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   From: removeantispam*pkuo@earthlink.net   
      
   In article <43110249.94110686@hispeed.ch>,   
    Yaniv Tempelman  wrote:   
      
   > If an angsty unsure teenager in some (science fiction) anime grows at   
   > some point and fights for what he believes in, it makes the same anime   
   > less tiresome and repetitious as if the teenager wouldn't?   
      
   > Exactly those points of maturing/getting self-confident and fighting   
   > backs seem to me sometimes awfully clichéed and thus tiresome in anime   
   > and manga from recent years. Maybe it's just a matter of taste, but I   
   > think Shinji's (and everyone elses' ) psychologically broken character   
   > beyond redemption in Eva was and still is a breath of fresh air.   
      
   it is not tiresome or repetitious, as long as the mangaka or director   
   are good story teller, you can have the same story 100 times, and if it   
   is told by 100 masters, then it won't matter.   
      
   of course, the problem, is we usually don't have 100 masters to tell the   
   same story 100 times.   
      
   this is also about the saying "there is no new story under the sun."   
   every possible human story had been told from the beginning of time in   
   many variations all through the ages.   
      
   so really, it all depend on the skills of the story teller.   
      
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