[Fineus]

Why? I don't understand the problem of it - I mean at first you sounded like you didn't like it because they didn't look human, but if thats not it then whats wrong? I mean it's a form of art... perhaps you've just viewed some bad examples of the style? There is such a thing as bad anime

[Carl]

it's just majory unappealing to me. the way they look it's just...arggh *cringe*

[Fineus]

Heh, well - fair enough I guess, at least you aren't critisising them for not looking human enough - I can respect that

[Carl]

haven't you ever seen something that made you sick to your stomach?

[CP5670]

To be fair, my tastes in "art" are very eccentric and confined, so I will not bash this stuff on that premise; what seems worse to me is that the series and characters all have these really strange names...

[Stryke 9]

Carl: Anime, not hentai. It's sort of different, because there aren't so many improperly-placed tentacles.

[mikhael]

Originally posted by Levyathan


I hope you're being sarcastic.

Not even close. I'm being quite accurate. Evangelion's quick-cut "MTV" style editting puts me off. The audacious cel reuse is absolutely comical ( there's a conversation between two characters in a car at night. the save ~10  cels are used for the entire conversation). While there was wonderful visual design and thought put into the EVA units themselves, everything else (including the enemies) was crap.  Finally, the writing, which started out merely tepid, was, by the end, torturous beyond belief, with incomprehensible reversals and illogical decisions. The plot turned to a morass of garbage that makes Marvel Comics retroactive-continuity editting look SANE.

It was typical latter day Gainax trash: start with a few good ideas, market the hell out of it, and hope no one notices that they started pumping out a series before they'd written a story.

Now, that's not to say there's no good anime. I like some of it. Honest. Its just that most of it is beyond bad into the full fledged realms of SUCK. Think Daikatana and Mortyr kinda suck. TeenWolf the cartoon kinda suck. NO-Freespace3 kinda suck.

[Gortef]

Well... I can't really add anything to the lists allready written

hmm... not sure if Dual was there...

Anyway, I like allmost allkinds of anime, hentai is something that I really dislike.

err... nuff said...

[Scorpius]

two words: Cowboy Beebop.

This is the ONLY anime that I have seen that I don't end up laughing at or despise for one reason or another.

[Carl]

i couldn't care less what the story is or if the plot is good or anything. one look at it and i feel like punching someone's face in.

[Stunaep]

Originally posted by Carl
i don't really care if they look human or not, after all, most cartoons don't. but anime is just sickening to me.

interesting comment from a Shivan.

[Stealth]

actually they ARE supposed to look human... and that's why i don't like them:  because i've never seen any japanese cartoon where it's not 'japanimation' or 'anime' or whatever.  and it's quite the opposite, i've never seen an asian with eyes as big as anime and mouths as small... disfigured or not! it's non-realistic, and it's annoying

[Star Dragon]

The NEW Minmay attack of the UN SPACY....

   We'll just post big A$$ pictures of anime (hentai or super deformed) all over our ships and the Shivans will be Psycholgically unable to fight as they will be forced to retch uncontrollably! Am I a genius or what? FS3 When anime attacks!

  Carl ( and community)... there are 4 types of anime:

1.) normal pokemon type (mostly normal characters except for big eyes... Macross, Lodoss War ect...(G - PG-13)

2.) Super Deformed (UGH I hate this the most!!!!!!) (G)

3.) enhanced CG mix (like the new Harlock or Vandread). Titan AE tried this and they messed up, was weak. (pg13-R)

4.) Hentai ( )(R-XXX)

So you see not all anime is the same. It's like saying

"I HATE American movies, they're all just CRAP!" lumping them into one category (XXX)... All that sex, drugs, and violence... Obviously he hasn't see Akira yet, weak on the sex but plenty of the other two  


Historical Note:

   Blame it all on DIsney!!! At the end of WWII there was a little thing called The Reconstruction. See that's when the Evil Americans came in and made Japan a Democracy, took away their right to arms, got them addicted to the stock market, oh and the last unspeakable crime...... Soiled the art for known as animation. Back then their anime was an art form (like Kabuki Theather). Now A whole generation was bombarded with:

 BIG EYES
 NON-Porpotionate and often unrealistic characters
 Cheesy Dialouge
(Need I go on?)

Ok now that generation grows up and makes anime series... Guess what they make:

   BIG EYES
   NON-Proportionate and often unrealistic characters
   Cheesy Dialouge
(Need I go on?)



   I appluade the efforts of serious animators regardless of nationality who have the courage to break away from the shadow of the Disney Legacy and bring mature issues to their audiences (from global warming - armageddon), with realistic looking characters, superb dialouge, and well thought out plots...

I will give credit to a movie from 2 years ago Disney made that was good enough to acknowledge: The Iron Giant.  I would rather children see THAT about war and violence and learning to live together than the MINDLESS violence of Tom and Jerry. Hell when I was 6 I said "What the hell is this crap?" Then I found Starblazers and Force Five (The Nagai tv shows) and said "This is so F**king cool!" (I was cute at 6 wasn't I?)

   BTW have any of you noticed that most of the characters in anime (Especially heroes) resemble Americans - non- Asians? Hence the BIG Eyes (You Qui-Lo Round eye Gaijins!)

Yup that's me and proud of it!

[Stealth]

i don't like any of it

and Titan AE was pretty well animated, but i didn't like it!

[Levyathan]

Originally posted by mikhael
Not even close. I'm being quite accurate. Evangelion's quick-cut "MTV" style editting puts me off. The audacious cel reuse is absolutely comical ( there's a conversation between two characters in a car at night. the save ~10  cels are used for the entire conversation). While there was wonderful visual design and thought put into the EVA units themselves, everything else (including the enemies) was crap.  Finally, the writing, which started out merely tepid, was, by the end, torturous beyond belief, with incomprehensible reversals and illogical decisions. The plot turned to a morass of garbage that makes Marvel Comics retroactive-continuity editting look SANE.

It was typical latter day Gainax trash: start with a few good ideas, market the hell out of it, and hope no one notices that they started pumping out a series before they'd written a story.

And how can you not like that?

[mikhael]

Originally posted by Levyathan
And how can you not like that?

Because I don't like crap, generally? I'll take the good anime (someone mentioned Detonator Orgunn up there. Macross before Macek raped it, Mononoke Hime. Good stuff).  You can find it if you dig deep enough into the festering crap.