Nobody who has such a damning, broad and misunderstanding view as the kind of person that condemns all anime is worth associating with. I've enjoyed plenty of anime series and movies in the past few years. Anime is simply another medium to me.
Anyway... sometimes it is simply better to keep one's interests and opinions to oneself. As a WoW player, I'm well acquainted with that idea.
If I ever go to Japan I expect every single stereotype I have seen in animes to be true. I better see dipsy horny large breasted school girls with pink and blue hair piloting giant robots.
Probably because as Japanese mainstream consumer habits have shrunken due to the never-ending recession throughout the 90's and 00's, anime producers have found it more profitable to cater solely to the aforementioned stereotypical otaku niche.
I have some friends into anime. I base my vision of it on what i see.
They are somewhat geeky. Always speaking of anime and japanese stuff. They even appreciate anime sexuality more then real life.
I'm not retarded, i just wouldn't want to be like that.
Whenever i tell them something funny, they reply "Oh, yes? Well then, you are a *insert anime character here*!"
Which creeps me out. I'd rather keep on being as i am.
To me, anime is from another culture than most people in the US/Europe are used to, so people who are really excited about it come off as strange. It's a clash of cultures, I think.
Also, comparing anime and 3D animations... isn't that kinda useless? I mean, they seem like two very different things within animation. Not to mention most 3D/cartoon-y animation we are used to, is pretty "Westernized", while anime is as Eastern as it gets.
Personally, I am a silent anime fan. I talk about it with people I realize are into it, obviously, but I don't mention it otherwise. I have considered getting something like a One Piece poster for my room, but I'm not sure what my parents would think of it.
Also, anime seems pretty "pedo" because they draw women a bit... "younger" than they actually are, or at least it looks that way. I don't know why, but again, I think it's a culture thing. They don't seem to mind it over there.
Anyway, just keep those things in mind before you judge too much by a person's cover. A human's greatest enemy is what they don't know or aren't familiar with, you know.
I watch some anime, the quality of them is alot better than the usual movies etc. I must say theres so much weird shit made in japan, i dont wonder why ppl think anime is weird.
Like i used to hate anime and the ppl who watched it, just cause i had only seen couple "animes" which were pedophilic or some fucking gore shit
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The first episodes of both Bleach and Ouran High School Host Club are the best of their respective series.
Quick pointer - you're comparing an animated *feature* with millions of dollars of budget to a TV show. That's like comparing Battlestar Gallactica to Avatar. There's obviously going to be a difference. On a budget, Disney TV shows often have average frame rates of 5fps in standard scenes to 15 fps in heavily animated scenes. Almost all of them make use of stock footage if they're using pre-established characters. I'll single handedly write off the Beauty and the Beast dance scene as it was a literal trace of their Cinderella dance scene, which was rotoscoped in the first place. Disney is *known* for cutting corners, rotoscoping (see almost all of Sleeping Beauty/Cinderella) and copying their own animation sequences to save time creating new ones.
Anime movies for comparison between Western power house animators and East would be using something like the following:
Personally I don't have a big problem with anime as such; I'll even occasionally watch some of the more "mature" by which I mean a little more grounded in reality/gritty stuff. Not "mature" as in porn.
What I don't understand and find a bit weird is (usually it's guys) people who watch animes about schoolgirls and their love interests (of which there seems to be a neverending list) or ones with stupid amounts of OTT fighting that lasts 10 episodes per engagement, and the ones about little kids.. I just don't see the appeal in those sorts of cartoons for anyone over 12. Nevermind some 30+ year old guys that watch it and are heavily invested in the love story between Sakura and Kenji..
Odd enough, people think that Western animation lacks the crisp drawing that Anime titles tend to have.
It's probably because it seems that those types of plots are more "depth" than the plots of Western animation in the past. People don't tend to associate Spongebob Squarepants to have deep plot.
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Honestly most people that I thought were 'weird' or 'creepy' in my high school were into anime and in anime club so yes I would say I do sort of prejudge people in my head when I hear they are into anime. I'm sorry if you feel offended but that is just how humans work, we draw from our experiences and form opinions.
Hi Sephurik
I don't really have anything against anime, as a kid I used to always watch DBZ... But that was about it.
One thing that I always found weird in people are the people who have signatures of anime girls that look under 16 posing seductively with minimal clothes, riding up skirts, or clothes barely holding on... And most of the time they are winking
From experience, anime connoisseur's are much more judgemental towards those who just like bad anime compared to people who are just plain ignorant about anime.