As a former anime fan, I agree. The number of crappy, overused tropes, style over substance, and sexist pandering really put me off anime/manga as a whole, and I’ve never looked back
Every medium has tropes, obviously, but there’s something about anime that bothers me so much. I think it’s the fact that they pump em out so frequently and people praise it too much.
This is purely subjective of course. If you love anime good on you. I used to too, but I just can’t do it anymore for the most part.
It’s the consumer aspect IMO. There is a common kind of person that is deep into anime, watches it all the fucking time and doesn’t do anything interesting with their lives. Maybe a video game here and there, but overall always consuming media, rarely ever creating anything.
That’s what I dont like. People who are loudly into something where all they do is sit and stare, go to work so they can come home and sit and stare.
It’s not just anime, but anime lures this kind of person. I met several people like this in a group, then I realized all they ever want to fucking do is watch TV and I couldn’t be a part of it because I didn’t want to spend hours doing nothing while they get high and watch TV all day.
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As a former anime fan, I agree. The number of crappy, overused tropes, style over substance, and sexist pandering really put me off anime/manga as a whole, and I’ve never looked back
Every medium has tropes, obviously, but there’s something about anime that bothers me so much. I think it’s the fact that they pump em out so frequently and people praise it too much.
This is purely subjective of course. If you love anime good on you. I used to too, but I just can’t do it anymore for the most part.
It’s the consumer aspect IMO. There is a common kind of person that is deep into anime, watches it all the fucking time and doesn’t do anything interesting with their lives. Maybe a video game here and there, but overall always consuming media, rarely ever creating anything.
That’s what I dont like. People who are loudly into something where all they do is sit and stare, go to work so they can come home and sit and stare.
It’s not just anime, but anime lures this kind of person. I met several people like this in a group, then I realized all they ever want to fucking do is watch TV and I couldn’t be a part of it because I didn’t want to spend hours doing nothing while they get high and watch TV all day.