needs more thought and is based at many assumptions and power scaling in order to determine a characters stats. Personally I find it more enjoyable cause you can search for yourself and have fun discovering stats via a number of ways.

That's just my opinion though.
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