I only ever watch anime for nostalgia purpose these days. I used to watch alot of Naruto, Cardcaptors, Gundam wing (or just gundam, can't remember D:<) and this other one I... can't remember.
Wait, just remember; Ghost in the shell.
They remind me of my old house for some reason. Probably the hours I used to spend watching them of a morning and after school.
Oh I have a fair idea who does/doesn't like it, obnoxious or not. It isn't like I'll leap onto someone and start goring them in the balls with a spork if they admit to liking anime or whatever, but if they get all fucking obnoxious or over-defensive then I won't put up with it.Originally Posted by n00b1n8R
- Obsessive nerds crop up with every medium from Videogames to Celebrities to Comedians to Airplanes.
- Perhaps (and I've raised/seen this point rased so many times at you and never see a decent counter) a lot of the people you don't know like anime... like anime! Obviously you're going to know the obsessive nerd loooooves his aimies, but the quiet afficionado will likely be just that; quiet about it. Not ramming it down your throat. invisible to you.
- Some wouldn't, some would. Again, it's the art style which does it for some people where as others just want something more interesting to fap over than "OH FUCK YES *TEETHBREATHE*, CUM ALL OVER MY BIG TITTIES FUCK ME YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAAH!!" or humans with visual imperfections. It doesn't have to be logical man, it's a fetish. People get off to feet ffs (something I don't understand but hey, to each his own and just keep it to yourself).
- Again, you get that happening with all sorts of media. People really get into shit (usually reading too much into it) and look for heaps of depth when it really isn't there (the shit they make you write in highschool english over stuff like Shakespear is a good example)
- Wapanese culture, circlejerking-elitest nerds, kids who want to seem cool/counterculture, people hearing about some "cool new show" and checking it out, the usual way shit gets popular.
To be honest I have issues with two groups: people who are idiots through their own fault (actual handicapped people are cool with me, in fact they're better company than a lot of 'normal' people), and posers. Good lord, I hate posers. I get liking something but I really can't stand when someone tries to be something they're not, either out of sheer obsession or because they want to be a cunt and reap the rewards (usually the motive for fuckheads who pretend they're either currently serving or vets).
I did watch a few eps of Bleach and one or two other animes I can't remember during the final few weeks of school (our physics teacher was away, we had no sub, we had no outstanding work and my mate Tom had a laptop which had pretty much nothing bar anime on it). I wouldn't say I hated it, really. It was just something to fill in the time.
Basically if you like anime that's fine, but the people who overreact whenever someone says they don't like it or the ones who you'd see articles about on The Anime Reality (site owns by the way, even the DBZ announcer dude agrees) need fucking help... and it seems like a fairly high proportion of anime fans (as opposed to anything else) are at that point. It's probably due at least in part to a lot of the over-the-top ones being my age or younger (and therefore prolific internet users and the media's favourite age group), but all the same, it boggles the mind.
People like anime because it is (often) set in a fantasy world, where awesome stuff (often) happens that (often) wouldn't happen in real life.
It's hard to say anything about anime as a whole, since there are so many different types. It's kind of like asking "why do you like hollywood films?"
I don't like all anime, and neither does anyone else (probably); there are series where the story progression is so slow or non-existent that I can't be bothered to watch it (Naruto lol), and there are series which I just find plain boring. Personally, there isn't a special formula that makes an anime I enjoy, because my interests wane and change, but often I stick with an anime because I feel an emotional connection with a character (or characters).
Anime like Kanon and Clannad have characters which are specifically designed to create an emotional attachment (so-called moe characters). When these people are on-screen, you want to listen to them - you have an imaginary conversation with them in your head. To you, they are real people until the last episode ends. Sometimes, this obsession lasts after that point (see "waifu" threads on /a/). Haruko-san~~~
Anime like Cowboy Bebop and Full Metal Panic have interesting main characters who are often unpredictable. It's fun to see what they will do next, how they will react to a given situation, and they normally have some cool moves to pull off as well. It's easy to become attached to these characters as well. There is often plenty of fanservice in these types of anime as well, often in the form of girls with shiny breasts and short skirts.
More would go here but I went and did something else and now I lost my train of thought fuck you.
lol afk subs what are you 12.You waiting for the a.f.k. subs for Haruhi s2e9 too brah?
I think the issue here is that when you think of anime, this is what comes to mind for you.
You forgot actions that last over 3 episodes, over-excessive hairstyle, androgynous characters (seriously sometimes you just cannot tell) and over exaggerated expressions.
Define "overreact." Isn't it natural to want to defend something you like against people who are overgeneralizing it?people who overreact whenever someone says they don't like it
It's just another medium for telling a story. Sure, it has certain themes that are common, but criticizing it because of that is like criticizing the medium of graphic novels because they're all about masked musclemen in tights. Furthermore, criticizing anime because its "fans" put up posters and buy figures of underage girls taking shits and whatever is like criticizing graphic novels because this is what comes to mind when you think of somebody who reads them.
Yeah, a lot of people try to pass off generic shitty anime as "good storytelling" or whatever excuse they have to watch all 200 episodes of Sailor Moon. A lot of people wear Naruto headbands and collect Revoltech's Fraulein figures and look up their resin-cast Haruhi's skirt when nobody is around. So? A lot of people are ridiculously into their Supermen and try to pass off generic shitty comics as "graphic novels". That doesn't mean (I hope) you get your panties in a bunch if someone says that Watchmen isn't just another kiddie comic book, nor write something off just because its creators are using that particular medium. There's also a ton of shitty books that have inexplicably large and equally shitty fanbases (Twilight), the same for movies. But then there's stuff that isn't shit. There is potential for something that's actually good to come of it. Let's not flip the fuck out because there's a field of flowers or a teddy bear in Halo and say "SEE I TLOD U THE ANIME ITS RUINING IT," the same way we wouldn't flip the fuck out if someone was trying to convince us to read Watchmen and they said it was about superheroes.
Last edited by teh lag; August 9th, 2009 at 11:27 AM. Reason: typo fuck
I never got into anime or any of that trading card stuff (trading cards were banned at both American middle schools I attended, LOL owned). However I do play Bleach: The Blade of Fate for the Nintendo DS fairly often. I'd say, there are some animes with cool characters and good storylines (like the Bleach game, IDK about the show), and there are some animes that are really ugh (like Sailor Moon, I did see a few episodes eight years ago, immediately stopped aterwards). As for reading anime books, I have checked out Full Metal Alchemist before but nothing else.
It's not just animes, I've seen plenty of disturbing cases of people getting such unhealthy obsessions over Star Trek and even Ghostbusters. It's just pop culture, that's all. But I've also met people who like anime in the same way I like to eat chicken, then that's all right.
what an incredibly well thought out post.
Yeah, I like to watch animes, big whoop wanna fight about it?
mazui scrubs can literally s my d
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