Poll: How many on the Escapist dislike anime?

[Enkidu88]

I think it does Anime a disservice to lump it all into a single like or dislike. It's like saying do you like movies.

That said, on the whole, I find I dislike more anime than I like but I still love some of it: Blue Gender, and Black Lagoon are among my favorites.

 

[ACman]

90% of everything is rubbish.

I like all the "classic" stuff but holyshit is there a lot of anime that is complete rubbish.

And I can't stand the american voice actors that do the dubs. I swear there must be 3 women (one eldrich and old, one 20 year old and stoic, one insane teenybopper.) and 3 men (one old, one young heroic and one gruff.) and one child doing all that dubbing work.

 

[Swny Nerdgasm]

I don't watch cartoons, anime is a cartoon, therefore I don't watch anime

 

[FateOrFatality]

I'm apathetic about anime itself. Just something I don't really have any desire to watch.

However, the aspect of anime I dislike is the fans. I think everybody should be able to like whatever they want, but anime fans just seem to obsess about it all over the place. Everywhere I go on the internet it's anime avatars and references, people going on about it and trying to force their likes onto others. Same for My Little Pony. It gets very old after a while - to put it into context, imagine if everyone on the Escapist had Justin Bieber avatars and constantly talked about him.

 

[FateOrFatality]

I'm apathetic about anime itself. Just something I don't really have any desire to watch.

However, the aspect of anime I dislike is the fans. I think everybody should be able to like whatever they want, but anime fans just seem to obsess about it all over the place. Everywhere I go on the internet it's anime avatars and references, people going on about it and trying to force their likes onto others. Same for My Little Pony. It gets very old after a while - to put it into context, imagine if everyone on the Escapist had Justin Bieber avatars and constantly talked about him.

 

[Justice4L]

I used to like anime but I always thought it was not much plot but loads of action.

Until I watched Death Note.

It opened my eyes and now I absolutely love anime.

 

[Zyntoxic]

sure I like anime, but I hate the people and culture that surrounds it.
the japan worshipping zombies that just won't leave me alone with their enthusiastic blabbering mix of swedish and japanese if they ever get wind of me liking an anime.

srsly... I hate when people throw in "desu" "kawaii" and "baka" between every word, it sounds utterly reterded!
and then have the interesting idea that the title "otaku" is a title to wear with pride, while really in japanese culture, being an otaku i quite shameful and people will make fun of you, and being an honour based culture that is pretty harsh.

this is why I do not go to anime conventions anymore, or watch any animes at all really.

I know not everyone who likes animes are like this, but there is a frightening majority, at least here in sweden anyway, and I just want as little to do with them as possible, and if that means giving up a few animes, I will survive, I got games to play anw.

 

[Vern]

Can't really stand it myself. I've watched it, but just can't get into it.

 

[Oscar Gee]

I can honestly say that I enjoy anime.

I hate stereotypical anime fans.

 

[Lewieroo0]

i dont really know what it is

Then I moved on to shows like Cowboy Bebop and Death Note, and from there on to the heartbreaking roller coaster Clannad, the under-appreciated fantasy classic Orphen, the insane WTF-fest of Fooly Cooly... it's good stuff.

Your the first person I've seen on here that has acknowledged Orphen as an underrated classic

 

[Gothproxy]

I watch quite a bit of anime and am even president of my college's anime club (which actually does more than just watch anime, believe it or not). I enjoy most of it but tend to go for the edgier, darker themed anime rather than the DBZ or Pokemon styled ones.

But it was actually Video Games that turned me on to anime. Games such as Star Ocean and Final Fantasy paved the way for me to discover Japanese pop culture, etc, and the rest is history.

 

[Nexus4]

sure I like anime, but I hate the people and culture that surrounds it.
the japan worshipping zombies that just won't leave me alone with their enthusiastic blabbering mix of swedish and japanese if they ever get wind of me liking an anime.

srsly... I hate when people throw in "desu" "kawaii" and "baka" between every word, it sounds utterly reterded!
and then have the interesting idea that the title "otaku" is a title to wear with pride, while really in japanese culture, being an otaku i quite shameful and people will make fun of you, and being an honour based culture that is pretty harsh.

this is why I do not go to anime conventions anymore, or watch any animes at all really.

I know not everyone who likes animes are like this, but there is a frightening majority, at least here in sweden anyway, and I just want as little to do with them as possible, and if that means giving up a few animes, I will survive, I got games to play anw.

What is especially painful is that I study Japanese at university and am getting fairly good at it despite being a beginner. In Japan, it is simply another form of media and is thus treated as such. Most people there are very indifferent to anime because of that, the same way most people don't obsess over just 'TV watching'. I feel the same way towards it, which means when I come back here and see a decent anime screening come up; the otaku are just...ergh...I find them so painful to be around. Especially worse is the random Japanese thrown in, when you are aware of the correct structure and usage; most of them are inappropriate anyway.

 

[Bvenged]

Anime is okay TO A POINT. I used to watch Bleach, Pokemon etc. etc. But it really does my head in when; and I bet some of you do this, a person gets into anime too much & makes it not only a massive part of their life by dressing like characters, speaking Japanese, quoting, making noises like a cat, taking pictures of whiskers on their faces etc.; but in doing so also bring it into other peoples lives when they just damn-well don't want it.

I use the same argument with homosexuality. I'm straight and don't mind gay people at all; but when they start prancing around and deliberately talking almost like a lisp - that becomes INCREDIBLY annoying and pisses me off. Anime is the same thing but with cartoons. Cool if you're into it; but for **** sake don't go sprinkling it everywhere you go...

"Hey, do you like anime?"
"Yeah I used to but not any more, I used to watch Bleach" ... Bleach conversation unfolds then after a while we talk about videogames, cars & guitar - was how one conversation went with a friend of mine. So yeah I don't mind it; but if he wouldn't shut up about all these other animes he watches I would've told him to stfu.

 

[Diddy_Mao]

I'm an animation nerd, I can't really ignore Anime outright because there's a lot of singular examples of really great animation and storytelling.

Unfortunately every Serial Experiments Lain, Neia_7, Cowboy Bebop, and Akira is buried under a shitstorm of Tokyo Mew Mew, Gundam Wing, Tenchi Muyo, Big O, Fruits Basket and InuYasha mediocrity.

 

[Jaime_Wolf]

This is akin to saying "who here doesn't like film". The breadth spanned by anime is fucking immense. I could understand not liking more popular anime, not having found anything you like, or not really having a desire to look for anime you'd like.

But saying you don't like an entire medium is foolhardy.

More or less the only things constant about anime are that it involves video and that it uses animation. So I guess if you don't like video or animation at all, maybe you could dislike the entire medium, but it would necessarily be part of a much more encompassing dislike.

And I don't buy for a moment that people are so dense as to not realize that writing off an entire medium is stupid, so their reason for asserting that they "dislike anime" must lie elsewhere. When people claim this, my impression has always been that it's an attempt to make a social distinction - to distance themselves from the sort of people they think "like anime".

 

[Jaime_Wolf]

I'm an animation nerd, I can't really ignore Anime outright because there's a lot of singular examples of really great animation and storytelling.

Unfortunately every Serial Experiments Lain, Neia_7, Cowboy Bebop, and Akira is buried under a shitstorm of Tokyo Mew Mew, Gundam Wing, Tenchi Muyo, Big O, Fruits Basket and InuYasha mediocrity.

I agree entirely with the others, but you're an animation nerd and you didn't like Big O?

That show had some serious problems (largely because they never got that final season), but man the mood, tone, and setting of the show were amazing. How can you say no to a film noir reinterpretation of mecha? Wonderful music too. Above all else, that show had fucking style.

Maybe it requires that one also be a film nerd. I guess it would be pretty unimpressive without an existing love of noir.

I miss Big O. I wish the world had more anime like it.

 

[Laser Priest]

I don't blindly hate anime, but I can say I'm not a fan of most anime I've seen and I don't get as into it with the anime I do enjoy as I would with other things.