I don’t care for any of it. I don’t like comic books and I don’t like Star Wars either.
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Every time I get downvoted for pointing out the rampant and casual pedophilia plaguing anime, I hate weebs a little bit more.
This. I don't partake in anything anime related and I'm mostly neutral on it as a whole, but the prevalence of pedophilia and related themes is highly disturbing as is the lack of pushback against it from the community.
And, that being said, the people who make anime their entire personality are also... difficult to be around.
No joke. They're the kind of people that have to over-dramatize every damn thing and have explosive reactions to anything.
Like calm the fuck down, you're not in an anime show.
That's why I don't like most anime. There are some gems that don't stoop that low, but the bar is ridiculously low for such a high rate of not meeting it
Wtf is this question?
OP has been in a lengthy struggle with the world over media. They swore off manga previously due to "christian morals" and the fact that Zombieland Saga contained zombies, then got back into it because of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, and now it seems they've hit another block within the last month.
And it's not just manga. They've also had an issue with Wikipedia.
Not inherently but I hate most anime tropes. Most anime are also very childish or straight up nonsensically bullshit, just "too out there" if you know what I mean. There's the odd decent one though, and the rare gem, but I can't really be arsed to wade through the absolute pile of garbage first to even find them.
Im with you on this. I don't dislike anime/manga as a medium. However, there is a tendancy for the format to exaggerate things I find annoying. That and the fan culture, much like many other highly dedicated fanbases, can be a major turn-off as well.
Yeah, anime has a lot of fanboyism that overrates things. After loving Attack on Titan I saw a lot of recommendations for Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. I even checked some ratings and saw it high up there, often past AoT even. I watched one episode and almost died of cringe. This makes taking recommendations seriously really hard, because you just cannot trust most weebs to actually give you an objective one.
like most things, some of it is very good but the vast majority of it is extremely poor. I wouldn't say I like or dislike it as a rule but I'd say on average I dislike it by far, and when it's bad it has a way of being very intolerably bad.
Yesterday I drove by Düsseldorf, which is Germany's most Weeaboo city, and they had this ugly fucking mural at their train station.
I don't mind most anime/manga based media, but media about anime/manga makes me really uncomfortable. Defining yourself by the fact you like Anime is just a lot weirder than defining yourself by the fact you like JJBA or InitalD.
Those are pretty broad categories. It's like asking "Does anybody dislike cartoons and comics?"
To my utter dismay, I've learnt that there are some people who find that question entirely sensible and normal.
I know people who will refuse to watch anything animated or comic related
ive got a friend who will say all the time that she doesn't like cartoons but was literally ready to shove kids out of the way to watch kung fu panda 4
Does anybody dislike media?
Not quite as much as I dislike fun.
I find that there is far too much of it in my Lemmy feed. I have a very long list of blocked communities which I have blocked, tediously, one at a time as they appeared. Obviously a lot of people like it, but it’s not for me.
I wish there was a setting similar to the one that blocks NSFW content, but for anime and manga.
Me.
I've tried. I won't say it doesn't deserve to be liked, but it does absolutely nothing for me.
Yes I despise it, I hate the influence it's had on making everything over sexualized and cliched
Used to love anime but now that I'm older I dislike it. Still love reading manga, just hate the high pitch annoying ass voice for every female character. A few anime's don't do it and those ones I still love
I'm an artist and I used to draw a lot as a kid. I naturally adore the medium, but most anime is weeb/otaku fanfare and I find obnoxious. I keep a look out for the gems that occasionally come around.
I'd say I'm just uninterested, not dislike. The part I hate is when I see people dedicate their whole life into them and fail to function as a normal human.
Vtubers on the other hand, I absolutely despise. They are basically YouTubers/streamers with an anime character and get much more views for no reason. I guess that's free market for ya
Yeah, I don't get it. So I guess I don't really like it, but am I missing something?
IMO it's simply a medium to convey ideas. There's bound to be anime or manga worthy of distain. But you can say the same of film or books. Perhaps one might dislike the general trend of those industries too but I don't think that makes it fair to judge future works based on the prior disliked works.
TLDR: Judge works, not mediums.
Yeah.
Not me, but I've met plenty of people that just adamantly hate all forms of animation. I didn't much care for those people. They all had ACME sized sticks up their asses.
I dislike how common certain tropes are, how overacted it is, and how formulaic most of the stories are. I also hate Shounen and its focus on which guy is strongest. It's boring to me.
Plenty of people do do that, yes.
I am sure there are. Just like there are people who don't like comic books.
Most of it because it's never ending. 1000 episodes? Fuck me that's just an animated soap opera.
Tell your story and fuck off.
I am very selective with it. I like a few here and there. I can't always watch it or follow it all the time.
Probably a few, yeah.
As others have said, it's another form of media. I enjoy a good story and good characters and there are some anime series that are incredible and wouldn't work in live action for a number of reasons.
And as someone from the west, the cultural influences can often add story elements that would be outside of our norm of storytelling.
That said, there are so many genres of anime that do not interest me in the slightest. Just as there are many series of other shows that don't interest me in the slightest. There are many book series I have read that I would much prefer an animated adaption of. As an example, an animated adaption of Game of Thrones would have been really interesting, as they could have stuck closer to the outlandish elements of the source material, and not had to worry about casts aging or moving on to other projects.
Having grown up with Pokemon, Dragon Ball, Digimon, and many others, there is also a nostalgic element to this as well, which is why we will be seeing anime (and animated media in general) increase in popularity along with the generational shift in society.
To sum up, people that dislike anime usually fall into categories:
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Animated series/films aren't to their tastes. This is perfectly fine, as long as they also feel the same about western animated series/films.
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The stories don't interest them. Maybe the cultural influences I noted before are just a little too far outside of their comfort zone, and they understandably haven't actively gone out of their way to find something that does.
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They've never watched anime, wont give it a chance, and consider it childish and immature. Closed minded and elitist (in my opinion).
But most importantly, all media is subjective, and someone else's personal opinion should not matter in the slightest to what you enjoy or don't. The Internet has given far too many people the false idea that their opinions actually hold any value.
Does anybody dislike anime and manga?
No, everybody in the world likes anime and manga. Or they're indifferent to it at worst.
I mean I get it tbh. I enjoy both media (tend to avoid shonen) but some of the common tropes can be a turn off. Some of my friends (lovely people) are hardcore fans and as much as I love those people, I can only tolerate so much of "have you seen crunchyroll has this new show? It's called "I was a high-school tuba player but I woke up in a video game now I travel the dungeon with my magical talking dog" and it's about...." before I steer the conversation away
I could handle season one of One Punch Man because it was almost making fun of traditional anime tropes; here's this average unassuming guy who is more powerful than all the "superheros" (which on its own is an anime cliche, but OPM didn't have a destiny or anything tired like that).
Sword Art Online had a cool premise that they used for all of about 6 episodes? Before moving to a new world and while that could work in a long-format short-run series it turned me off quickly. Why bother building a world you're going to abandon so quickly? Plus the main characters started doing the "we're prepubescent but we're going to act like our love is written in the stars" cliche that only ever worked when Shakespeare did it, and even then only worked once.
I even didn't like Cowboy Bebop, at least not as much as everyone assured me I would since I'm a Firefly fanatic. The only thing the two shows have in common are that it takes place in space and the crew is a ragtag bunch of misfits. I was finally starting to get into it once the whole crew was gathered, only to have it end two-ish episodes later. I suppose ending too soon is another thing it has in common with Firefly, but Bebop felt like a completed story.
I could spend all day listing all the cliches I don't like in animes, but the art style and being in a foreign language (and culture, so many settings, jokes, and subtleties go unrecognized and therefore unappreciated by me) means the barrier to entry is already so high that it has to be an absolute 12/10 universally loved show for me to even consider it, and even that doesn't always work.
I won't yuck someone's yum (not to their face at least) but I've given up on trying to figure out why anime is popular outside Japan.
I like anime manga yeah not for me I'll read light novels but manga might as well not exist to me.
Yes! Me I hate it so much