Yeah...the oversexualization is insane....it's just like i'm watching an anime and REALLY starting to get into it and starting to respect it when i get some girl grabbing another girl's chest area. Or something along those lines.
Poll: Problems With Anime?
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The thing is some people don't know how to expess it as if they're obsessed with it. That kind of thing should only be done in the conventions that have them. So how could you tell someone u "like" anime to, I LOVE anime?
Anime is a mass medium. It runs the gamut of genres and styles. There are good ones, so-so ones, and crappy ones. Same as video games, books, etc.
But not every mass medium is for everyone. As diverse and wide-spread as they are, some people think video games are stupid and lump them all together.
It's one thing if you just don't like animation as a whole, but saying you dislike /all/ anime only because you've seen a couple you didn't like for whatever reason is like reading a few bad books or watching a couple bad movies and deciding you don't like books or movies.
A lot of the cons people are listing, like "bad writing/acting", "weird fans", "too much fan-service"... Well, couldn't they be applied to most other mass mediums as well? Everything has pros and cons to it, and one man's "con" is another man's "pro" (or vice versa).
But not every mass medium is for everyone. As diverse and wide-spread as they are, some people think video games are stupid and lump them all together.
It's one thing if you just don't like animation as a whole, but saying you dislike /all/ anime only because you've seen a couple you didn't like for whatever reason is like reading a few bad books or watching a couple bad movies and deciding you don't like books or movies.
A lot of the cons people are listing, like "bad writing/acting", "weird fans", "too much fan-service"... Well, couldn't they be applied to most other mass mediums as well? Everything has pros and cons to it, and one man's "con" is another man's "pro" (or vice versa).
For one thing, the anime was to blame for dragging it out, it had a lot less yelling (well, not less, but it just wasn't like 30 or 40 seconds of it at a time) and faster paced in the manga. It had more blood and lanquange too.justnotcricket said:
Besides it's Dragon Ball Z.
It has robots, dinosaurs, martial arts, ninjas, demons, monsters, aliens, and every main character can blow up the god damned solar system, what else could you want? It never took it'self seriously in the first place, so you can't say it doesn't make any sense as a con.
This is true, to a certain extent - like I said, I found some of the characters (and indeed the concepts) quite interesting, and I'm sure the manga was less painful (often the case), but the topic was on anime...I just really really wish they'd given the characters more than a constipated monosyllable... =PJabberwock xeno said:
And also, the fact that every main character can blow up the solar system makes it sort of unspecial, don't you think? I'd get sick of them being like 'OMG, it's [insert boss here]! She/He/It is level 1000!' and then they beat it (after 10 episodes of grunting) and then next time it's like 'OMG! it's [insert boss here] - She/He/It is level 1,000,000!!' and they beat it anyway. And the next one is level 1,000,000,000,000 or something equally improbable, until the levels are like Yen, and the number isn't really as big as it looks.
Despite this, I will agree that even the anime was oddly hypnotic - I watched it every afternoon after school...so if nothing else, my opinion is has a solid foundation in experience. ;-)
I've been watching anime for years, and it was anime that got me into the Japanese language and culture in the first place. I was heavily into it, especially in the 90s, when good series like Fushigi Yuugi, Flame of Recca, and Houshin Engi were the norm. I was even okay with it when InuYasha was popular, and quality of anime started to go downhill with the Series that Went On Forever.
I still love it, and I still go to conventions, sing anime music, and have anime backgrounds on my computer...but I'm starting to go more lukewarm to anime series, and lean more towards games. Even when I buy things at conventions, it's usually imported games and memorabilia rather than box sets, and half the time I don't care what goes online.
I think most of it is the Weaboos, and the fanbrats. I admit, I've written my fair share of fanfic, which I don't think is a bad thing. It's when you make everyone Japanese, write poorly-written OCs in fanfic (A cardinal sin I've committed in my youth and I am openly admitting to. Ah, to be young...), and write random Japanese you don't understand and brag that you know the language...that annoys me.
And now even modern translations of anime and manga cater to the weaboo crowd, throwing down suffixes and Japanese words like they know what they're talking about.
To a Japanese major like me, it's insulting.
It doesn't help that nowadays, most anime is just boob jiggling, panty shots, and moe...
I still love it, and I still go to conventions, sing anime music, and have anime backgrounds on my computer...but I'm starting to go more lukewarm to anime series, and lean more towards games. Even when I buy things at conventions, it's usually imported games and memorabilia rather than box sets, and half the time I don't care what goes online.
I think most of it is the Weaboos, and the fanbrats. I admit, I've written my fair share of fanfic, which I don't think is a bad thing. It's when you make everyone Japanese, write poorly-written OCs in fanfic (A cardinal sin I've committed in my youth and I am openly admitting to. Ah, to be young...), and write random Japanese you don't understand and brag that you know the language...that annoys me.
And now even modern translations of anime and manga cater to the weaboo crowd, throwing down suffixes and Japanese words like they know what they're talking about.
To a Japanese major like me, it's insulting.
It doesn't help that nowadays, most anime is just boob jiggling, panty shots, and moe...
The only problem with saying "they're all the same" is that this statement applies to every form of entertainment and media. Sturgeon's Law says 90% of everything is crap, and this applies pretty universally with entertainment.Semudara said:
That said, I'm generally just not that big a fan of the anime art style. Sure, there are some unique looking ones out there, so please don't start going "[Show X] is so different" (this is intended for the general Escapist population, not Semudara). I can appreciate Miyazaki's style because it tends to be simultaneously more realistic and stylized, if that makes sense.
Other than the fact I hate dubs. Which isnt a problem since subs are easy to find and so isnt a problem. Amine comes in so many variations that even school bullies and sports nuts would be able to find something to suit them. If you dont like that series, dont watch it. Problem solved.
As such, I have no problem with anime.
As such, I have no problem with anime.