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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 2044288" data-attributes="member: 2205">In my experience, people who have seen little anime are the people who had no interest in it from the begining (such as my wife, for instance.)  She never gave it a fair shake, but by the same token, she doesn't give most sci-fi or fantasy a fair shake either.  She already knows she's not likely to like it, and guess what; she's right.On the other hand, most people of the "geek crowd" who don't like anime, in my experience, have seen quite a bit of it, mostly what's been recommended by their missionary friends who proseletyze it to them incessantly.  So, what, they have to see all anime before they can finally decide they don't like it?I've seen a fair amount of anime, including much of the "highly recommended" stuff.  I haven't liked most of it.  I have liked some of it, but not more than a good old Hollywood movie, or heck, a good old Hong Kong movie for that matter.  I can find a few shows out there that I'm certainly glad I saw, and maybe even one or two that I wouldn't mind owning.  But at what point will you concede that I most definitely do separate out anime from "all movies" or "all TV" and that yes, I prefer other forms of visual entertainment?I think that's the real rub, rather than folks that see one or two things and then decide "all anime is crap."  I've never actually met anyone like that.  Although there are three (of five) in my gaming group that have given anime a pretty fair shake and just aren't really converts.  One of them lived in Japan for a few years and speaks fluent Japanese and is familiar with the culture, and of anyone you'd think he'd be the fan.  He's not.  He still tries it occasionally too, thinking maybe he'll find something he really likes, but he doesn't.  But at least he gets to keep his Japanese fluent.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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