I mean if you don’t want to watch anime simple because it legitimately does not interest you it’s fine. I assume people have tried different animes and no interest caught on.
There is manga and anime for a vast array of audiences after all.
Now…
If you don’t want to watch it because of stigma from others than you kinda have a bigger problem. It’s necessary to grow out of the need of validation from other people.
This is my life generally on Lemmy. You can be a Linux/tech person and not be an anime lover or trans fem furry, but they are fucking TIGHTLY entangled here.
It’s the way they portray female characters as whimpering submissive creatures on the verge of tears.
That or the lolis. I hate when you’re watching an anime that seems good, and then they start sexualizing a nine year old.
I’ve heard the arguments about how it’s a difference in culture, but I don’t think it’s offensive when I say if your culture includes pedophilia, it’s time to take a long hard look at where you went wrong and think about what you should be changing about yourself. Because it’s gross.
Start with something simple like one punch man. A lot of people try to get into the 100+ episode classics off the bat and then thing they don’t like anime. But you have to develop a pallet for it
That’s what I’ve found: there’s a dozen or so series that are great going back decades that I’ve found. But whenever an anime fan or friend recommends some, 80% of the time there’s fanservice that is so out of place. I ended up just ignoring most anime for that reason.
You can have sex and nudity, even gratuitous (like many HBO shows), but the casual objectification without even recognizing it puts me off.
I feel different from most anime fans in that sometimes I can ignore it and other times it’s worth dropping the series. A little fan service and cringe nosebleed scenes are just standard anime tropes at this point. But some anime pushes it so far that, like you said, its jarring and distracts from the story. I’ve dropped a few shows just for the annoying fan service alone (Fireforce, Fairytale, Seven deadly sins, etc.)
If you are looking for recommendations of shonen anime that have heart, action, and deep characters I would suggest: Mob Psycho 100 and Ping Pong the Animation. Both of these have a weird art style, but they both have a story to tell that leaves a deep impact on you.
That said, anime is a a big medium and there is something that will appeal to everyone (dramas, sci-fi, romance, ecchi, sports, mecha, horror, comedy, historical fiction, etc.) I’ve linked some helpful anime flowcharts/recommendations that I always refer to when I want to get away from the endless deluge of seasonal anime.
Thanks! That’s really helpful.
I wish that first one with content warnings and flowcharts defined what they considered NSFW and Bloody content. Just glancing first off, I watched One Punch Man but don’t recall NSFW content. Maybe that girl in the green dress?
the 100+ episode classics
Nothing with more than 100 eps has ever been good or classic, change my mind.
Inuyasha, Dragonball, Ranma ½, Fist of the North Star, Lupin the third, Urusei Yatsura, Jojo, Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Hunter x Hunter and a bunch of others.
Some are good, some are definitely classic, and a few are both.
I don’t watch anime but the Japanese make some great stuff. Cars and video games particularly.
I’m with you, there’s some anime that I’ve enjoyed but I really don’t need a 500 plus episode show about people fighting and shit. Just give me some nice films of anything.
I mean, Anime in Japan is like whole different platform. There are so many shows it fills multiple TV channels 24/7.
It is like saying you don’t like what is on Netflix.
You just haven’t found what you enjoy.
Of course, it is fine to not like what is on Netflix, just like it is fine to not like Anime.
If you were looking for suggestions, Studio Ghibli is like the Disney of Japan. A pretty safe bet you’ll at least enjoy it.
I have to admit the same too. I’m a huge fan of Nintendo and other Japanese gaming giants but I don’t watch anime or read manga regularly. I have watched something like Hayao Miyazaki’s movies, Evangelion, Berserk, Dragon Ball and some popular others as it’s “common knowledge of popular culture”.
this is the way.
As someone who has watched more than enough anime: It is an aquired taste and most of it is trash, especialy most of the popular stuff.
To be fair, most Western shows are trash these days, too. There’s a few standouts, and plenty of them are still the stupid kind of enjoyable in spite of being trash, but that’s true of anime, too. Most modern media has just unfortunately become a vehicle for making money, not a vehicle for making art.
Most shows were trash back then as well.
It is just that survival bias makes it seem like it wasn’t.
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