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<blockquote data-quote="Blind Azathoth" data-source="post: 3333329" data-attributes="member: 22041">Oh boy, a topic about anime complete with bashing, stupid generalizations about what is a medium and not a genre, and unfounded stereotypes... it's just like the rest of the Internet! Tsk, tsk. I expected better from you, EN World. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />Not all anime is the same. Not every anime is like Inuyasha, Love Hina, Neon Genesis Evangelion, or whatever other shoddy series you've seen aired on Cartoon Network. It is a very diverse medium with some well-defined genres outside of the stereotypical categories of &quot;giant robots,&quot; &quot;guy/girl with a harem of girls/guys,&quot; &quot;people with spiky hair have over the top sword fights,&quot; and &quot;animated porn.&quot; Sure, there's lots of anime like that... but there's lots of anime that isn't. Besides, in every medium--TV, movies, books, whatever--there's always a few types of really crappy story that get told again and again. Giant robot anime are the Japanese cartoon equivalents of the American procedurals and by-the-numbers cop dramas like CSI or Law &amp; Order.There are some very mature, well-written examples of anime that dispense with clichés and that might, if they weren't animated and from Japan, manage to be fairly popular here. Some of you folks might even like them. Monster, for instance. A fairly realistic, psychological, character-oriented drama/thriller set in Germany in the 80s and early 90s, completely lacking magic, swords, robots of any size, and people with animal body parts probably isn't what most folks expect from anime, but it is anime. (And I heartily recommend it, though if you still don't feel like checking it out because it's anime, wait a couple of years for the Hollywood movie versions.)And while shows like Monster (and similar anime of higher quality) might be rarer than &quot;cyborg cat-girls fight tentacle monsters in space&quot; kind of stuff, they do still exist, and I feel it would not be fair to dismiss the medium entirely because of a few shows that even I admit suck.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blind Azathoth, post: 3333329, member: 22041"] Oh boy, a topic about anime complete with bashing, stupid generalizations about what is a medium and not a genre, and unfounded stereotypes... it's just like the rest of the Internet! Tsk, tsk. I expected better from you, EN World. :p Not all anime is the same. Not every anime is like Inuyasha, Love Hina, Neon Genesis Evangelion, or whatever other shoddy series you've seen aired on Cartoon Network. It is a very diverse medium with some well-defined genres outside of the stereotypical categories of "giant robots," "guy/girl with a harem of girls/guys," "people with spiky hair have over the top sword fights," and "animated porn." Sure, there's lots of anime like that... but there's lots of anime that isn't. Besides, in every medium--TV, movies, books, whatever--there's always a few types of really crappy story that get told again and again. Giant robot anime are the Japanese cartoon equivalents of the American procedurals and by-the-numbers cop dramas like CSI or Law & Order. There are some very mature, well-written examples of anime that dispense with clichés and that might, if they weren't animated and from Japan, manage to be fairly popular here. Some of you folks might even like them. Monster, for instance. A fairly realistic, psychological, character-oriented drama/thriller set in Germany in the 80s and early 90s, completely lacking magic, swords, robots of any size, and people with animal body parts probably isn't what most folks expect from anime, but it [i]is[/i] anime. (And I heartily recommend it, though if you still don't feel like checking it out because it's anime, wait a couple of years for the Hollywood movie versions.) And while shows like Monster (and similar anime of higher quality) might be rarer than "cyborg cat-girls fight tentacle monsters in space" kind of stuff, they do still exist, and I feel it would not be fair to dismiss the medium entirely because of a few shows that even I admit suck. [/QUOTE]

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