How do you feel about anime?

[t3h br0th3r]

i like it but i tend to hate the harem animes (Oh My goddess SUCKS!!!) and i can't stand lolis. but besides that it's all good.

 

[Pegghead]

I'm indifferent, I'm not going to watch a show that's anime because it's anime or avoid an anime show for the same reason.

If there was, say...an anime about werewolves...in space...fighting steampunk robot dinosaurs, I'd watch it.

 

[Jonny1188]

I think its vastly overrated - not bad, mind you. I just don't get this fetish with Japanese culture. That being said, Outlaw Star is one of the best series' I've ever watched.

 

[A random person]

Us 40k fans aren't that bad, are....

...ok, nevermind that. Some of them are downright fucking weird to the point that even obsessed weeaboos are less annoying and creepy.

WH40k fans, or at least the more extreme ones (I've argued with some before, never again...), strike me as the redneck jock douchebags of nerds; they dismiss most things that dare to use colors or optimism as "gay" one way or another, go on about how hardcore their franchise is, and generally do the kind of "mature x for mature xers" dickwaving most of us, worst case scenario, moved past in middle school. I think I'll stick to Fallout for my dark, constantly at-war universes.

 

[A1]

Dislike them, mostly because of OVER THE TOP ANIME REACTIONS!

Spoiler

Whoa there.

You seem to be painting with an awfully wide brush. There are actually quite a few anime titles that don't use any exaggerated visual and/or vocal expressions like the one you just pointed out such as for example:

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
Now and Then, Here and There
Jin Roh: The Wolf Brigade
Serial Experiments Lain
Texhnolyze
Ergo Proxy
Mobile Suit Gundam 00
Gunslinger Girl
Karas
Witch Hunter Robin
Green Legend Ran
Voices of a Distant Star
Paprika
Perfect Blue

Okay. I could continue naming titles but I think I've made my point.

 

[DirgeNovak]

I hate the manga style -- Freaky giant eyes, stupid hairdos and costumes, over-exaggeration of everything, etc, etc... Since animé is basically a moving manga, that's a big eewww for me. However, if someone can point me towards one with a different art style, I might open up my mind. Might.

 

[Steppin Razor]

WH40k fans, or at least the more extreme ones (I've argued with some before, never again...), strike me as the redneck jock douchebags of nerds; they dismiss most things that dare to use colors or optimism as "gay" one way or another, go on about how hardcore their franchise is, and generally do the kind of "mature x for mature xers" dickwaving most of us, worst case scenario, moved past in middle school. I think I'll stick to Fallout for my dark, constantly at-war universes.

'Tis funny because 40k used to be less grimdark. It was always dark, but it's only after the takeover when they started to focus more on the teen market that it changed to be as dark and serious as it is now.

Also, colours and optimism are gay. It's a scientifically proven fact >.>

 

[Sacman]

Anime is like any other medium... there is some good stuff but the vast majority of it is crap... the same can be said about music, movies, games, books, ECT...

 

[Steppin Razor]

I hate the manga style -- Freaky giant eyes, stupid hairdos and costumes, over-exaggeration of everything, etc, etc... Since animé is basically a moving manga, that's a big eewww for me. However, if someone can point me towards one with a different art style, I might open up my mind. Might.

How about something like this?

Spoiler

 

[Blemontea]

I watched it when i was going through the otaku phase of my life. Now i just really care for it... I still read the One Piece manga, and a long time ago i watched a couple of episodes of the anime on Hulu but i stopped at one point to do something else and haven't gone back.

 

[Double A]

I think it's confusing and has idiotic stories.

In short, it sucks.

 

[vanthebaron]

My thoughts on anime are just a big fat meh. Anime is hit or miss with me.

My thoughts exactly. I like Black Lagoon and hate GL. It's simply a matter of are these characters relatable and if not is the story good. BL, is a parody of hard core action movies, it takes all the action movie clechés and cranks them up to 11. GL on the other hand is an unneedly over the top, comedy, the ham handedness of which it's voiced is nasuaziting. Ex: in GL we are introduced to 2 characters a hyperactive jackass and a manic depressive teat, very few people can relate. I look down are a lot of anime fans because they watch whatever ANN recommends.

 

[Blindswordmaster]

I may not know anime, but I know what I like. I actually like anime, but my tastes run fairly narrow. Case Closed and DBZ are my crack. That said, I do want to buy the Queen's Blade box set. So....yeah.

 

[vanthebaron]

I hate the manga style -- Freaky giant eyes, stupid hairdos and costumes, over-exaggeration of everything, etc, etc... Since animé is basically a moving manga, that's a big eewww for me. However, if someone can point me towards one with a different art style, I might open up my mind. Might.

black lagoon or elfen lied.

 

[JimHarryinc]

For all of you who won't give it a chance, though, I have an article a friend of mine wrote that I think is relevant to this thread.

http://www.thespoonfeed.com/why-after-only-two-episodes-you-will-love-anime/

I'm sorry, but I could not get into that at all. As soon as he said we were wrong, I lost all interest. No offense to you, but it is these people who drive me away. The ones who presume to know what is best, and how everyone else is wrong because they don't agree with them.

That seems fair, although a bit quick to judge an article by its opening paragraph.

Well, to be honest, I did read the whole thing through, and my assumptions based on that first paragraph were justified. I can't stand people like that.

Fair enough, then.

 

[ChromeAlchemist]

I'm really starting to hate it...with a passion.

Really?

...huh. Well I love it. There's nothing for me to hate about it because I'm very selective about what I watch. 90% of it is shit, but 90% of everything is shit.

However I need to quote this person for putting into words what I couldn't when I was asked by my Media teacher some years ago why anime is good:

Anime, is one of those things capable of going places movies or TV's can't or it can go too far, which makes it a make it or break it situation.

I enjoy many series and there are others I can't stand.

Series like this I think pull it off though, crazy, but, not too crazy.

Spoiler

And I quote you because I'm still trying to understand what the fuck I just watched.

I like it cuz its weird

 

[Ravariel]

As in every medium, 98% of it is pure, unfettered crap. But there are diamonds in the rough. If all you know of anime is Dragonball, Bleach, Ranma 1/2 or Cardcaptor Sakura, then you're going to have a too-narrow view of the medium as a whole. However, for those who have yet to like the medium, but have an open mind, movies such as Princess Mononoke (or, really, anything that Studio Ghibli has ever done... beware of Grave of the Fireflies), and Ghost in the Shell; OVAs like Samurai X; and TV series like Vision of Escaflowne, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, and Clannad are well worth your while and may tip you into acceptance, if not into fandom.

Also, if you aren't sobbing like a little girl by the 9th episode of Clannad, then you have no soul.

 

[A random person]

WH40k fans, or at least the more extreme ones (I've argued with some before, never again...), strike me as the redneck jock douchebags of nerds; they dismiss most things that dare to use colors or optimism as "gay" one way or another, go on about how hardcore their franchise is, and generally do the kind of "mature x for mature xers" dickwaving most of us, worst case scenario, moved past in middle school. I think I'll stick to Fallout for my dark, constantly at-war universes.

'Tis funny because 40k used to be less grimdark. It was always dark, but it's only after the takeover when they started to focus more on the teen market that it changed to be as dark and serious as it is now.

Also, colours and optimism are gay. It's a scientifically proven fact >.>

My understanding is that the grimdark was supposed to be comedic; of course a universe where chronic genociders are the good guys isn't serious.

Spoiler: Also, if that is the case, then I'm fabulous.

 

[DrEmo]

I dislike 98 percent of all anime. I can't stand most of it, but if I like an anime, I really like it. For me it's love it or hate it.

I've only just started watching anime, I'm halfway through Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni at the moment. And it's completely awesome.

I have Serial Experiments Lain lined up next... that should be VERY different.

Higurashi... It's like fish: Good for awhile, but it starts to stink quickly.


I dislike 98 percent of all anime. I can't stand most of it, but if I like an anime, I really like it. For me it's love it or hate it.

Example: I LOVE Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann and HATE (Loathe) Excel Saga.

 

[Teh Ty]

I like anime. I just hate anime that has a crappy transition between manga and anime. Or when they add some random arc that has nothing to do with the story line.