Do You Like Anime!!!!!!

Pretty safe bet here on the Stardock forums.

Okay, this one needs explaining. Sure I watched Pokemon and DBZ as a kid, but by and large I do not like Anime. I fail to see why liking Sci-fi/Fantasy strategy games would have any relation to it.

Well, since you asked.

In my experience, must people start from somewhere, a gateway to everything else. Mine was comic books, love Marvel and was only interested in a few DC characters. Superman, Firestorm and Batman. From there to sci-fi, watch the original Star Trek on tv, was syndicated in the 70's. Then this little film called Star Wars in '77 came out and i was hooked. I played D & D back in high school and must of the stuff I liked, the guys in our circle liked as well. And then one day after school, a show called Star Blazers came on, my first taste of Anime, did not know it was called that cause at that time, it was called Japaniation because it came from Japan.

Between that show and Robotech in the '80's I was on the path of Anime. But your right, for me to assume that others watch Anime because of their love or like sci fi and fantasy is wrong, but for the most, they do. Back in Nashville there was this comic shop called The Great Escape and they had it all, one stop shopping for comics, vid games, manga and Anime. So if you came for comics, you went away with that and manga and it is just a natural progression. Some people don't like Anime like my wife, she's not into it, but loves Bleach, go figure. She's in love with Byakuya Kuchiki, the Captain of Squad six.

But in the end, not every one is gonna to like what i like. That's why we have choice. So I'm sharing with those who fight the Vasari and watch Cowbow Bebop.....Bison...                           

Anime is a word often only partially applied since it's only a partial word.  I've been to a lot of places in the world and there aren't too many people that I know that don't watch The Simpsons or Family Guy.  Both count as anime.  There's also the Disney crowd.  Disney anime has been around for 60 some odd years and is still going strong.  Warner Brothers and MGM also have had Bugs Bunny and company since the late 1930's and are known worldwide and enjoyed daily...  MGM and Time Warner share in the fun with Tom and Jerry and friends and have done so since the early 1940's...

Granted I don't watch cartoons on Saturday mornings, (used to catch Robotech and X-Men every week as a kid) but in the evenings when Family Guy is on I put down the remote and watch the show. So in that respect, yes, I like and do watch anime fairly regularly.

Uhm... anime =/= animated.

Um, actually it does.  The term anime is typically only applied to stuff from Japan by the average person familiar with it, however the industry considers ALL animated works to be anime.  Thus American cartoons such as the Simpsons or Family Guy is considered to be American anime and is coined as such in most Asian countries.

Ah there you go. I was never into comic books, and that seems like a more reasonable assumption of who would like Anime. But I do go to stores like the one you mentioned and they do have all that stuff. I only go for the video/card/role playing games though.

@Stant: Just like I watched DBZ and Pokeman because I thought they were cartoons, as they showed them along with the American cartoons. However I'm pretty sure most people on these boards are not from Asian countries and thus would not be using a Japanese word unless strictly referring to cartoons of Japanese origin. And I'm sure Bison is using it in that way.

Sorry, but I'll take Webster's word when it comes to words.

yes but i like reading manga better

The video is blocked in my country, so whatever point you wanted to make you'll have to do it the old-fashioned way: through text.

Ohh, and also, non-Japanese animation isn't anime in the same way that non-British rock/pop isn't britpop, the country of origin is a vital part of the category's definition.

pluto... heard lots of good things

Here:  http://www.amazon.com/Pluto-Urasawa-Tezuka-Vol-Naoki/dp/1421519186/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1296709593&sr=8-2

Apparently 1 of the best manga's out there now.  A few have suggested that I don't even bother asking what its about and just buy it.  $10 on amazon.  Give it a look.  Just ordered 1. 

Never quote or link me educational resources when trying to state a rebuttal, it just makes me try harder to educate the masses properly.  =D

You should know that Merriam-Webster is one person picking what they think the definition should be and 3 people agreeing with them after they spend a couple hours trying to figure out how it's used, and Webster's first dictionary basically just ripped off the Oxford English Dictionary, changed the spellings of thousands of words and omitted words he didn't care to have taught in American classrooms.  I challenge you to dispute it.

However as I stated in my very first sentence, anime is only a partial word, not a style as you think it means.  Japanese write the English term "animation" in katakana as アニメーション (animēshon), and the term アニメ (anime) (notice the first three characters are the exact same) emerged in the 1970s as an abbreviation.  So using the term anime, you're just using the shortened version of the word animation, where once again, as I said before, the industry, meaning all companies who produce animated works worldwide, refer to any animated material as animation, or anime if they are using the shortened form.  They are all one in the same thing.  Grab an encyclopedia made after the 70's and look it up.

The 'style' of animation referred to by Webster is indeed the style of animation made popular by Japanese artists over the past 70 years, but no single animation artist in Japan will agree with Webster's definition because they themselves classify all animated works as anime, not just their own.  Personally, I'll take their word over Webster's for it's use since they created it, not Webster.  The use of the word to describe Japanese cartoon's style is purely an American created use, and a poor one at that.  It's like saying can't or RSVP instead of spelling it all out as cannot or reply please and then saying it means the color green.  And people wonder why the US educational system is a failure when compared to most other developed nations...

Learning is fun isn't it? 

@GoaFan77 - I meant the term 'American anime' is coined and used in Asian countries not the term anime itself.  The term anime is the Japanese shortened version of the word animation as I described above, and to them all animation is anime is animation.  Cartoons are just cartoons if you want to compare all of the ones you've watched.  Bison is possibly, like many people from the US, applying the word incorrectly.

Thank you Stant for dropping the Ed-u-ma-cation bomb on all of us. Regardless if I'm using the term correctly or not, it's the basic style our Japanese brothers took and made it their own style and story content wise. The point i was making about the original post is bunny rabbit special forces taking down camel extremist in some country which looks like it's based in the Middle east.

BUNNY RABBITS KILLING EXTREMIST CAMELS WITH SNIPER AND FULL AUTOMATIC WEAPONS.... That's why i love Anime, they can think of the most craziest insane shit and make it look good......Bison....

"This video contains content from IDAEntertainment, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds.".

Quoting Khardis, reply 13

"This video contains content from IDAEntertainment, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds.".

End of Khardis's quote

So basically anyone outside the US cannot see this youtube vid from the person who posted and created it. Well that sucks.

As a anime/cartoon or w/e the fuck you want to call it fan boy yes, as a artist no majority of the styles are generic and boring,it holds weak and boring compositions. There is always that 10% that doesn't follow the trend, but those are hard to find now a days.

I've never liked Japanese anime, but I've always been a big reader, and what I read more than anything else, is science fiction.

None of the anime that other people have recommended has ever appealed to me in a big way.  Some are better, some are worse, but I personally don't get the attraction to it.  I'm not saying it's bad, I just can't connect to it.

As far as comic books are concerned, I only started reading them in College, because I went to a very competitive school, and the coffee house there had comic books literally strewn across all the tables.  It was a nice activity to relax the brain cells.  Back then, I read mostly things like X-men, Avengers, Spider Man, Thor, etc.  Most of the writing was pretty silly, but it was good enough to decompress from studying.

When I finished college, a friend of mine hooked me up with some of the independents, like Cerebus, Nexus, and Badger, and some of the more intelligently written stuff, like Sandman, The Dark Knight Returns, and Watchmen.  I eventually lost interest in the Marvel stuff, and everything else (Cerebus jumped the shark, and Badger and Sandman series both ended).

I still read a lot -- if you like Comic books, you probably will like George R.R. Martin's "Wild Cards" (at least the early books in the series).