It's not that comics or whatever can't be a good medium for storytelling. I know they can. But the artwork is a part of the story; it should support the script, even enhance it. Crappy artwork works against the plot and ruins the whole experience.
That said, the whole "graphic novels" thing is not a medium I really savvy. Anime leaves me cold, I'm afraid. I enjoyed anime-style stuff when I was a kid: Battle of the Planets, y'know? And I can still read cartoon strips. But I find the style of anime too distracting now. It's not the quality, by the style. The way all the characters are styled to look like children (all huge eyes and heart-shaped faces, childlike bodies); that this stuff deals with such adult themes I find vaguely disturbing. The same way I've always found Harry Potter slash disturbing.
(Yes, I know, I write Wincest. Even under-age Wincest. But those characters are adults in the source: that makes the difference for me.)
Not judging anyone who enjoys it; I just can't enjoy it myself.
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That said, the whole "graphic novels" thing is not a medium I really savvy. Anime leaves me cold, I'm afraid. I enjoyed anime-style stuff when I was a kid: Battle of the Planets, y'know? And I can still read cartoon strips. But I find the style of anime too distracting now. It's not the quality, by the style. The way all the characters are styled to look like children (all huge eyes and heart-shaped faces, childlike bodies); that this stuff deals with such adult themes I find vaguely disturbing. The same way I've always found Harry Potter slash disturbing.
(Yes, I know, I write Wincest. Even under-age Wincest. But those characters are adults in the source: that makes the difference for me.)
Not judging anyone who enjoys it; I just can't enjoy it myself.