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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 1558508" data-attributes="member: 5171">I hate to see people accuse people who don't like something of not understanding it.(Note: Mostly hypothetical on my end -- watched all of one episode and wasn't impressed.  I have limited time, and I lack the chronological resources to give everything ten hours to win me over.)It struck me mostly as stereotypical anime -- like, textbook-case stereotypical anime*.  If you like stereotypical anime, then good on ya.  This will probably work for you.  If you don't, then unless it changes radically some point in the middle, it's probably going to continue to be something you don't like.  But again, that's a one-episode opinion, and moreover, a one-episode opinion from someone who liked "Spirited Away" and "Princess Mononoke", enjoyed the early "Ranma" when he saw it, but was unwowed by "Ninja Scroll" or "Akira".* I know.  It's a medium, not a genre.  I realize this.  There's nonviolent, non-SF romantic comedy anime.  I know.  Really.  However, for the geek on the street, anime has a stereotype of involving partially cyberneticized people in cloaks leaping through the air with katanas and then brooding while flighty ditzy women repeatedly fall in love with them despite the guys' utter emotional uninvolvement and inability to return any sort of affection, usually with really cool mecha-effects at some point.  This is true only in the same broad-stroke stereotypical way that all fantasy novels involve a mistreated young person who espouses modern-day values in a quasi-historical setting and is mistreated by people for some not-fault reason until a benevolent father figure intervenes and teaches the young person magic or swordsmanship, and eventually the young person is appreciated by some good-looking person in power and raised up and totally validated as a person, and all the people who were mean to the person back in the person's childhood are totally jealous.  Which is to say, it's not always true, and sometimes it's true but good nevertheless.</blockquote>

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