WHAT ARE YOU THINKING ABOUT RIGHT NOW?

author=kentona
DBZ is 87% grunting.

They are all monkies, after all.


The thing I've found about anime is that it appeals to the 12-19 year old demographic because they start by watching American cartoons where stuff is played for giggles and there's no overarching story, just key character archtropes. When they start exploring what else is out there, they come across anime which actually has an overarching story and a new, attractive art style so they gravitate towards that. Eventually, they start looking for more advanced art (proper anatomy is a plus) and storytelling and move away from anime (or are peer pressured out of watching it because it's for dweebs). It's the ones who stay behind that typically prove to be the ones with something wrong with them.

Otaku are ridiculed in Japanese culture (and rightfully so), and Americans who proudly wave that banner are free to steal only "the best" parts of that culture and get away with it; body pillows with half-naked anime characters on them, ramen, ramune and other things. I can kind of understand why the general populace of Japan looks down on foreigners (specifically Americans); if someone came into your nation and bastardized your media without due respect for - or, more over, complete ignorance of - your culture and history, all the while claiming to be your biggest fan, you'd probably be pretty insulted, too. Representing the people who bombed you back to the Stone Age 70 years ago is just the icing on the cake.

It's important to be consuming higher arts as you develop, otherwise you get stuck in what would logically be a "childlike" state of mind, hence why people who are big-time anime fans will defend their series of choice to the death whenever it's challenged, because they never moved past the state of writing fanfics and playing with dolls.

The same thing applies to RPGs. You start off playing any old game and eventually you work your way up to RPGs which seem like the peak of human achievement, but if you get stuck there and never expose yourself to other genres of games, you'll just be rehashing the edgy teenager with the big hair and sword who saves the world from the man in the black cloak.

What the Crag The Hack?

author=Frogge
That doesn't really change the amount of episodes. It was a 24 episode season, not 2 seasons 12 episodes each.

Ok, I checked on Fairy Tails seasons and it seems to be random. I remember Kill La Kill having two different openings. I've always thought that the new opening means a new season. These usually change after twelve episodes.

Edit: Do you have any recos for an Old (Adult) fan of Cowboy Bepop? Something what has 30 episodes max and is not about touching boobs accidentally. And has neither vampires nor demons in it. If I would have time to watch anime I would spend it with Gintama. Recos can be something from eighties I like style of these oldies.

Edit w: I listen to Mozart every Weekend.

author=Corfaisus
Eventually, they start looking for more advanced art (proper anatomy is a plus) and storytelling and move on to 80s/90s Anime.

There. I fixed that for you :P

author=Cap_H
Edit: Do you have any recos for an Old (Adult) fan of Cowboy Bepop? Something what has 30 episodes max and is not about touching boobs accidentally. And has neither vampires nor demons in it. If I would have time to watch anime I would spend it with Gintama. Recos can be something from eighties I like style of these oldies.

Try out "Irresponsible Captain Tylor", from 1993, 26 Eps, do not watch the OVA (was created by different people and is awful).

author=slash
Yea, I suppose if you only watch the most cliché and commercial anime and played nothing but the most banal and uninspired RPGs, you could be fooled into believing that there's nothing there that can rival the "higher" arts. A lot of anime out there is garbage made to sell to teens, sure.

AND It's incredibly good for us to widen our views and experience new things, mediums, genres outside of our usual fallbacks! But pretending that one precludes the other - or that entire genres or styles are by their very nature "immature" - is a super simplistic view.

People have been saying the same thing about comics for years, based on vague generalizations about the medium's obvious forerunners like Superman or Spider-man. It's difficult to imagine comics delegated to the "immature" after reading Maus or Ayako or Persepolis, and yet a lot of artists have been forced to drop "comics" for "graphic novels" so that they can sell to people steeped in assumptions. It's a cop-out to write off an entire style or genre because of hyper-commercialization: people do that with rock and rap, with action movies, with fantasy novels - and it's their loss.

Also, the idea that there are "higher" arts is pretentious as heck.

QFT

author=slash
Also, the idea that there are "higher" arts is pretentious as heck.

Especially this.

Samurai Pizza Cats is still the best anime

Watch what you like and enjoy life. “I would always rather be happy than dignified.”

As in everything, there's good stuff and bad stuff.

Nowdays thousands of Anime are pumped out every month, that leads to a lot of mediocrity, but there's also awesome gems.

It's not any different from music, film, videogames, books, etc...

banana cat is adorable :D

me right now

Kentona-sensei, you're a terrible person.

I am not a piano...