...

So?

I always get this feeling of power browsing ANN and seeing ads for things I watched a long time ago COMING OUT SOON.

I feel like I'm the only one on /a/ who likes Answerman.

Wow, someone sounds butthurt.

>Answerman

>ANN

But I don't watch every single show to come out every 2 months. Most of the shit that comes out is just that, shit. I don't give two fucks about the anime-dom.

What now, Answerman? You just got told, nigger.

>>23526063
You feel correctly.

>>23525927
Is that his avatar?
Why it resembles Adachi? Is he his favorite character so it got inspired to do something alike? Does this mean he is like Adachi?

Last sentence... I lol'd at the irony

>Answerman
>Biggest faggot there is, and an enemy to all of /a/.

>>23526010
I know exactly what you mean. Feels good man.

Stop reposting this shit, we don't care.

>>23526118
>Why it resembles Adachi? Is he his favorite character so it got inspired to do something alike? Does this mean he is like Adachi?
As much as I despise you, tripfag, I was going to say the exact same thing.
He's Adachi now and not Howl, huh?

This complaint would be much better aimed at a site that actually lets you compare e-peens like MAL or AniDB.

Everyone here is anonymous and can claim to have watched or not watched whatever they want.

...That sounded a bit harsh. To which, yes, I was using hyperbole for possible comedic effect, but I do think that there's a very vocal and very disturbing sect of obsessive anime fans that don't watch anime out of enjoyment; they just want to BE that guy that has literally SEEN EVERYTHING and KNOWS EVERYTHING and DON'T YOU DARE CHALLENGE THEM ON THEIR INTERNET FORUMS AND IMAGE BOARDS BECAUSE THEY WILL SCHOOL YOU SO HARD WITH THEIR IMMENSE ANIME FAN-DOM. But their "knowledge" and their "passion" doesn't make them any more or less anime fans than me or you. You like your thirty-odd collection of anime that appeals to you in a very real way. That's fine. That's great, actually. Stick with that, because forcing yourself out of that might make you completely burned out on everything. Just keep an open mind, though, because there's always new, interesting, and really cool things that get released every year.

He's just mad that he doesn't have as good of knowledge and that everyone on /a/ can show him up in his hobbies, so he makes the defense of having a 'life' and 'other hobbies', most of which are related to anime anyways. Oh, and if he claims to have a life, he probably just annoys most of the people who he thinks are acquaintances/friends.

He's just claiming it because he's butthurt and too lazy to watch things for entertainment-he feels that he only needs to watch it because the show he's watching is either 1. ridiculously hyped, or 2. given good reviews by animufags. He doesn't even let his own taste develop.

What a fucking faggot he is, indeed.

>ANN

I lol'd heartily when Answerman got his ass handed to him by the creator of Chowder.

I think I am lucky to follow maybe one series airing each season, more if they are ones i like (second/third seasons, etc.) I certainly don't have the time or effort to crawl the internet daily and watch a ton of shit out there, most of it doesn't interest me

actually i find myself going back and watching things from years past that I missed, either because i wasn't interested or didn't notice, plus it gives me more to watch in a single sitting on my couple days off

>>23526168
So basically Anime Expert is a douche? We already knew that.

>>23526159
>implying that one cannot simply claim to have watched or not watched whatever they want on MAL or AniDB.

>>23526205
What was this?

>>23526231
>>23526205
Yeah Chowder? Why was he commenting on anime related topics?

>>23526205
Really?

>>23526150
I truly and honestly hope you die a horrible death.

Isn't this the second Answerman? He annoys me less because he's not always shouting about how Kodomo no Jikan is ruining the image of anime fans or how you have to support the industry and buy R1 DVDs years after the shows aired if at all.

>>23526231
>>23526262
>>23526274

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/answerman/2009-03-06

>>23526205
What? Are you serious?

I don't actually watch anime very much anymore. I just come here out of habit and a desire to watch people rage over trivial issues.

>>23526332
>A lot of their storytelling is vague, incoherent, and pretends to be deep (which is probably why it plays well with teens. Ahh, youth.) Each side has its strengths.
I lol'd.

I think Answerman would be better if he was an agitated denizen of /a/, because I sort of expect someone claiming to be The Answerman to be able to ANSWER MY QUESTIONS ABOUT WHATEVER IT IS HE CLAIMS TO BE AN EXPERT ABOUT DAMN IT.

>/a/
>own anime

Also, why is that everything this moron says just ends up contradicting itself.

"They watch everything... to be completely and utterly informed of every single nuance"

"They don't actually chew and digest anything they watch"

oh right, ANN quality.

Words.

He's no Tycho, that's for sure.

I can't say I've ever gotten the impression that anyone here likes an anime just because it from japan. Quite the opposite really, about 50% of the shows that are subbed barely get threads and there are always people discussing the merits of a show and comparing it to others.

Honestly though, I don't consider ANN to be 'anime community'. Its downright disgusting. If thats the kind of waste I have to discuss with then I'd rather just watch my shitty japanese cartoons alone.

How many of them even watch something outside of Naruto and Death Note, or something thats been out for years then they go discuss it like its new?

I mean holy shit the ELFEN LIED threads alone...

>>23526418
He doesn't know shit, I don't know how he even got that job.

>>23526332
american cartoons ARE for kids though, the themes, the random non-plot or story related kind, they are made for laughs and entertainment, and rightfully so. Yes there are US cartoons that invoke characters and stories but animation in this country being tethered to Disney and Warner Bros. so tightly gave the past few generations the idea that cartoons are for kids. This may perhaps change in the future, but it is what it is.

Course when talking about CN I think everything on there is crap now. Give me back the golden age of CN when it was WAC spinoff content and the original Toonami. Now CN is just trying to be another Disney Channel and AS is turning into TV on pot.

>>23526594
All that live action shit gets my blood boiling.

>>23526630
Hey fuck you, Tim and Eric are god tier.

>>23526667
No, I meant the live action that's not on Adult Swim. I'm talking about the ghosthunter and rollercoaster game shit.

>>23526594
It's a self-sustaining cycle.

Animation is made for kids in the US, so everyone gets the idea that animation is a medium expressly for children. Since everyone has the idea that animation is for kids, network executives, production teams, writers, and producers won't make or air anything that isn't made for children because it won't sell. Repeat.

>>23526667
you must be high when you watch it then, because it is utter shit otherwise

>>23526667

If I wanted to watch two fruits acting like vegetables, I'd go see Siegfried and Roy.

>>23526667
It's shit. If you like bad animation and you're high or love lol so random xD "comedy" then I guess it's OK.

ANN users want Berserk Live Action by Peter Jackson

I'm also going to tentatively throw Peter Jackson/Berserk out there. The man clearly knows how to make big epic fantasy (Lord of the Rings) and he seems to have done some horror earlier in his career (although a lot of it was comedy/horror). I don't know if it would work. (Realistically I can never see a Berserk adaptation working). If it did though it would be excellent. Or alternatively Guillermo del Toro. I never saw Pan's Labyrinth but Hellboy was pretty good and the second one, while a little to fantasy-ish still showed he's got some talent. I think he could definitely do a good dark fantasy/horror.

Another one: Legend of the Galactic Heroes by the people behind the new Battlestar Galactica. They're no strangers to character development but perhaps more importantly, I think they would be able to capture the epic yet quiet and serene space battles. Admittedly though, this would have to be either a TV show or a series of movies.

>I guess you can't really match wits and measure your "e-peen" against the agitated denizens of /a/ or whatever because your collection isn't a massive, towering skyscraper

>Implying that /a/ buys anime.

>>23526771
>Another one: Legend of the Galactic Heroes by the people behind the new Battlestar Galactica. They're no strangers to character development but perhaps more importantly, I think they would be able to capture the epic yet quiet and serene space battles. Admittedly though, this would have to be either a TV show or a series of movies.

FUND IT

>>23526667
It's true.

ANN? More like "we give good reviews for shitty shonen anime so our underaged readers won't rage"

>>23526332
LOL.

I couldn't put it more right than that guy even if I really wanted to.

>>23526723
Futurama, Family Guy, Simpsons, etc.

There's plenty of Western animation aimed at older audiences, it just gets disregarded in anime arguments due to bias.

>agitated denizens of /a/ or whatever because your collection isn't a massive, towering skyscraper
>implying /a/ buys anything

Has he ever even been here before?

An /a/non needs to sneak into the position of the third Answerman

>>23526332
>I'm writing in response to the letter from the person asking about the difference between American and Japanese animation. As a long-time fan of ANN and a regular reader of your column, I thought I'd chime in. Plus as the creator of Chowder, the show you both seem to diss on, I figure I have to represent a little.

:(

>>23526690
Sorry for the mixup up then but yeah, you're right about that.
>>23526731
>>23526736
>>23526762
Can I facepalm? The point is that it's purposely bad and skits in the form of of well, how real people would act them out. gb2 your madtv if you don't like their humor

>>23526771
They are right about this shit.
Berserk needs a live action western adaptation, its practically Conan already and they are remaking that shit too.

LoGHs......
fuck no. No fucking chance.

EVER

>>23526861
Tim and Eric is incredibly polarizing. Either you love it right away or you fucking hate it.
That being sad, most people don't understand their humor, or what they're even trying to do. That's why they always pass it off as "lol so random".

He's probably just mad because we like lolicon and he hates it because his little sister got molested when they were younger

>>23526849

Of course not. ANN, animesuki, narutofan, gaia, and everywhere else are far too mature to go here, the "arsehoel of teh interbuttz XD <_< once i saw a loli thred adn i was liek O_O O_O *back button*!!".

>>23526836
You can expand it to "animation is for kids and adult comedies" then. It's still the same concept.

>so they can post on the internet and blog and spew their opinions over their dozen or so like-minded peers.
Isn't that what he does?

Faggot.

>>23526010

Yeah, anime magazines are like that too

TIME-WARP

what a butthurt fag. hes just mad that moralfaggotry prevents him from being up to date on the latest anime, and can only talk about it after years once it gets a proper lincense and he can spend his money on it.

>>23526861
LOL SO FUNNY OMG THEY WALKED ACROSS THE SCREEN REALLY SLOWLY AND SAID SOMETHING UNINTELLIGIBLE OMG OMG OMG

Really? Is that the best you got? "You Can't Do That On Television" was better than Tim and Eric and it was shot in fucking Canada on probably a lesser budget. Williams St. isn't interested in quality programming or even anime anymore, they're interested in shoving the most random and stupid thing down your throat because the only people up at 4am in the morning to watch it are stoners and night-owls who keep their TV's on at night and need something to flash on it. Jesus, even the 700 Club is more entertaining than AS's programming block.

>>23526921
At least those guys usually go to /b/.
I have the impression that we (/a/) are hated by the other anime forums.

>>23526947
Haven't all anime magazines disappeared now?

Remember when he said Toradora was a Love Hina clone?
This guys don't even watches the most popular anime, dunno how he got that job.

>>23526914
You explained exponentially better than I ever could have. Rats off ya sir!
Reception to the shows does tend to vary between people. I've got friends who think it is utter and complete shit while my best friend finds it to be worth a chuckle or two every episode. I showed my mother an episode and she loved it so I'm not sure what that says about the show itself.

I find American anime fandom to be incredibly interesting. I really do.

I mean, you got both uptight moralfag Christians that campaign against lolicon and fat emo angstheists that write awful fanfictions

>>23526667

Tim and Eric have literally never been funny ever in their entire lives.

>>23527005
WAT? Damn, what a fag.

>>23526971
We're not exactly hated, except by the people who think loli art is an unholy abomination or buying English-language DVDs is the only "right" way to consume anime. Mostly it's just that English speakers don't understand anonymous posting. They think you need to have a user name, registration date, and post count to have a credible opinion. They don't hate us, they're just confused as to how we operate around here without the trappings of a "forum."

>>23526667

>>23526987
Newtype America and AniMerica are still around I think

>>23527032
Same here. I think I remember reading in one of their interviews that if anyone were to walk into one of their episodes and begin watching, they would have no clue what was going on. Still, I have a feeling most people still wouldn't get it even if they watched it from the beginning.

>>23527038

>angstheists

Oh wow. That's great. I'm going to use this word from now on!

Family Guy and South Park are not for adults. They too are for teens. If adults find them funny, it is because they are mentally retarded or stoned.

I laughed when he said Toradora was a highly sexual ecchi harem on the vein of ToLoveRu or Love Hina. So he doesn't watch good shows, OR shit. Does he even watch anime at all?

>>23527064
Frankly, I don't understand that kind of thinking. I come on here because I'm too lazy to register.

>>23527106
As am I.

>>23526667
Get the fuck back to /tv/ and stop annoying us with your live action trolls.

>>23527109
South Park is still for underage kids despite their creator's attempts at making cultural and political jokes, and Family Guy is 5+ seasons of REMEMBER THAT TIME I-- OR LIKE THAT TIME I-- OR WHEN I WAS-- LIKE WHEN I--

Don't get me wrong, they were all good once, but once the might of the American capitalism hand comes down on it, it gets watered down to where anyone will love it, because there is nothing else on unless you're me and you watch Food Network

let me start off by saying that i am an arab otaku. yes, we do exist, albeit not so much in the open like our american brethren. and to be more specific, i am a saudi otaku *pause for applause* now my question is this:
WHY CAN'T I FIND ANY MANGA/ANIME TO BUY!!!!!
now that that little outburst is out of the way, let me further clarify my question. my country is very conservative. very, very conservative. black out women's knees in magazines conservative. that isn't to say we can't live a little, we have every form of media imaginable, most of it completely uncensored. but no anime/manga, what the F, man?!
do i stage riots in the street , denouncing the government and it's customs policy? or, do i write a really nasty letter to
>viz, for not giving me my naruto fix?
anime here does great dubbed in arabic
>but all the shows are for kids!
conan, HxH, beyblade . all in crappy vhs with crappy dubbing.
i want real anime! in boxsets with reversible covers, clean openings and endings, crappy trailers and the original jap audio track, just like you yanks get!

>>23527064
they are incapable of embracing chaos.

>>23527113
Worst, he actually watches it via youtube. What a faggot.

>>23527173
South park and family guy were never good

>dozen or so like-minded peers.

wut

There was always bad blood between /a/ and the ANN guys. It's just that Answerman is sort of the "representative" of ANN.

Anything involving loli or Strike Witches usually leads to e-wars.

>>23527005
Toradora is a clone alright, but of Shana and/or Tsukaima.

>>23527089
Wrong retard. Newtype ended last year and went on to make Piq which only lasted 4 months. Animerica has been dead for years. Anime Insider ended in spring so now the only anime magazine in circulation is Otaku USA.

>>23527174
What I don't really get is why people use otaku like that. I mean, he's saying he's an Arab otaku, meaning he is obsessed with Arabic things, not anime and manga. Otaku only means obsession, it doesn't always link to anime/manga.

>>23527174
Saudi Arabia doesn't have an age of consent, wtf are you doing on /a/? Go and screw some lolis.

>>23527203
>Anything involving loli or Strike Witches usually leads to e-wars.
They don't like Strike Witches?
Are they gay or something?

>>23527218
What? No, it isn't.
Toradora has a Rie short girl, but there are no magic fights and Ryuuji isn't a servant or anything like that.

>>23527261
He is probably a basement dwelling Arab. The only thing he is interested in is 2D.

>>23527250
that may be the meaning of otaku in Japanese, but the usage in English is different

>>23527109
>Family Guy and South Park are not for adults
Family Guy- TV 14 DSLV
South Park- TV MA L
watch more tv instead of anime faggot

>>23527089
Newtype USA went down years ago.

Sage for ANN.

>>23527174
Arab? From which country? Saudi?

I knew anime had a following in Iran, but that isn't Arabia, IIRC.

>>23527005
>This guys don't even watches the most popular anime, dunno how he got that job.
Is he paid for this? I hope not.

>>23527218
Sounding like answerfag there? You might want to try your take at trolling again, bro.

>>23527118

I understand it, because I was just like them once.

When I was fucking twelve.

Oh god, I don't even know how many hours I wasted writing paragraphs and paragraphs of point-by-point arguments, even just in a single "topic". Looking over my postcount, looking to see when anybody mentioned my username, getting up-to-date on all the inter-forum drama and which posters are buddy-buddy with the moderators, quoting someone's post in signatures to get on their good side, giving people "internet cookies", I even got into religious debates, oh dear lord what an idiot I was. I even used emoticons! Even the dreaded smilie face after saying something entirely negative, just to save face!

Everything about forums are simply disgusting, and the people are simply just pathetic. There's a very distinctive, and selfish way they post, that's even more childish than anything /a/ ever does.

>>23527280
They hate it.

>>23527174

Is this seriously what gets peddled on ANN?

I mean, even an Arab should have easy access to Anime & Manga via the Internet.

I'm curious to see if there's anyway I can read the old AniMerica issues from the 90's.

I just wanna get a glimpse into the old VHS swapping days

American cartoons are mostly for children, anime is mostly for teenagers. Very little is truly for adults.

>>23527327
Oh God, that brings up bad memories for me.

>>23527351
>I mean, even an Arab should have easy access to Anime & Manga via the Internet.

TRUE ANIME AND MANGA FANS BUY THEIR ANIMES AND MANGAS

>>23527299
the tenor of their content has nothing to do with the quality of their content. to say that they are appropriate for adults in the eyes of a fascist regulatory body is not to say that they are intended for adults, rather than simpering manchildren and college students without a whit of maturity.

>>23527303
>Newtype USA ended publication in 2008 after the February 2008 issue was published - it was soon replaced with another magazine, PiQ; however, that magazine ceased after four issues.

>>23527342
Thanks, Anon. Who's the fourth one?

>>23527342
Except it's not. Enjoy your trolling.

>ANN
Saging.

sounds like a butthurt comeback to something.
what did you guys say to him again?
stop being so mean to ANNfags, they'll cry ;_;

>>23527385
Dude, you're a fucking retard, the humor has little to do with the content itself.

>>23527384
hahaahha

>>23527413
>Who's the fourth one?

Summer...

>>23527218

Shana is an action show.
ZnT is a harem slapstick.
Toradora is a romantic dramedy.

Apart from a single character, they are nothing alike.

>>23527203
It's because he stands for everything we oppose, or at least the original Answerman did. "Morality" over freedom of expression, supporting the local "industry" over consuming what we want, etc.

The funny part is that the people who write the seasonal previews are obviously watching fansubs and don't speak Japanese, despite Answerman's vehement stance on pirating.

>>23527389

Anime internet piracy can't be blamed for stuff like this, I think it's more of a sign that anime fandom in America is dwindling as a whole. There's barely any more anime on TV these days, unless you feel like watching at 1:30 AM on Saturdays only. That's not how you attract people.

Anime was only huge in the early 2000's because Cartoon Network played two fuck hours of it when every kid got home from school. That's MASSIVE exposure that doesn't happen anymore. And I think that's a much bigger issue than us not buying DVDs.

>>23527456
>they are nothing alike.
hahahahahahahahahaahahahahaha

>>23527440
I have seen both and not found humor. Believe me, I know humor. Ignorant political opinion and gross-out stupidity are not humor.

>>23527342
>Haruhi

dur duuuurrr

>>23527469
This. I find it funny when the industry blames fansubs and yet they can smell the coffee and see that the market doesn't care for it like it used to. Fansubs are partially to blame however.

>>23527469
>Anime was only huge in the early 2000's because Cartoon Network played two fuck hours of it when every kid got home from school. That's MASSIVE exposure that doesn't happen anymore. And I think that's a much bigger issue than us not buying DVDs.

This is absolutely the problem above everything else. I have some friends that still fervently talk about DBZ, and are COMPLETE normalfags.

Of coruse, this isn't just restricted to anime - all cartoons in general are getting overshadowed by mass amounts of LA work.

>>23527461
Some of them claims that it is alright to do so as long as it is not licensed. I remember reading this somewhere, even if that means there is only 1 or 2 episodes until the season is over, STOP RIGHT THERE and now you've got to wait for a couple of months just to see this episode.

>>23527480
cool opinion bro, apparently the masses disagree with you.

>>23527327

I got a shiver. This describes how I was all too well, and exactly why I hate forumfags.

>>23527469
>anime fandom in America is dwindling as a whole

That's because the kid's networks, like Cartoon Network, are trying to position their shitty cartoons, and that adults only like animated crap like Spongebob, and fail to see that anime can apply to many audiences.

>>23527474
>implying that they are.

Easiest way to out a troll is to confront them. Why don't you elaborate then? And no, same VA and tsundere/loli != the series is the same.

You have to be a moron to... Oh wait, you're just trolling.

>>23527532

AS didn't even pick up Gurren Lagann. That's just plain sad.

Hell, will Baccano get the shaft, too?

>>23527469
CN shouldn't of made the retarded decision to stick most anime on Adult Swim.

Most of the stuff on Adult Swim could fit in fine on Toonami. If they could of aired Kenshin and Gundam Wing they could air Bleach or Code Geass among others.

Air the unedited episodes on Adult Swim but don't pick up shit like Blue Dragon.

>>23527524

Of course you can blame fansubs, but at the same time, can you BLAME (italics) them? Fansubs have improved steadily while DVDs remain the same. Back when DVDs were taking off, the only fansubs you'd see online were .rm's or low quality .avi's. Now look at what we have, and how fast we get it. Morality aside, this isn't like downloading a camrip of transformers 2 to try and beat the system. In this case, the system is lagging behind and people only stop to care if they have enough conscience or morality, or they just really like a specific show. This of course more describes people who like to download things as a whole.

>>23527327
Chillingly accurate.

I will still register for a forum for a specific thing every now and then to post some information or ask a question, but I never become part of their "communities" anymore.

>>23527461
>The funny part is that the people who write the seasonal previews are obviously watching fansubs and don't speak Japanese, despite Answerman's vehement stance on pirating.

I always laugh at that.

>>23527566
Let's see: Shana, Tsukaima, Toradora

>same VA
>same magazine for all 3
>same animation studio
>same tsundere violence agains a wimp male

Way too alike.

>>23527549
Like I give a damn about other people's opinions about funny.

Anime will probably pick steam again in the west later on.

>>23527327
> I even used emoticons! Even the dreaded smilie face after saying something entirely negative, just to save face!

FUCK

>>23527549
Happy reminder: The mass can be wrong.
See: the nigger at the top of the country.

>>23527327
>Even the dreaded smilie face after saying something entirely negative, just to save face!
God were you a faggot.

Being 12 doesn't excuse that. I hated that shit when I was 10. Repent.

>>23527668

Only if it gets massive exposure. "Internet TV is the way of the future!" Not really, people like being passive and just watching TV coming to you, not you actively clicking for it.

People buy Sirius and XM radios, because they want fewer commercials, but they still want the randomness and lack of control that radio presents over just plugging in your iPod and playing your own songs. At least, that's how I feel. Watching a show on Hulu is just for when you're too troubled to be watching it on the actually TV. The whole point is to expose to more people, and having to click on an address and then click through lists and then click on an episode is still faaaar harder than turning on the TV and flipping to the right station.

I want more anime on TV, but it'll never happen again, it's over. Look at Japan, most of their anime is probably on satellite channels these days.

>>23527668
I hope so. That depends both in the japanese studios pitching and licencing their material appropiatedly (demanding certain timeslots or voice actors), and the US networks by acknowledging that anime is good stuff, sometimes better than the shit they make.

>>23527652
>same VA, same magazine for all 3, same animation studio

All production details, nothing about the contents of the series

>same tsundere violence agains a wimp male.
We said "besides that one character."

So you have 0/4. You've never watched them, have you?

>>23527718
>See: the nigger at the top of the country.

>Do not post the following outside of /b/: Trolls, flames,
>racism,
>off-topic replies, uncalled for catchphrases, macro image replies, indecipherable text (example: "lol u tk him 2da bar|?"), anthropomorphic ("furry"), grotesque ("guro"), or loli/shota pornography.

>>23527617
>>23527327
The one advantage that forums have is that topics can continue for more then a few hours.

Of course there's that whole retarded prohibition that forums have on "necrobumping".
I've been to large forums where they considered bumping to be anything past the first page and if you bumped a huge topic that was on the second page they would then lock it.

Then if you ask a question they'll just lock your thread immediately and say it's already been answered in an old thread which you of course can't post in again.


I'm kinda intrested in trying to join a Usenet community. Course by now those probably are just full of really oldfags. Should be interesting

lol wut?

I don't know about the rest of /a/ but that doesn't sound like me at all. I only watch a very select few series each season.

Answerman has a serious superiority complex it seems.

>>23527796
>Do not post the following outside of /b/: Trolls, flames,
lol.

>>23527652

I don't even remember Taiga hitting ryuuji. It's been a while since I watched it but it definitely couldn't have been a very big part of it at all.

>>23527814
I tried to join the ones about pedophilia but it seems the government mandates ISP to block them.

>>23527789
It's the same shit (a neurotic girl kicking the ass of a wimp kid), with different details in the sidelines.

I see that you like tsunderes, Anon. Otherwise, you wouldn't be so defensive. Enjoy your masochism, then.

>>23527770

But it's cheaper to hire those fresh out of animation school graduates, give them some flash software, and have them make fucking terrible shows. That's western animation's problem. What can /co/ name that isn't a Disney Major Motion Picture or Avatar that's a recent example of a good animation? I expect crickets.

>>23527796

>>23527652
You do realize only the last one applies to the story, right?

Which means, by your definition, Evangelion = Zero no Tsukaima.

Let that ruminate for a moment.

>>23527836

Nobody on /a/ brags about how many series they own, and how many shows they watch.

In fact, we do the
EXACT.
FUCKING.
OPPOSITE.

What kind of fucking moron is this, seriously.

>>23527652
>same VA
>same magazine for all 3
>same animation studio
>same tsundere violence agains a wimp male
Is your cognitive ability functional there, buddy? These are irreverent in how they are alike. And oh wow, like I have never seen a normal tsundere trait before. Any series with a tsundere who has a combative personality must be all the same, amirite? And are you serious? Those male leads are far from wimps. They even have some badass/awesome moments of their own. Except for Ryuji, though...he's more just normal..

Your generalization on that last one is transparent and is working against you. How pathetic.

>>23527865
You better not be implying Ryuuji was a wimp, you nigger.

>>23527761
This is very true. I would often find my family members or roommates had put on some random movie they didn't like or a rerun of a sitcom even though they had just bought a DVD or downloaded a movie they could be watching instead. People like being at the mercy of the programming because it takes less work, or at least seems like less work, or less commitment in their minds.

However, I'd also add that people think of TV as being free even though it's not technically. This is also an important aspect of anime awareness, since DVDs are not going to sell well without any previous experience with the programs. DVD purchases in any country are based largely on fans of the TV broadcast or theater release, and without airing things on TV people will be afraid of spending money on something new.

>>23527865

All series with a tsundere are exactly the same, got it.

>>23527907
Lately there has been more of that, with nostalgiafags and all, but I do remember the anti-Anime Expert days.

>>23527907

Ahahaha, he really got it completely wrong, didn't he.

>>23527870
Do you mean like, a good cartoon in general?

Because there's stuff like Chowder, Flapjack, the newest Spiderman cartoon etc..

>>23527870
Sad, yet true. And it would be cheaper still to buy the licence for a decent anime, hire regarded VAs and play it on a good schedule.

But no. The public now demands LOL SO RANDUM SPUNGEBUB XD. And all western shows are following that pattern, including The Simpsons.

What he fails to realize is that a large portion of the people who read his article also browse /a/. The fact is, huge amounts of people post on forums like ANN forums, narutoforums, and animesuki, and also post here. Go on to any of the forums mentioned and you'll regularly find screencaps from /a/ etc.

He thinks there's some great divide between "his kind" of anime fans, and the people who browse /a/, something many people who post on /a/ seem to think too. But the fact is, they're the same faggots.

>>23527974
>And all western shows are following that pattern, including The Simpsons
IT'S TRUE

On reflection I don't think this is a bad thing. Answerman is clearly wrong with his comments about /a/ (although depending on how you read it he was using /a/ as another hyperbole, not actually talking about us) in several ways as this thread as pointed out, but why do we care? If 12 year old naruto fans decide that /a/ is a bad place, than that is a great thing for /a/, we already have too many of them running around here during the day. (is it just me or has the nighttime /a/ phenomena been stronger lately?).

>>23528033
>ANN forums, narutoforums, and animesuki, and also post here. Go on to any of the forums mentioned and you'll regularly find screencaps from /a/ etc.

LALALALALA IT'S NOT TRUE LALALALA
fuck

You know, I quite liked Megas XLR. Action, parody, and it was something different, too.

But then CN cancelled it because the businessmen didn't understand it. Because THEY didn't understand it. Cartoons, not being anthropormorphic characters doing slapstick comedy, like they did in my childhood!? That's absurd! Cancel it, cancel it now!

We'll have to wait a generation or two for all of us to grow up so networks would be more open to a wider variety of programming.

>>23527814
Some I've seen are the exact opposite of that too. They'll get pissed if you start a thread without searching for if it has ever been discussed before, even if the last thread is years old.

It's true that this style of BBS has speed issues though. I remember being able to post a thread before bed or a class or whatever and being able to come back later to read it and still reply, and that was a lot nicer than it is now, where it sometimes feels like a chat room. The archive helps with that though, at least when the search function is working.

>>23527921
I couldn't care less for the males of those shows. It that I FUCKING HATE TSUNDERES. I have an imperative need to impale Shana, Loiuse and Taiga and barbeque their annoying bitch bodies.

Just that.

>>23528071
>We'll have to wait a generation or two for all of us to grow up so networks would be more open to a wider variety of programming.

That's assuming any of us will be doing anything with our future

>>23528043
I agree. I think we should be worse assholes with "normalfags".

>>23528071
I like to think they cancelled megas xlr because it was nothing but a shitty fan idea created to fill a time slot.

Sounds like preaching to buyfags who have to live off slowpoke R1 release schedules.

>>23527974
So the hell cares?

I don't want my interests becoming mainstream.

>>23527865
>girl kicking the ass of a wimp kid), with different details in the sidelines.
>Yuji
>Ryuuji
Hmmmmmmmm.

I see you have never even watched them. Otherwise, you wouldn't sound so ignorant. Also, Saito used to get beat, but he isn't a wimp. He's just an idiot in love. A badass and sometimes manly idiot...

>>23527974
decent anime shouldn't be dubbed here.
they'd be happier someplace else.

>>23528146

Feels like one of the big differences between typical people here and there is that we buy the show because we've seen it and liked it, if we buy at all. They buy because they're only heard things about it.

>>23528043
I think the nighttime phenomenon has been weaker lately. I don't know if it's summer or what, but I've seen several Naruto and Bleach threads at night as of late.

Of course there was a time when nighttime was exactly the same, back when you could easily access threads from the day before.

talking about us offsite is fucking weak.

also cancer

Taiga usually don't beats Ryuuji, she treats him way better than the other girls. And he sometimes is kinda mean to her.

And Saitou from ZnT isn't a wimp guy. He faced a entire army by himself.

>>23528178

That's because nighttime /a/ doesn't give a shit about what kind of threads get posted. They actually talk about anime as opposed to wasting their time flaming naruto threads.