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Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

I just don't like Anime as a story telling medium. Not for the stories, since those vary between awful and amazing, but because of common conventions that just get to me. The biggest being fanservice.

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Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

I never loved anime.
I loved certain shows and series, but I never watched a show just because it was an anime.
That was where a lot of contention rose between my otaku friends and I, whereas they treated Anime as an infallible medium with poor series being rare and I was far, far more critical.

Okay, that makes sense. You just said it in such a hyperbolic way.

I think it's fair to say I'm not a big anime guy. There've been shows and movie I've watched that I loved, but I'm not the kind of guy who keeps up with all the new stuff and has opinions for every moe shovelware series* that comes out. I love, and I mean LOVE super robots specifically, but that's almost a different beast from other shounen, at least from what I've seen.

On the subject of long series, I've only watched one: GaoGaiGar, which is 49 episodes and a six episode OVA. Now, I love the shit out of GaoGaiGar, but I can see how people could find it and other episodes of its type and length to be too drawn out. The main advantage I see to it is that when you spend that much time with the characters, you feel more attached to them when crazy shit starts happening. GaoGaiGar is supposed to take place over a whole year, and thanks to it being 49 episodes, it feels like it, meaning that when the shit hits the fan, it feels that much bigger. Now, I can also see how it could just be drawn out for no good reason, especially with manga, which from what I've seen, has a tendency to just be SPLASH PAGE SPLASH PAGE SPLASH PAGE story SPLASH PAGE SPLASH PAGE SPLASH PAGE SPLASH PAGE.

And again, I'm dead serious when I say that if you're all hating on anime OR have even the slightest modicum of interest in it, but haven't seen any Miyazaki movies, you need to fix what's wrong with your life and watch some. Princess Mononoke, My Neighbor Totoro, and Castle in the Sky are all great places to start.