I don't "get" anime

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Some of the artwork on backgrounds and creatures is good, but every human character looks the same. They just change the clothes and hair color. The big-eyed space-alien look, don't they get tired of that?

The animation is VERY cheap and they get away with it by saying it is the style. Like when a character is talking and literally the ONLY moving thing on the screen is his mouth. It is stagnant. But why waste time animating the whole body when you can just move the mouth? lol

The faces bug me. The humongous eyes and tiny noses. When I was younger and I saw anime I honestly thought it was just really bad drawing. Then I found out it was actually a style. I still look at it and think it looks pretty simply like bad art.

Personally, I can't stand anime. Which some people find odd because I'm into comics, animation, and science fiction. Some anime fans who find out that I don't like the stuff try to tell me that I just haven't found the "right" anime yet, that's all. Yeah, right... I've been hearing that for more than 20 years now.

Simply put, I just don't like it. At all.

Yes, absolutely! A friend convinced me to go to anime club one day, and I wasn't impressed with it at first. But it grew on me and grew on me. Today I still don't truly "get it," but at least I have learned to appreciate it more than before. I think it's like Spongebob critics, to use a strange example. If one watches the show expecting it to make him or her laugh, then that individual won't get anything out of it. It's the spontaneous humor that makes it so popular. Likewise, if one watches anime expecting it to be good, one first needs to step back and observe it more humbly.

I still like the Macross sage, and this one where this teenage girl got transported back to feudal japan and became a godess or princess or something. Dang, I wish I could remember the name or more about it. My friend had the whole series...

I just don't see what the big deal is. For instance, I was talking to a girl that goes to my youth group at our ski trip over the weekend, and she said, "Anime could be much more popular than it is." I was thinking, "Anime is already WAY too popular as it is!" I don't like the art and I don't like how it seems everyone likes it. I like American and Canadian cartoons that *I* can relate to here in the present. Yeah, like I'm really going to relate to someone from the tenth century that attacks people with swords for fun! Now I'm not saying I hate anime or anything, I'm just saying that I think it's over-rated and it's something that I'll never get into.

I can't really get into anime.

Not my style really.

I've never understood anime, never have, and probably never will. It looks mechanically generated, and the colors are too bright; even humans have that robotic look. I'm more into old-school cartoons, like Looney Toons, Flintstones, Jetsons, and Simpsons. The characters and the scenery, especially in older productions, look like they were made by talented artists and writers, not computer programmers. Not that I'm dissing programmers (heck, many aspies do that), but writing lines of code to make a full-fledged cartoon doesn't produce good results, in my opinion. No no anime for me. Let's leave cartoons to artists and writers, and computer applications to programmers.