How come many places that sell/rent Anime lump the entire "medium" as a genre?

[cerebreturns]

Depends on your society and this is just the same argument behind "hard rock and rock are different, just like death metal and porn metal are different".

Society is just that...society. It isn't about a college class on music or art or animation.
If you live in a society that lumps cartoons together as a medium, or anime and american cartoons, that's that.
For most people that's all it is. There is no reason why someone who has no intrest in anime needs to know the difference between shonen and shojo (witch in and of themselves you can argue are large groups and should be broken into subgroups).


The reason companies group things the way they do is because that is how consumers respond to it, that is what it's place in society is.

If you go to an anime shop or a store that specifically sells stuff in that genera it is more specific...though I'm talking about in america.

But expecting Walmart to have a sentai shonen section is kinda...unreasonable.

 

[NeutralDrow]

Laziness. That's how I was able to rent Ninja Scroll when I was 14 years old.

 

[Calibanbutcher]

Well, seeing as you refer to it as Anime, therefore segregating it from other forms of films (even from other kinds of animations), you are ultimately pigeonholing it as being in a class of its own too.

What this guy ^ said


OT:Your avatar syncs up pretty well with the Rolling Stones "Satisfaction".
Just thought I'd let you know, you crazy dancing robot.

 

[Casual Shinji]

Because that makes it easier to find.

I'd rather have one section dedicated to anime than to have to go from genre section to genre section in order to find some.

 

[Headdrivehardscrew]

Laziness. That's how I was able to rent Ninja Scroll when I was 14 years old.

Did 14-year-old you like it?

Did it scar you for life?

OT: What other system would OP suggest, then? At least I tend to find the very thing I'm looking for when I open up the big box of 'Anime', it's better than just being fed soulless dubs or not having anything of that strange otherworldly Asian stuff around. Would you want to label everything according to their content, which might in part be directly lifted from 4chan? The 'Anime' label is pretty much a 'World Music' or 'Independent' folder equivalent in function, and I'd rather it collected everything inside it than having Ponyo next to Pocahontas.

 

[NeutralDrow]

Laziness. That's how I was able to rent Ninja Scroll when I was 14 years old.

Did 14-year-old you like it?

Did it scar you for life?

14 year-old me liked some parts of it, including the main character, really liked the way the rapist stone monster guy died as pretty much a direct result of his sexual assault, didn't really get other parts of it ("dude, how horny can you be to not stop having sex while you're having a freakin' conversation with someone else?" or "wait a second, isn't that Nicotine from Samurai Shodown?"), founds other parts horrifying, appreciated how the immortal big bad was dealt with, and was ultimately not terribly phased, though he was kind of sad about the kunoichi's death.

Also, the part where the group of ninjas throw a such a literal neverending cloud of shuriken they wear away a tree piece by piece. That still makes me laugh to this day.

 

[Keoul]

Well, in my case it's because Netflix keeps the erotic romps in the same category as the child-friendly fare and expects parents to just know the difference.

But then Netflix only does dubs so I avoid the whole section altogether these days.

I just don't see why they don't have an anime section and within that section the anime is separated into different genres like romance, +18, comedy and the such. Or maybe just a stupid safe search option so that parents can turn of 18+ results altogether.