Why some people dislike Anime?

[Kiara14]

Yea and thats fine we really cant do anything about thats. It's there Perspective . How ever just because they dont like it they ridicule people who do and make fun of them. I just cant believe how narrow minded people can be. It's bad enough people judge you on the cloths you wear or music you listen to, but the time of shows your intrested in as well?

[3xcel 3xcel]

I totally agree....

[Karou_ken]

yes I agree. It really pisses me off when ppl can be so judgmental on what other ppl choose to watch, wear, etc. It can really bring ppl down when you ridicule them on their on particular interests. Its like if you dont like it, then stop talking about it just say your not into that certain thing and move on. Dont take the time to insult the ppl who do like it by calling them geeks or childish for being into something(like anime)that your not into. I mean im sure no one like to be made fun of so i dont see the point in ridiculing other ppl and their interests.

[fatandpowerful1]

Kinda like how the majority of veterans on this site hate noobs out of instinct.

[Kiara14]

Right i watch main stream anime. Why do people have to make fun of others who dont know as much as them everyone has to start somewhere. The worst part is they where in the same Position as us at some point or another so they know how much it sucks. They get mad that people make fun of them for watching anime yet they go and make fun of people who like it just dont know as much? it's totall B.S. Another stario type i find is that most people think that the people who like anime are mostly intrested in rock. I like matalica, pink floyd, and music like that but i also enjoy rap, Japanese music and lots of other music, but the thing that pissed me off the most is when I went to the first anime meating, some people came up to me and asked me if i knew where I was. Then told me that the cheer leading practices are being held in the gym. It's just one stario type after another thease days.

[judea_silent_genius87]

I think people being humans are used to stereotyping every1 so most will say its for kids and some will say its just for those who never had a childhood and try to get the old times back??? ( some retard at school said it not me ..just goes to show u how dumb people can be) . Everyone should respect others opinions and if they dont theyre just HATING ...so i say enjoy anime! (cowboy bebop, personal fave.) and let them talk wat they want , cause u never know...they might be starwar's geeks.
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excuse any mispelled words.

[DTJB]

I always find it funny how people who blindly believe that anime is nothing more than a form of entertainment for kids, group it with American animation like Disney. The thing is, I guess a lot of people in the U.S. just found animation to be so bright and colorful, it no longer became good enough for an adult's "sophisticated" taste for entertainment. Most people who make these generalizations have never seen anything like Steamboat Willie (the first Mickey Mouse cartoon) which features a character chomping a big block of chewing tobacco. While this was done in a comical manner, most adults of any time period wouldn't approve of a kid using tobacco at all. Well, forget all of the ignorant people out there, thank God there are some real fans like James Cameron and Roger Ebert.

[rose4emily]

Oddly enough, I was really anything but an anime fan until about a year ago. This was due partially to the bad production values of the few bits I had seen at one point or another (the low frame-rates, jagged-line character designs, triangle mouths - all the things that make a lot of popular "children's" anime look even cheesier than an old Hanna Barbera cartoon). It was also due, in part, to the bad writing and bad voice acting presented in most of the series popular enough in America to be played as TV dubs. I think there probably is something of an "anime fan, therefore geek" stereotype out there - but a lot of "geek" culture is becoming part of the mainstream pop culture as of late, anyhow, so I don't think that association is quite the turn-off that a lot of people assume it would be.

Then I caught about ten minutes of FLCL on the cartoon network, one evening, when I was looking for something on TV to kill some time. It was the scene with Naota and Mamimi by the river, followed by the arrival of Haruko. This was something entirely different - with an interesting style of artwork, poetic dialogue, and writing that I made absolutely no sense to me, whatsoever. That last part intrigued me enough that I immediately started running Google searches to figure out what all this weirdness was, so I could find the rest of it and figure it out.

I only partially figured it out, which is about as good as anyone can expect with something like FLCL, but I found a side of anime that was very different from the card-game commercials pervading the pop culture perspective on Anime seen in America. After that I came to enjoy and appreciate other interesting works like Evangelion, Haibane Renmei, Someday's Dreamers, Princess Tutu, Kare Kano, Azumanga Daioh, and Cowboy Bebop - seeing in each of these, and several others, some different aspect of abstraction and expression used to convey the storyteller's intent.

I also developed a newfound fondess for American animation, when I started looking at it as an art rather than a form of empty entertainment. Dig out those old Disney films sometime. The stories may be simple, but most (especially the earlier features) really are classics, backed by beautiful artwork that managed to set the gold standard in animation quality for decades.

The real key, though, is personal taste. I like anime (and animation in general) because it is capable of being a very fluid and expressive art form, one which is able to construct it's own reality within the confines of its own style. I also like live-action film because of its extraordinary capacity for visual richness and detail, and its unparalelled ability to let the actors convey complex and realistic emotions. Some don't enjoy animation, or only enjoy certain formulaic forms of animation, because the level of abstraction requires too much thought for passive observation, or the lack of structure encourages plots that don't make much sense. Some don't like live-action films, because realism creates a lot of limitations upon where a story can go before you no longer have a film, but rather a multi-billion dollar gratuitous display of special effects. Within each medium are a lot of thematic genres that some may enjoy, and other find dull or disconcerting. Really, there is nothing more than the whims personal taste deciding that one person enjoys one thing, and another person another.

[GloryQuestor]

First off, yes, many people are turned off because people raised in the 50s, 60s, and 70s have always seen cartoons as children's entertainment. Breaking away from that view is the biggest challenge if you really want to get older people interested in anime.

I also think that you have to start with the right anime. After all, wouldn't your father stick around for a sports anime like Rebound?

Finally, you have to have the right approach. Currently, the more mainstream animes that have (or will) hit theaters are doing so in a very select market (major cities, mostly). Until anime gets a lot more distribution across the theaters, and a solid advertising campaign that will get people interested, anime will be stuck to where it is now -- straight to DVDs with limited advertising that doesn't really reach the eyes of non-anime fans.

[inuhikarifan]

I think that the half-crazed fans are what do it. People see the fans getting teased and laughed at and they are scared that if they get into anime they will get teased, too. Gosh darn it, I hate how our society has become so judgemental and so scared of being judged.