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In my youthful anime days, unlike Raven who was put off by sci-fi I had this intense interest in mecha. The anime I used to watch on TV as a kid (back in those Robotech / Starblazers days) were all mecha oriented shows and I'd browse the toystores just to be amazed at all the robotic toys that came out. In fact I think that's what all my toys were as a kid; robots, robots and more robots (and Legos). My fascination with mechanical people was both fueled by and increased the need for this new animation experience from Japan that was highly robot oriented at the time.
But strangely enough, now I avoid anime with mecha like the plauge, as my tastes have refined I have been left with this bad taste in my mouth that all mecha shows are the same formulaic, cliched stories recycled over and over. I know that they are not, it's just the older pre-Evangelion ones that I've seen have given me that lasting impression that I simply cannot shake. But that's all right I find enough enjoyment in all the other genres that there are. |
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Ichigo77
 Posts: 389 Location: California |
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The first type of anime I liked when I was young was action/adventure series like Dragon Ball, Sailor Moon, Pokemon, and Digimon. Then a few years later when Techi aired on toonami I started to like harem anime. Today my favorite types of anime are still action/adventure, harem/romantic comedy, and just plain comedy. The only thing that has changed is that around the time I was 16 I stopped getting up to watch foxbox and kids wb. The reason I stopped was that I didn't like having to get up early on saturday, I missed missed a bunch of pokemon episodes are ready, I read the manga of One Piece, Yu-Gi-Oh, and Shaman King, and getting up at 7am for crappy 4kids dubs wasn't worth it lol.
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Randall Miyashiro
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Oh my goodness! Are you saying I've gone backwards and regressed as a fan? Back during the Super Robot boom of the 70s all I ever watched was Super Robot shows with the exception of ikkyusan. During the first half of the 80s I would say that at least 80% of the shows I watched were Tatsunoko and Nippon Sunrise Real Robot shows. I didn't start watching non mecha shows in mass until the second half of the 80s. These days I'll watch just about anything. I just finished Ikki Tousen and am in the middle of Cybuster, Soultaker and Tsukikage Ran. |
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Richard J.
 Posts: 3367 Location: Sic Semper Tyrannis. |
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With anime, I've always been at the level where I favored one genre over another. My tastes in fiction are pretty broad, but I've always disliked certain animation styles and favored particular genres. For some reason, I never went through the "all anime is uber-cool!" phase.
About the only type of series I don't like are strict historical stories and some of the comedy series. (Basically, if it's a comedy but doesn't take place in a school, I don't like it.) |
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PantsGoblin
 SubscriberEncyclopedia Editor  Posts: 2969 Location: L.A. |
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There was never really a time I can remember when I thought all anime was cool... I was first into Pokemon, then somehow became interested in Cardcaptors, and after that I watched Excel Saga and then it just went from there... I saw some of Adult Swim and Toonami on the way, but neither of them had any shows that particularly caught my interest. So I already knew I didn't think all anime was "cool" before I started watching it more often.
Been trying to look into this and I honestly can't tell what you're trying to say. May have been just a poor example on your part, or that you haven't seen enough of it yet, but I have a hard time understanding how Death Note is somehow more realistic than NHK ni Youkoso!. In fact, it seems like the complete opposite to me. I honestly love both of them, and are both great on their own right, but... |
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hanachan01
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I did, for the first few months of my fandom, but it was because I had never seeen anything like it before. I was watching and reading Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball Z and Cardcaptors/CardCaptor Sakura. However, I started to get into Ah My Goddess and Marmalade Boy, and I started to become more interested in romance/romantic comedy manga and anime, and less intersted in shonen. Now I'll watch anything, because I think all anime has its benefits, even if it has more things bad about it. Currently my favorite anime are Haruhi Suzumiya, FMA, and Akira, and my favorite manga Monster, anything by Erica Sakurazawa, and Genshiken, which are all very different.
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daxomni
 Posts: 2650 Location: Somewhere else. |
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I guess I've actually become a real snob when it comes to anime. I won't even touch most of what's featured on CN and I really don't get into endless fighting and powering up or thinking up a thousand names for slightly different attacks. I still tend to enjoy animated comedy and slice-of-life titles, but most other genres just don't seem to do it for me anymore. When I'm watching a comedy I can put up with a bit of unexplainable nonsense, just as you might expect in an animated title. But when I'm watching a drama or action title I don't necessarily want it to take place in a crazy anything goes kind of world without obvious rules and logic. The times when I still get into an action, drama or thriller title are usually when they have some well integrated comedic elements buried inside them that help see me through to the end.
I'm probably just as big of an anime fan as ever deep down, but from a practical standpoint I've actually been putting off most anime for a while now; partly because of normal burn-out but also because I've just been busy with other things. After the big Genon sale I bought and watched a lot more anime than I usually do. I also went through some not-so-great rentals and finally something just snuffed out the anime flame. The coals are still there, but the desire to add more kindling just hasn't hit me yet. One of my coworkers got fired and a couple others left on their own leaving just me and one other person handling business-hour troubleshooting for multiple enterprise systems that would normally be fielded by a team of a half-dozen full-time resources. Nothing is more fun than getting an incident ticket that claims the estimating system has somehow created and submitted a bid that's off by over a million dollars or that the purchasing and accounting systems are randomly ignoring updates from one another. Needless to say it's been kicking my ass and even our off-hour, off-shore backups seem to be missing-in-action right now. By the time I get home I typically have just enough energy to fix some sort of rushed meal and then crash out. I've also been away on two out-of-state trips and one long-distance foreign trip in the last month. Finally, a timely and massive cedar pollen invasion has pretty much sapped whatever energy was still left in me. Unwatched purchases and rentals are just piling up on my shelves while I stumble past them on the way to bed. And yet I still find time to post on here. 
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Kelly
Posts: 868 Location: New York City |
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My situation is a bit different than what I would imagine is the case with most posters here. Although I watched Battle of the Planets and Voltron growing up (as well as the butchered Escaflowne and Cardcaptors airings as a teen) and am familiar with Pokemon and Yugioh via younger cousins, I did not really come into anime until my early 30's. I have seen quite a bit on cable television and purchased titles I thought I would like and showed no signs of showing up on television (my hunches as to whether I would like them have been right in all but one case). My problem is that having largely missed what would have been the magical girl/giant robot/power-up phase of my life, quite a bit of anime I'm interested in now has not been licenced for region 1 yet as most sponsors are wary of titles marketed at women. The irony of coming late to the game. Hopefully things will get better if more anime fans maintain interest as they enter their early and mid twenties and there's more of a market.
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LuisRowinn
Posts: 23 Location: Tucson, Az |
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I would have to say that my taste started out as refined. ( No im not trying to be
arrogant ). I started out watching more mature anime not kid shows. ( My first anime being seen was Vampire Hunter D on TBS late one night when i was like 12 ). After that is opened my eyes to the glorious moving art that is anime! From that point I had seen anime like Ninja Scroll and Record of Lodos War and Neon Genesis Evangelion. It was only later when Cartoon Network got cool, that i started to see more kiddy anime. There ok but I like the more mature stuff better. |
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undeadben
 Posts: 1212 Location: West Texas |
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I like to be entertained; haven't changed my tastes in 30 something years and I hope I don't change. I don't really care what it is, I'll give anything a try because it just might have some entertainment value. Like I always say I hate mecha, but I have forced myself to sit through all of Eva and I have sat through a few episodes from different Gundam series, didn't care for them but I gave them a chance. And actually, I have even really liked quite a few mecha series like Full Metal Panic and Escaflowne, which are now favorites.
And I also often say I dislike drama, but my favorite anime also include a few dramatic or slow paced slice of life type shows like Haibane Renmei and Honey and Clover. Heck, if it's entertaining, I can even overlook a preachy or pretentious anime, not HB or H&C, but quite a few dramatic pieces start to go in that direction at some point. Like I said, I like to try almost anything, because I never know when something is going to really catch my attention. I'd hate to think what I'd be missing if I decided not to watch Maria-sama ga Miteru just because it has no action, or if I decided to skip Bleach because its a typical shounen type show, or if I'd blown off Sailor Moon because it is cutesy and girly, or if I had overlooked Midori Days because the concept just sounds silly, or if I'd bypassed Higurashi no Naku Koro ni because it sounds like a realy bad horror movie. I think all of these series have great entertainment value. So I hope my tastes never "refine." If they did I'd probably be missing an awful lot of good, fun, exciting, or gory anime, which sometimes come with some really good storytelling. |
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TestamentSaki
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My anime love began with a sports anime series, and up to now, among my fave 3 anime series there are two, both made by the same author.
I'd like to define myself as someone who doesn't really like shojo series (since I mostly watch shonen series), but having watched and enjoyed series like Ouran Koukou Host Club and X makes me doubt. However, I think my tastes will mostly go for anything with a soccer ball in it 
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KAtchan15
 Posts: 460 Location: NYC |
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I started watching anime well...when i was a little kid,I'm Philippine so like anime was a big deal to me. Since I lived in the Philippines when i was young , it was automatic that growing up almost every kid on the block watched anime, we would talk about the new episodes[everyday] that were shown on TV the next day of school and if you didn't watch it you're assed out.Iwachd from Mojacko,Doraemon,Pokemon,Card Captor, DBZ,
Fushigu Yu(u)gi,Trigun,Soccerer Hunters,HunterXhunter,Shin chan,Lupin III,NUBE,neon genesis EVA. Yu yu hakusho,Slam dunk etc. at the time I didn't really care about what I watched, It's not like I payed attention to things like voice acting,animation and stuff like that lols [3-9 yrs old.] but when I finally came to NYC of course [10yrs old.],at the age of 12+ that's when i really started to get picky with the anime that I watched, guess i started noticing the genres and the detail of anime that I watch. Until now I'm no expert, I just watch it for the story and music,thats and thats about its i guess..oooh and animation too lols. (ugh. i had to rewatch almost all the titles that i watched as a kid, because i realized that i really didn't understand the story that well when i was younger lols) I was recently at the anime "your shelves" forum and WOW! i was really amazed too see your collections [ANN members] it was like looking at a best buy rack lols that's awesome! right now i only have a few but hopefully mines grow like you people have it.  Iwas so impressed some of you have like HUNDREDS!
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