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Timdog · 2009-08-20, 20:49

I've noticed that a lot of anime have the inner thought of the characters yet most Western stories don't seem to have this. Is this due to culture? I know not all anime is like this, but it just seems very common. And do you think it helps or detracts from the story. In my creative writing class (yea I know, not like that is the be all end all of writing), my professor taught us that too much inner thought is a bad thing and instead what the characters are thinking should be shown through their actions and other things like symbols instead of actually saying, "Joe thought to himself, '...'".

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Timdog Member Join Date: Jun 2009	Why is there so much inner thought in anime? I've noticed that a lot of anime have the inner thought of the characters yet most Western stories don't seem to have this. Is this due to culture? I know not all anime is like this, but it just seems very common. And do you think it helps or detracts from the story. In my creative writing class (yea I know, not like that is the be all end all of writing), my professor taught us that too much inner thought is a bad thing and instead what the characters are thinking should be shown through their actions and other things like symbols instead of actually saying, "Joe thought to himself, '...'".