Why do you watch anime?

Runbo · newbie! Joined: Aug 07, 2006 Posts: 18

There are many reasons why people watch animes or read mangas...
for example:

-a manga/anime might really connect to you (you can empathize with the main character?)

-a good storyline suitable to one's taste

-want to learn japanese? Very Happy

-want to stare at oversized boobs? Cool

and so on...etc, etc, etc...

Feedbacks appreciated Laughing

TheLoneBrit101 · Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 8:29 pm Post subject:

The few animes that stand out to be me as being epic are mainly because I can put myself in that main characters shoes. Know what he's really feeling. Total empathy.

This rarely happens though and as a result, I tend to watch anime that have a good plot to them.

As for intentionaly sitting down to watch anime so as to learn japanese, not really. Obviously you pick up the odd word now and then sub-conciously and it sticks ie. 'Baka!' and 'Arigato'.

Fan-service. Not for me. Unless it's Ikki Tousen or the like, who's plot is so bad that the only reason you'd watch it in the first place is to see the clothes on the girls being ripped to shreds, and their boobs bouncing everywhere.

Another reason I might sit down to watch anime is to change my mood. For example: if I'm in an overly depressive state (which seems to be all the time now), I'll sit down to a Studio Ghibli film like My Neighbour Totoro, which will without a doubt have me jumping and smiling with joy again.

sakib · Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 9:43 pm Post subject:

must the answer always be complicated?

i watch anime cause it gives me joy, simply joy. It gives me a place to get away from reality, to give me a place to forget pains and just let my imagination flow, like Asperger's disease but not quite. sure i can learn a bit of japanese, stare at impossible proportions, and of course it provides me a decent story but that happens as a side effect for me really. It's like the Brit said, if i'm not feeling so good, anime always changes my mood. Unless, of course, you watch chrono crusade, that will never be able to make me feel good
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du5k · A-Source Staff Joined: Nov 05, 2005 Posts: 6357

Hmm you might want to ask for special reasons instead...

To me, it's simple... Cool

I got sick of TV (i kept looking at the flaws a actor can make)
I get bored of games fast
I dun have a game console... Sad

Sick of DoTA, totally
etc etc

yo my main entertainment currently is only Anime (and Manga)

Angel_Armz · Rosen Ritter~ Joined: Dec 05, 2006 Posts: 10983

What does DoTA stand for?

I'm into anime because I can easily believe the plot than I would for live-action. It always amaze me how fictional characters can stir great emotion and story that questions Hollywood loves to remake.
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du5k · A-Source Staff Joined: Nov 05, 2005 Posts: 6357

google dota or DoTA or something and you'll see

heard of Warcraft 3? dota is a custom map running on the Warcraft 3 engine, but nowadays people buy Warcraft 3 JUST to play dota

DoTA= Defence of the Ancients

Runbo · newbie! Joined: Aug 07, 2006 Posts: 18

Interesting. I watch anime mostly because I'm bored. However, I tend to be a bit choosy in particular about what I watch... I mainly like good animes/mangas with a good storyline, and also to learn a little Japanese XD I wana travel to japan sometime later.

katsushiro · Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 5:23 am Post subject:

I watch anime as a hobby and interest. It serves as an outlet for frustration sometimes. This can help improve character analysis especially when I got my Psych class last semester.
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xenocrisis0153 · Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 5:44 am Post subject: Re: Why do you watch anime?

trueline · Pure Hope Joined: Jun 13, 2006 Posts: 5134

well i think ppl in 19th century entertain themselves by reading novels
then after ages watching TVs and the last one, the modren ages watching animes. heehee ^___^

that was in general but to me i watch to learn from everything
and some of them are for joy since there are many things dont exist in
reality.
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Angel_Armz · Rosen Ritter~ Joined: Dec 05, 2006 Posts: 10983

I should also mention that now I think I have a otaku obsession over anime. Not the kind where I'll dress and have room full of figures and poster. But a weird obsession that I can't let go. Can't explain. -_-
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du5k · A-Source Staff Joined: Nov 05, 2005 Posts: 6357

Otaku are more of a term that are used to describe
1. (in the bad way) a person with no life, so the person spend most of his time watching anime as his only source of entertainment.
2. (in the good way) a person who describes himselfs as a person heavily devoted to anime and prouds of it.

So do not have to nessasary be an otaku even if you're obsessed with anime.

Angel_Armz · Rosen Ritter~ Joined: Dec 05, 2006 Posts: 10983

Uh oh, number #1 is leaning on me!
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Keitarou · Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 12:46 pm Post subject:

I watch anime in hopes of discovering a cure for cancer. true story.
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sakib · Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 3:24 pm Post subject: