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Why I Watch The Animes : I find myself fascinated by the animes because it has so many different 'types' from the usual action adventures to slice-of-life to abnormal comedies, etc. etc. The artw

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Why I Watch The Animes :

I find myself fascinated by the animes because it has so many different 'types' from the usual action adventures to slice-of-life to abnormal comedies, etc. etc. The artwork can also vary greatly depending on who the artist is so I'm usually able to find something to fit whatever mood I'm in. And, depending on which anime I'm watching, I can be moved to do stuff myself. Examples would be something slice-of-life that includes cleaning sequences of any sort since I usually end up cleaning something and some, like 'Flying Witch' actually have cooking tips in them. There's also the cultural aspects of things where stuff is similar yet different or it has a particular meaning and sometimes finding out that meaning is it's own level of enjoyment.

Summary, I'm a nerd and watch foreign cartoons because cartoons. 

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Because live action shows became terrible after the 90s....It all started with reality TV, then writers became so awful after that, when they tried to write good TV the best they came up with was shitty shows like The Big Bang Theory

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  On 3/7/2018 at 12:37 AM, Poof said:

 

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  On 3/7/2018 at 12:37 AM, Poof said:

No

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The gloves are off. Not taking any prisoners here.

A line has been drawn in the sand. What drives people to watch 3000 animes and like 2 live action things?

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Because some people like weird shit, and there are far more weird anime than there are weird movies/tv shows.

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Fantasy and escapism. It is easier to tell more complex stories with the medium as well. Just look at live action movies based on anime, aside from Kite. Most are pretty awful simply because it is very difficult to properly convey the action.

 

Also giant boobs that defy gravity.

 

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Kawaii high school girls speaking esoteric ching chong language of Confucius, mainly. And then there's sister fucking and pedophilia for the extreme degenerates.

It was mistake, to put it simply.

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because when i was a kid we had a channel in d.c. (channel 20) and i remember a show called 'kmba, the white lion'. i would watch before i left for school. it was like nothing i had ever seen; the morning lineup had tom/jerry, then bugs, etc. i was fascinated with the artwork, (as i was a self proclaimed artist xD ) and the way it had been 'dubbed' (the saturday lineup featured 'johnny socko', 'ultraman', and the various kung~fu movies, which was my introduction to dubbing.)

until one afternoon after school, the lineup changed. 'speed racer' was added. man. i was hooked. that's when i started looking for this 'style'

and the sources were limited. then 'voltron', happened. and that's all that she wrote. i have been hooked since. 

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  On 3/7/2018 at 12:50 AM, katt_goddess said:

Why I Watch The Animes :

I find myself fascinated by the animes because it has so many different 'types' from the usual action adventures to slice-of-life to abnormal comedies, etc. etc. The artwork can also vary greatly depending on who the artist is so I'm usually able to find something to fit whatever mood I'm in. And, depending on which anime I'm watching, I can be moved to do stuff myself. Examples would be something slice-of-life that includes cleaning sequences of any sort since I usually end up cleaning something and some, like 'Flying Witch' actually have cooking tips in them. There's also the cultural aspects of things where stuff is similar yet different or it has a particular meaning and sometimes finding out that meaning is it's own level of enjoyment.

Summary, I'm a nerd and watch foreign cartoons because cartoons. 

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But live action offers literally all of that. 

-Many different genres

-Different directors, videographers, production ppl to give each show a different artistic style

-Slice-of-life shows exist in abundance in live action as well

-And live action international shows & movies to explore different cultures

Im not saying anime sucks. I watch it but i wouldnt say i watch it anymore than anything else. I MUST know what it is that drives the "It has to be 2d" anime fan

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  On 3/7/2018 at 12:53 AM, fuggnificent said:

My brother is a huge anime fan. He probably has watched 3000. He found a website on his phone full of anime. He explains them to me...they all sound like drug fueled fever dreams to me.

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He sounds precisely like the anime fan in question here

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  On 3/7/2018 at 12:57 AM, Noboru Yamaguchi said:

Because live action shows became terrible after the 90s....It all started with reality TV, then writers became so awful after that, when they tried to write good TV the best they came up with was shitty shows like The Big Bang Theory

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If u think big bang theory is the best thing out there... You must actually be a middle aged mom in disguise 

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  On 3/7/2018 at 1:11 AM, Ginguy said:

Fantasy and escapism. It is easier to tell more complex stories with the medium as well. Just look at live action movies based on anime, aside from Kite. Most are pretty awful simply because it is very difficult to properly convey the action.

 

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More bullshit. See this is why anime fans catch so much shade. Its like a superiority complex "its better and smarter in every way you can imagine" fuck off

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  On 3/7/2018 at 12:57 AM, Noboru Yamaguchi said:

Because live action shows became terrible after the 90s....It all started with reality TV, then writers became so awful after that, when they tried to write good TV the best they came up with was shitty shows like The Big Bang Theory

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I never got the "every sucked after..." thought process. At worst there's more things coming out with easier access, so yeah there's more crap. But there's just as many good things coming out now as there were in the 90s or earlier. I'd argue the ratio of good/bad isn't any different. Just more shows to wade through at any given time.

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  On 3/7/2018 at 2:12 AM, Poof said:

But live action offers literally all of that. 

-Many different genres

-Different directors, videographers, production ppl to give each show a different artistic style

-Slice-of-life shows exist in abundance in live action as well

-And live action international shows & movies to explore different cultures

Im not saying anime sucks. I watch it but i wouldnt say i watch it anymore than anything else. I MUST know what it is that drives the "It has to be 2d" anime fan

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Yeah, I guess I'm not the 'super fan / obsessive' that you might be aiming for because I do watch a lot of different things. The only steady anime I have is Toonami on Saturdays and CrunchyRoll for the occasional subtitled binge. My anime DVD collection isn't exactly huge either. 

But the one thing I can say that anime, to me, has over live action is the amount of work that can go into an anime. It's lines on paper in the end and it takes a lot of work and attention to detail to make those lines move and tell the story as written. A floating cherry blossom is rendered carefully, not tossed in front of a fan. Something is transformed and not just CGI'd. 

I like to step away from reality when being entertained. Anime definitely encourages that. :D

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  On 3/7/2018 at 1:22 AM, 1938 Packard said:

Anime characters are WAY more interesting than any real people.

And, they almost always do stuff that's impossible for any real people.

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I dont find them more or less interesting. How are they more interesting? In fact how many animes have as the protagonist a slender and/or short male with a chip on his shoulder about his superior skills or powers that allow him to beat up bigger guys? 

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For every god-tier anime, there's scores of shitty garbage ass ones, same with nearly every other form of media.  There's things that can be done in animation that cant be done in live action, at least well.

 

Blah blah blah, weeaboo weeaboo etc

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  On 3/7/2018 at 12:34 AM, Poof said:

Why are people so obsessed with anime?

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I guess it makes it easier for fantasy stories, and the plots tend to be more mature than regular cartoons, in fact down right intriguing and thought provoking narratives than other cartoons. 

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  On 3/7/2018 at 3:14 AM, jackiemarie90 said:

I guess it makes it easier for fantasy stories, and the plots tend to be more mature than regular cartoons, in fact down right intriguing and thought provoking narratives than other cartoons. 

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Sometimes.  "Sometimes" is a key word here, because there's a lot of really good ones, and a whole lot more of reeeeeeaaaaallly bad ones

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  On 3/7/2018 at 1:22 AM, 1938 Packard said:

Anime characters are WAY more interesting than any real people.

And, they almost always do stuff that's impossible for any real people.

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 Stuff like give creepy old casino janitors hand jobs in between student council meetings.

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It plays itself to a certain set of oft crippling mental definencies more than medical crime dramas (which I also watch) and cooking based competitions (these too), to the point where it's easier to just keep watching it.

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  On 3/7/2018 at 2:24 AM, Poof said:

More bullshit. See this is why anime fans catch so much shade. Its like a superiority complex "its better and smarter in every way you can imagine" fuck off

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I thought anime fans caught shade because they are fat neckbeards who hide from the sun.... :P

I'm not saying one is better than the other, I'm saying that the kinds of stories that anime feature have elements which are either extremely difficult or expensive to convey in a live action format.

It is much easier to animate a bunch of dragons and orcs and tentacle rape slugs in an anime format than it is to film actors interacting and then add those fantasy elements in during editing. You can add in those elements in a show like Game of Thrones or Westworld, but those are expensive to do. It is easier to animate in an anime format, not to mention cheaper. If you cheap out in the live action, you end up looking like a crappy Syfy original movie where you can tell the sharktopus is fake.

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  On 3/7/2018 at 2:28 AM, Poof said:

I dont find them more or less interesting. How are they more interesting? In fact how many animes have as the protagonist a slender and/or short male with a chip on his shoulder about his superior skills or powers that allow him to beat up bigger guys? 

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You haven't seen enough anime, then.  Try Hell Girl.  (Jigoku Shoujo)

Plenty of complicated people... with some out of this world demon action tossed in.

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