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That wasn't my main point, and if you thought it was you didn't bother reading my post thoroughly.

FenixFiesta wrote:

That wasn't my main point, and if you thought it was you didn't bother reading my post thoroughly.

So says the person that misinterpreted my post to be about judging anime you haven't seen as opposed to being aware of a series existence and concept.

I see what you are saying now. I thought it was the mere implications, or it being in the story at all that would make you want to stop watching but I think you mean more specifically shows based around it like kiss x sis. While I don't blame you I wouldn't let the theme stop me from enjoying a good anime. That being said I haven't seen one with an incest theme that I think is a must watch either.

Based on a rough estimate from the ANN database and others like it, I think there are several thousand anime in existence. How many have you all on these boards seen? I'd say it's a fair bet to say that many of the prolific posters on here have seen a few hundred. What does that amount to? About ten percent. If they've seen upwards of a thousand, that's still like only an eighth or ninth. That means that they, who have seen a ton of stuff, still don't have experience with like 90% of the anime that exists, and I doubt anyone wouldn't call them a fan.

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I really don't understand where this preference of having the horizontal dimension be almost twice the vertical dimension came from.

Partially has to due with the nature that humans naturally glance left to right instead of up and down when surveying there territory, also your eyes will generally focus on the middle of the screen and the peripheral vision of your eyes goes further off to the left/ride sides as well than they do top/bottom.

FenixFiesta wrote:

Quote: I really don't understand where this preference of having the horizontal dimension be almost twice the vertical dimension came from. Partially has to due with the nature that humans naturally glance left to right instead of up and down when surveying there territory, also your eyes will generally focus on the middle of the screen and the peripheral vision of your eyes goes further off to the left/ride sides as well than they do top/bottom.

Finally, a better argument for 16:9 than "it fits the screen that I and other people happen to have at this moment in time."

So going back to ways to watch Asian dramas:
Depending on who provides your TV service, you could see if ordering international channels is possible. For example, with Comcast, there's the option to pay for 3 Chinese-languages channels (CCTV, CTI, and 1 HK channel), 1 Japanese, and 2 Korean, among others.
My household gets CTI (15$ a month*; oh Comcast, flexing your monopoly powers), so I'm certain that there's always at least a few dramas in the schedule; primarily a combination of mainland and Taiwan. Plus there's always one Korean drama (dubbed into Taiwanese Mandarin, of course) somewhere in there.
And if you're gonna play the learn the culture angle, watching news and documentaries does the better job, in my experience.
Of course, knowing the respective language would help a lot, but you can still pick up a lot just from the visual side.

*ok, technically on the bill it's CTI and CCTV, but we never switch to CCTV...

How about ditching all the stupid tribalism

@mdo7
I seriously stop reading your posts as soon as I hit any word starting with "K-". It's getting old.
Also, when you go all snomaster I don't even start reading the post at all.

@mdo7
I seriously stop reading your posts as soon as I hit any word starting with "K-". It's getting old.
Also, when you go all snomaster I don't even start reading the post at all.

Shiroi Hane wrote:

@mdo7 I seriously stop reading your posts as soon as I hit any word starting with "K-". It's getting old. Also, when you go all snomaster I don't even start reading the post at all.

So I'm not the only one. Huh. How about that.....

Definitely not the only one. My rule is any mdo7 post that is more than one sentence and contains a capital-K is immediately skipped. Next.

I'm not going to go off-topic over this, but I'm fine if you ignore any post if I mention K-whatever, but other people may bring this up because Answerman already mention J-dramas, so other people may bring up K-dramas as example, so it's unavoidable, so it won't be me only.

mdo7 wrote:

I'm not going to go off-topic over this, but I'm fine if you ignore any post if I mention K-whatever, but other people may bring this up because Answerman already mention J-dramas, so other people may bring up K-dramas as example, so it's unavoidable, so it won't be me only.

No, it's usually only you that brings it up.