Does that mean the accurate term would be "manga"?
I've never been sure if the only difference between the two is still frames vs motion, or something else.
I've never been sure if the only difference between the two is still frames vs motion, or something else.
Can you expand on this? Why not?
These mostly start with real-world images and then are fine-tuned with Chinese/Japanese commercial illustrator art, which isn't anime (flat-colored TV episode screenshots) or manga (monochrome halftoned comic book pages).
The result is like 15% photorealistic shaded, so it's not a lot like anything else out there.
アニメーション - a-ni-me-ee-ts(u)-yo-n
Just means long e "me". It could be written more like:
anime-tsyon (dash indicating long vowel). Or: a-ni-me-e-ts(u)-yo-n.
That being said, I like how the triple vowel makes it clear it's not the same sound as in say meet. (This gives me the idea to change my name to tuuukkkah...)
ショ is sho (or syo if you use Japan-style romanization) not tsu.
So the proper romanisation is something like 'animeeshon'. That said, romanisation is often done inconsistently, e.g. Osaka vs. oosaka.
Of course - I'm a little rusty and sometimes confuse シ (shi) and ツ (tsu) - even when obvious from context :/
Just sounds like how a japanese would write animation
There’s “moving images” (動画), but that’s used for video in general, not specific to animation
It's not pedantry. I'm trying to convey some actual understanding here. These drawings aren't manga-style, you can tell because they don't look like (typical) drawings from manga; most obviously in that they're not black and white.
> Manga is most often black and white purely because of time and budget constraints
True but irrelevant. The style of the medium coevolved with those constraints and is suited towards them (as with most media). A manga-style drawing is stylised in particular ways that (among other things) allow it to look better in black and white than a typical drawing would.
> There are tons of full-color manga, and many that become popular have color editions released.
They exist (indeed I own some) but they are the exception rather than the rule. Again, "manga-style drawing" would be generally understood to mean a drawing that looked like a typical drawing from a manga.
Generally understood by who though?
I see your point about what you said about the colours
> manga-style drawing is stylised in particular ways that (among other things) allow it to look better in black and white than a typical drawing would.
In particular I agree that the black and white manga drawing uses special techniques to look good in black and white. Such as notably the half-tone patterns that they use.
But I think you are placing more weight on this particular thing than perhaps most people do.
There are many defining features of manga aside from the lack of colour.
I guess to determine whether or not it is generally agreed that it must be black and white, we’d have to interview a bunch of people about what style some images were, and see if an overwhelming majority thought that colour mattered or not :p
Or, less thoroughly we might just ask the denizens of the 4chan /a/ board. They probably have some strong opinions about what counts as manga or not.