Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="HeavenShallBurn" data-source="post: 3366454" data-attributes="member: 39593">I think this is one of the major reasons so many people immediately react with don't like anime when asked.  Personally I will watch anime and some of it is very good, I like the way it turns up the fantastic far beyond the normal levels, still I have to be picky to avoid certain things that annoy me.  But for those whose only view is what gets shown on network TV in America that taints the pool.  Much of the anime shown on network TV where I am is absolute drivel and would be even if it weren't anime and they also contain frequent use of the elements most people don't seem to like.  Allow me to list the elements I think cause the most problems.Hated Anime Elementsface faults-this is probably up there near number one on most hated anime elements list and it's common on anime shows on network TV.  Naruto, Bleach, Pokemon, many others that get waay too much airtime here use it to the point of nausea.chibi animation-interrupting the show so that characaturized(sp?) versions of the characters can act out ridiculous emoticon-like sketches is annoying as hell and far too common in much of what I've seen on networks.  posing-dragonball I'm looking at you!  Why do all the characters have a posing match before they fight and why does most of it have to happen on the backdrop of a featureless blue screen?  Why can't they just show the fight?naming moves/weapons/anything-dragonball again, but many others inuyasha included.  Why is it that the characters all have to scream out the ridiculous names of their fighting moves?  Why can't they just FIGHT, instead of spending half the scene screaming out some awful transliterated title?angst overload-Here I'm definitely pointing at half the anime on network TV in my area including Naruto.  Specifically the heroes who aren't yet fifteen and act like it, why all the involved angst over mundane things.  Why must the heroes all become completely useless whenever a female becomes involved and are completely unable to just talk with the female in question?incompetent/stupid hero-Okay Naruto is the king of this one as far as I've seen on network TV here.  I mean the hero is dense as a rock, and completely incompetent right up until the moment plot requires he win, at which point he suddenly becomes much more powerful and trounces the opponent at the last minute.  Then immediately goes back to being a moron immediately after.These things seem to turn off far more people than just me, and because of their prominence in much of the anime commonly shown on Network TV here they taint all anime by association.</blockquote>

Verification