Family Guy and simpsons are anime?? whaaaaa?

1 year 4 months ago

"You might be able to deny that it's funny but there's as much "smart" content in the simpsons as a lot of these pretentious anime that come out.

would you guys consider afro samurai and the boondocks to be anime? they're american shows but gonzo and madhouse studies help work on them respectively. the drawing style has a lot of anime elements but they are also "made for american audiences." "
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The Anime you HATE

1 year 6 months ago

"Honey and clover. that hagu chan or whatever... i want to kick her in the face. "
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First Anime

1 year 7 months ago

"Transformers
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Life

1 year 7 months ago

"All the time yo. pretty much 50% of anime i watch i feel this way. some of the worlds are great like naruto etc. but some even normal ones just have say characters you wish you knew for real and stuff or you wish you live some kind of manga author's idea of a light hearted japanese high school boy life "
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DEATH NOTE

1 year 7 months ago

"So far: fantastic!

it might fall off later though. "
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English in JPop

1 year 7 months ago

"I hate when there's english in any foreign music and foreign languages in english music"
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Unfinished Endings

1 year 7 months ago

"Yo this is the worst thing ever to me. gunslinger girl shoulda continued... ichigo 100"
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Does Anime Make You Hungry?

1 year 7 months ago

"I have never really eaten real japanese food which is crazy considering all the anime i watch. i've never even had sushi. "
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Do you sometimes lose interest in real girls?

1 year 7 months ago

"Well at least i'm not the only one"
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Favorite Sports Anime

1 year 7 months ago

"I think all sports anime and sports tv shows are horrible "
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Good news Naruto fans!!

1 year 8 months ago

"There is still no conclusive evidencce. "
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Good news Naruto fans!!

1 year 8 months ago

"I don't know what to think. i read that leafninja stuff but i dunno. i think by this point they'd come out with a big press conference and all that. "
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Kakashi and the little book in his hand

1 year 8 months ago

"Erotic literature. it doesn't have illustrations.

what jiraya writes is similiar to what the novelist in fruit basket writes. "
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Is their an American show that is on the same level as anime

1 year 8 months ago

"The old batman animated cartoon was great, so was the the spiderman and x-men showsthat played on fox in the 90s. as far as humor goes, american cartoonsare way more innovative etc... this ranges from kids shows like anamaniacs and rocko's modern life (which are brilliant and can be appreciated by both kids and adults), as well as grown up comedies like simpsons, family guy, futurama etc."
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What makes anime so different?

1 year 8 months ago

"No offence but this is kind of a played topic... i mean not that this exact thread has been made before but there's like 100 other threads comparing anime and americacn cartoons. they usually bash american cartoons and givethe sorts of reasons you're askin for.

things i particularly like about anime:

-more mature themes/complicated themes than are found in normal cartoons
-sometimes better and more fluid art work
-eastern philosophy
-more balanced view of good/evil, better character development than most cartoons
-the fact they have a proper beginning and end!
-blood and sex
-focus on attractiveness of women

but to be fair there's a lot of things lacking in anime:

-they do not focus on enough topics and a lot of topics and a lot of topics more applicable to western audiences (eg racism) are not covered well
-usually apolitical (not that this is always bad but once in a while you'd like them to stop being shy about this)
-often overcomplicate things
-not as funny to american sense of humor, a lot of obvious gags
-setting very limited to japan/doesn't even try to be as world centric as some american programs
-way too many series are similiar. even the good series tend to focus around the same sort of settings. eg. kids in a school, mecchas... i just feel that they could really do so much more even within these very specified genres like harem anime etc but i never see it getting made. "
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Coffe

1 year 8 months ago

"I don't deal with coffee"
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Recent Obsessions

1 year 8 months ago

"I gotta say the current anime i am obsessed with is welcome to nhk. i drop everything when the new sub comes out. "
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What Is The Worst Anime Opening or Ending Song For You?

1 year 8 months ago

"I love the samurai champloo opening beat (the rapping sucks though)

azumanga daioh opening seems like it goes on for 35 hours"
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Is watching anme addictive?

1 year 8 months ago

"I'm rather addicted"
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game - the doctor's advocate

1 year 8 months ago

"This album sucks, game is a horrible rapper and the title track, "doctor's advocate" is one of the gayest and most disturbing songs of all time.

i think there are over 130 name drops on this album. i believe 12 out of the 16 tracks mention dr. dre's name. any track that doesn't reference dre probably mentions jay-z or snoop.

the one blood remix with like 40 people on it also sucks.

i do not recommend this album. "
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Anime Figurines

1 year 8 months ago

"What's a good site where i can just look at galleries of figures? "
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What if life were more like anime :D

1 year 8 months ago

"It would be impossible to distinguish between whites and asians"
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What series got you into anime?

1 year 8 months ago

"First anime series i watched were transformers, sailor moon and dragon ball... i had really liked macross+ after that and some movies like ninja scroll, vampire hunter d, etc. the thing that got me into anime on my current level of insanity was naruto though. "
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Which characters are better: the males or the females?

1 year 8 months ago

"I usually like the female characters better. seems like too many male characters are similiar to eachother... nerdy good hearted guy & heroic resolved guy are in pretty much every anime. there's a lot more variety in terms of female characters. "
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What kind of music you like in anime?

1 year 8 months ago

"I like to see anime use some different music. aside from opening and closing themes i just hate it when they use the same stock music... especially stuff like 'funny' music in comedy shows etc. i just like something kind of original... like in noir

more anime should use hip hop and trip hop. i think they are really good for ambience especially in more modern-type shows or action shows. action shows need to be more drum heavy in general. "
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