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Anything anime. Lots love it, I hate it.
Not liking anime is so isolating as a nerd because people find out I'm into nerdy stuff and all they want to do is recommend anime to me and talk about anime and I have to explain that I don't like anime and won't be watching that show they love (insert show here).
Ya'll be talking about anime like it's a genre but it's a medium
Never understood the "I don't like anime" mindset, of course everyone has the right to like and/or dislike anything they choose to, but as you said it's a medium. "I don't like anime" makes as much sense as "I don't like live action movies." It doesn't.
I guess "I don't like the way anime look," or, "I don't like the Japanese approach to storytelling" makes more sense.
It makes sense to me because they're describing in a simple way the thing that they don't like. If you ask why, they'd probably tell you the reason. "I don't like the way anime looks" or "I don't like the Japanese approach to storytelling" or whatever...
Yeah, but come on. Sure, you could depict anything with it, but in practice, it's correlated with content.
Chinese ink painting is a medium too, but people talking about it probably are not going to it for cyberpunk stuff.
I mean, Ghost in the Shell, Cowboy Bebop, Great Teacher Onizuka, Frieren, DragonBall, and whatever are absolutely different genres and have practically nothing in common.
Yeah, but normies don't know that. It's all just cartoons with a weird annoying fanbase to them.
Yeah but some people just can't stand the medium. Me included.
Everything? Perfect Blue? Paprika? Angel's Egg? Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space? Anne of Green Gables? Moomin? Belladonna of Sadness?
I'd be genuinely surprised if the answer was yes, as all of those wildly depart from the tropes people have in mind when anime is brought up.
Yes
Not liking “anime” is just saying “I watched a few hours of popular anime, didn't like it, assumed it's all like that and now I'll never be able to correct my opinion.”
Personally, it's the art form I don't like. I couldn't say why, but there's something about the style of drawing people that I just can't get past.
I accept that I'm in the minority, and I'm not criticizing it or talking down on it in any way. I understand there's an incredible amount of love and talent that goes into it, it's just not for me. Think of it as someone who says they don't like the Mona Lisa, they aren't saying it isn't a famous painting or shouldn't be well known, they're just saying they prefer other styles of art.
It’s usually ugly as fuck and blatantly misogynistic, it infantilizes and objectifies women and often has very strong pedophillic themes? 90% of it is an incredibly problematic form of media and when a person tells me they’re into it I wonder do they just willfully ignore these problems or are they not actually smart enough to notice in the first place, or are they into that gross shit?
Even with the wide variability of art styles, something about that anime gene creeps you out? That's fair, but a little sad that keeps you out of it.
I was speaking mostly from personal experience. I used to think all anime was adolescent violent wish fulfillment and tits, so I didn't explore too much, and found plenty of incidenthl confirmation bias.
Not OP, but some genre conventions of anime weird me out. I can learn to ignore them with practice, but I have to stay in practice to keep doing this.
I don't hate anime, but getting myself in a state where I can enjoy a show is a huge chore.
Another part that makes even less sense: the existence of people that only watch anime makes me less willing to engage. This happens with other things too, but it seems moderately common with anime.
How do you feel about other forms of animation?
I'm picky. Some are ok, some just weird me out. I think it really just depends how close they get to portraying the human figure, when they start intentionally skewing proportions and making features anatomically impossible it's just creepy for some reason. If it's not a human character or if it's still sort of realistic to normal proportions it usually is fine.
If you mean stuff like Fantastic Planet, The Thief and the Cobbler (Re-cobbled Cut) and The Glass Harmonica, then I love it.
(Edit: oops I misread the comment nesting, you weren't talking to me.)
What's wrong with bugs bunny?