What are the manliest movies ever?

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Originally Posted by CyberCubed

Anime was really popular with teens during the early 2000's, so I'm not surprised kids who grew up that era see it that way.

Anime was to the early 2000's what all those big 80's and 90's action movies were to that generation. This is a generational thing, different decades of kids/teens grew up with different action-oriented media.

That's why the young teens of today don't seem to know anything about those big action movies from the 80's and 90's.

Well in parts of Europe and South America some 80s anime were a hit in the 80s, but ofc DBZ and Saint Seiya were what really started the anime boom in the West as a whole. Pokémon helped also, I'd say.

And let's not forget video games. Japanese video games have artwork similar to anime and also some tropes sometimes. The popularity of games like Final Fantasy and such has gotten people into anime, I'm sire-