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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Corinth" data-source="post: 1582164" data-attributes="member: 497">I take anime title-by-title, rejecting some and accepting some, as a rule.  When I toss something aside, it's usually due to one or more of the following traits: sophomoric in presentation, sophomoric in content, out of my demographic, out of my interest, or an utterly incompetant execution.This means that my personal anime collection is very small: Macross, Macross Plus, Bubblegum Crisis, Metropolis, Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Record of Lodoss War, Ghost in the Shell, Ninja Scroll, Gundam Wing, Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team.  Those are the titles that, so far, I like well enough that I bothered to buy copies instead of borrowing another's copy or watching it on TV.  Cowboy Bebop will join that list soon enough.There are other titles that I like--Rurouni Kenshin being one of them, as well as (despite that whiny Amuro) Mobile Suit Gundam--but most don't do it for me; I'm not, as a rule, into the titles that feature (or are little more than excuses for) sexual comedy.  I dislike the long-running trend of teenaged protagonists with inexplicably high capabilities in whatever the important abilities are, and I dislike gratuitous stuff of any sort--anything that gets in the way of the central plot ought to be viciously and ruthlessly excised; this is why I like Law & Order--so even amongst those that I like I often have quibbles.I treat anime like I would any other sort of film or television.  I would advise you folks to do the same.</blockquote>

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