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Originally Posted by EpsilonX

If i'm going to watch an episodic series, it's going to be a toku series for these reasons. However, I generally think that anime has better storytelling, and there are certain things that are easier done with animation than live action.



Welp, I may as well not even bother then.

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Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

Well, the anime comparison is actually a moot point. If you put the good anime against the good toku, you'll find that there's thousands of better anime.
Then you put the bad anime against the bad toku, you'll find that there's an entire ocean of bad anime in comparison to the scant few bad toku.
Not because either is inherently superior, but simply because Toku (Well, the action oriented Toku we know), by and large, is just a much, much smaller product around. I can say anime has worse story telling, and I'm not inherently wrong (Just look at the magnitude of gawdawful 90's-early 2000's anime that went straight to the bargain bins at Wal-Mart, FYE, and any Japanese retailer, that no one pays attention to).

Guys... I was referring to the way a story is told as in cultural quirks and stuff. I like how Japanese people tell stories in their media and that is basically the same range of styles in both live action (toku and drama) and anime. Yes, there are toku that do it better than some anime and there are anime that do it better than some toku, but I was referencing to the fact why I watch Japanese toku in particular.
Ultimately, except for the short phase before I discovered Magiranger, Amercian toku storytelling aka Power Rangers never clicked with me. That also goes for the last Godzilla they made. It was okay, but not really what I wanted to see in a toku movie. Pacific Rim was kinda cool in that regard but it did take a lot of Japanese style elements so... yeah.