JamesEightBitStar said:

Nanner Split said:

Anime doesn't translate into worthwhile entertainment at all. It blows. All of it.

That's what I think.

Maybe I'm just a major fanboy but it irritates me when people say things like that. The problem is your thinking of anime as a genre, when its really a medium that can (and does) tell any type of story. There isn't just one kind. So saying "all anime blows" is like saying all books blow, or all movies blow, or all black people blow.

I dunno, just something to think about.

"All black people blow" lol. That is one of the funniest comparisons I have ever heard. Perhaps anime should be thought of as a medium instead of a genre, but comparing it with books, movies and black people is really silly. Books can be written in any number of styles, movies can be filmed in and directed in a vast number of various methods, and there are people with black skin from a wide range of varying cultures who have absolutely nothing in common other than their skin color. I guess that is the point you are trying to make, but it just doesn't work. I would call anime a "style" more than a medium. And it is a style that both Nanner and I do not enjoy. The medium of anime would be film or animation, I am not really sure you could accurately call anime a medium of its own. The fact of the matter is, it is a certian style of animation. Animation is a medium that can tell any type of story, books are a medium that can tell any type of story, and film is a medium that can tell any type of story. Just as I don't like the animation style of anime, there are several styles of book writting that I enjoy almost regardless of the story, and there are other styles of writting that cause me to put the book down, even if I might have found the story of some interest.