Is it normal to cringe at Anime?

[Maxi]

I don't like Anime but i like Cartoon tho. There's certain thing about Anime that i hate but i can't seem to point it out. I try giving it another but it failed. How can i improve this or i have to live with it?

[s w e k]

Sure.

[Ⓥenom Ⓢnake 🐍]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Holding These Alligators Down:

Depends what kind of anime you're watching.
There's some badass anime like Golgo 13, Ninja Scroll and Ghost in the shell but on the other hand there's the stuff with big eyed school girls screaming and creepy borderline porn crap.

The same goes for live action tv and movies.
Just find stuff you like.

Did you just list two anime full of sex, then talk about other anime being borderline porn?

Aye karamba!

Okay I'll take this topic seriously... Dang it.

Anime really depends on what your taste in genres is.

Science fiction
Robotech/Macross
Ghost in the Shell stand alone complex
Bubblegum crisis
Cowboy Bebop

Fantasy
Record of lodoss war
Berserk
The Fate series

Comedy
Ranma 1/2
The devil is a part-timer
Aggretsuko

Action
Black lagoon
Gunslinger girl
Tiger & bunny

Romance
Love Hina
Fruits basket
Spice and Wolf

And I can go on and on.

you just have to accept it anime is what it is if you want to watch it.

[Arnie Rimsy BSc.SSc.]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από BanzaiCharge1944:

I don't like Anime but i like Cartoon tho. There's certain thing about Anime that i hate but i can't seem to point it out. I try giving it another but it failed. How can i improve this or i have to live with it?

diff strokes diff folks

[LHGreen]

Well, one problem is that the market is oversaturated with it now, and most of it is crap, so it's hard to know what's good. It was more fun when it was more of an underground, not-commonly-known-of type of thing, but that's only a small part of it. Mostly, it's that anime is just all the same nowadays, with very few genuinely unique things that you just can't see elsewhere. Anime used to simply be a genre with no limits on what could be depicted, so any environment, any situation, any possible world could be shown, and it was like being able to see amazing sci-fi and fantasy worlds, that you could otherwise only read about in novels and comic books, come to life in a way that no other medium could do (at least, not very well, and there were almost always cheesy and stupid effects and costumes that just looked out of place and broke the illusion. Movies like Star Wars were the exception, not the rule, and it wasn't exactly a sound investment to throw away tons of cash to try to make movies and tv shows like that), and that animation from most other countries wasn't interested in doing. Sure, you got the occasional Disney movie, Don Bluth and Ralph Bakshi did some cool stuff, and there were a few once-in-a-generation movie like Wizard of Oz and Forbidden Planet, but at the end of the day, there just wasn't very much of a selection, and you'd very quickly find it harder and harder to see something interesting that you hadn't seen already.

So along comes anime, showing all kinds of weird stuff like you'd never seen, or sometimes never even conceived of, ever before, and some of the people who had grown bored by what the worlds of cinema and animation had to offer quickly latched on to it. Epic space operas, grim fantasies, cyberpunk dystopias, quiet meditations on life, martial-arts-and-combat-centric comedies and dramas.... For me personally, it was always a breath of fresh air to see something that seemed so new, and even though it wasn't always done very well, it was done in a way that felt like people doing whatever the ♥♥♥♥ they wanted to do, and ♥♥♥♥ everyone else, so there was frequently a quirky and vibrant heart to it no matter how flawed it was. But it's much more commercial now, and there's often less artistic motivation behind it, so a lot of it is just meh. I usually prefer anime that was made before the mid-2000's or so, and a good portion of the new stuff I watch is adapted from manga that was written in the 20th century. Or it's from studios or creators that I really like because I know that they do their own thing and ♥♥♥♥ everyone else, and they excel at weirdness and showing me stuff that feels new and unique.

So, like with any medium, it's not about the medium itself, but the work that's done with it. Part of your inability to enjoy it may stem from thinking about it in such a reductive way that it's become just a label, and mislabeling it as a genre rather than a medium.

[Your_White_Knight]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από BanzaiCharge1944:

Is it normal to cringe at Anime? I don't like Anime but i like Cartoon tho.....

Cartoons are cartoons.... there are many types of cartoons that can be "cringe".... if you don't like Anime then that's what you don't like... no "normal" or "un-normal" about it.

TLDR; Opinion noted.... nice bait.

[Hyer Womba]

i agree it is cringe

[Xero_Daxter]

As an anime fan.... yes. It is cringe sometimes.

[s w e k]

Inb4 Darkie.

[Esoteric]

Liking anime isn't cringe but people who are completely obsessed with it like Melonpan are.

[Danksama]

Depends on the anime. Imagine not liking an entire branch of animation because of a pleb reason like 'muh cringe'. That's childish.

[HarleyIsntReal]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από 𝕮rimson:

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από BanzaiCharge1944:

Is it normal to cringe at Anime?

Yes

[Chuuya Nakahara]

If you dont like it thats fine.

[Holding These Alligators Down]

This thread is still alive?
Yes some anime is crap and some anime is awesome.
You don't like things but other people do like things.
It's cool, we can still be friends.

[Jej]

Yes. I can't for the life of me enjoy a single anime anything.

Even movies with a serious tone like Grave of the Fireflies or Barefoot Gen weren't enjoyable.

[[FFK3] Trovaa]

I'm a fan of anime but even I cringe at episodes sometimes, even for series that I love.
It's pretty normal. If you're looking to enjoy anime, OP, don't look at any ecchi stuff. That tends to make most people that are less familiar with anime cringe.