Anime. I don't get it

[eatenbyagrue]

Don't confuse dual demographic appeal with what I'm talking about
Bugs Bunny?
Batman the Animated Series?
Beavis and Butt-head?
I'm not talking about slapstick comedy stuff, or the stuff thats fun to watch when you are high, or the stuff that has superheroes in it.
I'm talking Death Note, and Monster
I'm talking about stories that are marketed SPECIFICALLY for an adult audience, because it would go over children's heads

And while there HAVE been some improvements in thinking lately (Avatar is a good example)
These improvements are derived from the TV execs looking at how anime is slipping in, and trying to copy it. Sometimes they get the point, often they don't. Usually they dont because they still think of it as either "its for kids, but adults might like it too" (Avatar, Teen Titans) or "its for adults, so we need as much violence and sex as possible" (Heavy Metal FAKK 2, Aeon Flux)

If they can just get it into their heads that you dont HAVE to be all blood & guts about every story in order to make it adult oriented, things might improve. Till then, anime is pretty much the best game in town for that

First off, post edited for grammar and spelling.

Secondly, you clearly have not seen some of the stuff you talk about.

Bugs Bunny did war cartoons. And you know what? So did Donald Duck. I can't even show most of the stuff here because of the incredibly offensive (for our time) content.

Batman the Animated Series? Gee, for a kid's show, they sure liked showing people dying and getting injured quite a lot.

And since when, in the 40-odd years MTV has been around, has Beavis and Butt-head been "dual demographic"?

You also tend to miss out on a lot of genuinely good stuff with that kind of thinking (Samurai Jack, the Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, Invader Zim), and honestly, as a person who prides himself in level-headed-ness, I have to say you're missing out by excluding one group because of the idea that "OMG ANIME IS SO MUCH BETTER ORZ"

I have a crack to make here, but its best if I don't, for fear of being put on prohibition, and for escalating this further into a flame thread.

*tips bowler hat* Good day, sir.

 

[Cornwallpwns]

i walked in on my gran watching anime at two in the morning the other day..im not going to delve too deeply into the content of the film but it was some seriously messed up stuff

the worst part however is that me and my gran watched it for a further 20mins before turning it off when a whip was introduced into procedings, i doubt all anime is like this one was, basicaly cartoon bondage porn, but needless to say it scarred me and a women who lived through WW2 for the rest of our lives

 

[Twilight_guy]

It's a matter of taste, if you don't like it, then you don't like it. You can't explain why people like certain painting, sometimes they just do. It's the same here.

 

[PxDn Ninja]

It's never struck me as being particulary popular. It's always been underground, hard to get hold of, never within the mainstream. Some people are just attracted to things like that.

If you consider a multi-billion dollar industry underground. It is actually much more mainstream than many people realize. The really good stuff is more niche (not everyone knows what Neon Genesis Evangelion is, or even better, what it is about), but try to find someone who has never heard of DragonBall Z or something similar.

 

[oppp7]

It's an interesting art style. The big eyes appeals to some people's desire to be cute (kuwaii).

 

[rokkolpo]

It's interesting because it's better than real life
more interesting things happen. and not to the viewer, so they don't suffer the consequences.

what he said and the epic battles.