why do you watch anime
serious and non serious answers allowed

sometimes I feel like it, I get this urge to watch something historical or fantasy related (isekai) and other times I watch to celebrate life like a good wine you know that's when I watch seasonal shit

I wish to be the little girl.

1. Unique narratives that don't exist in any other medium. For example long running shounen series like one piece or dragon ball, you can't find anything like that outside of anime and manga. The same can be said of moe cgdct shows, isekai, mecha, and many other genres.

2. There is a strong community dedicated to archiving, documenting, and sharing, so it's an open field that can be endlessly explored. There is always more to discover and learn.

3. It's a (sub)culture made for people like me, by people like me. In Japan, there is a strong path from fan to fan-artist to professional. For example the website shousetsuka ni narou, where anyone can publish fiction, has lead to many adaptations which were initially just written by random people. The people who make anime are likely people I could have a conversation with, we are immersed in the same culture, we have the same set of cultural referents. As opposed to something like the American TV and movie industry, which is an elitist group of celebrities and Californian socialites to whom I have no connection.

4. Anime has a unique, aesthetically compelling artstyle.

5. Anime is a low-oversight pulp medium. This means that there is a lot of garbage, but there's also room for experimentation, creativity, and exploring themes which are otherwise deemed not acceptable or depraved. In addition, the process of sifting through the noise to try and find a signal can be gratifying in itself.

>>3
m00t u fucked up

>>4
But you're not Japanese, so you can never meet or join those artists. Doesn't that make you sad and alienated from the medium you chose or which has chosen you?

>>6
small things like race and country don't mean anything compared to the bond of otaku.

i think for me it's that there's a higher quotient of stuff i actually see myself in present in anime than other bodies of work. i love and respect western greats, but as much as I'm infatuated with their style, rarely do i feel Seen watching something. like >>4 said, by and large it's a subculture by and for, though of course like all art that isn't just unprofitable stuff being made by hobbyists there's the interference of market forces, and i think a subculture largely defined by its dejected artists is the space I see the most of myself in.

moe

Categorical attraction

I like animated media, and the Japanese are good at it.

>>5
Christopher Poole is my second favorite jewish pedophile webmaster.

>>12
who's the favourite then? n0?

>>13
yes <3

>>14
more Jewish paedophiles should consider becoming web masters then

what if I'm a Jewish geriatriphile?

because I'm pedo

I mean 2D pedo, I hate real kid