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<blockquote data-quote="mmu1" data-source="post: 3970319" data-attributes="member: 319"><p>Anime doesn't resonate with me at all. Someone on these boards once put it very well - "It's on the wrong cultural frequency." </p><p></p><p>It seems as if it was made by aliens - the characters look human, but everything is subtly wrong and makes no sense. Sometimes it's simply impenetrable, other times they try to set the stories in a setting based on Western cultures and their take on it is so bizzare it's evident that our world doesn't make sense to them either.</p><p> </p><p>I don't say it as an insult - it's quite possible that the defect is mine - but I sometimes don't get how people can live in the same society I do and be engaged by that stuff on some deeper level. I can totally get why the same part of the brain that enjoys an action movie would go "Wee! Shiny mechs, scary monsters, bouncing, anatomically-implausible boobies! Ooh, tentacles!", but I quickly get bored with that sort of thing in my old age, without something I can relate to to hold my attention.</p><p></p><p>So, uh, no, if 4E embraces the anime feel, that's one less game for me to play, too. I don't think it really does that, though, as much as it simply embraces instant gratification and tries to appeal to a younger audience.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mmu1, post: 3970319, member: 319"] Anime doesn't resonate with me at all. Someone on these boards once put it very well - "It's on the wrong cultural frequency." It seems as if it was made by aliens - the characters look human, but everything is subtly wrong and makes no sense. Sometimes it's simply impenetrable, other times they try to set the stories in a setting based on Western cultures and their take on it is so bizzare it's evident that our world doesn't make sense to them either. I don't say it as an insult - it's quite possible that the defect is mine - but I sometimes don't get how people can live in the same society I do and be engaged by that stuff on some deeper level. I can totally get why the same part of the brain that enjoys an action movie would go "Wee! Shiny mechs, scary monsters, bouncing, anatomically-implausible boobies! Ooh, tentacles!", but I quickly get bored with that sort of thing in my old age, without something I can relate to to hold my attention. So, uh, no, if 4E embraces the anime feel, that's one less game for me to play, too. I don't think it really does that, though, as much as it simply embraces instant gratification and tries to appeal to a younger audience. [/QUOTE]
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