Question for yall

I somehow like the art style in anime. What I should however note is that the reputation of anime is a bit colored by the typical over-the-top kind of anime which even for a cartoon is a bit well, awkward. And sometimes cool heroes are too cool etc.

However, anime is a very broad phenomenon. I've seen a few fragments on an anime taking place in European history and despite the art style being an attempt to give a proper image of how things went in Europe centuries ago. The fact that I immediately recognized the French army uniforms from the time of Napoleon Bonaparte, shows that the animators did do their homework well. Now I didn't see the entire work, but I've been told that even though the story is fictional the culture references and many aspects of the war back then were historically correct. Well, I don't mind to get my history lessons in anime style. I personally opt for content, and I'm really wondering about the entire work.

I've also heard that there are also anime stories in which a dead body is found and the famous inspector <your name here> comes to solve the case, and that when the killer is unmasked and the inspector telling the viewer how he could unmask the killer that you want to kill yourself for being so stupid to not see it for yourself as it was, just like in western works, so obvious that you simply ignore that. If you love those stories with real actors, would an anime style detective story be so bad.

And there's also hentai of course, the porn version of anime, where both the over-the-top kind of sex as the more softer style of sex can be found in. Well, I don't need to go into details.

Nearly all genres represented in stuff with real actors or other kinds of cartoons can be found in anime variants. Some of them good, and some of them bad, well just like real actor movies. Sometimes I can see though that the animates cheated a little to prevent them from having to draw too much, which removes a bit of a natural feel, like you see in early Disney classics, but then again, South Park is even worse in that, and once you got yourself into a South Park story, you don't mind that any more. Well, anime is in the same boat for me.

I have neither a true love nor hate towards anime. The art style is nice somehow, but for the rest, I do not like something just because it's anime nor do I hate something just because it's anime. If the story is good, the presentation is worked out well, and the actors did their job well... well...

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Bro, I disagree with you, but I fear for your life.

hmm i'd have to say both can be good.

Not a fan of modern cartoons, and I count Homestar Runner's part of the great classics.... which I suppose works since it's over 20 years old now.

For Cartoons, I have to say that they are great. A few amazing examples are: ATLA, LOK, The Dragon Prince, and She-Ra. However, my entire knowledge of anime consists of 1 episode of full metal Alchemist and anime memes

they're both ok

I like both. Nothing more to say

Now before I start on my opinion. I know there's an anti-anime rant going on here. It's fine if you don't like anime, but respect those who do! If this turns into a kind of rant to bully anime fans away, I will come in act!

This is an anime safe space

Should be, but since anime is being bashed down in imgflip just as brutally as TikTok, I just needed to get that point across. I'm not saying commenters should like anime, but if they don't they should at least treat anime fans with respect.

I used to watch anime before I realized I did not have enough holy water

Friends of mine are anime fans, and sometimes I join them when they visit the theater for a nice anime movie. Not that I understand Japanese, but mostly they are subtitled in either English or Dutch, and I'm fluent in both, and I can even enjoy that. I don't think I'll ever be a true anime fan, though, but hey, I do really miss such things with the corona lockdown.

I couldn't enjoy it for the fact it was more reading, if it was Dutch, I had no point to watch

Well, yeah, subtitles are far from ideal, but as Dutch I was practically raised from subtitles. When I'm watching stuff in English I hate them (also because the translations are normally quite bogus, and if you are fluent in English you'll immediately see that), but since I don't speak Japanese (well only a few words), I can filter that out more easily. When I watch the Dutch news, they won't translate in voice over what ISIS terrorists say either, but in subtitles, and since I don't speak Arabic, I mostly notice I've read the subtitles already before they stop talking. When I hear the president of the United States talk, then those subtitles annoy the crap out of me, as I can understand what he says easily.

I speak English, Spanish, I only know a few words of Chinese (mostly because of siblings)

I speak Dutch, English and a bit of German and French. In the Dutch educational system Dutch is (of course) always a obligated subject and most schools also obligate you to take English along the subjects. When you get into a more general schooling (like I did) you mostly get German and French too, hence my knowledge of those four languages.

I speak English, American, Canadian, and Australian

Okay, my English is a mixture of all that... I guess that's what you get for not speaking English natively and picking it up by speaking to folks all over the world.

do i know you? that username looks familiar... but not from here

I like both.