neighbors still act like it's the early 2010's and their cringe subreddits dictate morality lmao
NO YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND!!!1 IT'S SO DEGENERATE AND WEIRD AND SEXUALIZING AND
i was at la fitness yesterday and the buffest black dude there who benched 3pl8s had a my hero shirt on, this was not in the city
i don't think people here have noticed how much society changed in the last decade, hating anime to most people these days makes you look strange
people will probably think your beliefs are outdated and wonder whether you get out much (i.e. they will think you're a redditor)
tldr. you lost
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Just gonna leave this here
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Hating on anime is so 2010s sweaty, get with the times. Society has progressed past the need for archaic dislike of japanese animation. You don't want to be on the wrong side of history, do you?
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I actually want to like anime. I think animation has a lot of potential. I just cannot ever find one worth watching.
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Everything that actually gets mega popular and that people take seriously and recommend is literal childrens shit.
Everything that people call "deep and adult" has the emotional depth of an angsty young adult novel you thought was art when you were in the 8th grade "reading above your level"
The dirty little secret is that anime airs between 11-3 am when all the working adults are asleep so anything that wants to make money is targeting degens and young students with flexible schedules instead. Anything actually good stays confined to manga and literature or gets a low budget live action adaptation that airs on primetime inbetween a talk show that promotes c-list celebrities and a variety show where comedians slap each other with fishes while making bad word puns
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It's often hard to find the good stuff. A lot of popular recommendations are just boring normie shit, filled with power of friendship and screaming. On the other hand, you have Anime-isms that can make watching an otherwise good Anime a shit experience.
FMA:Brotherhood "humour" made the show barely watchable for me, yet I rarely hear people complain about it.
That's why I never recommend anime to anyone, and I'm wary of other's people recommendations.
Anyway, watch Monster.
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As good as a C- TV show.
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I'm sorry to inform you sir, but your opinion is wrong.
No need to worry though, this can happen to anyone. I hope the rest of your day is better.
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Castle of cagliostro
Nausicaa valley of the wind
Grave of the fireflies
Princess mononoke
Kiki's delivery service
Millennium actress
Ghost in the Shell
Perfect blue
Tokyo godfathers
Howl's moving Castle
And everyone's favorite: spirited away
Each of these are movies are under 2 hours long and are highly influential
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Of these I only saw spirited away and sorry but it was dumb
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spirited away was fricking terrible. animestrags keep being like NOOO U JUST HAVENT SEEN GOOD ANIME YOU HAVE TO WATCH- and it's literally just fricking r-slurred shit.
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This is how I felt when I watched Star Wars for the first time as an adult
It was NOT that interesting
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I did the same. The original series was enjoyable enough, but I don't get the extreme hype at all.
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Its literally just a visual stimulation film full of japenese metaphors.
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Really? Dumb, in what way?
I remember it very fondly. Although, I watched it in 2003.
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It's hard for me to tell you because I too watched it long ago. From what I remember, I just didn't get anything of substance out of it. Like, the story seemed a bit random in that it's series of events and situations the character finds herself in, but they just happen to her without any bigger purpose or reason. So the story seems just like a collection of individual, disconnected challenges and roadblocks for the hero. I wouldn't mind something like that if it was intended to tell some meta-narrative or make some greater point, but I couldn't catch on anything like that either so it all felt just a bit empty or simplistic.
I won't say that it's bad by the way, some things I liked in it, but overall I guess the best way to put it is that for me it was just uninteresting.
Keep in mind this is a bit of an outsider's perspective cause I only watched like 4 animes, of which I can definitively say that I loved only 1 (and 1 was absolute fricking garbage, Jesus)
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Thanks for the (quite extensive) response, I was curious since dumb is not very descriptive.
As for the perspective thing. Spirited Away was actually my first ever anime, and is definitely responsible for my interest in other anime later on. Your lack of familiarity with the medium shouldn't have had any impact on the experience. If you didn't like it, you didn't like it.
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Oh no I understand that, I just thought that maybe some of those complaints may be pedantic as in if it's a hallmark of a genre instead of being unique to this film in particular, and I just didn't know that
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I've had a lot of animestrag friends over the years unfortunately and they have forced me to watch most of these under "you just havent seen GOOD anime
" and I regret to inform you that they are all fricking trash
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grave of the fireflies sucks.
the aunt was right, the boy was lazy and didnβt contribute. all of his r-slurred decisions sealed their fate.
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why is it so hard for people to just watch mushishi
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not available on the pirate site
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https://nyaa.si/view/1285288
You're looking in the wrong places
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serial experiments lain
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I tried it and got bored but still it had some nice feels
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i loved the feds, i was very sad when lain molested them.
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I only watch movies, anime shows are trash.
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What kind of things do you like? I can probably recommend some actually good anime depending on your interests.
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Something not edgy nor pretentious but made for adults
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You should watch Tokyo Godfathers
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i fricking hate zoomers
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Divine Punishment
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Something being mainstream, doesn't make it okay lol
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Carp certified loser caught
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Mid bait
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Neighbor you posted 5 fricking replies in this thread
You don't get to call the bait mid after that
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I know
it's just right, right in the midlle
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Having strong opinions about anime β or any other genre of television β is a symptom of being terminally inside. If your identity depends on what flavor of corporate swill you passively consume while rotting into your chair, you need to touch grass.
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Black dudes being into MHA doesn't mean it's mainstream, during the height of the 90s/2000s anime boom where it was at its most nerdy and niche, black dudes were still into DBZ and Naruto. You can call it mainstream when boring white stacies know who any of these characters are
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is there anything more pathetic?
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Being a woman
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All anime characters look pretty much identical, just with different coloured hair, but you pea-brained weebs are too uncultured to recognize that. Cope.
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Have s*x incel
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Honestly we should go back to anime being a niche thing that weirdos watch.
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Hating anime is a sign of polite society
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anime is garbage because it is adapted from garbage comic books called manga which are so bad they made them back-to-front. maybe if they stopped adapting manga it wouldn't be so shit.
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I try to like anime but it is just too weird, alien, and perverted and the perversion always happens to be pedophilic in nature. Japs seem obsessed with their high schools years, too. All the weebs should gather there and a third bomb dropped.
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Redditors love anime though, so, argument discarded.
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Pinktard moment.
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Harro Ching Chong, omega say mass Chink-kun.
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What on God's green earth makes you think that being black and/or lifting weights precludes anyone from liking anime lmao
Some of the beefiest guys I know still watch dragon Ball z but that doesn't make it any less lame of a hobby
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I get so confused
by how many younger people watch 
anime. It was a social 
death 
sentence when i was younger.
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It's obviously bait but... I just want to say, in Japan, anime is not adult media. It's juvenile, the things reddit watch, including MHA.. are kids shows... and they're adults
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They still make media for adults in the west?
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Anime quit being good when I was around 20 years old even anime I previously liked
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I have nothing against anime just no time for it nowadays
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