i got hooked on it when i was little but unfortunately now its getting harder and harder to find anything that holds my interest
Why is anime so popular with Escapist readers?
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For one reason or another, there's a substantial overlap between anime fans and gamers. This is a gaming site, hence the overlap also applies here.
As you can see, I'm no exception.
As you can see, I'm no exception.
I find it hard to be a gamer and not like anime. It's like the two go together. There have been a couple of cases I've seen that games get people INTO anime...buuut not the other way around.
Anyway, anime is damn funny.
Anyway, anime is damn funny.
To start off, I lived in Indonesia for a great deal of my childhood, where like most East/South East Asian countries - if not all of them - have youths who grew up watching anime, most likely dubbed. So I got hooked into that.
But why particularly anime? For me, the great appeal was the animation which i found more appealing than most other cartoon, a lot of it was more dynamic, the action sequences were better choreographed (for lack of a better word) than most other cartoons. Yeah, I was into that stuff, i got my anime fix when i was a teenager from AXN, like Samurai X and Flame of Recca. Certainly, I enjoyed other cartoons, like Batman: the animated series, but the other cartoons that was of the action genre would look more blocky and even static.
I feel that you can tell more of a difference between Japanese and American cartoons now than, say 20 years ago. Well, except that even back then, animes were still pushing the limits on violence and sexuality than American ones. I'm just thinking about Saint Seiya at the moment, and comparing it to the Thundercats. Man, they were both great shows from what little I remember of them.
But why particularly anime? For me, the great appeal was the animation which i found more appealing than most other cartoon, a lot of it was more dynamic, the action sequences were better choreographed (for lack of a better word) than most other cartoons. Yeah, I was into that stuff, i got my anime fix when i was a teenager from AXN, like Samurai X and Flame of Recca. Certainly, I enjoyed other cartoons, like Batman: the animated series, but the other cartoons that was of the action genre would look more blocky and even static.
I feel that you can tell more of a difference between Japanese and American cartoons now than, say 20 years ago. Well, except that even back then, animes were still pushing the limits on violence and sexuality than American ones. I'm just thinking about Saint Seiya at the moment, and comparing it to the Thundercats. Man, they were both great shows from what little I remember of them.
I was mainly because i grew up watching dragon ball (1, Z and GT), Envagelion, , samurai x, Cowboy Bebop and some other stuff... has a kid it was an impact, and in my country every kid watched them, so it was something everyone watched... so even has grown up, no man with my age or near it can say they didnt love Dragon Ball has a kid... If they say they didnt saw it, theyre lying, if they say they didnt like it, they are "fags!" xD
But seriously if you come to portugal and ask any man with age of 20 or around it, they will always tell you, dragon ball was a part of theyre childhood and that its fkking awesome!!!
other than those animes from my childhood ive only watched SOul Eater, FullMetalAlchemist and Toradora!
But seriously if you come to portugal and ask any man with age of 20 or around it, they will always tell you, dragon ball was a part of theyre childhood and that its fkking awesome!!!
other than those animes from my childhood ive only watched SOul Eater, FullMetalAlchemist and Toradora!
I like anime because it's actually good, unlike most American television (imo). If I had the BBC channel, I'd watch that too. The only American shows I'll watch are certain Travel Channel shows and Futurama.
You're on the internet. You're on a gaming/entertainment forum.
You're gonna find a good amount of anything fans anywhere you go unless the site you're visiting is openly and heavily opposed against whatever you're talking about.
You're gonna find a lot of media fans because you're on an entertainment forum. It's really simple, yes?
You're gonna find a good amount of anything fans anywhere you go unless the site you're visiting is openly and heavily opposed against whatever you're talking about.
You're gonna find a lot of media fans because you're on an entertainment forum. It's really simple, yes?
Because western things are played out to most of the internet culture, and the internet allows very easy access to anime.
Don't get me wrong anime is completely played out as well, it's just that westerners are not exposed enough to it yet to feel that.
Watch a generic show 4000 times and anything else is new and good, just like if you watch that new thing too much it loses its shine as well.
Don't get me wrong anime is completely played out as well, it's just that westerners are not exposed enough to it yet to feel that.
Watch a generic show 4000 times and anything else is new and good, just like if you watch that new thing too much it loses its shine as well.
Because some shows can also have amazing soundtracks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY06IgyN_RM
Just like half the people on the first page have said... this.Simiathan said:
There's a huge overlap in the anime community and the gaming community. I don't know many anime fans who don't game to some extent... though more "casual" gamers often don't like anime, I've noticed.
I'm a living example of the overlap, and I've liked both anime and video games for a long, long while, so I don't have a particularly original answer.
I think that a lot of it has to do with the fact that the biggest developers come from either North America or Japan. Japanese games and anime go very well together so its easy to see the correlation. As a kid I watched Sailor Moon but thats all the anime I got into. After playing some Final Fantasy games I got more into anime because I was more exposed to the different culture I guess.
