Sooo....

[Sonydjsnmix]

Nodame Cantabile is the only good one I can think of.

[BasharOfTheAges]

I'll allow Toradora and Kimi ni Todoke, but not Aoi Hana. Aoi Hana is dreadfully boring unless you live on yuri undertones.

Then you weeaboo faggots need to stop thinking that Japan is ZOMG awsmsauce where all ur waifu dreams come true.

Aoi Hana is one of the most realistc portrayals of Japanese school life, especially as it intersects with the low key but not uncommon same-gender relationships present and even sometimes encouraged here.

If it bored you, don't bother visiting me. Stick to Akiba and Minato. There's nothing in the everyday Japan you'll like.

Who the hell wants situational realism in their escapist entertainment though? It's not like we're talking cooking, home improvement, or travel shows here.

[Knowname]

moeblob <-this.

Even though I've had my fun with moeblob shows. We all have. Seems like every season has at least one surprise, last season was KnT and Nyan Koi, but more is required.

You mean you want MOE o.0

I'll allow Toradora and Kimi ni Todoke, but not Aoi Hana. Aoi Hana is dreadfully boring unless you live on yuri undertones.

Then you weeaboo faggots need to stop thinking that Japan is ZOMG awsmsauce where all ur waifu dreams come true.

Aoi Hana is one of the most realistc portrayals of Japanese school life, especially as it intersects with the low key but not uncommon same-gender relationships present and even sometimes encouraged here.

If it bored you, don't bother visiting me. Stick to Akiba and Minato. There's nothing in the everyday Japan you'll like.

Who the hell wants situational realism in their escapist entertainment though? It's not like we're talking cooking, home improvement, or travel shows here.

Point 1---> Point 1<---, I is confused o.0

[Kionon]

Who the hell wants situational realism in their escapist entertainment though? It's not like we're talking cooking, home improvement, or travel shows here.

Me. I only watch anime because its relevance to my daily life. I don't watch anime for escapism. I don't need to escape. I have a job I love, the bills get paid, I socialise, I travel... Two years ago I didn't watch anime anymore. Before that, I watched it because it was exotic, but it eventually became tiresome. Now I watch anime because it is familiar. Especially when the situations and characters are brilliantly and realistically written.

[Emotive]

Who the hell wants situational realism in their escapist entertainment though? It's not like we're talking cooking, home improvement, or travel shows here.

Me. I only watch anime because its relevance to my daily life. I don't watch anime for escapism. I don't need to escape. I have a job I love, the bills get paid, I socialise, I travel... Two years ago I didn't watch anime anymore. Before that, I watched it because it was exotic, but it eventually became tiresome. Now I watch anime because it is familiar. Especially when the situations and characters are brilliantly and realistically written.

I like tentacle rape too, but that doesn't make me biased towards other sorts of anime.

[BasharOfTheAges]

Who the hell wants situational realism in their escapist entertainment though? It's not like we're talking cooking, home improvement, or travel shows here.

Me. I only watch anime because its relevance to my daily life. I don't watch anime for escapism. I don't need to escape. I have a job I love, the bills get paid, I socialise, I travel... Two years ago I didn't watch anime anymore. Before that, I watched it because it was exotic, but it eventually became tiresome. Now I watch anime because it is familiar. Especially when the situations and characters are brilliantly and realistically written.

I can't say I don't get where you're coming from... I mean I primarily watch Food Network, HGTV, and the Travel Channel (when i'm not watching the science channel). Realism has an appeal. I'm just kinda shocked by the preference of medium. Judging by the fare of anime nowadays, the industry is also apparently shocked that there are still people that want that. Maybe you'll get to be niche and underground like everything they show now was 10 years ago and then spring to resurgence some time in 2020 or so. The circle of life fad?

[hasteroth]

I'd like to donate $10000 for research on how to cure the moeblob cancer.

[Kionon]

I'm just kinda shocked by the preference of medium. Judging by the fare of anime nowadays, the industry is also apparently shocked that there are still people that want that. Maybe you'll get to be niche and underground like everything they show now was 10 years ago and then spring to resurgence some time in 2020 or so. The circle of life fad?

Well, escapism necessitates that the viewer wants to escape from something in their daily lives. I have much too much fun in my daily life for me to want to escape it by watching outrageously exaggerated forms of it. My students are infinitely more interesting than the cast of K-ON or Lucky Star. And in many ways, they're just as completely totally insane, but have much more dynamic personalities. Also, they're not fictional. The problem with moeblob is that it doesn't do well with problems. It presents the wackiness of Japanese school life fairly well (I still think Azumanga Daioh is probably the most accurate depiction of the insanity I have seen from my students and fellow teachers, and not any of the moe anime), but it doesn't explore issues of school violence (Japan has it), issues surrounding sex education and premarital sex (in a way that isn't superficial and wholly skewed, at least), nor the problems of broken homes, or even the very really pressures of the testing regime (again, not in way that treats the subjects with respect, at least). Anime that does explore these issues in a way that is respectful and engaging, not only present me with a world I have come to know, but it also teaches me more about that world. There has always been meat and potatoes anime, and there has always been cotton candy anime. The problem with the rise of moe, is that we have lost the balance, and way, way too many shows are cotton candy. Nice to eat, once in a while, but it shouldn't be the basis for a diet.

[FarmXD]

How's possible say somethin like that when Code geass or Gurren lagann exists?? :O

Fuck Anime, Invader Zim is the future

\o/

[Ileia]

Fuck Anime, Invader Zim is the future

Or, like, a decade or so in the past.....