Just like when people ask me why I read Fantasy/Sci-Fi, I tell them I can get a thriller, a comedy, romance, and in addition have what the interesting background gives me.

Anime has some tropes unique to it, just like Western Sphagettis have some tropes, but overall, a drama is a drama, a thriller is a thriller. If you enjoy thrillers in primetime TV, you should also enjoy them in anime form and vice versa.

Which is why I tell people who say they hadn’t watched enough anime, to review/comment, that knowledge in other media fields is transferable.
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After years of being an anime fan, haha, I have came to realise some stuff.

You all are forgetting something, Something that I missed out too until I got rudely reminded on.

I used to look for the ‘anime’ songs genre on the internet. To my lol, ‘ani-son’ isn’t a genre at all! There are jazz, country, blues, electronic, rap, pop j-songs…

Get the point now? Saying Anime has different genres is ehh…..

You can’t say it’s the plot that attracts u to Anime. It just happened to be on an anime. It could have been a movie’s plot, a soap-drama’s. If I tell u the death note movie came first before the anime, or even the manga, then what? So the movie’s not interesting anymore? ( let’s forget about all the live-action flops, thats besides the point )

What makes a movie/film successful? Because it is realistic. Realistic in that the main protaganist is just another normal person, doing every normal stuff a normal person will do. You can relate to them.

And to further prove my point, you can look no futher from the “genre” SoL. Yeah everybody here says it is crap, but no less enjoyable.

The artwork is another VERY IMPORTANT point. In a scene. it could be a very minor thing (in the context of the plot), but it is the background of the cel. Very very minor things like the hair swaying, running sweat beads, things that you won’t think of animating (if you are the animator, I mean there must be more important things to animate..). It is all these that registered in your mind, hey thats realistic. Just like how u admired a painting. A painting does not have to be photographic, as long as it has the gist of the item painted, you can register it to be that! Sense of realism (nice phase I made up)

( Can’t post pictures here to illustrate my point, too bad … I am too lazy to do it anyway… muhaha )

Anime. we are enjoying an art-form which creatively mimics real-live.

Just run through any anime episode, try to observe the stuff I’ve said. You’ll get it!
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@Kiri: I don’t mind if a show is crap as long as I like it to some degree. Watching shows you don’t like is pure torture. The only cases where I’ll start and finish an anime I dislike are movies because of the relatively short commitment. In the most extreme cases I’ll take a bad movie out, stomp on it, and then send it back. I’ll agree about you being a masochist.

@Panther: Do it. I triple dipple dog dare ya. Put ya guns on!

@phossil: To some degree we all like it for the girls. But not for the guys. Unless it’s GAR.

@Roy: Yeah, a big aspect of liking anime is knowing they have a set episode count and knowing the plot will move along without significant hiccups. Of course shounen completely throws that argument aside. I wish at least one of the current Big 3 (OP, Bleach, Naruto) would end already for a fresh new shounen to take its place. Hopefully Bleach because it’s been just awful for a long time.

@Chimasternmay: Incest is indeed, the best. Crazy Japan and its somewhat liberal view on incest stories.

@Sergio: The sheer variety is also something to really enjoy about anime. Each anime is a self contained world with their own unique casts and stories, and with the sheer volume of new shows every season it’s hard to find something you don’t like. As for high school stories, I enjoy the anime versions because they’re generally less angsty than live action dramas. I do enjoy the sweet, if idealic, versions of high school that slice of lifes typically present. They’re simply fun to watch. Cute girls doing cute things doesn’t hurt either.

@Roy: You just got reponsed to twice in one comment. Give yourself a pat on the back and have an ice cream sandwhich.

“However, whether because I was always a stick-in-the-mud or because anime is more realistic, the youth portrayed there is more similar to mine, to what I did and enjoyed.”

Me too. I remember this one time when 5 of the most attractive girls in school were after me…

“In anime, it’s portrayed mainly a là K-On, and I like that. Whether it’s just portraying an idealized, cliched vision of reality or because Japanese youths are in actual fact more sensible, I can’t tell, but I like it.”

The type of characters are similar to the ones in ‘Monty Phyton’s Holy Grail’ or ‘There’s Something About Mary.’ I think I like anime so much precisely because ithe characters are so unique (and unrealistic in that sense). Of course, if someone actually knows of a real blue-haired, green-eyed loli Catholic nun named after the Vatican’s list of banned books, I would happily take back my statement.

But if I was to analyze it, for one, I think, is the diversity. Every three months there are many new shows catering for all tastes, including mine. Personally, although from time to time I may watch action/war/dark anime (e.g. some mecha, etc), what I really like is comedy, romance and slice-of-life, and that is quite abundant in anime.

Another reason I explored once was the type of adolescence that is protrayed, and I think that is precisely what attracts me. 95% of anime shows have to do with high schoolers, and in principle I’m too old for that (24) and never been too much into the “crazy adolescence” thingy, as so often protrayed in American/European fiction.

However, whether because I was always a stick-in-the-mud or because anime is more realistic, the youth portrayed there is more similar to mine, to what I did and enjoyed. I mean, not getting drunk and joy-raiding while having drugs and sex, or having a loud party at 3 am only to be disrupted by those meany cops armed with tasers.

In anime, it’s portrayed mainly a là K-On, and I like that. Whether it’s just portraying an idealized, cliched vision of reality or because Japanese youths are in actual fact more sensible, I can’t tell, but I like it. Those shows lack anger -so present in so many American shows-, I can just watch them and relax

Add that I’m learning Japanese, and that’s what makes me like anime. And well, it’s undeniable. The girls are cute as hell!

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In all seriousness though, I have disagree with you on the story aspect. The Clannad AS arch from Ep16 to 20 was the most incredible narrative and plot execution I’ve ever seen in American or Japanese media.

In any case, anime actually has a story and an ending unlike nearly all American shows out there. American shows tend to drag on and on because the purpose of the narrative isn’t to further the plot, but rather to allow the producers to make more episodes. The purpose of anime like say, Air, is to actually tell a story. Gao. Gulp. Gah X_X. End. That’s why I really like anime.

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