This weekend, I watched the hit 2005 animated movie Bratz: Rock Angelz. This movie was one of the first Bratz films in CGI, and let me tell you- the plot is ALL OVER THE PLACE. The girls start a fashion magazine and use stolen passes to get into hot London punk clubs, but when they lose their passes they decide that the only way to get into the gig is to become a rock band? This movie can be considered capitalist propaganda- the Bratz shop in order to destress about their problems, and it's an implemental part of their lives. They don't have jobs either- Jade has an internship, but only for three hours until she is fired. Chloe meets a TRASH British prince and ignores her best friend Yasmin who finds celebrity judge Byron Powell's (I don't make this stuff up) dog, Ozzy. Jade and Sasha try to do a photo shoot for the magazine, but Sasha micromanages the whole thing and makes her friend feel bad! And this whole time, there's these two evil blond twins (Kaley Cuoco PLA...
While I'm not 100% sure why fighting is so prevalently featured in anime films and television, I'm glad that it is because it can add a unique challenge for animators to create something interesting. It also reminds me a lot of the dance films we watched towards the start of the semester that exist to capture/emulate movement and express things without words. An example that comes to mind is Avatar The Last Airbender, and although it is not a true anime, a lot of people mistake it for an categorize it as such. Fighting is featured heavily in ATLA, as it takes place during wartimes, but the fighting is interesting because it is largely based in the elemental bending style of the characters fighting. This is further interesting because each of the elemental bending styles are based on a different style of martial arts fighting, that help to define the characteristics that each element favors, and as such have different ways of moving.
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