[quote=@Asura] It's an incredibly diverse medium that, because of its animated origins, can portray fantastical scenes far better than actual live action programs can. [/quote] Actually, this is wrong. CGI can do a lot more than stylistic line-art can do. Sure it may not be able to realistically do over-exagerated emotional expressions but that isn't really limited to the anime field at all. Example: [hider] [img]http://mrwgifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Dexter-Mocks-Dee-Dees-Intelligence-On-Dexters-Laboratory.gif[/img] [img]https://derpicdn.net/img/view/2016/7/30/1212514__safe_rainbow+dash_screencap_animated_hug_discovery+family+logo_faic_daring+do_smug_winghug.gif[/img] [img]https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Dkfb_N8wg94W2pn4el8_853u0OiNgO1_sJCjPQ8UVrhTgP8Ro5srKqrScjGV3Ja3j7zFanaGwZjhpCuViAbcUueBmzRfDou3VFQoNWNwUW1wZTuF9nK8M3NAg[/img] [img]http://i0.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/017/870/Tumb.png[/img] [/hider] Exaggerated and vast ranges of expression isn't something anime itself has a monopoly on. It's the realm of all of animation. Unless we of course compare the entire meta-genre to the likes of Jim "le faec man" Carrey [hider] [img]https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/3a/3c/f8/3a3cf8fdb7ad810b93a9c5103f21970c.jpg[/img] [img]http://hot97svg.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Jim-Carrey-008.jpg[/img] [/hider] But on the all-in-all apart from obvious things like spell-casting, CGI is all over in film-making together which adds as much visual content and depth to the live-action scene as is in anime, and saying the later has a benefit over the former because it can do it so much better is pretty much a heresy. The benefit of live-action too means that cinematographers often blend live-performed stunts with CGI based off of their live-action performances. Example, Fury Road actually: [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HClM8YvNljo[/youtube] While like to praise Fury Road as a departure from CG to prove live-action stunts and effects are still as visually effective as CG, it's forgotten CG is still used a lot to enhance the shots on screen. This is obviously true for the Sandstorm sequence. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HTObBIc7Dk[/youtube] But the key to any CGI is that it's performed in such a way that the audience can't tell off-hand. This is a rule true for early CG particularly from the early 80's or early 90's and early 2000's live-action TV (like the first seasons of Supernatural, fucking bee-episode is meme-tier bad). But more often than not for television serials these days CG is close enough to looking realistic is can be off-handedly excused for being real-life if you don't stop to consider that the clearly sci-fi stuff in the likes of maybe Dr Who is clearly sci-fi so has to be computer generated. And to continue, we can't forget how useful CG is for rendering crows and armies far beyond the scope of using extras as it was in the 50's and 60's. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GmMNF1b0Lw[/youtube] [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYVWyBB3dto[/youtube] Hell, even as an aside 2001: A Space Odyssey has some great special effects that hold up today, despite being near to 60 years of age or older. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muPNlnm_i44[/youtube] So in the end really, there's nothing anime can do now that CG can't render in modern movies. There may have been a point I could've argued that the only thing Anime might have over live-action is the editing of Satoshi Kon, but thinking about it with a little imagination now you can tackle that. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz49vQwSoTE[/youtube] So, the only thing Anime has going for it is "different strokes for different folks". There's only the aesthetic preferences people have that makes Anime stand-out from western animation or general live-action. Trying to puff it out with arguments of how anime can do something superior is all void at this point. Or you can admit you like to see adolescent girls naked, which you won't get in any western media because Japanese media doesn't give a shit it seems.