in other news, you've watched more anime than most ppl, no, nix that, ANY person i know. you are clearly a closet japanophile uranium. stop trying to hide it.
Ha ha right
The reason I've seen so much is so I can smack smacktards like leadz0rz down when they say 'you haven't seen any'.
BTW Lead, I never insulted anyone by saying 'you like anime you are stupid' until your whiney post came up. And I did it to you because you piss me off.
@ Gem:
Something something (too lazy to find original quote) educate yourself why, don't ranomdly rant on people's interests.
Every single point I brought up I had a reason for, and judging from the replies, I'm firmly believing either no one has actually read this whole thread, INCLUDING the
topic, or there's a major problem with memory loss in the world.
I never said 'I hate anime because it's japanese'. I hate anime because it's usually a poorly done crappy job of writing, it's downright offensive to me that I'm supposed to be entertained by it. Okay, you want to do a show about a guy with a gun that hunts an alien, fine. I could work with that. But then they try to turn it into a ROMANCE STORY (Which in most anime's is 100% the same: Guy likes girl, girls likes other guy, first guy trys to be noticed, other guy is a psycho, first guy almost kills him but has cliche 'feelings' moment where he gasps a lot and has poorly drawn sweat rolling down his head, doesn't kill him, girl falls for first guy, the end). Or they try to put COMEDY in it (Way to go, Trigun, that might have been decent were it not for the 'comic relief' that wouldn't make a clown in an oxygen bar laugh).
The reason it IRRITATES me so much is that so many people actually like it. It's the same reason it pisses me off that people don't read books anymore. You try to have an intellectual moment with a guy that's never read 'Atlas Shrugged' or you try to have a conversation about movies with a girl that's completely mentally engrossed by flash-in-the-pan writing. Instead of a story that's drawn out, has plot twists, susense, and a great ending, anime has to appeal to short attention spans with crappy gimmicks, poorly done and badly placed jokes, and a watered down plot because most people are probably too stupid to undrestand the whole thing.
Let's compare Trigun to Big O (season 2... never saw season 1). I have actually watched the entire series of both (lies, actually most of it).
Trigun: Bad comedy, usually placed in such a way that it ruins the moment somehow, random tangent shows and moments, pointless 'plot hooks' that don't actually advance the story, and filled with plenty of 'this is :Ding STUPID' moments. Okay, so he can shoot really well. Well I always figured he was a cyborg or something. But he IS flesh and blood, he does need water to survive, and at the end of every episode, he walks through a desert for three years in a red trenchcoat with no food or water to the next town, or some crap. And how did it end? A DBZ-esque scenario where they fling power balls at each other and cancel them out. Vash kills brother. The end. That was no ending. It was pretty damn cliche you ask me. Good guy wins in the end. No final twists, no summarization of plot (or lack thereof), just *bang* he's dead, I win! Man I didn't see THAT coming...
Another thing, in every episode they tried to be cute and make some horrible 'cat thing' cameo. The cat wasn't cute. It was stupid. But ^^ty little jokes like that are classic of BAD WRITING (I know, because I've done it myself) They do it because the rest of the show sucks so much, they need to hang onto every shred of cohesive reason to continue the season they can. But people that like anime are so illiterate, they can't RECOGNIZE bad writing. No matter what the plot, no matter how badly it is done, it's good, it's great, it's your LIFE AND BLOOD, because it's ANIME!
Big O: Silly looking robots aside, this anime actually had a plot that was advanced every episode, or enough. The comedy, while not very common, was relatively weak, keeping with the noir feeling. I didn't get the plot (probably because I missed several episodes), but I don't actually consider this a bad anime.
If you ever wrote a book, in english, and published it, based on a slightly modified version of Inuyasha, it'd suck. No one would like it. The plot would change so god damn much, and go in so many stupid tangents, it'd look like a 14 year old remedial english student wrote it. But you make googly drawings by some guy with a name longer then a semi and instantly everyone likes it.
Why? Because the writings good? I asked this somewhere else and the reason I got for liking the writing is because it's "suspenseful..." "... funny..." "... entertaining..."
Imagine if Seinfeld was about a detective who solved murders. Okay, no, that would suck. But for some reason it would be okay because it's anime.