I've seen a lot of live action tv shows lately on US television and they all suck ass have poor direction and terrible acting. Even Game of Thrones is terrible, overrated trash with a huge budget so it manages to at least have cool zombies.
Breaking Bad on the other hand, is completely different. The characters are well written and realistic, they are extremely well acted, the story is solid and clever touching upon moral issues and creating believable yet fantastic-enough-to-be-engaging conflicts. But tbh while it is well written and has great characters it doesn't really feel that real at the end of the day. I just can't get passed the fact these are actors on sets with fake blood and guns. Anime is different, the characters belong to their animated world it exists as an ambiguous thing completely seperated from reality which from my perspective makes the characters seem more real than they do in Breaking Bad. For example, in Evangelion when characters have ***, kill each other in cold blood, or are killed, it just feels like more of a real tragedy than when someone dies in Breaking Bad because I know it's just smoke and mirrors with real people pretending.
But aside from that, I think anime as a whole just trumps life action tv so far besides Breaking Bad, and yet there are scenes in anime that just go beyond what I've seen in breaking bad. Even in Naruto, scenes like when Orochimaru pins Anko's hands to the tree in the forest of death, it was just so intense and real especially with the music that I don't think anything I've seen in a movie or otherwise comes close to the feelings that evoked that made my hair stand on end.
Then anime like Monster capture the same realism as Breaking Bad, but does so in a much more artistic and poetic way, which imo makes it a more mature show.
Anime like Berserk while arguably juvenile in its over the top carnage manages to weave a story with deep characters and thought provoking tragedy on the level of Walt and the gang in only a fraction of Breaking Bad's run time. Though stuff like Berserk does lose points for not being relatable to the average American middle class adult, you can't exactly expect that from a forgein product.
Even still, while the characters in Breaking Bad are realistic, I wouldn't say they are the smartest most insightful humans. They are realistic but rarely do we ever really get into their heads to see how deep their psychologies really go. Evangelion psycho analyzes it's cast and shows how existential and intelligent their self reflection is it makes them feel even more relatable if you aren't some average American dad or mom. The dream sequences of Griffith in Berserk show how demented his obsessions are in such a dark and haunting way, you can really feel who he is you can put yourself in his shoes for that moment and understand why he chooses to be an ******* even if you disagree with it. But not on a yeah gotta be there for my family but now I just wanna get a rush out of being a badass drug dealer kingpin, more like I have these relationships I made but I've decided it's more important for me to shed me broken body and achieve the dream that was unjustly taken from me.
How you saw through his eyes when he was in his broken state and you felt his pain and suffering and existential torment was just another example of how anime is better than American television. Rarely in Breaking Bad do we reslly feel connected to the characters as if we're seeing through their eyes, only with Walter on occasion does it come close to that, but not really from any other character. I just think that it's ignorant to say anime isn't as good as "real stuff" as imo it's far more personal and psychological deep.
Breaking Bad on the other hand, is completely different. The characters are well written and realistic, they are extremely well acted, the story is solid and clever touching upon moral issues and creating believable yet fantastic-enough-to-be-engaging conflicts. But tbh while it is well written and has great characters it doesn't really feel that real at the end of the day. I just can't get passed the fact these are actors on sets with fake blood and guns. Anime is different, the characters belong to their animated world it exists as an ambiguous thing completely seperated from reality which from my perspective makes the characters seem more real than they do in Breaking Bad. For example, in Evangelion when characters have ***, kill each other in cold blood, or are killed, it just feels like more of a real tragedy than when someone dies in Breaking Bad because I know it's just smoke and mirrors with real people pretending.
But aside from that, I think anime as a whole just trumps life action tv so far besides Breaking Bad, and yet there are scenes in anime that just go beyond what I've seen in breaking bad. Even in Naruto, scenes like when Orochimaru pins Anko's hands to the tree in the forest of death, it was just so intense and real especially with the music that I don't think anything I've seen in a movie or otherwise comes close to the feelings that evoked that made my hair stand on end.
Then anime like Monster capture the same realism as Breaking Bad, but does so in a much more artistic and poetic way, which imo makes it a more mature show.
Anime like Berserk while arguably juvenile in its over the top carnage manages to weave a story with deep characters and thought provoking tragedy on the level of Walt and the gang in only a fraction of Breaking Bad's run time. Though stuff like Berserk does lose points for not being relatable to the average American middle class adult, you can't exactly expect that from a forgein product.
Even still, while the characters in Breaking Bad are realistic, I wouldn't say they are the smartest most insightful humans. They are realistic but rarely do we ever really get into their heads to see how deep their psychologies really go. Evangelion psycho analyzes it's cast and shows how existential and intelligent their self reflection is it makes them feel even more relatable if you aren't some average American dad or mom. The dream sequences of Griffith in Berserk show how demented his obsessions are in such a dark and haunting way, you can really feel who he is you can put yourself in his shoes for that moment and understand why he chooses to be an ******* even if you disagree with it. But not on a yeah gotta be there for my family but now I just wanna get a rush out of being a badass drug dealer kingpin, more like I have these relationships I made but I've decided it's more important for me to shed me broken body and achieve the dream that was unjustly taken from me.
How you saw through his eyes when he was in his broken state and you felt his pain and suffering and existential torment was just another example of how anime is better than American television. Rarely in Breaking Bad do we reslly feel connected to the characters as if we're seeing through their eyes, only with Walter on occasion does it come close to that, but not really from any other character. I just think that it's ignorant to say anime isn't as good as "real stuff" as imo it's far more personal and psychological deep.
