07-11-2013, 08:45 AM
I still don't know why to this day why so many Americans are so obsessed with anime and I'm really am stumped, yet to have a clear answer on why so far. (Don't mean to sound harsh, just curious that's all)
Anyway, I would if anyone can since it is going to be a mountain of a task to recommend any anime that is suitable. Now basically describing my likes is very hard due to not watching much TV at all and the stuff that is on isn't really interesting to me due to most of them either being dramas, scripted and fixed game shows, comedies/talk shows that I don't find funny at all or geared towards 50-60 year old demographic [e.g. cooking, antiques shows, documentaries] all repeated a million times on various channels. Either that or stress.
Out of the limited shows that I watch are Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog [even then not every episode and pretty much my fav], Futurama [episode by episode case and even then the older ones are better], Simpsons [usually episode by episode case, prefer up to Season 9 but after that is okay until the current HD era where episodes are stiff and as dull as a soap opera], Looney Tunes - usually the Bugs Bunny shorts but also Road Runner and Daffy Duck [you probably guessed it by now], the various Mario cartoons even if they are rubbish, Donkey Kong Country, Danger Mouse even if I haven't seen it in years and Batman: The Brave and the Bold. As you can see it makes even strictiest censorship look tame by comparison. The only live action shows that I actually do like are Only Fools and Horses, Bottom, Mr. Bean and Benidorm (not for the humour but it is the case of recognising the places) even then it is hard to describe what that is towards Americans.
Movies are probably easier to explain, stuff like The Blues Brothers and its hated sequel [I'm certain there was a Blues Brothers type of anime], Terminator 2, Trading Places, Jason Bourne, James Bond (especially the Brosnon/Sean Connery types), RoboCop, Vinnie Jones version of Mean Machine, classic Star Wars Trilogy, even Shirley Valentine.
The main problem is that some anime (even the Studio Ghilbi movies) deal with death, murder or suicide and that upsets me quite a bit so nothing that references death/murder/suicide please. I mean some one saying Prepare to die or stuff along them lines are okay but showing it is a different matter. Another thing is that I'm not into giant robots, fan service, pervertiness [years ago I thought that Arcade Gamer interested me until I realised that she gets her powers from a fan up her butt and that fact really put me off], trading cards or anything competitive based, slice of life shows or teenagers and schools [even if they are in a different era] so that's a vast majority of anime out of the picture. Also from the ones that I looked at below, the animation style seems bad frame rate skipping that bothers me so preferable to be as smooth as possible but I know most anime do this for budget reasons [cartoons just outsource them to South Korea or China].
Preferably in English however am acceptable to Japanese audio/English sub if it is unavailable. Also it has to be sort of easy to find, not going through obscure Hong Kong dubs that only one website had that has long gone.
Out of the ones that I watched and tried, none of them appealed to me. Wasn't interested in Dragon Ball Z, tried to watch Sonic X 6 times with 6 different episodes and didn't enjoy it at all, gave up on Lupin the 3rd: The Castle of Cagelistro after 45 minutes, the less said about Sailor Moon the better. I swear if I watched any more episodes of that I would be sent to prison on murder charges, no joke (that goes against my personality). Pokemon caused me to cry as well.
Sonic the Movie (Sonic OVA, the one with the President and the cat girl), Art of Fighting and Ninja Gaiden were okay but they were one shots [or two shots for the former that combined into one] and most people don't like the latter two especially Art of Fighting.
Sadly so far, it seems to be yet to be the case for me even though it is true for most people.
Anyway, I would if anyone can since it is going to be a mountain of a task to recommend any anime that is suitable. Now basically describing my likes is very hard due to not watching much TV at all and the stuff that is on isn't really interesting to me due to most of them either being dramas, scripted and fixed game shows, comedies/talk shows that I don't find funny at all or geared towards 50-60 year old demographic [e.g. cooking, antiques shows, documentaries] all repeated a million times on various channels. Either that or stress.
Out of the limited shows that I watch are Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog [even then not every episode and pretty much my fav], Futurama [episode by episode case and even then the older ones are better], Simpsons [usually episode by episode case, prefer up to Season 9 but after that is okay until the current HD era where episodes are stiff and as dull as a soap opera], Looney Tunes - usually the Bugs Bunny shorts but also Road Runner and Daffy Duck [you probably guessed it by now], the various Mario cartoons even if they are rubbish, Donkey Kong Country, Danger Mouse even if I haven't seen it in years and Batman: The Brave and the Bold. As you can see it makes even strictiest censorship look tame by comparison. The only live action shows that I actually do like are Only Fools and Horses, Bottom, Mr. Bean and Benidorm (not for the humour but it is the case of recognising the places) even then it is hard to describe what that is towards Americans.
Movies are probably easier to explain, stuff like The Blues Brothers and its hated sequel [I'm certain there was a Blues Brothers type of anime], Terminator 2, Trading Places, Jason Bourne, James Bond (especially the Brosnon/Sean Connery types), RoboCop, Vinnie Jones version of Mean Machine, classic Star Wars Trilogy, even Shirley Valentine.
The main problem is that some anime (even the Studio Ghilbi movies) deal with death, murder or suicide and that upsets me quite a bit so nothing that references death/murder/suicide please. I mean some one saying Prepare to die or stuff along them lines are okay but showing it is a different matter. Another thing is that I'm not into giant robots, fan service, pervertiness [years ago I thought that Arcade Gamer interested me until I realised that she gets her powers from a fan up her butt and that fact really put me off], trading cards or anything competitive based, slice of life shows or teenagers and schools [even if they are in a different era] so that's a vast majority of anime out of the picture. Also from the ones that I looked at below, the animation style seems bad frame rate skipping that bothers me so preferable to be as smooth as possible but I know most anime do this for budget reasons [cartoons just outsource them to South Korea or China].
Preferably in English however am acceptable to Japanese audio/English sub if it is unavailable. Also it has to be sort of easy to find, not going through obscure Hong Kong dubs that only one website had that has long gone.
Out of the ones that I watched and tried, none of them appealed to me. Wasn't interested in Dragon Ball Z, tried to watch Sonic X 6 times with 6 different episodes and didn't enjoy it at all, gave up on Lupin the 3rd: The Castle of Cagelistro after 45 minutes, the less said about Sailor Moon the better. I swear if I watched any more episodes of that I would be sent to prison on murder charges, no joke (that goes against my personality). Pokemon caused me to cry as well.
Sonic the Movie (Sonic OVA, the one with the President and the cat girl), Art of Fighting and Ninja Gaiden were okay but they were one shots [or two shots for the former that combined into one] and most people don't like the latter two especially Art of Fighting.
MexicanAnime Wrote:As silly as this sounds, I do think there's at least one anime out there for each person that they will really enjoy.
Sadly so far, it seems to be yet to be the case for me even though it is true for most people.