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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kishin" data-source="post: 3333421" data-attributes="member: 40956">I'm pretty sure anyone who can is a completely soulless automaton.The problem with most people's experience with anime is the stuff that manages to make it out of Japan and garner an audience isn't exactly the crème de la crème. This, of course, has created a stigma which has gradually been expanded to encompass more than it should. Witness the insane popularity of Gundam Wing compared to the significantly more well written, cohesive and better characterized Zeta Gundam, or the obscurity of fantastic shows like Wings of Honneamise compared to say, Sailor Moon. As a result of this, most people's experiences with anime have been zany, over the top shows like Dragon Ball Z (Or its thinly veiled imposter of recent days, Naruto) than something bleak and apocalyptic like Space Runaway Ideon or a dark thriller like Monster. Add that to the fact that for awhile, the stuff coming in was heavily edited, improperly translated, or transformed into something entirely different (Macross, Genesis Climber Mospeada and Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross being combined to form Robotech), and cap it off with the fact that it can admittedly be hard to see animation as capable of serious storytelling, and well...things get messy. Of course, on the opposite end of the zany, absurdist spectrum you have Neon Genesis Evangelion....which also does anime no favours when presented to a wider audience given how pretentious, bizarre and grotesque it occasionally manages to be.There's good anime and bad anime, just like everything else. You're certainly not obligated to like it, but I find dismissing something with such an diverse variety of stories amongst an equally divergent number of genres a bit hasty. Take what you like from it, leave the rest, but don't be closed off to the possibility that some of it might appeal to you.</blockquote>

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