Off Topic: The Flood
This topic has moved here: Subject: Whats so great about Anime?
  • Subject: Whats so great about Anime?
  • Pages:
  • 1
  • 2
  • of 2
Subject: Whats so great about Anime?
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

i tried to be like the filipino people that are trying to become japanese, so, my being korean, i checked out anime from my friends. he has the last-whatever dvds. i watched it, and i ran out and screamed. i went back to his house, turned the tv off. luckily, i brought out my south park, jackass, family guy dvds. i said to him, WE NEED TO WATCH THESE! ANIME IS TEH TOOL OF THE DEVIL!

  • 09.19.2004 8:30 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

Indeed. I've said my piece.

And I'm sure you screamed when you felt your brain cells being stimulated for a change. I'm glad you could dull them back into a stupor with South Park.

[Edited on 9/19/2004 8:34:53 PM]

  • 09.19.2004 8:34 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

I agree with SurgeK... Watch good anime... Not the crap on TV. Go rent some stuff... There are some excellent movies and shows. Ghost In the Shell is a perfect example of a great anime movie... As is Akira. Things like Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke aren't bad either... Also... Bublegum Crisis isn't too bad for a series, and Neo Genesis Evegelion is pretty good.

There are a whole bunch of others that are a LOT better than the -blam!- on American TV. The above are just some of the easier ones to find...

  • 09.19.2004 8:49 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

sure man. stimulated by anime? south park is one of the greatest satires ever created. thats stimulation

[Edited on 9/19/2004 8:55:38 PM]

  • 09.19.2004 8:53 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

South Park is awsome... I just like anime too... Is that so wrong?

  • 09.19.2004 8:58 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

Posted by: masterchief58545
sure man. stimulated by anime? south park is one of the greatest satires ever created. thats stimulation


I don't hate South Park. I don't necessarily enjoy it, but I don't doubt it's redeeming qualities. Don't bash something simply because you don't personally enjoy it. Grow up.

[Edited on 9/19/2004 9:01:56 PM]

  • 09.19.2004 9:01 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

im not bashing it. im just simply stating my opinion. you grow up -blam!-whacker

  • 09.19.2004 9:04 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

Posted by: masterchief58545
ANIME IS TEH TOOL OF THE DEVIL!


Not bashing. Hmm, you appear to have a rather loose definition of the word.

"I don't like anime." is an opinion. The above is the very meaning of 'bashing'.

[Edited on 9/19/2004 9:08:47 PM]

  • 09.19.2004 9:07 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

i said that to my firend. cause he was poisoned with anime

[Edited on 9/19/2004 9:11:21 PM]

  • 09.19.2004 9:11 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

First off. Anime in Japanese means cartoon. It does not necessarily mean mature cartoon. If it is a cartoon made in Japan it is technically anime. So technically Pokemon is anime. But don’t watch Pokemon and then be like OMFG anime is so -blam!-. Try a good series from Rogers’s video. (Like Surge already said, not Saturday morning cartoons)

Secondly you’re not giving anime a chance if you say that it’s a piece of -blam!- before getting a balanced view. If you hate a movie before you see it you’re not going to enjoy it no matter how good it is. Same goes with anime.

If you actually are thinking about giving it a chance (which I doubt) a series I suggest that might break your stereotypical view of it would be "berserk".

It's about a bad of mercenaries and their rise to power under there great mercenary leader. The story is mainly about the mercenary’s band's captain. It's set in medieval times and has lots of brutal stuff. It was made in like 1980s so it’s pretty old, but if you’re a violence whore and want to give anime a chance I think this would be your best bet.

I personally wasn’t a fan of anime but a friend of my got me to try watching one series. And to tell you the truth I fell over laughing because the demonic war machine type thing had some purple on it... but later (much later) he got me to try some other series which I thoroughly enjoyed. And then we went back and watched the one with the color purple in it and it’s my favorite so far...

All I'm saying is try to give it a balanced chance before bashing it.

  • 09.19.2004 9:48 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

What's with the anime bashing? If you dont like it, that's your problem. I like it because I think it's an upgrade from american cartoons like something on Cartoon Network. And DragonBall anything isn't part of that "upgrade" I'm talking about. When I say "upgrade" I mean something like Lotus Wars, Spriggan, Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade, Vampire Hunter D, Hellsing, ect. Those are some good examples. As Surge has mentioned before, you could get the wrong impression of anime from the ones displayed on TV like Inuyasha *shudders* for example. Try looking for the more unpopular (and I dont mean "unpopular" by "sucky") animes that the TV doesnt advertise.

[Edited on 9/19/2004 9:55:46 PM]

  • 09.19.2004 9:55 PM PDT

It was a cold day near the southern base in Blood Gulch. Cortana and I were relaxing over a game of Go Fish, WHEN OUT OF NO WHERE 700 BANSHEES CAME FLYING IN!!! I GRABED MY SPARTAN LASER AND LET HELL REIGN DOWN UPON THEM. I HOPPED IN THE NEAREST WARTHOG AND TOLD CORTANA TO GET IN.

Posted by: ShinomoriX2
Errrr... you see not all anime is flying kittens and stuff.

That kind of stuff is only on the TV channels you watch.


Check some Anime out thats not on TV and you'll get violence, swearing, and girls with massive boobs.


I didnt think it was possibly to stoop that low...

  • 09.20.2004 6:41 AM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

Posted by: lellowranger
Japanese anime sucks! I don't know why people like stories about blue haired japanese children who've recently had their fathers killed saving the world against a man that you think is a woman until he speaks?!!?!?!?!?!?!?


It really depends on the author and their style of drawing, for the majority of it I'd have to agree that it isn't appealing, however the ones like Nausicaa of the Valley of the wind (it's the best one out there that I have come across) are very great, and beats comics like spiderman and others.

  • 09.20.2004 7:04 AM PDT
  •  | 
  • Exalted Legendary Member

Ignore these four words.

I watch anime, but I watch it just like any other show or movie. I wont watch something just because its anime, but if I like a show and it happens to be anime, so be it.

  • 09.20.2004 7:10 AM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

Yeah I'll hand it to you that some of the illustration is good, but their faces are just so out of proportion and the translation is appaling. Not to mention it's almost impossible to get into the story of some animes. Like Gundam for instance. If you weren't alive 20 years ago it's like impossible to get in to it. And how is a giant robot or "mec" a good military defense? And have nay of you noticed how theres a ninja in like every other game ever released in japanese games? It's like they're obsessed. If it's not a game based a while ago when ninjas still existed, then it's a "futuristic" ninja saving the world in post-apocolyptic Tokyo. It's like a default thing to put in a video game when they can't think up crap a paper thin dog who raps about going to the bathroom and the flower he want's to ask out.

  • 09.20.2004 11:45 AM PDT

  • Pages:
  • 1
  • 2
  • of 2