Is Anime An Art

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Animated Beauty One day, a random question from a friend on Facebook was presented to me. My friend asked “What’s up?” and I replied, “Nothing much. Just watching anime” in which he retorts “You mean cartoons?” Well no, not cartoons. Anime is a different form of art, just as paintings and glass-blowing are different yet still a form of art. Though the question is, what is art? Is it simply comprised of how one perceives its beauty? Creativity? Anime has a sense of beauty and requires much more artistic talent to be completed than a cartoon and should not be considered as something so trivial as a frame by frame animation. For many centuries, people have been wondering what the beauty is, but up to the present day there is neither definite answer nor a shared vision. Beauty can hardly mean the same to all the people because we are different and our standards and tastes differ as well. We all think that someone or something is beautiful when it provides a perceptual experience of pleasure, placidity and satisfaction. It is a well-known fact that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. It is a subjective concept. The individual understanding of this notion develops in some entity being in balance and harmony with nature, which leads to the feeling of admiration and emotional well-being, but this entity is not alike for different people. “Beauty comes in many forms, as it is a very wide concept” (Suilebhan). When we see an object for the first time, we always start with assessment of its beauty (or cuteness in some situations). Though when applied to people, it may be a different situation. Appearance is not a reliable guide to qualities that a person may have, because we cannot catch them with our eyes. Maybe that is the reason why sometimes parents are against friends of their children or against a person their child wants to marry. They see only skin-deep beauty,
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