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From: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
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Subject: Re: Japanese Animation (& non-empty tv in general)
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Date: Mon, 11-Mar-85 19:45:36 EST
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>     ...  On second thought, though, I remember how important it was (and
> still is  to find the substance of the genuine human content always
> hinted at by (so rarely honest) traces in the media.  The potential seems
> so high, if only for solid, gratifying escapism, and maybe, just maybe,
> for a substantial contribution to our perspectives on the world.

I haven't watched Sat AM cartoons for quite a while.  But while I was
(bored) in a hotel room some time recently, I caught a J.A. show called
Voltron (not Votron).  It seemed to be quite a bit more than bash-em-up
super-heroics:  the characters thought! and were introspective! and had
ideas and feelings!  and the enemies of the heroes weren't villains,
but occasionally themselves had thoughts like, can't we have peace?
If this is what you admire in the Japanese animations, then more power
to you.  My favourite when I was a kid was a somewhat more juvenile
thing like this called "Astro Boy."

Joe Yao		hadron!jsdy@seismo.{ARPA,UUCP}