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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Khorod" data-source="post: 583706" data-attributes="member: 1636">I've just gotten into anime in the past year.The art and music is frequently very good- definitely better than the vast majority of American cartoons currently made today.The storylines, while sometimes somewhat trite, are usually approached in a new way.  Not to mention that looking at everything else on TV today, even the worst anime (of what I watch, not the afternoon cartoon-anime) has more meaning and message.Animes are willing to go deeper into character development, and grittier.  They put in genuine surprises of the sort that books, movies, and tv's of late have rarely provided.animate Batman was so cool, arguably, because it was more like an American anime in some ways than like a conventional cartoon.  Looking at mainstream cartoons today, you see that nothing like that is currently made.I think part of the secret is that anime is not a genre, its a type of audio-visual entertainment.  I only like certain genres of anime.Of course, some anime is really annoying.  It uses a japanese filtern on emotions and interactions that are sometimes difficult to understand.  Where that's a problem, I watch something else.Trigun good.</blockquote>