Poll: Anime...

[sailor_960]

Anime is hit or miss for me. for every series I marginally enjoy (Trinity Blood, the original Full Metal Alchemist, etc.) there's ten that are bad and beat you over the head with their annoyances.

 

[Jack and Calumon]

I like Anime. Thats why I have an Anime character as my Avatar and living in my house.

Calumon: He feeds me sparkly jelly beans and chocolate milk. ^^

[sup]No you steal it out of the cupboards![/sup]

 

[Nimbus]

Hehe, that's a nice, even curve. Not often you see that in a poll.

 

[Caligulove]

Have been mostly indifferent about the whole style.

Had some friends in High School that would always try to get me to watch anime with them or give me anime to watch. Tried to... but so much of it is just really convoluted stories and uninteresting characters, annoying voices, strange 'hilarious' jokes and humor that I still just don't understand...

Though some things like Cowboy Bebop, the Animatrix and Batman: Gotham Knight have kept me from dismissing anime as a whole

 

[Marsell]

I like most harem animes, (love hina, airiantou) and some action oriented animes, (Hellsing, FMA) I also like some animes where they try something original, (Death note, notebook that kills people, Midori Days, Street Brawlers hand is replaced with doll-sized version of girl with a cruch on him) Still, there is some animes I cant really get into.

 

[zHellas]

Just, ugh..
They're all pretty much the same bad thing. With very few exceptions.
Crazy hair, androgynous males, girls that are 'super hawt' and... 12... ugh, in fact in most animes, everyone's like 13, and saving the world!

Well you gotta start savin' the world now, or else by the time you hit 15 or 16 you'll be too old.

 

[Sacman]

Here is a couple more

Woah, mind telling me what the second one is? The first looks a bit too...Japanese, but the second picture is pretty interesting.

I'll just tell u both the first one is Gankutsuou and the second one is Metropolis(great movie by the way)

 

[Sacman]

i love anime, normally the weirder the better normally... fav series include Serial Experiment Lain, Evangelion and Diebuster just of the top of my head... which reminds me i really need to get around to re-watching Lain... hmn

You have good tastes Lain is my favorite actually I was in the middle of re-watching it I bought the DVD box set off of amazon for more than a $100 and I got it last friday...2 day shipping my ass...I also watched Evangelion 1.0 you are (not) alone recently, it was good...

I didn't like Lain myself. Reading my comment above you'd think it be one of my favorite shows ever but it just never went anywhere for me. It seemed like it was wierd just for the sake of wierd.

Really I thought everything fit together quite well with a couple watches anyway and all of the wierd stuff had a purpose in the end but u know just my opinion...

 

[Hollock]

I like a couple, but am not what one may call an anime fan.

 

[Sacman]

i love anime, normally the weirder the better normally... fav series include Serial Experiment Lain, Evangelion and Diebuster just of the top of my head... which reminds me i really need to get around to re-watching Lain... hmn

You have good tastes Lain is my favorite actually I was in the middle of re-watching it I bought the DVD box set off of amazon for more than a $100 and I got it last friday...2 day shipping my ass...I also watched Evangelion 1.0 you are (not) alone recently, it was good...

yeah i noticed yor avatar... i actually saw Eva 1.01 and 2.0 at the glasgow film festival a while ago... they are quite good.. but so fucking different from the original Eva, especially on a conceptual level. Shinji is actually likeable now

yeah and when they mentioned Lilith preemptively like they were actually gonna explain something really through me off...

 

[Dexiro]

I barely know anything about it, but i do get really addicted to it occasionally :3

 

[wolfy098]

My problem with Japanime is that 95% of it falls somewhere between Bizarre Jelly 5 and Princess Robot Bubblegum.

Spoiler: Youtube videos

Also; why do Japanese cartoons get their own special name, but cartoons from other countries don't?

Bizzare jelly was the kind of anime that was meant to weird you out.
I believe it could also be used as a torture method against people who like fox news.
I also believe it has...

I think the bubblegum one is just bull tho (If you can prove me wrong go ahead)

 

[Composer]

Anime is really, really terrible. I have seen a lot of anime, and the vast majority of what I have seen have been nothing more than masturbatory exercises in gratuitous sex and violence made even worse by a budget that necessitates really high collars obscuring people's mouths when they're talking so that they don't need to animate it.

The worst thing is the "anime joke." You know ? it's when a male character says something lecherous and a female character responds by physically assaulting him and screaming something, usually extending the pronunciation of the last syllable. I dunno, maybe this is hilarious in a culture where the overriding concern is to not stand out or do anything that indicates that you are not completely committed to the status quo.

You know what else is terrible? Dessert. I have tasted many desserts I don't like therefore all desserts in general must suck.
You know what else sucks? Vegetables. I don't like brussel sprouts or onions so all vegetables must suck.
I also concur with your well-put opinions on anime. I saw some I didn't like so the whole genre must suck, right?

...This sounds like flamebait.

i like anime ALOT more then western cartoons.
also i love your avatar isnt it black lagoon?

 

[Tehlanna TPX]

I like SOME anime. I love Miyazaki. I love almost anything that Studio Ghibli comes out with, especially 'Grave of the Fireflies' which is the only movie to make me sob like a baby.

Oh god... that movie is some good emotional roller coaster.

OT: I enjoy Anime because, in general, cartoons from Japan and other asian countries tend to be better written, animated, dubbed (or subbed; i prefer subbed) than any of the garbage coming out of America lately. Hell, I barely let my girls watch tv now, because the cartoons are just wastes of airtime. I bought them the Miyazaki dvd's (just have a few more to go in that collection), as well as old school cartoons from the 80's, stuff I grew up on. It's far better than Barney or /shudder... Fan Boy and Chum Chum.

 

[Mr. Gency]

I barley watch TV anymore. Though I believe it's worth saying that I just now finished watching an episode of Soul Eater... on Youtube.

 

[uncle-ellis]

Anime is really, really terrible. I have seen a lot of anime, and the vast majority of what I have seen have been nothing more than masturbatory exercises in gratuitous sex and violence made even worse by a budget that necessitates really high collars obscuring people's mouths when they're talking so that they don't need to animate it.

The worst thing is the "anime joke." You know ? it's when a male character says something lecherous and a female character responds by physically assaulting him and screaming something, usually extending the pronunciation of the last syllable. I dunno, maybe this is hilarious in a culture where the overriding concern is to not stand out or do anything that indicates that you are not completely committed to the status quo.

You've got it pretty spot on right there.

 

[wolfy098]

I used to enjoy some Anime. Some.

I REALLY REALLY HATE the whole claim that "Japanese are the kings of animation" when you see alot of it that looks like this

Spoiler

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MBVgxdiA-w

Its the low framerate universal dubbing technique where the mouth just widens and collapses until the dialogue has been done. Very lazy.

One of my favourite Anime's was Akira and mostly because of the facial movements when anyone spoke. Granted alot of the time it wouldnt match up but at least the characters didnt look like mindless automatons. The problem for me is that its over saturating itself with badly rendered work. I really LOVE Animation and voiceover work in such a field but anime has to work VERY hard to impress me anymore now.

Far toooooooooo much falls into anime cliche now and embrace it. Example being the "Hero and villain rush at eachother, screen does explosion effect and hero and villain are motionless facing away from eachother.....villain slowly falls to the ground beaten", Boring and even some of my favourite do it but because its so overdone my eyes roll out of my skull. Plenty more is similar.

I prefer to read the Manga to most of the stuff I watch anyway.

Yes well and truely foxed.

 

[Withard]

Hokuto No Ken all the way for me Manga AND Anime.

Metropolis was excellent in story telling (Partly as its from another source) and the animation was in fact brilliant. Very little frame rate loss due to lazy animation. Reason its dominating is NOT to do with the notion EVERYONE WANTS TO SEE CUTE ANIME!!!!!!!11! but more to do with the fact that theres very little call for Animation from Western countries unless its more adult orientated and obvious about itself being that.

p.s I do love the "Show a busy market by having talking noises dubbed over a completely STILL image with people frozen in position" technique. My favourites are evil for it too.

p.s 2! You want a comparison. Watch the Japanese Transformers and then the American version from the same era. The former is pretty bad when with again the same issues mentioned as well as a lack of tension and pacing (Music helps).

Generation 1 (80)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gbzE8ArvoY

Takara
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlhY1Ai5L0c



p.s 3! Had a message saying I should open up and watch more. This is what I have watched from memory.

Hokuto No Ken
Hand Maid May
Metal Angel Marie
Ghost In The Shell
Akira
Trigun
Chobits
Metropolis
Final Fantasy 7(Awful)
Cowboy Beebop
Princess Mononoke
Spirited Away
Tales From Earth Sea
Howls Moving Castle
Deadspace Downfall (Worse than normal framerate issues)
Batman Gotham Knight (Some good, Most bad)
Halo Legends (LOL! For a probably large budget this was ABYSMAL)

 

[Rathy]

Anime to me is at about the same place as American animation. I like it, and both have great examples within them, but neither is really king.

My collection I own though is definitely all anime. Mostly because the stuff is a good bit cheaper for the series I want.

 

[CoverYourHead]

I really only enjoy Death Note. That said, I don't really give Anime a fair shot. But damn it all Death Note was awesome.

P.S. Page eight? What is the point of me posting this?