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Why do people who don't like anime think it stops at Dragonball Z and Pokemon

Everytime I pull Anime/Manga/Manwha out people ask me "oh Sailor Moon?" < SAILOR MOON there was this one time when my cousins came over and I had posters up of Final Fantasy and they said "Oh Sailor Moon..." < again with the SAILOR MOON! urgh~! >D Oh well what I can I do about it. Yu gi Oh is alright... but SAILOR MOON! That's sooo old school! oO Don't get me wrong I was a big Sailor Moon fan but that was when it was actually on Tv.
 
well,u should convince to them that u really really dislike sailormoon now and u are going for pokemon?at least better than sailor M
 
DBZ is amazing! Pokemon is OK!

Hey,

Dont give up on anime such as DBZ and Pokemon!

I'll never give up on 'em!

If ya like it, and others dont, who cares!

I draw DBZ at school, and no one will stop me!
 
I hate how people judge anime before they've even seen any of it. True, most of them have seen the mainstream animes, but those are few and far between. Anime has something for everyone and if you look a bit harder you'll find something to your likeing. One of my friend's mother won't allow her to watch anime because she thinks it's bad. Not all anime is bad. Sure you've got your hentai, but there is more decent faimly oriented animes out there. Pokemon is one of those. Sailor Moon is a good against evil that doens't have much violence or blood and such. I wish people wouldn't be so narrowminded sometimes. Why is it if we here one thing bad about something we think it's all bad? We all have bad stuff about us: selfishness, laziness, no consideration for others, but we also have our plus sides. I wish people would just take the time to look at the positive side of things. The part of the glass that is half full.
 
I also agree that in anime, their is one for everyone of us. I remember back when I was younger, I was all into anime that had alot of fighting, and I grew to love that, even when I was 19, but as soon as I hit 20, I dunno what happened, but I wasn't to big into fighting anymore, so I grew out of it. Now being 21yrs old, I'm very picky with anime, for example I don't really like Naruto, it's not that Naruto isn't good, I love the animation for it, the storylines pretty cool too, but theirs too much fighting. I don't mind fighting but when theirs too much, I grow tired of it, reasons why I bought Kare Kano, only fighting in there is the kendo fights, about it.

I dunno what happened to me, funny thing is, I'll watch DBZ over Naruto, yeah, I know, DBZ has tons more fighting, but man, I used to watch it when I was little and it was imported from Japan, with NO english subtitles, so it's just to satisfy my child part of me. I also have to say that DBZ, and Sailor Moon are no pushover animes, for they have spawned tons of anime episodes for their part, which shows that they weren't just some fluke, especially DBZ, having the original DB, then DBZ(over 200 episodes just here alone), and the GT series. They definetly deserve credit where it's due.
 

Same here. The first anime that I was really hooked into was the Moonfaced one. Still like it since August 1995. Now there's a live-action version of the show, so you know the legacy of a young gal with blond pigtails and blue eyes, pearls and a white gown with crescent on forehead is still popular.

Btw gang, what is manwha? Not to be disrespectful of the genre and/or its fans, but does it have to do with Native Americans or indigenous people all over the world, or the WWF?
 
You guys have right

The people centralizes Anime to much with DBZ and Pokemon.
I was a great DBZ fan but when I discovered all the others Anime:
Ahhhhhh , I thought, how I could watch DBZ all this time!!

Then Pokemon, I have to admit, I still watch the new seasons

Well the only thing we should say about those "kids animes"

..............For commercial use only......

Animes like Chobits, CowboyBebop, Hellsing (three very different sorts of anime) are for us!!!!
 
yeah...but animes tend to become more and more ecchi...
 
... oh well... (stupid 15 words minimum... >___<
 
just compare orange road and kimi ga nozomu eien ^^'
 
Great, I also face a same kind problem with you~~
I like DBZ and pokemon when i was little, then i grew up, i felt that anime not suitable to me already...(but I also will choose some 'good' animelah..) Don't know why? Doesn't matter how you try.... now, I only fancy at Inuyasha, Conan, Gundam W only... others they can't seem attracting anymore.......No~~~
 
Hihi i usually watch everything i can download ^^
so my 220Gb HDD is full lah...
however i usually prefer animes like saikano
 
dreamer said:
yeah...but animes tend to become more and more ecchi...
This I definately agrees with you,it's almost every anime you can see ecchi!
 
well its really gotta do with it with the amount shown on the tv. Here in holland anime isnt that liked by people esp kids. I used to rent some akira animes and such if ya can see how good anime can be than i do think people will change their opinion about it.

but i guess most of the anime shown here...is on demand for the kids. Easy as that.
 
I have seen neither DBZ nor Pokemon, and I like my anime. But as I live in the UK (and therefore can't see it on television), I only watch stuff that I have either bought on DVD or downloaded from animesuki.com and the like.

Fansubs are wonderful...
 
Well, my guess is that because DBZ (which I can't stand) and Pokemon (ditto) was so omnipresent on TV, both broadcast and cable, uninformed people early on probably thought those shows were the sum total of anime, which of course isn't true.

Also, DBZ and Pokemon have tremendous appeal to young kids who enjoy the simplistic, uncomplicated nature of those shows. Shows like Neon Genesis Evangelion, Ruroni Kenshin or Please Save My Earth would go right over their heads. And you can bet your bottom dollar they'd avoid shojo like the plague!!

But with The Anime Channel soon to become more widespread, perhaps more people will come to realize that there's more to anime than the stuff seen on DBZ and Pokemon.
 
I think that if anime got known everywhere and it was talked about everyday, it would get "boring" in a way and would lose it's specialness. I say let the ignorant be ignorant, if they happen to like anime then good for them.
 
Maybe commoners perceive anime as cartoons and they have a mindset that cartoons are only meant for kids and nobody else. In that sense, if adults watch anime, people will say that they had not grown up and matured yet..... I think this might one of the probable cause..
 
Commoners? I didn't realize being an anime fan made you royalty.
 
flashjeff said:
But with The Anime Channel soon to become more widespread...

The Anime Channel?! I had no idea that there was such a thing! Where is it offered now? Is it only on satellite?
 
hey im royalty, i eat pizza and watch downloaded unlicensed anime on my comp, or watch re runs of the good episodes of ccs hahahaha, i need a queen in anime kingdom.. :joyful:
 
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