Anime Is for Children and Retarded Adults

I like a lot of things that Japanese culture has gifted us with.

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Godzilla…

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Guitar Wolf…

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Ninjas…

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Semen Art.

I love their culture, design philosophy, food, and their habit of putting hidden cameras in public toilets.

But I cannot abide anime, and its printed cousin, manga.  I have even seen the “good” movies by the likes of Miyazaki, and I really have a hard time with the entire look and feel of anime.  Which is fine.  I don’t like 70’s era Hanna-Barbera animation, either.  I don’t like the way anime looks, I don’t like the way it sounds, I don’t like the stories or themes it explores.

Lately, Jill’s kid has been getting way into anime and manga, to the point where he’s trying to learn how to draw the stuff and watches it any spare chance he gets via Netflix instant download.  I tease him about it, because he’ll watch anything, be it Robotech or some cat-girl bullshit called Tokyo Mew-Mew.  He doesn’t discern between the Japanese versions of G.I. Joe and My Little Pony.

Okay, whatever.  He’s a kid.  He gets SUPER offended when we make fun of this crap he enjoys watching, and he says how he doesn’t like the stuff that we like, and on and on.  He’s a kid.  I didn’t watch this crap at 14, but if he wants to, fine.  (Although I really must take offense to his charge that I listen to “rap” all the time.  I really don’t.)

The thing that scares me is that this trend is going to linger, and he’ll turn into one of these overweight 35-year old anime watchers, and that won’t be good news for anybody.  Just about the only thing he enjoys watching lately is animation (he’s watching Futurama right now as I type), and it worries me that he seems to have no patience for anything filmed with living, breathing adults.  Pity any girlfriend he manages to land in the future.

Anyway, yeah, anime sucks.  Manga sucks.  You will never convince me otherwise.  No, not even with anime porn.