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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 474975" data-attributes="member: 151">Heh.  I didn't ask for it, I said you didn't.Anime's flaws are even more personal than it's strengths.  Everyone feels differently, particularly on this topic.  That said, here's a quick list of a few.Repetition  The Japanese love nothing more than a formula, and copyright laws in Japan aren't quite what they are here.  Like Evangelion?  Don't worry, if it was popular, you'll see ten series next year that are essentially rehashes of it, thematically and visually, if not exactly.  What's that?  Stick a hot alien chick in a guy's closet and it's funny?  How about if she's a goddess and brings her sisters?  How about six alien women who are all warm for his form?   Maybe put him in a boarding house with a bunch of girls...and remember, the guy always has to be noble, pure and intimidated by women so that he completely resists all of their advances.Resistance to innovation:  Oh, it happens, all right.  But it's always a minor miracle when it does.  When a show does innovate and succeeds, it gets coopted by every show out there.  Evangelion is an innovator, for example, but it still uses giant robots and anime sci-fi elements to do it.    This doesn't mean there aren't some innovative stuff out there, and it's become more prevalent, but truly unique shows are rare, compared with manga.Different Cultural References and Preferences  This is a purely non-Japanese issue, of course, but it still applies.  The Japanese have no problem with ambigous endings, in general, but American audiences find them maddening.  Take Kishin Corps, for example: the alternate WWII tale with giant robots....where do the aliens come from?  What's their agenda?  Don't know, never gonna know.  The Japanese have a different comfort level with different images.   Some things, such as causual nudity work both ways.  It allows for mature story-telling in one venue, but much more immature representations of women, in particular, and sometimes awkward lewd sexual references which seem innappropriate to American audiences.Cultural references can be odd or just perplexing to the uninitiated.  The aforementioned 'giant drop of sweat' to illustrate apprehension and awkwardness is not as hard to discern as, say, the instant nosebleed that virgins get when having powerful sexual thoughts.There are some others, but I'm rushed right now. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  Even so, I love anime.  Have for over 20 years now.  But certain things show up as trends, and there hard not to notice.</blockquote>

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