• QuentinCallaghanMA
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    I have to admit the same too. I’m a huge fan of Nintendo and other Japanese gaming giants but I don’t watch anime or read manga regularly. I have watched something like Hayao Miyazaki’s movies, Evangelion, Berserk, Dragon Ball and some popular others as it’s “common knowledge of popular culture”.

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      1 year ago

      this is the way.

      As someone who has watched more than enough anime: It is an aquired taste and most of it is trash, especialy most of the popular stuff.

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        To be fair, most Western shows are trash these days, too. There’s a few standouts, and plenty of them are still the stupid kind of enjoyable in spite of being trash, but that’s true of anime, too. Most modern media has just unfortunately become a vehicle for making money, not a vehicle for making art.

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          Most shows were trash back then as well.

          It is just that survival bias makes it seem like it wasn’t.

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      Anime is often very mind numbing, with some exceptions of course. I have a much better time reading manga when I get the urge every few years, when I try to watch “normal” animes (not critically acclaimed/advanced stuff), I cannot get into it.