Speed Racer.

That reminds me, today there is a new episode of House. All is right will world.

Why I like anime? I have no idea.
I don't even need to know why I like anime. I like it, and that's enough for me.

>>48642555
>Why do you guys like anime?
Could you be more specific? That's kind of like asking someone 'why do you like movies' or something.

Various reasons.

Initially it was because your average anime is more cinematic than your average western cartoon. Take a look at Scooby Doo, for example, a large portion of it is animated in a way where the camera is perpendicular to an opposite wall and just scrolls as they run/walk. This happens a lot, and is common in nearly every western animated TV series. On the other hand, you get angled shots, you get dynamic camera work, and all sorts in anime. This makes it more serious and more gripping. This actually makes up for the fact anime has wore animation than western cartoons generally (which is caused by the industry not having enough money).

These days, I appreciate not it, not only for that, but it's diversity of content. 90% of anime are things that just could not exist in the climate of the western animation industry. Ghost in the Shell? Serial Experiments Lain? Kara no Kyoukai? This applies to some sillier stuff, and even stuff like Seikon no Qwaser too, since things like that just can't exist in the western industry, but the Japanese animation industry is so diverse it allows all that.

Don't get me wrong, the western animation industry is great. Due to the large amount of money circulation, they make some god damn amazing shit. Wall-E is one of my favourite movies of all time - but even it is proof of the way the western industry lacks diversity. 90% of western animated works are either family/kids TV shows and movies or comedy aimed at older teens that parodies current events.

Because there are some very awesome series and I keep watching new ones hoping to find more.

>>48642555
>implying /a/ likes anime

the looseness of reality in animation + the weirdness of Japan = PURE WIN

>>48642751
>Take a look at Scooby Doo, for example, a large portion of it is animated in a way where the camera is perpendicular to an opposite wall
Oh god my mind. It's funny how something can be so obviously patterned yet you never really notice it until someone points it out.

Mostly because anime can and does pull off things with a moderate budget which would be impossible (or extremely expensive) in live action.

>>48642555
There were a few movies/shows which had a huge effect on me, that's why. Nowadays there are less shows which can achieve the same thing by every season, so now I'm seriously wandering why I still watch them. Thank god Madoka made my loyalty renewed.

>>48642727
Is it the one where a patient is admitted to the hospital for something simple like a stomach ache and is given treatment for it so they can be released, only to find out that a more serious, life threatening problem has been uncovered in the patient, and no one knows what the problem could be? The one where the patient is then forced to go through a series of tests which all do nothing to actually pinpoint the source or reason why the person is ill, up until the very last minute where House bursts into the room, knowing all along what the problem was and solves it in front of everybody?

That one?

PLOT.

Cartoons seldom have PLOT.

Also for the detailed character DEVELOPMENTS.

I actually like /a/ more than anime.
I mean, c'mon. Who here actually watches anime.

>>48642907
>Nowadays there are less shows which can achieve the same thing by every season
That's because you watch things in higher density than you did before. The more you watch, the less likely you are of being amazed. That's not really a problem of the medium itself though - people don't make anime specifically so you can watch it as part of a hobby, they make them as individual shows, so you're going to grow bored or be less excited if you keep watching more and more.

Try skipping a season, or perhaps only watching old stuff.

>>48642913
Meanwhile House acts like a dick to his patience and Wilson is constantly going OH U while Cuddy is always on the verge of filing for sexual harrassment and some of the other filler characters nobody cares about gets into some sexual relationship that doesn't last long.

I don't know.

>>48643016
THAT'S THE ONE!!

>This is how every episode of House goes, and yet...I still watch it

>>48643012
Good point, and you are partially right. I still think that there was a bottom in quality somewhere in the last 1-2 years. I can see that a few people want to create good, original shows (Anime no Chikara for example), so ,maybe we are going up on that hill now. And I already skipped almost a full season, but it doesn't really make things better. Very few shows can catch my attention.

>>48642555
Do you like Anime if you do why? If you don't, why not?

>>48642751

I wish the western market had more of a taste for that kinda stuff that's in animes. Maybe we don't need seikon no quaiser level things but what about all the actiony/deep/fun animes? I wish we had more of those, maybe we need to build more of a fanbase, we don't really ever spread the word of anime much anymore because we can just watch subbed anime on youtube/theinternet and don't need any western intervention of it to bring it to us, so there's no demand from the people who would start a revolution/trend for it. we're all just in our basements, we can't just reach out to normal folk easily and get them to watch it.

I'm obviously a hipster.

>>48643100
>I still think that there was a bottom in quality somewhere in the last 1-2 years.
Gonna have to strongly disagree.

Kara no Kyoukai, Sora no Woto, Eden of the East, both TTGL movies, K-ON! (yes, I mean it), The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya and many more are pretty representative of damn good quality, and I'm fairly sure those were all the past 2 years or so.

But if nothing is grabbing, nothing is grabbing. I would like to say, don't blame the industry, since it's probably more that you're kinda bored, than it is the industry has become lower quality.

dunno

KC Green is fucking hilarious.

I like anime because fun things are fun.

>>48643248

>>48643242
I can agree with most of the points you've made, but honestly I don't find most of those examples you gave particularly compelling. Sora No Woto? I'll accept it as difference in taste but I just don't see why you'd choose that of all the examples you could pick from.

>>48643292
Really, you didn't like Sora No Woto?

I loved it. Great art, great soundtrack, wonderful mood, likable characters, and for gods sake, finally, a series that talks and is about serious things like war that doesn't have an utterly depressing ending.

It did have some problems though, but for me, they just weren't that important.