Too much anime crap

[Lone Shadow]

Why is there so much Japinese anime stuff.
Cheap, nasty, bug eyed c grade games!
I personally HATE anime, and yet it seems to be bombarded on me.
They need to put some sort of filtering on steam to avoid this rubbish.
I don't bother, most of the time with going through sugestions due to 50 to 75% being anime of real lowend rubbish...
Any one else feel the same?

[Perrywinkle]

yes, sometimes i hate when other people like stuff that i hate.

[Rōnin]

filter out the tag "anime".

[Darkwave Dahlia]

It's like there's no way to use filters and own will to not click on certain things. Wild thoughts, I know ...

[Xaelath]

Learns to use Filter tags.

Steam gives you lots of options for this and yet you don't even use it.

"Anyone else feel the same?"
No.

[ReBoot]

I filter out anime and porn. While I am not offended by porn, I am offended by cheap wank material not even bothering to introduce enough gameplay to be called a game. Oddly enough, pretty much all "games" marked as porn fall under this category so I doubt I'm missing out on anything interesting. And since there seems to he a connection between hentai and pathetic basement life, filtering out porn helps against too much anime as well.

[Xaelath]

Originally posted by ReBoot:

I filter out anime and porn. While I am not offended by porn, I am offended by cheap wank material not even bothering to introduce enough gameplay to be called a game. Oddly enough, pretty much all "games" marked as porn fall under this category so I doubt I'm missing out on anything interesting. And since there seems to he a connection between hentai and pathetic basement life, filtering out porn helps against too much anime as well.

I won't be denying that half of them are cheap wank material.

Well unless you're into Novels or Story but fine with Anime art you're missing some of the Greatest Writing.

Some anime games also has pretty neat or unique gameplay on its own.

That still mean you need to pass "accepting the anime visual", certainly if someone want to try , they probably need some recommendations from other people who doesn't go that much into Adult Only games (though there's some Adult Only games that has really good Story eg, Kara no Shoujo).
I still don't get the hate considering how big the anime community and the market around it. It's not as big as AAA but there's game that match AAA quality. (Likewise PC aren't the only platform that known for Anime, Nintendo itself has Quite popular tittle such as Fire Emblem which is an Anime Game or Sony with Atlus tittle (I mean who wouldn't know Persona games?)).

There's no "Porn" tag , but there's Adult Only Filter but this will still show Anime games.
What people need to realise is to filter both Adult Only and Anime tags.

Edit : Do mention anime isn't just a game.
There's Anime (video), Manga (the art), Light Novel (Novels) too with their own respective industry .

[tomk1]

Originally posted by Lone Shadow:

I personally HATE anime, and yet it seems to be bombarded on me.

Recommended by your viewing history, tell the truth you like but feel guilty, it's ok.
You really ought to do the "Thematic Apperception Tests (TATs)" from this game
https://store.steampowered.com/app/593900/Tender_Loving_Care/

[ReBoot]

Originally posted by Xaelath:

Originally posted by ReBoot:

I filter out anime and porn. While I am not offended by porn, I am offended by cheap wank material not even bothering to introduce enough gameplay to be called a game. Oddly enough, pretty much all "games" marked as porn fall under this category so I doubt I'm missing out on anything interesting. And since there seems to he a connection between hentai and pathetic basement life, filtering out porn helps against too much anime as well.

I won't be denying that half of them are cheap wank material.

Well unless you're into Novels or Story but fine with Anime art you're missing some of the Greatest Writing.

Some anime games also has pretty neat or unique gameplay on its own.

That still mean you need to pass "accepting the anime visual", certainly if someone want to try , they probably need some recommendations from other people who doesn't go that much into Adult Only games (though there's some Adult Only games that has really good Story eg, Kara no Shoujo).
I still don't get the hate considering how big the anime community and the market around it. It's not as big as AAA but there's game that match AAA quality. (Likewise PC aren't the only platform that known for Anime, Nintendo itself has Quite popular tittle such as Fire Emblem which is an Anime Game or Sony with Atlus tittle (I mean who wouldn't know Persona games?)).

There's no "Porn" tag , but there's Adult Only Filter but this will still show Anime games.
What people need to realise is to filter both Adult Only and Anime tags.

Edit : Do mention anime isn't just a game.
There's Anime (video), Manga (the art), Light Novel (Novels) too with their own respective industry .

When I want great writing, I open a book. When I want to play something, I want to play a game. One with gameplay. And theres no shortage of games with great writing.
I enjoy VNs as a matter of fact but I read them in printed form.

The hate may stem from a) anime being tendentially polarizing, you gotta love it or hate it, hardly anything in between. That, and b) when it comes to erotic, anime has often an extremely weird way to depict this topic.

[Xaelath]

Originally posted by ReBoot:

Originally posted by Xaelath:

I won't be denying that half of them are cheap wank material.

Well unless you're into Novels or Story but fine with Anime art you're missing some of the Greatest Writing.

Some anime games also has pretty neat or unique gameplay on its own.

That still mean you need to pass "accepting the anime visual", certainly if someone want to try , they probably need some recommendations from other people who doesn't go that much into Adult Only games (though there's some Adult Only games that has really good Story eg, Kara no Shoujo).
I still don't get the hate considering how big the anime community and the market around it. It's not as big as AAA but there's game that match AAA quality. (Likewise PC aren't the only platform that known for Anime, Nintendo itself has Quite popular tittle such as Fire Emblem which is an Anime Game or Sony with Atlus tittle (I mean who wouldn't know Persona games?)).

There's no "Porn" tag , but there's Adult Only Filter but this will still show Anime games.
What people need to realise is to filter both Adult Only and Anime tags.

Edit : Do mention anime isn't just a game.
There's Anime (video), Manga (the art), Light Novel (Novels) too with their own respective industry .

When I want great writing, I open a book. When I want to play something, I want to play a game. One with gameplay. And theres no shortage of games with great writing.
I enjoy VNs as a matter of fact but I read them in printed form.

The hate may stem from a) anime being tendentially polarizing, you gotta love it or hate it, hardly anything in between. That, and b) when it comes to erotic, anime has often an extremely weird way to depict this topic.

Sadly there's quite a shortage in a great writings in gaming. (Decent or good one is still common I guess)

Just my thought tho.

The hate stem from B,
Likely the fanservice anime tend to get on the bad side of the people whom uncomfortable with it.
For Adult Only games, it has been there for years, steam accepting AO games is pretty questionable at its finest but I'll leave that to your own thoughts of why they're doing it.

In surface, unless the person know anime really well, it does make sense that the most posted one around internet tend to be sexual stuff or partial nudity, and sometimes over exaggerated.
But , the best one rarely have been about that.

Back to Topic, As someone who played anime myself, there's barely any Sexual content stuff in front store. They're up there for reasons.

Otherwise the person overthinking that anime = porn, which kinda stupid.

[Solivarnik]

I feel the same. I have filters pixel, anime and to show only games in English. Yet, I can barely browse the store, since is littered with japanese anime pixel stuff and now, it is plagued by weird cheap chinese games. Can be there an option to completely remove them from my view? I will never ever buy any of those, so no reason, why should I see them. Filters do not work properly.

[wuddih]

Originally posted by Solivarnik:

I feel the same. I have filters pixel, anime and to show only games in English. Yet, I can barely browse the store, since is littered with japanese anime pixel stuff and now, it is plagued by weird cheap chinese games. Can be there an option to completely remove them from my view? I will never ever buy any of those, so no reason, why should I see them. Filters do not work properly.

screenshot of your settings?

also, the language preferences are not for the store but for content that has a per-item language setting. on the store this just has effect on reviews, nothing else.

[Neomerlinux]

The "Anime" tag filter doesnt work for me. I get hit with that stuff 24/7. I really dont like the anime art style. To me it's super-repetetive and therefore looks all the same. I just wish steam would have a better filter to prevent me from having these games in my searches and/or shopping experience.

[voidCaster]

Originally posted by WeekEndRonin:

filter out the tag "anime".

This would be helpful if it were an actual option.

I'm in the same boat as the OP. I actually like some Anime, but it has to be done right. "Vampire Hunter D" was OK. "Cowboy Bebop" is just solid gold. "Akira" and "Ghost in the Shell" definitely aces. But pretty much everything else is just seizure-inducing without even the payoff of character development or comprehensible storyline.

I think my account got flagged for Steam pushing Anime on me because I dig a lot of Indie titles and I always have. Cool stuff like "Uplink" and "Hammerfight" and "One Finger Death Punch" that are really unlike everything else ever really get and hold my attention. At that point I can set a filter against Anime, but not every Anime game actually bears the tag.

Honestly, if it were "a computer game set in an Anime style" it'd be a different discussion entirely, but the fact is that most of what I see that's done in the Anime style is specifically some weird back-alley type of "Anime fanfic." It isn't even fanfic dedicated to any particular Anime - it's fanfic surrounding the style of Anime itself, which honestly is what a lot of Anime is to begin with but still blows my mind that anyone buys it. It's like being a fan of microwave dinners as opposed to the dish in the dinner.

[Darkwave Dahlia]

So it all comes down to "Why do people like things I don't like?"

[voidCaster]

Originally posted by ᛋᚺᚨᚾᛞᛟᚱ:

So it all comes down to "Why do people like things I don't like?"

Nay. It comes down to: "When I type a search term into the Steam Store I can apply a filter against Anime which doesn't work well to actually remove Anime titles from the search results. Even worse, I have no means at all of setting a general or global filter to prevent Steam from cramming new Anime titles into my recommended or suggested game lists after buying 'Arigami' which is actually an Anime title, but I got that one recommended because of Indie tags in the first place. I'd just really like to not be inundated with Anime titles."

Edit because Arigami might not have been recommended as an Indie title - I think I actually went looking for that one specific game because it was recommended by someone on my Friends list. Which makes the whole scenario even worse.