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<blockquote data-quote="TwinBahamut" data-source="post: 3745279" data-attributes="member: 32536"><p>How are you defining "typical anime" here, since I think we are having a serious miscommunication. Some of the very easy to see anime in the US is not "typical anime" by your standards. Two of the shows I mentioned in what you quote are called Prince of Tennis and Hikaru no Go. Prince of Tennis was shown on Toonami (the main mainstream source of anime these days), and both shows are shown on the successful Toonami Jetstream web-streaming service. Neither are obscure.</p><p></p><p>Also, I can easily find romantic comedy anime on various channels that show anime. While it is not anime, the manga <em>Fruits Basket</em> is absurdly popular in the US, especially among girls, and hits the top-selling books charts just as much, if not more, than the manga for "typical" anime series like Naruto or Bleach. Fruits Basket is a romantic comedy about a girl who deals with a family of guys who turn into animals when she hugs them. Is this "typical" or not?</p><p></p><p>I mean, if you are talking about people using the term "anime" when <em>they have never sat down and watched an episode of an anime series, ever</em>, I might understand what you mean, but such people are not qualified to say <em>anything</em> about anime in the first place. It would be like someone complaining about the overly complex quadratic functions in the PHB, and the way it promotes aggression and antisocial behaviour, having never read the PHB or playing D&D. No one should be expected to take such a person seriously.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TwinBahamut, post: 3745279, member: 32536"] How are you defining "typical anime" here, since I think we are having a serious miscommunication. Some of the very easy to see anime in the US is not "typical anime" by your standards. Two of the shows I mentioned in what you quote are called Prince of Tennis and Hikaru no Go. Prince of Tennis was shown on Toonami (the main mainstream source of anime these days), and both shows are shown on the successful Toonami Jetstream web-streaming service. Neither are obscure. Also, I can easily find romantic comedy anime on various channels that show anime. While it is not anime, the manga [i]Fruits Basket[/i] is absurdly popular in the US, especially among girls, and hits the top-selling books charts just as much, if not more, than the manga for "typical" anime series like Naruto or Bleach. Fruits Basket is a romantic comedy about a girl who deals with a family of guys who turn into animals when she hugs them. Is this "typical" or not? I mean, if you are talking about people using the term "anime" when [i]they have never sat down and watched an episode of an anime series, ever[/i], I might understand what you mean, but such people are not qualified to say [i]anything[/i] about anime in the first place. It would be like someone complaining about the overly complex quadratic functions in the PHB, and the way it promotes aggression and antisocial behaviour, having never read the PHB or playing D&D. No one should be expected to take such a person seriously. [/QUOTE]
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