I Dislike Anime - Even The Ones That You Like

[Modern Audience]

I'm going to pretend I read the OP but not very hard.
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I sometimes wonder why this is the case. Aversion to beauty? Who knows. Anime has it's issues but it's great compared to the other crap we see in media.

 

[Frederica Bernkastel]

You sure care and awful lot about the opinions and interests of random strangers on the internet. Learn to stay cool and remain chilled out.

He's the local USAID employee that crashes out often. Don't read too much into it.

 

[THE SUPREME ORANGE]

USAIDS

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

you know I'm not talking about DBZ you mong

So the thread title was clickbait. You got me, you sonuvabitch.

 

[redlenses2112]

He's the local USAID employee that crashes out often. Don't read too much into it.

I don't think even USAID would want anything to do with LifeAlert, considering he is cognitively incapable of constructing a single post without talking about orifices or frankensteining-up edgy 4chan school shooter words like it's 2009.

 

[LifeAlert]

I really noticed this with Junji ito: the weak spot in uzumaki and tomi is the exposition and hence the dialogue and vice versa.

And there it is. Exposition, by far, is the #1 killer of any interest I might have in animanga. They don't ever shut up, even when they're in the middle of fighting. It's like this everywhere across every genre. Certain movies, especially modern slop, have an exposition problem too but there are at least other movies spanning decades that abide by the rule of "show, don't tell". The Japanese don't understand that and it's because the primary function of animanga is to get otakufags and consoomer cattle both local and abroad to model their lives after it and shout obnoxious dialogue like retards so the companies' line goes up, not to utilize the medium for art. Also ties back in to how Japan has a serious problem with preserving their old stuff and usually throw them out or leave them to rot (see: Tokyo Lab, Discotek needing to get a laserdisc capture of Project A-ko from a fan so they could release it on blu-ray, and arcades shutting down). They have no concept of longevity or appreciation, they only think about how they can serve themselves now and fuck everything that came before which is also why their copyright laws are unbelievably draconian - they want you to submit to the will of the corporation for the privilege of watching, reading, listening to, or playing anything. And if that means they destroyed all the old shit, then sorry, you don't get to have it. Tough luck. Japanese culture is unbelievably cucked in countless ways. Their copyright law is so draconian that you can't even make cakes featuring copyrighted material or they throw you in prison.

As far as how commercialized animanga is and how everything seems to follow the exact same formulas and cliches and how it's celebrated for doing so, it can be something better than that but they never wanted it to be and they left ones that tried in the dirt. Not just Cowboy Bebop, but others like Trigun or Hellsing which did feature good writing and more mature/thought provoking themes completely bombed there whereas they found success in America. Any "artfulness" anime may have had visual-wise completely died once it went all digital. At least early digital anime still followed cel conventions (compare FMA 2003 to Brotherhood) but ultimately that declined into the 3D CGI AI slopfest with no end in sight that we are seeing now.

 

[Vect]

That would imply that all Japanese media is sexed up, but that's not the case. There's a reason liking tokusatsu isn't considered weird or creepy while liking anime is.

Well, the bulk of them were made when the censorship laws were still active, and obviously they'd have been much more scrutinised for a general audience. Erotic anime would have still been indie published at that point.

As for everything else from Japan since:

Anime appeals to a very specific niche of pedophiles and is made by these pedophiles, and they make all Japanese animation look like that so they can normalize their deviancy.

Well then I guess the creators of My Little Pony always intended that a bunch of overweight dudes in their thirties would want to have sex with cute cartoon horses.

I made a post about this that may interest you. In another thread it was mentioned that the incest porn push mirrors anime's obsession with incest and that ahegao went from being a specific hentai thing to being a regular, real-life porn genre. It's almost as though the Venn diagram between people watching anime and people watching porn is almost a circle.

Or it's supply responding to demand. Incest as a porn search has been one of the highest categories ever since Pornhub started doing these surveys, in fact it fell lower on the list in favour of hentai, and orgasm face is already a search category. A lot of these interests would likely be started by OnlyFans people. And if you find the er, presentation of those Japanese porn games interesting enough to buy, then yeah you're going to look them up. I remember that era too, YouTubers would play them off Steam to laugh at, because they're stupid things that only very sad people would buy.

then you're still stuck in that lifestyle, so you can't understand why people don't like it.

It's a lifestyle now?? What's next, praying the anime away?

 

[Tablet County]

Maybe we wouldn't care so much if they weren't trying to force Vtuber memes on the Farms and I didn't have to see nonstop "anime but Lego" crap when looking for truly amazing Lego builds.

Holy Autism Batman

 

[NotYourAverageNigga]

Maybe we wouldn't care so much if they weren't trying to force Vtuber memes on the Farms and I didn't have to see nonstop "anime but Lego" crap when looking for truly amazing Lego builds.

What do you think of this lego build?

 

[Hannibal Lecter]

I fully expect that pedophiles will be more interested in anime than non-pedophiles on average. Double that for v-tubers.

 

[GeekUSA]

 

[Cassius Crayfish]

Anime is not the problem. Japan is the problem. Animation is just a form of media, and media produced by a culture reflects that culture. There are some great anime, but a lot of slop. The reason it is increasingly infecting the west is because western culture is becoming more like Japan: largely godless, without purpose, and perverted. Thus, slop anime appeals to young people brought up in western societies that are also largely godless, without purpose and perverted.

 

[⚞⛇⚟]

Anime is the Antichrist. When you watch it (other than the couple that I like), you allow Satan into your soul.
Also lucky star is pedoslop (or you could just be a faggot with no life, and lucky star anime serves as the closest you will get to communicating with others) and anyone that likes it should be hanged.

 

[GameratePTSD]

Anime is the Antichrist. When you watch it (other than the couple that I like), you allow Satan into your soul.
Also lucky star is pedoslop (or you could just be a faggot with no life, and lucky star anime serves as the closest you will get to communicating with others) and anyone that likes it should be hanged.

Remember when you see anti-anime activists like this: even Satan quotes scripture for his purpose. I see you, agent of Beelzebub. You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires.

 

[Not 6 Foot]

What the fuck did you just say about my Oshi???
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あなたのワイフはクソだ

 

[Tread Miller]

Neutral on the anime question (AQ?), Chiikawa is the only good anime anyways.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

The Japanese either can't tell stories properly, or their culture is so alien that I can't properly connect to them on any level. So Anime is trash.

 

[Doublefrag]

People who let themselves enjoy anime with cute moe girls are less likely to troon out than the chuddie incels who keep repressing and projecting their hatred lel. Anime is normal now, don't whine over it.

 

[clara red bottoms]

And there it is. Exposition, by far, is the #1 killer of any interest I might have in animanga. They don't ever shut up, even when they're in the middle of fighting.

Most valid anime criticism I've seen tbh.

My threshold for it is also really low, so anime like Naruto gatekept me by doing fucking cutaways between every breath to explain some shit no one cares about. It's like they forget that they're a visual medium with the goal of telling an engaging story, so the lore and world building take precedent over the pacing and narrative flow.

 

[Not 6 Foot]

The Japanese either can't tell stories properly, or their culture is so alien that I can't properly connect to them on any level. So Anime is trash.

The literal reason is their culture being so alien to most western societies. They like to tell stories about breaking conformity and destroying the status quo (often some form of god) while people in the west, particularly the US, have nonconformity as one of their core values that's celebrated, even, as you're growing up (everywhere but the work force, for the most part).
It's like how a blonde character is considered a delinquent, over there. They're literally made to keep their hair dyed black, through school, and also keep it cut a certain length. Sometimes even styled certain ways (no hair touching your ears as a male, for example). It makes no sense, given how I was raised, but it's absolutely normal, to them. Their stories will reflect this and will often end up feeling the same, after you see a certain amount.