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Message: <blockquote data-quote="beta-ray" data-source="post: 1576908" data-attributes="member: 1259">Television is the media... but so is radio... and other venues. Television is the medium for animation though. Some people do not like television at all and would rather read. While I probably would not say that you "cannot get your head around" anime, I might say that you cannot accept it for some reason. It does pain me to think of anime as a style because there are so many variations in this one style. Do you feel that American animation is a style of animation? If so, then that's cool because at least I could understand it even if I don't agree with it.Although I must say your condescending attitude about this topic does make it difficult to keep my opinions level. My apologies if that is insulting, perhaps both our attitudes are a result of the way online conversations take place.Did you really try to like it? That could be a plus or a minus (perhaps the expectations were too high?)... And I would never try to make you or anyone like anime as I would not want someone to make me try to like American Idol... but I wonder if you really meant that you tried or only that you watched it.Now it's a genre? I don't know if you have watched "the best"... I can't even say I have. But I have watched many I have liked... and many I have not liked.Regardng other commentary that you have made... I am not sure if you have to be Japanese to like "anime" (again it pains me to say it since it really is only animation made in Japan... like I rarely call it American animation or British animation or French animation UNLESS I am making a direct comparsion)... I am in fact Japanese. However, I am a third generation Japanese, and even though I have been exposed to many things that are Japanese, I have also been exposed to many other cultures. I also like some Kung-Fu movies and Hong Kong movies, but I am not Chinese... I like D&D and I am not European... I am interested in things Japanese though so maybe it is hard for me to see out of it even though so many Japanese animated shows try to portray things outside of a Japanese context, it is almost impossible for no cultural influence to seep in. *shrug*</blockquote>

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