Philip Brophy on Japanese cinema/manga/anime (compared to Western):

"Not that Japanese characters behave differently, 
 but that the schisms 
 which we perceive as corrupting and interfering with a characters identity 
 are acknowledged as the substance of a characters identity. 

 In the West, we will crudely designate 
 the hero, the buffoon, the cynic, the sage, etc; 
 in the East, characters are founded upon their schizophrenia,
 established through their multiplicity, 
 and defined by their inability to be grounded."

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Extract from "Cinesonic" Article in RealTime Magazine, June/July 1999 edition.
Borrowed here by the Undesirable Propagation Unit.