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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chain Lightning" data-source="post: 2044547" data-attributes="member: 6791">Something that has been going through my mind as I've been involved in this thread, is the amount of people I know that like or dislike anime. At work, with friends, with family, friends of friends, most range from "I like anime" to "not really into it that much, but I did see some I thought was neat".  I just realized that it is only here at EN World that I've found people that actually say they "hate" anime. I mean, not just "ah...I'm not really into that much" ... I mean actually hate it. Please don't think that I'm against anyone who hates anime, but I just find it odd that the only ones I've met that hate anime to that degree are here on these forums. ......hmmmmm.....okay wait a minute, that's wrong. I did meet/encounter one guy that hated anime. This was back when anime wasn't that popular yet. Best Buy didnt' have a section of it or anything. Heck, there wasn't even a Best Buy at the time. Our city had only one little shop that sold anime. I was in there one day and some guy walked in and started ranting..."Why do you people like this crap? What's the big deal?" Okay, other than that guy....I've never met anyone that hated anime. Except some of you guys here.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  But I guess that means I haven't met enough people...heh heh.Odd thing is, I have friends that say all the American style look the same. But they're wrong. Sure, there are camps that you can lump certain styles in with the other, but certainly not ALL of them look the same. The key word is "seems". You used it and said, "The animation always seems the exact same to me". Which I don't doubt. But it isn't. There are different styles in anime. Its is comments like this that make fans of anime ask, "how much have you seen?"  Anyways, the whole thing I believe is attached to the liking and disliking of the subject matter anyways. I used to say all rap music sounded the same. But as time went on, I found it that it wasn't all the same.  But the thing that kept me from finding this out was that I didn't like the stuff to begin with. Not liking it means you're not going to invest time to "get to know" it more. Now, because I say this, don't misunderstand and think that I'm saying you're bad for not being patient and getting to know anime more. Nothing wrong with only dabbling a little and making the decision not to go further. I too have things I've tried only a little and just moved on. Nothing wrong with that. There's only such my time in a day, one can't possibly dedicate time and concentration on fully exploring everything.But anyways mojo1701, I said all that so you don't think I'm jumping down your throat and yelling "no it isn't!!.....wah wah wah"But anyways, it isn't. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />  There are many different styles in anime. If I were to put together a set of "art of" books from various selected anime in front of you, you'll probably see it too. "Memories" doesn't look like "Bezerk" which doesn't look like the new cgi "Appleseed" movie which doesn't look like "Vampire Hunter D:Bloodlust" which doesn't look like "FLCL", which doesn't look like "Blood: The Last Vampire" which doesn't look like "Mazinkaiser" which doesn't look like "Spirited Away" which doesn't look like "Yukikaze" which doesn't look like "Demon City Shinjuku". <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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