Is Anime the Worst Form of Entertainment Ever?

I swear half the threads on OT are about anime.

How can people watch anime? I don't understand the fascination.

It's just poorly drawn characters with exaggerated features going "I HAVE FIRE BALL MEET YOUR DOOM KOGURASHI!" Lots of flashy stuff happens in the background while the two people fighting float in the air but never touch each other until it's zoomed in so close on their faces you can see their skin cells.

This is the premise of every anime I've ever seen. How can people find this crap entertaining? It makes me want to find whoever makes that crap put kill them to put the world out of misery.

People obsess over this stupid **** when they could be learning about stuff that actually matters. ALL TV sucks...but anime is right at the bottom of the list with professional wrestling and American Idol.

Anime is crap, videogames are crap, TV is crap, movies are crap, the world sucks. Hooray!

Seriously, people like what they like, i like anime, i find many of them to have an excellent story. You dont like it, it's ok.

Nope anime is awesome. Its like you get into one anime and you think its the best in the world. Then a few months later you get over it and find another anime and think its the best in the world.

I had that feeling with tons of anime......though i still label the DB series as the best ever created. However lots disagree but hey...just a opinion no need to get all iffy about it.

watch "Grave of the fireflies" spielberg wished he made that...and BTW..

agreed I dont get it either, one of my frineds was watching bleach so I said "what the hell I'll see if I like It" its so stupid and incoherent, I mean seriously how does a dragon in mid air push back another dude who is also in mid air floating and random debris is flying out of from his feet out of thin air? I mean come on how lame is that, and whats with all of the blood lust in anime, you nick a person and its an explosion of blood but when you decapitate his arm its like one drop of blood. anime FTL

EDIT: I dont like style of the animation either and the DB series sucks, its just to stupid

agreed I dont get it either, one of my frineds was watching bleach so I said "what the hell I'll see if I like It" its so stupid and incoherent, I mean seriously how does a dragon in mid air push back another dude who is also in mid air floating and random debris is flying out of from his feet out of thin air? I mean come on how lame is that, and whats with all of the blood lust in anime, you nick a person and its an explosion of blood but when you decapitate his arm its like one drop of blood. anime FTLpoomonger613

umm..its called ANIME

[QUOTE="poomonger613"]agreed I dont get it either, one of my frineds was watching bleach so I said "what the hell I'll see if I like It" its so stupid and incoherent, I mean seriously how does a dragon in mid air push back another dude who is also in mid air floating and random debris is flying out of from his feet out of thin air? I mean come on how lame is that, and whats with all of the blood lust in anime, you nick a person and its an explosion of blood but when you decapitate his arm its like one drop of blood. anime FTLkirk4ever

umm..its called ANIME

I swear half the threads on OT are about anime.

How can people watch anime? I don't understand the fascination.

It's just poorly drawn characters with exaggerated features going "I HAVE FIRE BALL MEET YOUR DOOM KOGURASHI!" Lots of flashy stuff happens in the background while the two people fighting float in the air but never touch each other until it's zoomed in so close on their faces you can see their skin cells.

This is the premise of every anime I've ever seen. How can people find this crap entertaining? It makes me want to find whoever makes that crap put kill them to put the world out of misery.

People obsess over this stupid **** when they could be learning about stuff that actually matters. ALL TV sucks...but anime is right at the bottom of the list with professional wrestling and American Idol.

D9-THC

how can people go around maving such grave assumptions when they pbviously haven't realized that anime has a good number of shows that aren;t about guys floating around. Here's an idea, why don't you actually go out and (god forbid) take a look at some real anime in stores??? Oh, but then you wouldn;t be able to b*tch on such a level as you now.....

[QUOTE="poomonger613"]agreed I dont get it either, one of my frineds was watching bleach so I said "what the hell I'll see if I like It" its so stupid and incoherent, I mean seriously how does a dragon in mid air push back another dude who is also in mid air floating and random debris is flying out of from his feet out of thin air? I mean come on how lame is that, and whats with all of the blood lust in anime, you nick a person and its an explosion of blood but when you decapitate his arm its like one drop of blood. anime FTLkirk4ever

umm..its called ANIME

[QUOTE="kirk4ever"]

[QUOTE="poomonger613"]agreed I dont get it either, one of my frineds was watching bleach so I said "what the hell I'll see if I like It" its so stupid and incoherent, I mean seriously how does a dragon in mid air push back another dude who is also in mid air floating and random debris is flying out of from his feet out of thin air? I mean come on how lame is that, and whats with all of the blood lust in anime, you nick a person and its an explosion of blood but when you decapitate his arm its like one drop of blood. anime FTLpoomonger613

umm..its called ANIME

tell me what YOU like and let me and fellow users here turn it into "incoherent garbage" ITs CALLED TASTE-Opinion-aestethics...

[QUOTE="kirk4ever"]

[QUOTE="poomonger613"]agreed I dont get it either, one of my frineds was watching bleach so I said "what the hell I'll see if I like It" its so stupid and incoherent, I mean seriously how does a dragon in mid air push back another dude who is also in mid air floating and random debris is flying out of from his feet out of thin air? I mean come on how lame is that, and whats with all of the blood lust in anime, you nick a person and its an explosion of blood but when you decapitate his arm its like one drop of blood. anime FTLpoomonger613

umm..its called ANIME

actually it's called having to watch it from the start to comprehend the plot :) Horray for people being douchebags...........

[QUOTE="D9-THC"]

I swear half the threads on OT are about anime.

How can people watch anime? I don't understand the fascination.

It's just poorly drawn characters with exaggerated features going "I HAVE FIRE BALL MEET YOUR DOOM KOGURASHI!" Lots of flashy stuff happens in the background while the two people fighting float in the air but never touch each other until it's zoomed in so close on their faces you can see their skin cells.

This is the premise of every anime I've ever seen. How can people find this crap entertaining? It makes me want to find whoever makes that crap put kill them to put the world out of misery.

People obsess over this stupid **** when they could be learning about stuff that actually matters. ALL TV sucks...but anime is right at the bottom of the list with professional wrestling and American Idol.

firebreathing

how can people go around maving such grave assumptions when they pbviously haven't realized that anime has a good number of shows that aren;t about guys floating around. Here's an idea, why don't you actually go out and (god forbid) take a look at some real anime in stores??? Oh, but then you wouldn;t be able to b*tch on such a level as you now.....

There's anime stores? I've never seen one...

I guess I'll just have to see where the 12-year-olds are flocking next time I go to a mall...

[QUOTE="firebreathing"][QUOTE="D9-THC"]

I swear half the threads on OT are about anime.

How can people watch anime? I don't understand the fascination.

It's just poorly drawn characters with exaggerated features going "I HAVE FIRE BALL MEET YOUR DOOM KOGURASHI!" Lots of flashy stuff happens in the background while the two people fighting float in the air but never touch each other until it's zoomed in so close on their faces you can see their skin cells.

This is the premise of every anime I've ever seen. How can people find this crap entertaining? It makes me want to find whoever makes that crap put kill them to put the world out of misery.

People obsess over this stupid **** when they could be learning about stuff that actually matters. ALL TV sucks...but anime is right at the bottom of the list with professional wrestling and American Idol.

D9-THC

how can people go around maving such grave assumptions when they pbviously haven't realized that anime has a good number of shows that aren;t about guys floating around. Here's an idea, why don't you actually go out and (god forbid) take a look at some real anime in stores??? Oh, but then you wouldn;t be able to b*tch on such a level as you now.....

There's anime stores? I've never seen one...

I guess I'll just have to see where the 12-year-olds are flocking next time I go to a mall...

im 19 and watch it and people are 50 who watch it..OPINION FTW-BAD LOGIC FTL

Anime is my favourite form of entertaiment.

Most haters belong in one of two groups

1. People who have seen a couple of generic shounen series, and because they didn't like it. They determined that all anime is crap.

2. People who are allergic to subs.

Explenation

I swear half the threads on OT are about anime.

How can people watch anime? I don't understand the fascination.

It's just poorly drawn characters with exaggerated features going "I HAVE FIRE BALL MEET YOUR DOOM KOGURASHI!" Lots of flashy stuff happens in the background while the two people fighting float in the air but never touch each other until it's zoomed in so close on their faces you can see their skin cells.

This is the premise of every anime I've ever seen. How can people find this crap entertaining? It makes me want to find whoever makes that crap put kill them to put the world out of misery.

People obsess over this stupid **** when they could be learning about stuff that actually matters. ALL TV sucks...but anime is right at the bottom of the list with professional wrestling and American Idol.

D9-THC

There's anime for children and anime for adults.

Anime for children is awful - not that I've ever sat down and watched some, but you're right. It is poorly drawn characters with exaggerated features speaking broken english. But how many kids' shows do you watch? They're all junk.

Anime is a blanket term, though. There is anime that you will never probably see on TV. Cowboy Bebop, for example, is a pretty girtty and violent (though still occasionally silly) show that was a major influence for Firefly (easily the best science fiction tv show ever made).

And there's also Lain. A very, very melancholy and sober mindscrew that's about as far from your description of anime as you can get.

And then there's Elfen Lied. Go to Youtube, search elfen lied episode 1 and watch what comes up. It's about an abused, psychic girl escaping from a facility. Very violent, a lot of nudity. It probably won't change your mind about anime, but it might make you realise that there's more out there than the stuff you've seen.

But yeah, in general, it's junk. Still, so is most tv - especially stuff for children.

[QUOTE="firebreathing"][QUOTE="D9-THC"]

I swear half the threads on OT are about anime.

How can people watch anime? I don't understand the fascination.

It's just poorly drawn characters with exaggerated features going "I HAVE FIRE BALL MEET YOUR DOOM KOGURASHI!" Lots of flashy stuff happens in the background while the two people fighting float in the air but never touch each other until it's zoomed in so close on their faces you can see their skin cells.

This is the premise of every anime I've ever seen. How can people find this crap entertaining? It makes me want to find whoever makes that crap put kill them to put the world out of misery.

People obsess over this stupid **** when they could be learning about stuff that actually matters. ALL TV sucks...but anime is right at the bottom of the list with professional wrestling and American Idol.

D9-THC

how can people go around maving such grave assumptions when they pbviously haven't realized that anime has a good number of shows that aren;t about guys floating around. Here's an idea, why don't you actually go out and (god forbid) take a look at some real anime in stores??? Oh, but then you wouldn;t be able to b*tch on such a level as you now.....

There's anime stores? I've never seen one...

I guess I'll just have to see where the 12-year-olds are flocking next time I go to a mall...

[QUOTE="D9-THC"][QUOTE="firebreathing"][QUOTE="D9-THC"]

I swear half the threads on OT are about anime.

How can people watch anime? I don't understand the fascination.

It's just poorly drawn characters with exaggerated features going "I HAVE FIRE BALL MEET YOUR DOOM KOGURASHI!" Lots of flashy stuff happens in the background while the two people fighting float in the air but never touch each other until it's zoomed in so close on their faces you can see their skin cells.

This is the premise of every anime I've ever seen. How can people find this crap entertaining? It makes me want to find whoever makes that crap put kill them to put the world out of misery.

People obsess over this stupid **** when they could be learning about stuff that actually matters. ALL TV sucks...but anime is right at the bottom of the list with professional wrestling and American Idol.

poomonger613

how can people go around maving such grave assumptions when they pbviously haven't realized that anime has a good number of shows that aren;t about guys floating around. Here's an idea, why don't you actually go out and (god forbid) take a look at some real anime in stores??? Oh, but then you wouldn;t be able to b*tch on such a level as you now.....

There's anime stores? I've never seen one...

I guess I'll just have to see where the 12-year-olds are flocking next time I go to a mall...

oh i see you like family guy..how can you watch that crap it about a drunk dog a homosexual baby a transvestite girl and a basment dwelling fatty son..what garbage and sick stuff you watch ..how lame is that how cana dog talk? and you like south park? how lame is that how can a person keep dying and coming back? incoherent garbage..

/thread

[QUOTE="poomonger613"][QUOTE="kirk4ever"]

[QUOTE="poomonger613"]agreed I dont get it either, one of my frineds was watching bleach so I said "what the hell I'll see if I like It" its so stupid and incoherent, I mean seriously how does a dragon in mid air push back another dude who is also in mid air floating and random debris is flying out of from his feet out of thin air? I mean come on how lame is that, and whats with all of the blood lust in anime, you nick a person and its an explosion of blood but when you decapitate his arm its like one drop of blood. anime FTLkirk4ever

umm..its called ANIME

tell me what YOU like and let me and fellow users here turn it into "incoherent garbage" ITs CALLED TASTE-Opinion-aestethics...

/geeneralization

seriously, sometimes i feel like going on a ****ing murderous rampage, it seems like ever day theres either a thread bashing anime, or bashing metal. ignorance FTL...

[QUOTE="poomonger613"][QUOTE="D9-THC"][QUOTE="firebreathing"][QUOTE="D9-THC"]

I swear half the threads on OT are about anime.

How can people watch anime? I don't understand the fascination.

It's just poorly drawn characters with exaggerated features going "I HAVE FIRE BALL MEET YOUR DOOM KOGURASHI!" Lots of flashy stuff happens in the background while the two people fighting float in the air but never touch each other until it's zoomed in so close on their faces you can see their skin cells.

This is the premise of every anime I've ever seen. How can people find this crap entertaining? It makes me want to find whoever makes that crap put kill them to put the world out of misery.

People obsess over this stupid **** when they could be learning about stuff that actually matters. ALL TV sucks...but anime is right at the bottom of the list with professional wrestling and American Idol.

kirk4ever

how can people go around maving such grave assumptions when they pbviously haven't realized that anime has a good number of shows that aren;t about guys floating around. Here's an idea, why don't you actually go out and (god forbid) take a look at some real anime in stores??? Oh, but then you wouldn;t be able to b*tch on such a level as you now.....

There's anime stores? I've never seen one...

I guess I'll just have to see where the 12-year-olds are flocking next time I go to a mall...

oh i see you like family guy..how can you watch that crap it about a drunk dog a homosexual baby a transvestite girl and a basment dwelling fatty son..what garbage and sick stuff you watch ..how lame is that how cana dog talk? and you like south park? how lame is that how can a person keep dying and coming back? incoherent garbage..

/thread

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re8bIzbcu5w&feature=related

Tell me that fits any of your stereotypes.

It's funny how on one hand a person can be angry about video games being called a tool of the devil and that they're responsible for every crime since the 20th century, and on the other hand say that all anime is bad after watching some of the worst examples of it.Zagrius

It's because people want an excuse to hate something that they don't understand. I don't get why everyone thinks all anime is like DBZ.

how does me saying emo kids mean that I like family guy and/or south park? And yes I do like them because their funny, no matter sick or racist or wrong it may be, if it makes me laugh I like it. And since I know your about pull the "you just contradicted since you said you don't like incoherence but you like a talking dog and a kid that keeps on dieing SELFOWNAGE" please, those things are funny flying through the air fighting dragons and weilding giant kitchen kinves and totally unrealistic explosions are not poomonger613

.... Look at your sig.

[QUOTE="kirk4ever"][QUOTE="poomonger613"][QUOTE="D9-THC"][QUOTE="firebreathing"][QUOTE="D9-THC"]

I swear half the threads on OT are about anime.

How can people watch anime? I don't understand the fascination.

It's just poorly drawn characters with exaggerated features going "I HAVE FIRE BALL MEET YOUR DOOM KOGURASHI!" Lots of flashy stuff happens in the background while the two people fighting float in the air but never touch each other until it's zoomed in so close on their faces you can see their skin cells.

This is the premise of every anime I've ever seen. How can people find this crap entertaining? It makes me want to find whoever makes that crap put kill them to put the world out of misery.

People obsess over this stupid **** when they could be learning about stuff that actually matters. ALL TV sucks...but anime is right at the bottom of the list with professional wrestling and American Idol.

poomonger613

how can people go around maving such grave assumptions when they pbviously haven't realized that anime has a good number of shows that aren;t about guys floating around. Here's an idea, why don't you actually go out and (god forbid) take a look at some real anime in stores??? Oh, but then you wouldn;t be able to b*tch on such a level as you now.....

There's anime stores? I've never seen one...

I guess I'll just have to see where the 12-year-olds are flocking next time I go to a mall...

oh i see you like family guy..how can you watch that crap it about a drunk dog a homosexual baby a transvestite girl and a basment dwelling fatty son..what garbage and sick stuff you watch ..how lame is that how cana dog talk? and you like south park? how lame is that how can a person keep dying and coming back? incoherent garbage..

/thread

He was trying to relate the stark contrast between why you view family guy as funny and why people enjoy anime. It's a simple matter of perspective, and all anime and all other forms of entertainment have different shows that appeal to different people. But to say that all anime is like InuYasha or DBZ is just flat out ridiculous and shows that you don't know what you're talking about.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re8bIzbcu5w&feature=related

Tell me that fits any of your stereotypes.

redstormrisen

/geeneralization

seriously, sometimes i feel like going on a ****ing murderous rampage, it seems like ever day theres either a thread bashing anime, or bashing metal. ignorance FTL...

dante_123456

[QUOTE="redstormrisen"]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re8bIzbcu5w&feature=related

Tell me that fits any of your stereotypes.

Erasorn

Yeah, Kikouken has a Black Lagoon Sig/Avvy. Very good series, I think.

[QUOTE="redstormrisen"]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re8bIzbcu5w&feature=related

Tell me that fits any of your stereotypes.

Erasorn

/geeneralization

seriously, sometimes i feel like going on a ****ing murderous rampage, it seems like ever day theres either a thread bashing anime, or bashing metal. ignorance FTL...

dante_123456

I don't know anything about Metal, but the reason anime bashers annoy me is that they always refer to the same shows which are known to be bad, then use that to generalise the whole thing. It's like saying that all video games are bad after giving Big Rigs a try.

[QUOTE="redstormrisen"]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re8bIzbcu5w&feature=related

Tell me that fits any of your stereotypes.

Erasorn

I belive it was both.

That was actually got me interseted in it.

[QUOTE="redstormrisen"]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re8bIzbcu5w&feature=related

Tell me that fits any of your stereotypes.

Erasorn

/geeneralization

seriously, sometimes i feel like going on a ****ing murderous rampage, it seems like ever day theres either a thread bashing anime, or bashing metal. ignorance FTL...

dante_123456

From what I've seen, it seems as though that's just the reaction provoked by people who scoff at those forms of entertainment.

It's just poorly drawn characters with exaggerated features....

D9-THC

Ugh, you're right, anime is poorly drawn. I mean just compare them to american cartoons.

...with exaggerated features going "I HAVE FIRE BALL MEET YOUR DOOM KOGURASHI!" Lots of flashy stuff happens in the background while the two people fighting float in the air but never touch each other until it's zoomed in so close on their faces you can see their skin cells.

D9-THC

Grave of the Fireflies - Taking place toward the end of World War II in Japan, Grave of the Fireflies is the poignant tale of the relationship between two orphaned children.The children lose their mother in the firebombing of Kobe, and their father in service to the Imperial Japanese Navy, and as a result they are forced to try to survive amidst widespread famine and the callous indifference of their countrymen (some of whom are their own extended family members).

Some critics, including Roger Ebert, considers it to be one of the most powerful anti-war movies ever made.

This is the premise of every anime I've ever seen.

D9-THC

Right, ones you've seen. That's what you call being ignorant. So you base your opinion on what little anime you've seen. Don't you think this is a grave error?

..they could be learning about stuff that actually matters. ALL TV sucks...but anime is right at the bottom of the list with professional wrestling and American Idol.

D9-THC

This coming from someone on a video game forum, where said medium could be considered complete trash and argued to be just as filthy and "stupid" as television in general.

The point is you don't have to like anime, that's fine, and no one is going to change your mind, because honestly no one actually cares. It's the ignorance and trolling that will get x number of people telling you how wrong you are. I expect this topic will get locked, but either way try to think before you speak..er, type. I'm not even a big fan of anime, and watched it now and then as a kid, but you have to at least admit that not every one is poorly drawn, not every one is about flying around and shooting fireballs, and that anime is perfectly capable of tackling more pressing issues than who has the highest power level.

[QUOTE="Erasorn"][QUOTE="redstormrisen"]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re8bIzbcu5w&feature=related

Tell me that fits any of your stereotypes.

redstormrisen

I belive it was both.

That was actually got me interseted in it.

dante_123456

No friggen way, I may dislike some recent anime but no way is it the worst form of entertainment ever. Some of my most favourite films ever happen to be anime, also I may add anime is quite influencial, for example Ghost In The Shell influenced The Matrix. I would also like to add that Miyazaki's movies are anime and even Disney is fond of his awesome movies.

The worst form of entertainment ever is Rap/Hip Hop :P

yeah it sure is annoying when someone one who has only seen one or two anime shows and they base there opinion on what they just saw. Most anime you cant just jump in in the middle and expect to get it some you have to watch the very beginning to understand the story. Besides anime most action anime is usely the same.

but not all anime is just action theres also: Comedy, Romance, Sci-fi/Horror, Hentai:oops:, and ect.

Hentai:oops:

spawnassasin

You just baited yourself.

I like some of it, but it can be very cliche, and very VERY over the top, especially in terms of violence or disturbing images. I got to a point where I just couldn't take seeing some of it, not cause I was freaked out, but moreso just grossed out. Some of it is just completely unnecessary.

The animation is incredible, but once again, CAN be very cliche, and for the most part, you hear a lot of voice actors over and over again.

I used to be a huge fan when I was younger, but I feel like I kinda grew out of it, but still watch them from time to time. The OP isn't that wrong in what he's saying, cause there are a lot of anime's is like that.

[QUOTE="spawnassasin"]

Hentai:oops:

Blood-Scribe

You just baited yourself.

so some of its actually pretty funny

[QUOTE="spawnassasin"]

Hentai:oops:

Blood-Scribe

You just baited yourself.

[QUOTE="Blood-Scribe"][QUOTE="spawnassasin"]

Hentai:oops:

poomonger613

You just baited yourself.

hardly

but if i did watch it dont you think i wouldnt be here posting

There's anime stores? I've never seen one...

I guess I'll just have to see where the 12-year-olds are flocking next time I go to a mall...

D9-THC

Because graphic violence, drug use, cursing, and sexual content/nudity are for children.

I'm really not surprised, a person generalizing a topic they know next to nothing about to prove some unintelligable point. I cannot understand exactly why people do this stuff, but they do.

If you would actually like to know about the topic you're currently insulting without any knowledge of, please go out and watch the anime 'Monster' sometime. Probably one of the greatest Drama/Thriller series ever made.