OmniStrata wrote:
One of the most renowned anime I've seen and will never get tired of is Ranma 1/2. It's episodic nature fits it like I Love Lucy and other kooky American sitcoms...
Ranma is quite different from one of the traditional benchmarks of what makes anime
anime. The episodic nature is more akin to 80s and 90s era American cartoons than the more modern 10 to 100 hour novels that are cut into episodes for easy consumption. That's one of the ways it helped anime into the American mainstream. It was similar to what people knew and had the most experience with.
On the topic at hand, I never really give much thought to the public opinion of my entertainment source - or anything else for that matter. If I don't like something, I don't like for a reason. Maybe public discourse on the topic makes me think more about exactly
why I don't like it, but it doesn't
make me not like it.
When more people watch something more people will like it and more people won't. That's what large numbers do. And when something's thrown out there to apear to young children and young teens (Age groups that often don't have any sense of taste or comparison) they'll eat it up if it's halfway decent. When someone that actually takes a look at the thing and bemoans the popularity, they're making a comment on the merits and flaws that the series actually has and shaking their heads (or running their mouths) at individuals that eat up what really isn't that good to begin with.
