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I haven't indulged in a lot of them, but I think I said earlier in the thread that I've seen shit like Fullmetal Alchemist, Cowboy Bebop, early Bleach etc. simply from sitting around inebriated in high school in the middle of the night when Toonami would show up on cartoon network.
Those types of anime, like Bebop, are the ones I'm referring to when I talk about "better" anime that's tolerable in small doses.
Also I have been exposed to anime through other means, like I'll sometimes watch youtubers discuss older anime or make fun of newer anime. I've seen Kenny Lauderdale and Mother's Basement.
My issues with anime is a bit more with the medium itself I think.
I'd imagine anime fans are honestly a lot more immersed in media consoomerism to begin with, they watch movies, TV, you'll virtually never find one who doesn't also play a ton of videogames (which is also why a lot of anime inserts videogame tropes or mechanics), so they're a lot more desensitized.
Here, I use the comparison of eating sugary foods for a reason.
People who were raised eating cheap garbage, they won't see anything wrong with a lot of the processed foods they'll find in grocery stores.
Meanwhile if a person cooks for themselves a lot or comes from a different country where they eat less processed stuff, 75% of the ready-to-eat food items they find will taste overwhelmingly cheap and sweet/salty, because it's designed to appeal to the desensitized American palate.
(Edit: The above is a slightly confusing metaphor. My point was that anime fans are desensitized to media consumption as a whole because of their culture and upbringing, in the same way fat people are desensitized to consumption of cheap ingredients due to their culture and upbringing).
Also, exactly like with anime, people who are raised and accustomed to eating cheap processed food find it legitimately inconceivable how other people eat.
They're eating fucking fast food multiple times a week and drinking Mountain Dew daily, and when you tell them that you've eaten fast food once or twice in the last couple years, cook almost everything you eat, and don't even keep sweet beverages or desserts in your house, they can't comprehend it.
They don't know anything else, to them what they're doing is "normal".
Of course it isn't normal, it was never normal to anyone in any time period. It's only normal to them, in their hyper-specific cheap ADHD modern lifestyle. And the key part is that their health and well being suffers for it, that's demonstrable (it isn't incidental that so anime is associated with such dysfunctional people).
You can't even eat meals together because they have to pump everything full of cheap, overstimulating ingredients, everything you eat will be "boring" and taste like cardboard to them.
That's anime, and why I'm an anime detractor.
It can be tolerable in small doses, but for people not raised on a diet of endless cartoons/videogames you rarely seek it out, and it's disturbing watching people turn it into their entire diet.
PS: I've attached a waifu. I like that it has round ears.
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