Has anyone else here never gotten into anime?
 

Sure, when I was a kid/teenager I watched Pokemon, DBZ and Sailor Moon like everyone else, but that was mainly because of the initial anime boom in the late 90's and early 2000's.

Other than that though, I've never actually gotten into anime. I was always more of a fan of the DC superhero cartoons, TMNT, and Marvel cartoons to ever get into anime when I was younger.

Pokemon and Dragonball Z were the only ones I consistently watched, but I never got into any other anime. Is anyone else like this?

I'll make something constructive of this thread and give you two anime tips:

Azumanga Daioh, for bizarre, but emotional comedy (I cried when watching the last ep, so... BUT IT'S VERY FUNNY, if you like surrealist comedy)

Suisei no Gargantia, if you like robot fights and existential anxiety.

I mean, those are kind of specific :p But please check them out if they sound interesting.

You watched the wrong anime.

I watched DBZ, Poke'mon, Yu-Gi-Oh and Digimon. Never got into anime that big though. Oh and Inuyasha.

Not sure if these count as anime but I like Mega Man ('94), Avatar The Last Airbender and The Legend Of Korra.

I like DragonBall, DragonBall Z, Sailor Moon, and Gundam Wing. I'm a fan of Toonami classic shows. I also like the new Toonami, but I don't really care for the anime on there.

I could force myself to watch One Piece and I would enjoy it, but that is pretty much the only current anime I would consider watching. DragonBall Z Kai is great, but I consider it the same show as DragonBall Z.

For animation that isn't anime, I like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Batman, and Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

I liked Neon Genesis Evangelion. Forced myself to watch Fullmetal Alchemist until the end, after I realized it was pretty boring mostly. I guess I rather watch anime movies than series...es.... :-?

I like DBZ and DB, but that's about it. I want to start One Piece but 500+ episodes and multiple dubs that never finished are kind of intimidating. I guess you can say the same about DBZ, but that had a consecutive dub that covered every episode.

I have no desire to read manga or watch anime, mainly because I'm not really a fan of the art style, and all the fans seem to be really f***ing obsessed with it.

Growing up I'm glad I never became an anime/otaku type guy. Its because of anime fans that people don't make fun of Trekkies or Superhero geeks anymore.

Also why is so much of modern anime based on harem schoolgirl shows where like 5 girls all want the same guy? And the show is about nothing but dull fanservice with various hints of incest or lesbianism going on? Is this what the Japanese really care about aside from the action shows?

No wonder why the anime boom in the U.S. died down around 2005.

Dude, c'mon - you can't make generalisations about otaku... there are weird and creepy people in all fandoms and all walks of life.

Yes, there's a subgenre of anime out there that's based on girls and their bits - but there's also some great stuff out there. I view anime as a culturally unique art form which is used to convey emotion in a very beautiful way. *shrugs* Then again, you'd probably consider me one of those creepy otaku. :lol:

I used to watch a lot more anime than I currently do... just haven't had as much time for it in the past few years. I don't know which genres you might like but perhaps you could try Vampire Hunter D, Hellsing, Devil May Cry, Cowboy Bebop or Trigun, if you were so inclined? They're all very good.

Like most other people, I started out on Sailor Moon, Neon Genesis and DBZ (I've got to be honest, Vegeta is about 95% of the reason why I watch DBZ... I know I'm a total peasant but I really have no interest in DB because no Vegeta.) :P

You can't be serious. You do realize that not all anime out there now isn't like this at all, right? Like pennydreadful said, there are plenty of great ones out there.

I like anime/manga, but I can understand why you and many others can't get into it. I admit that it took me a while to get into anime and get rid of my pre-conceived and notions and discriminatory views of it. "Why are the japanese so weird?", "why do anime characters look white/european when they are supposed to be japanese?"... yea I used to think like that when I was 12. But since I've always been a big video game fan, and most of those games were made in Japan, it seemed silly for me to completely write off anime. Not to mention as I got older I matured a bit and stopped letting stereotypical views of mine regarding Japan to get in the way.

Indeed a lot of anime sucks, but same applies to any medium, honestly. Those harem anime you mention aren't all that anime is about. I'd recommend you to watch Cowboy Bebop if you haven't. Also Monster and possibly Legend of the Galactic Heroes, if you're into an epic space opera full of politics, great dialogue and backstabbing that's pretty much Prussians vs. the U.N in space.

As for the fanbase yes plenty of anime fans, the so called "otakus"(which is stupid that they label themselves that, since otaku is not a positive word at all) can be annoying and embarrassing, but there's also plenty of regular folk who are anime fans. And honestly, no offense, but the way you act sometimes would give an outsider a bad impression of the Ninja Turtles fandom. You come across as obsessed as some anime fans at times.

Though I am a Tokusatsu fan right, yeah I have gotten into anime

as a kid I watched the typical stuff; Digimon, Pokemon, Yugioh, Dragon Ball Z, Sailor Moon, Card Captors ... and looking back on it now, it really does sicken me how terrible the dubs were

Though I mainly read manga now couple of my main reads are: Assasination Classroom and Monster Musumue

As I said, there's a freaky mouth-breather contingent in nearly any group, from My Little Ponies to people who like to grow ferns or collect stamps. :lol:

Did you watch the original or Brotherhood? I've heard the original FMA was a pretty bad adaptation from the manga while Brotherhood did it right. That being said, I've read FMA's manga and wasn't big on it. Found the first 40-50 chapters pretty boring. It picked up near the end.

There's a lot of **** like that, yes, but first of all, anime isn't popular in Japan, so no, that's not what the Japanese really care about, and second, check out the two I recommended. Granted, the comedy sometimes is a bit on the pervy side, but mostly not.

It was the original. I've heard good things about Brotherhood, so I guess I could check that one out sometime.

Totally forgot about Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin earlier. Now that's a great show!

And about fanservice, what do you think of stuff like Urotsukidoji? do you think that stuff gives anime a bad name?

Have you seen Akira, Ghost in The Shell, Ninja Scroll etc.?

Its so difficult to get into anime where even respected shows go for boob or panty shots on the female characters. Can someone explain to me what the appeal of this is?

I'm all for well designed female characters, but I don't need to see the camera closing it on body parts for no reason. No wonder why anime gets such a bad rep.