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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 1576807" data-attributes="member: 8461">My natural inclination is to like something, and anime falls firmly for me into this mode of thinking. To be fair though, I probably can't be too objective about this (discovering anime pretty much gave me my focus in life, since it got me interested in Japanese culture, leading me to eventually major in Japanese Studies, so I regard it quite highly), just so you know. I think one of the first problems here is an inability to define exactly what anime is. It's not a medium (the medium is animation), it's not a style (because we see various shows that are all called "anime" that look wildly different...compare Crayon Shin-chan to Crying Freeman), and it isn't location-based (since we see "American anime" or at least anime-style shows from America, such as Teen Titans).That said, I simply don't understand how anyone can categorically dislike anything when it covers a multitude of genres...the fact that it has such diversity means that, even statistically speaking, there should be something that appeals to you. Think of whatever kind of movie you like, and there should be an anime with exactly those same qualities. Saying that one dislikes all anime doesn't make sense, simply because you haven't seen all anime, so there's a significant portion of it you're passing judgement on with virtually no knowledge of. Is it too over the top? Watch something that's about normal people with no action, like Maison Ikkoku. Don't like episodic format? Watch something where the episodes don't build on each other, like Cowboy Bebop. There is something out there for every taste.I have things that I "hate" categorically, across all boundaries. For example, you'll never catch me playing a game on any console that wasn't made by Nintendo. However, I recognize that this is a personal foible - that this is my own unreasonableness coming into play here. There are plenty of great games on the PS2 and X-box that I'm sure I'd love - heck, Ive seen games for them that weren't for Nintendo that I want to play, but never will. That's me just being me - I've made up my mind and won't change it. Sounds like the same thing for the anime-haters, except some still seem to want to believe that it's the anime, and not them.</blockquote>

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