Who hates anime and why?

[Koden]

Just was wondering why some people don't like anime.

Personaly for the most part I realy enjoy anime, especialy the fan dubed ones.

I'm courious so i figured it was worth finding out how people on the other side of the fence think. Try to not be general and say "because its gay" or something stupid and unhelpful like that.

And I admit, i've seen my fair share of stupid anime, some funny stupid, some "why the heck did i download this?" stupid.

[Lefteris_D]

Personaly for the most part I realy enjoy anime, especialy the fan dubed ones.

Don't you mean the fan subbed ones?

[onewecallgod]

i think anime is just weird....

[Danny]

I've never seen any anime, just crazed anime fans who seem to have an obsession with japan and anything related to it. I'm sure not every anime fan is like that, but I think it would be fair to say a lot are.

[Jet Set Willy]

I like a lot of anime, but I really hate most anime fans, because I hate stereotypes. Go to any anime forum and you will see the majority of people are pseudo-deep saps with little girl avatars, saying words like "kaiwaii" all the time and acting is if anything from Japan is automatically better, just because it's from Japan. I also dislike anime which has no real susbstance, and just tries to better other anime by having more tentacle rape/tiny-waisted girls with big eyes etc.

[Jale]

I like anime, but I'm not fan of any. I like action and fighting anime like Dragon Ball or NightStalkers, but Pokémon, Digimon, Medabots...? bullshit!

[Zach]

You can thank Dragonball Z for ruining anime for the U.S

[Lefteris_D]

You can thank Dragonball Z for ruining anime for the U.S

I'm going to be a bit more "general" than that.

You can thank the commercial & rather silly/childish anime for giving a bad reputation to the whole category.

Each person that watched one after asking me changed his mind. I believe the reaction usually was something like "Hey! I didn't know those things could get that serious" or something like that.

The thing is that all anime are good. It just depends on the likings of each person.

[SladeXR]

The first anime I saw many years ago was Akira. I was totally hooked at that time but after that I watched so many crappy childish anime series (the only thing available on TV) that I got totally disappointed and almost gave it up. However when I got faster internet I was able to see some real masterpieces.

[TiredBoy]

Don't you mean the fan subbed ones?

They actually had a fandub for Kogepan episode 1.

Like a lot of people mentioned, I think the big turn-off comes when they see either A. excessively childish animation being heralded as "anime" or B. a bunch of otakus (used in the Japanese sense - fanatics) running around with body pillows of characters.

Personally, I've been exposed to quite a bit and tend to enjoy it, regardless of whether it's mindless or serious. I'm probably too open-minded for my own good.