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What is something you dont care to understand or "get"? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[–] 12 points 8 months ago (9 children)

This would have been my top line comment. I wish anime wasn't such a glaring blind spot for me, because it's something so many people connect on. But I see it like reality TV. There's 1000 shows with 1000 episodes each, and some shows are probably great, but I've never been interested.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    There are plenty with just one or two seasons and that’s it.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Reality TV or Anime? Cause either way, the medium just isn't my thing.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

    Sure, whatever. I’m just saying it’s a very broad cultural Japanese thing, and not just “hundreds of soap opera” episodes, or Naruto or whatever, I don’t even know myself. A lot of variety is what I’m saying.

    It’s actually pretty interesting. I guess “the west” is kinda prejudiced about what anime really is.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    No, I agree, and I'm not saying I dislike it for a good reason or even a vastly informed reason; I've watched a few, and they felt varied in content and style and tone (at least to me). I'm just saying sometimes it's as simple as "just don't like it". I don't like eggplant either; had it prepared a few different ways. I don't think it's that I just haven't found that magical preparation or mix of seasonings or whatever; just not a fan.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago*

    No judgment since I think many anime shows are not worth the time, but anime is just another medium, like books, more than anything. If there’s a genre of something you like on another medium, then there probably are some decent shows for that genre in anime.

    Lots of anime is written with a specific audience in mind, such as the most well known anime shows being written for teens and young adults. Even more, most anime has a specific gendered audience as its target audience.

    I personally didn’t care too much for anime until I watched some very high quality shows that pulled me more into the medium.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah it just seems like a random style of cartoon to me, i dont get why ppl are obsessed w this one type. Im probably just too ignorant

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    I find the idea bwhind each show is more compelling and tends to be more mature to what the west peovides in the same (animated) genre.
    You get the odd show like 'Invincible' that is more mature but they are way more rare than on the eastern entertainment domain.
    Can't really say I have noticed much shows that are on the level of 'Avatar the last airbender' in western tv (and that alone is a controversial topic of if it's a western cartoon or more eastern in influence)

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    FLCL has like 6 episodes and is a good entry point

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    FLCL is great, but it is pretty damned weird and better with knowledge of the material it parodies.

    Cowboy Bebop is the entry point to anime. It's mostly episodic so there's no need for a huge time investment. You'll know if you're going to like it or not after an episode or two. The only problem is that it's so damned good, it's only downhill from there.

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