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  • I dislike how common certain tropes are, how overacted it is, and how formulaic most of the stories are. I also hate Shounen and its focus on which guy is strongest. It's boring to me.

  • I have read very little manga, and my fondness for anime is pretty limited. I enjoyed Maison Ikkoku in college. I appreciated most of the Ghibli stuff I've seen, even if I didn't always just fall head over heels in love with it, and I've been enjoying Delicious in Dungeon recently, as I think it's perfectly suited to the sort of derivative yet bonkers formulas in so much anime I've sampled. I reckon I'd probably like One Piece, but I've never just sat down with it. I don't care for Dragon Ball Z or the Magical Girl Team stuff my daughter likes, and I have no interest in the stylized hyper-violence so many shows seem to exist to portray.

    I don't know, maybe I'm just too up my own western ass, but the story beats and how emotions are portrayed just never really resonated with me. It's hard to explain. I don't dislike all anime, but relatively little of it works for me. I do, however, like a lot of western animation with clear influences from anime and manga. I guess I can appreciate it in the same way some filmmakers are "directors' directors" and some musical artists are "songwriters' songwriters." I'm glad people find it compelling and inspirational, but I find I need some of those influences to get syncretized and remixed with other stuff before I "get it."

    TL;DR: Not really, but it's not you, anime, it's me!

  • I like manga, but I dislike some anime. The voices they use for some of the characters are super annoying to me.

  • I think the art is usually great, incredible, even, but the stories often seem extremely melodramatic, often along the same themes, and while tons of people love that, it’s not my cup of tea.

    There are a few I’ve liked because the story appealed to me and, yes, I do like a melodramatic, highly thematic, genre story if all the elements are in a good balance, but not all the time, and with the intensity that often accompanies manga and anime. For me, my main objective when engaging with fiction nowadays is to relax, not to seriously engage as much as I used to unless it’s a piece or topic of particular interest— and, for me, manga/anime and my “particular interests” intersect less and less often.

    But this is MY opinion. Objectively speaking, anime and manga are exquisite art forms that, as a designer and artist myself, I highly respect and support. They tell rich and engaging stories with compelling plots and characters. I consider them both as valid an art form and media as any other and they both have as unique a cultural signature for Japan and other Asian countries as does and mainstream media format of “The West”, while maintaining that cultural identity even while the art/media form becomes globalized. Which is an impressive feat that speaks to the - again (I hate repeating myself) - unique nature of the form, both as graphic art and as a medium for animation and storytelling.

    There’s just really nothing quite like it.

  • I mean I get it tbh. I enjoy both media (tend to avoid shonen) but some of the common tropes can be a turn off. Some of my friends (lovely people) are hardcore fans and as much as I love those people, I can only tolerate so much of "have you seen crunchyroll has this new show? It's called "I was a high-school tuba player but I woke up in a video game now I travel the dungeon with my magical talking dog" and it's about...." before I steer the conversation away

  • I haven't really tried a lot. Bits and pieces look interesting but overall it doesn't appeal to me.

  • I love cartoons. Can't stand comics, manga and anime. And this is someone who watched DBZ growing up and never getting into despite all my friends loving it. I'm an avid reader and shows like gravity falls are some of my favourites!

  • Yes I despise it, I hate the influence it's had on making everything over sexualized and cliched

  • Nope. Just the over-indulging fans.

    I don't identify myself as an Otaku and I'm not going to.

  • I'd say I'm just uninterested, not dislike. The part I hate is when I see people dedicate their whole life into them and fail to function as a normal human.

    Vtubers on the other hand, I absolutely despise. They are basically YouTubers/streamers with an anime character and get much more views for no reason. I guess that's free market for ya

  • Most of it because it's never ending. 1000 episodes? Fuck me that's just an animated soap opera.

    Tell your story and fuck off.

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