ANIME - YOUR GUILTY PLEASURE

I don't watch anime and do not care for anime or manga.

Also, how is it a guilty pleasure? Tons of people honestly like anime, even people who aren't scary (cos-players).

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i'm guilty not senile

(original run of pokémon btw)

Pokemon was great until they replaced Brock with that guy with a girl's name. I lost all my drive to continue watching after that fateful day..

Tracy? He was fine. Th show started sucking round half way through johto.

Also, Trigun rules.

fun fact: i was late for school because i was watching the last elite four episode

I've been meaning to watch gurren lagann. Is it as awesome as everyone says?

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I've been meaning to watch gurren lagann. Is it as awesome as everyone says?

It's a pretty dang cool show. I guess you could say it takes what people expect from a giant mecha anime, over exaggerates it, then throws in (what I consider) a pretty original story, and, wow.

It's really a spectacle in my books.

I can't stand anime anymore, for whatever reason. Like, I've tried watching Cowboy Bebop and Big O, even finished the entirety of A Tale of Memories, but I can't get into them. They're interesting, Big O especially, and I can see why someone would like them, but there's no drive to watch them on a regular basis one might encounter in shows like, say, Six Feet Under or Twin Peaks. Still enjoy the movies though, especially Makoto Shinkai and Studio Ghibli films.

My favorite animus used to be DNAngel and Escaflowne, mangus used to be DNAngel, anything Clamp, and Fruits Basket. They're all boxed up in my basement now. It's just not the same.

Oh, my brother says Gurren Lagann is the BEST ANIMU EVER.

I watched the first episode of Gurren Lagann. It didn't really interest me.

I never watched that much anime because yeah, the majority of it is really embarrassing to me. I can tolerate stuff like Death Note or Monster though. Trigun also rules. Been meaning to watch Cowboy Bebop for a while.

I used to watch a lot of anime, but the amount has grown smaller and smaller recently.

It's pretty hard thing to hunt for the "rare good animes", by which I mean the well directed series, which don't fall in being bland and naive as the rest 95% of the series.

I'm somewhat guilty of watching some shonen series too, such as Naruto and Bleach, which actually manage to be cool in their first seasons, but then become repeative, bland and generally shitty - and when I noticed they're rip-offs from old, way better series such as Hunter X Hunter for example.

Other than that I pretty much prefer series that fall in the "novel category" of anime series. Series as Twelve Kingdoms, Scrapped Princess, etc. They seem to have more depth to them. Also, Berserk is absolutely my all time favorite. Not because the blood and violence, though I must admit that in certain episodes the violence is very well presented. But anyway, mainly Berserk is my favorite because its great characters, many references in philosophical and psychological way. I just enjoy great script that provokes thoughts.

Mushishi did it pretty well, too.

As for series I've seen or like... If you really care, check here.

But yeah I've had hard time finding those great series lately. Though TTGL was pretty awesome, and now one of my favorites, too.

I highly recommend Makoto Shinkai short films, especially 5 Centimeters Per Second. Just watched them last night and it was like they took something from one of my personal journals and made it into an anime. Animation was incredibly high-quality, too, probably the best looking I've ever seen.