I don't dislike all anime, there are just certain aspects of it that annoy me. I like that there is anime targeted at a wide range of age groups, and I like that they're not afraid to touch subject matters that mainstream Western animation wouldn't go near, but some things that seem to be a mainstay in many, many animes just annoy me to the point of cringing. First-and-foremost is the tendency for even some of the more 'serious' animes to make their characters go all "chibi" for the lack of a better word when they get angry or upset or embarrassed etc. It's hard to explain what I'm talking about, but all of you who've seen their fair share of anime probably know what I'm talking about, even things like Trigun and Trinity Blood, which I see as otherwise great shows, are almost ruined for me by their usually serious lead characters sometimes going completely batshit crazy and growing giant heads. This is why I much prefer some of the more serious films like Vampire Hunter D, which, as far as I know, doesn't resort to this. However, the main thing that often drives me away from anime, and many others I'm sure, is the fans. Those hardcore Otaku fangirls throwing up that ridiculous peace sign in every photo they're in, trying so hard to actually look like the overly-cutsey chibi-anime that I find so annoying in the first place, and it doesn't stop there. Thanks (at least in part) to the "mallet space" concept in anime (I know it's not endemic to anime, but it's definitely most used in it), with female characters suddenly pulling a mace or a rolling pin or some other heavy blunt instrument out of no where and clobbering the nearest hapless male, it appears to me that many female anime fans seem to have got it into their heads that "strong female character" means "raving misandrous (man-hating) psychopath". There's so much passive-aggressive barely-hidden violence in the majority of hard core fangirs, and I DO see this as a problem. These grievances aside, there are still things I like about anime, and some series that I quite enjoy, in spite of the things that annoy me.