Postings on youtube can be quite entertaining. Besides battling it out with strangers, it can also be a thought-provoking process. Consider: I stumbled upon the anime version of Wolverine. And though you would never recognize him without those trademark claws, it did fit. Wolverine did wind up in Japan and married one of the country's own in the comics. At least, that's what I came away with from seeing that very brief, yet intriguing, trailer. But the comments below the vid heckled back and forth, about how tall Wolverine is (a mere 5'3? that can't be right), how anime is so much more than cartoons; anime has depth. And I thought, well, doesn't the X-Men have depth? And the more I thought about it, the more I realized that wasn't always true. In many ways, Evo is very formulaic. Kitty' valley girl accent, Scott's leadership, mutant harrassment. But I guess what it lacks in depth, fanfiction steps up to fill in that gap. And that's what makes writing about the X-Men so alluring and exciting; that what the show barely scratched on the surface, regular joes could hash out, evaluate, and analyze like economists reporting on the Recession (but it would be much more interesting and optimistic).
In the end, I would watch both and not think much of it. But this anime Wolverine still looks interesting, 5'3 and all.
