It's basically a tracking website for TV and movies from around the world. There are apps and clients that make it easy to check in or can automatically scrobble what you're watching at a given time. It helps me keep up with season premieres for a lot of shows that I watch and I like to keep track of how many movies I watch each year and trakt is a lot easier than keeping a typed list (which is what I used to do.) It looks a bit redundant right now cause it's mostly anime right now (most of my shows are on hiatus) but once the fall TV season kicks in it'll be really nice. It's kind of a pain at first to get everything you're watching or have watched into your profile, but once you get going with it, it's pretty great. If you're a big, old nerd like me who's into that kind of stuff I'd say give it a try.
Gintama 7-8
How does One Piece look bad outside of you don't like the character design? The animation is on par with or better in some cases than Pierrot's work on Bleach.
It's almost like you're using that as a crutch to transform you disliking it into everyone who dislikes it, dislikes it for that reason alone.
Also the hell? Rick and Morty is purposely visually repelling most of the time. It's part of it's charm.
Like I said, it didn't get the launch that Bleach or Naruto got either. So yeah all it has is anime fans, most of which are fucking weeboos who think anime has to look a certain way. You keep coming back to the art and animation being something that would limit it here when western animation has a history of widely different art and animation in pretty much every show. If ugly character designs kept people from watching things then The Simpsons wouldn't be in it's 30th season and Rick and Morty wouldn't be one of the most popular shows on right now. But keep coming back to "oh but it's ugly!" as a reason it wouldn't succeed in America.
I mean if being pretty is the number one thing it needs to succeed then why is anime such a niche market in America? By that logic it should be the only animation we have.
The artstyle is only a problem for weeboos who think anime should look a certain way. Literally no one else cares. Look at any show that has ever been on Cartoon Network. We have been seeing different art styles in animation for decades.
I ended up with Free! Eternal Summer, Banana Fish, Chio's School Road, Cells at Work, Sirius the Jaeger, and Grand Blue. I'm liking all of them so far.