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serious question (anime)

1 Name: Anonymous 2024-12-02 15:52
why do you watch anime
serious and non serious answers allowed
2 Name: Anonymous 2024-12-02 16:13
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
3 Name: Anonymous 2024-12-02 18:13
I wish to be the little girl.
4 Name: Anonymous 2024-12-02 21:35
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.
5 Name: Anonymous 2024-12-02 21:48
>>3
m00t u fucked up
6 Name: Anonymous 2024-12-02 21:51
>>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?
7 Name: Anonymous 2024-12-03 03:57
>>6
small things like race and country don't mean anything compared to the bond of otaku.
8 Name: Anonymous 2024-12-03 11:29
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.
9 Name: Anonymous 2024-12-03 14:12
moe
10 Name: Anonymous 2024-12-04 12:40
Categorical attraction
11 Name: Anonymous 2024-12-05 03:02
I like animated media, and the Japanese are good at it.
12 Name: Anonymous 2024-12-06 12:58
>>5
Christopher Poole is my second favorite jewish pedophile webmaster.
13 Name: Anonymous 2024-12-07 21:51
>>12
who's the favourite then? n0?
14 Name: Anonymous 2024-12-07 23:13
>>13
yes <3
15 Name: Anonymous 2024-12-08 19:02
>>14
more Jewish paedophiles should consider becoming web masters then
16 Name: Anonymous 2024-12-09 17:41
what if I'm a Jewish geriatriphile?
17 Name: Anonymous 2024-12-09 18:29
because I'm pedo
18 Name: Anonymous 2024-12-09 18:35
I mean 2D pedo, I hate real kid

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