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<blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 9349428" data-attributes="member: 11760">Every time I try to get into anime, I find the conventions (especially characters wildly overemoting and the intense sexism, even in shows meant for kids) to be off-putting and find some of the big favorites to be kind of boring.The anime die hards screaming at me about it -- &quot;IT'S NOT A SINGLE GENRE, YOU MORON,&quot; &quot;HOW DARE YOU SAY IT'S TOO SLOW FOR YOU,&quot; &quot;THEY DON'T ALL OVER-EMOTE&quot; -- strangely doesn't make me enjoy anime any more as a result. (I would never say anime fans are wrong for liking anime, but apparently me not enjoying it is super-offensive to a lot of fans.)I do like Studio Ghibli stuff and the old anime stuff that was available in parts of the US in the 1970s. But when my kids watch modern popular stuff, it does zero for me. (I don't dissuade my kids from watching Spy x Family or My Hero Academia, of course, but I don't ever have the desire to sit and watch with them.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Whizbang Dustyboots, post: 9349428, member: 11760"] Every time I try to get into anime, I find the conventions (especially characters wildly overemoting and the intense sexism, even in shows meant for kids) to be off-putting and find some of the big favorites to be kind of boring. The anime die hards screaming at me about it -- "IT'S NOT A SINGLE GENRE, YOU MORON," "HOW DARE YOU SAY IT'S TOO SLOW FOR YOU," "THEY DON'T ALL OVER-EMOTE" -- strangely doesn't make me enjoy anime any more as a result. (I would never say anime fans are wrong for liking anime, but apparently me not enjoying it is super-offensive to a lot of fans.) I do like Studio Ghibli stuff and the old anime stuff that was available in parts of the US in the 1970s. But when my kids watch modern popular stuff, it does zero for me. (I don't dissuade my kids from watching Spy x Family or My Hero Academia, of course, but I don't ever have the desire to sit and watch with them.) [/QUOTE]

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