Why anime?

The Sharpest · Post by **The Sharpest** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 2:01 am

code_chrono wrote:It started for me with a little known anime known as Pokemon

Same goes for me too.

I watch anime because of the plot. Their so complex, requires thinking....

I also like well drawed animes, but mostly because of the plot.

CrackTheSky · Post by **CrackTheSky** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 3:25 am

Ijnek5 wrote:i did some research and basically found out about all of the wonderful types of anime that are out there, however, since my internet connection was (and still is) rather poor, i was unable to really do anything (ie. download) and watch them, so, i waited for the various stations to air their own respective anime series and have been doing as such for the majority of my life now, however, because of the above mentioned internet connection, i also got into manga and have kept up with a number of series on groups.msn.com along with stoptazmo.com.

Wow...longest sentence ever O_O

RevanSigma · Post by **RevanSigma** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 5:00 pm

I got into anime for a few reasons:
1.) The over the top violence in some animes (Eva,Guyver,Saint Saya)
2.) The randomness (Chromartie High, Bo Bo Bo, FLCL)
3.) The story line
4.) I also live for the comedy in some
5.) and, I'm also ashamed to admit, ...........the hentai

but it does no influence the reason I watch anime, I know anime and hentai are two very different things, oh and Reikah. Dont get sucked into hentai. It'll make your life hell.

DAMN YOU HENTAI!!!1

CodeZTM · Post by **CodeZTM** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 6:36 pm

I also forgot to mention that I had a strange obsession with Code Lyoko for the longest time.

older_gohan · Post by **older_gohan** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 6:47 pm

For me it started with the anime Dominion Tank police. However there was a good year space between that anime then seeing my next one which was the great Macross. I watched macross and loved the series but again went on a stint where I couldn't find anime. Then Cartoon Network started premiering anime's like Macross and Sailormoon and eventually DBZ. After watching those for a few years they broke into what I consider to be the most important event in american T.V. History. The creation of the Midnight run. And what was the first anime I saw on the Midnight run? Cowboy Bebop. After that it was nothing but better and more adult oriented anime from there on. The reason I got into anime? Three simple things. Animation quality, story quality (most of em anyways), and action.
Never been the same since.

Curse you adorable and mostly sexy anime girls

blaku92 · Post by **blaku92** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 6:29 pm

I like anime because of the artform. Not all Anime has a wonderfull plot (US shows don't either), but at least it's beautiful. Many animes, however, do have great storylines and that mixed with great animation gets my blood pumpin'. Also, animation is really a dead artform in America. Disney doesn't make hand drawn animated movies anymore -- only stupid CGI movies. I remember reading an interview article with Shinichiro Watanabe and he said he liked making animes because they don't limit imagination. I believe that is true because elements of Mise-en-scene in animes are much more artistic in my opinion. DBZ got me started, but I soon realized there was a much bigger world out there and I became obsessed for the rare stuff as well. I despise how American television censors original material on toonami -- not that anime shown there is the good stuff. I also came to the point, about 6 years ago, where I wouldn't watch an anime if it was in english. I would rather watch anime in it's complete original form to understand how the creators wanted us to see their work. Foreign films are presented in theatres in the original language for the same reason. That's why I am hooked on anime.

Roc_Ragna · Post by **Roc_Ragna** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 8:05 pm

Let's see. It started recently as a matter of fact. My best friend showed me Azumanga Daioh, and I got hooked into it. I then got Angelic Layer along with Negima and Ah! My Goddess. As for why I like it: I love both the artistic and cultural differences from American type shows. Not only that, but I also enjoy the stories that they hold.

DTJB · Post by **DTJB** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 4:15 am

My very first exposure to anime was way WAY back in the day, when Nickelodeon would broadcast shows like Maya: The Bumblebee and Noozles. Back then, I had no idea it was anime. My first exposure when I knew it was anime was Vampire Hunter D and Robot Carnival on Cartoon Network. The DBZ, Sailor Moon, Pokemon triad got me hooked, and the rest is history.

The reason I love anime is because it doesn't specify to one particular genre, it covers all of them. Plus the fact that a lot of anime features some of the greatest stories ever told. Of course there's a lot of crap as well, but that can be said of any form of entertainment.

CandieFluff · Post by **CandieFluff** » Sat Nov 25, 2006 5:15 pm

Why anime? -- I'm actually still trying to figure this one out myself.

The first television show I ever liked was Maya The Bee, although I don't remember a thing about it. Interestingly enough, I found out a few days ago that is an anime.
So I guess you could say my first introduction to anime was when I was two, but that's just in the technicalities.

It was September 2005 (embarassingly recent) that a friend of mine and I were discussing anime, when I confessed that I wasn't entirely sure what it was. At the time DBZ was featured on Adult Swim at like 10 or 10:30, I don't remember, and she demanded I watch it.... it was interesting, but it wasn't what hooked me. I couldn't fall asleep that night, so I kept watching TV, and around 12:30 I ended up returning to Adult Swim - just in time for Inuyasha.

I was very intrigued with Inuyasha - I used to stay up on school nights and watch it, until I became very sick due to lack of sleep. I stopped staying up so late and kind of forgot about the show.

Then in mid-March of 2006 I had another one of those sleepless nights and decided to tune in for Inuyasha again, for an old time's sake... and that time I was hooked. I decided I wanted to see it from the beginning, so I asked for the first season for my birthday [which is conveniently at the end of March], and fell in love with it.

I stopped watching it on TV so that I wouldn't get confused/spoil anything, and have since bought the second and third seasons as they've been released.

So sometime around April or May I discovered AMVs on YouTube, and sometime last summer it dawned on me - there's more to anime than Inuyasha - and I researched various shows. I watched Gravitation, which I love, and got hooked on the Fruits Basket manga, which I'm now nearly caught up in.

....I'm such a newbie, lol.

....

But either way, I can't deny an attraction to anything anime. I already had an interest in Japan and the Japanese culture... my dad works at Honda and went to Japan when I was in the fourth grade; he brought back all these really cool pictures and stuff and I thought it was amazing.

It's not necessarily because it's animated, although I do believe the animation adds an other-worldly kind of quality to it. It gives it an idea of being a separate reality... to me at least.

So many of other people's explanations I agree with, and I think it's fascinating to read why people like anime. It's just such an intriguing genre; you really can find an anime to fit almost any person or any mood you might be in. There are so many and they're all so diverse -- and for me, especially, that's a very exciting thing, because I've seen so few! LOL.

It's a whole other world....

...God, this is a LONG post.

NS · Post by NS » Sat Nov 25, 2006 7:05 pm

With me it started with pokemon, omg when i was a kid i loved it. Now i'm just like "it's so stupid". then i actually jumped to DBZ. Then took a jump to cowboy bebop and Ruroni kenshin and samurai champloo and stuff.