Grown adults
...fawning over Japanese cartoons.

They're CARTOONS. They're not "anime", or fifteen other pretentious Martian ways to say it, they're ANIMATED PICTURES! Forms of entertainment! They're not insights into mysterious Oriental (god, I hate that word too) culture for you obnoxious fuckers to gnaw at like a bunch of lions fighting over a deceased antelope in a race to see which of you can think up the most hackneyed explanation for why there are women in leather bras and spiked green hair carrying automatic weapons and space robots. They keep children entertained so they bug their parents to go buy them plastic toys. That's all!

The international media spends hours and rivers of ink to ooh and aah over this mass-produced crap and people can't get enough of it. I don't get it. What is the appeal? Is it because of the exotic squiggly writing? Is it because cartoon women are more approachable than the real ones? Does it make you feel unique and underground?

Someone please point me in the right direction -- preferably toward a running wood chipper -- because if I hear one more word about Naruto Yayoi Hentai Bukkake Pokemon the 3rd, I'm going to start stabbing kittens. I mean it.
(The 2-Belo OH SHI--[Sound of impact][End of recording], Fri 16 Oct 2009, 5:21, 8 replies)

**points towards Studio Ghibli**

(Sivvus trolley collision in the fruit aisle led to a jam, Fri 16 Oct 2009, 7:15, closed)

Oh, so *there* it is
COVERING FIRE!!!! (SUV-mounted mini-gun goes here)
(The 2-Belo OH SHI--[Sound of impact][End of recording], Fri 16 Oct 2009, 22:05, closed)

OH DEAR GOD, it's SUCKING MY ASS
the vast majority is confounding bulltwunts yes, however there is the odd gem like Dead Leaves which is the best ani-..cartoon EVER
(injektilo smoking the weed that killed elvis, Fri 16 Oct 2009, 7:37, closed)

I watch 2 anime shows
well 3 actually, but one is exclusivly for when drunk...

I watch them for the action scenes and because the story is fairly well told and interesting.

but my flatmate, he absorbs anything even remotely oriental, he bought chop sticks (which he's never used) poki (chocolate bread sticks but from japan so they must be good) and something called moon cake that he didn't even like... He'll come in and talk about a new anime that he wants to watch, i'll ask what it is about and he wont be able to answer...

some people just buy into this mysterious east culture... I however am proud to be from the west, we invented forks so we should bloody use them
(That Random Guy, Fri 16 Oct 2009, 8:32, closed)

I like a few of them.
Mainly because they're good entertainment. For me, anyway. Anime is to me, the name for a genre of cartoon, and I think that's the key word there. For my part, I love all the Studio Ghibli stuff, along with Evangelion Neon Genesis. If only because it's giant fighting robots which look fantastic on screen when blitzed.
( jim_bob can herd cats., Fri 16 Oct 2009, 9:03, closed)

We got warned about people like you when I started uni.
Those who think anything 2D must be "cartoons".

It's animation. There are great stories. There are detailed characters and fantastic plots. They are not "cartoons for children". Some are shite, some are meh, some are great.

If you go that way, may aswell take all CGI out of films. No more Spiderman or Transformers or special effects in anything... It's just 3D cartoons really. For kids.

What you don't seem to like are the obsessive fans who shove it in your face.
( vix0r was not Matthew on, Fri 16 Oct 2009, 15:43, closed)

THAT'S IT
That's what I was trying to convey, I guess. Thankew.

However I will not sway from my definition of the word "cartoon" as being "a 2D animated feature of some kind, adult or kiddie, humourous, deep, or whatever", probably because I'm a software planner and the flow charts look like cartoons after a while.
(The 2-Belo OH SHI--[Sound of impact][End of recording], Fri 16 Oct 2009, 22:03, closed)

Couldn't agree more.
With the sole exception of Porco Rosso, I mean a pig flying a bi-plane. nothing in the world pleases me more! I watched Princess Mononoke afterwards thinking I'd like it based on aforementioned piggy aerial action and thought it was essentially...

shit.
( evilamnesiac says fuck you Prince, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 13:22, closed)