New Generation of teens hate anime?

[Filosoofis]

I was also one of the people that hated anime and always said wtf it is hentai. Than I started watching Naruto and death note and boom Iove it

 

[The Great Second Hokage]

I agree there is a new found hatred for anime in todays youth but I've seen some pretty diehard fans come out of this demographic.

 

[Fountain]

What really bothers me is how they just copy eachothers stupidity with the sole purpose of gaining as much attention as the clown who said it first. They use the same overused lame jokes and insults over and over countless times. Honestly, in my eyes they are but a bunch of degenerates who think trolling like a 10 year old makes them cool. You got an anthro picture: Furry go kill yourself. Anime/manga picture: Weeb retard etc. Pony picture: Manchild horse ****er. And so on... It's quite pathetic actually, especially when you insult someone based on nothing but an avatar.

 

[Bling Kai]

Exactly people can't even see how anime is actually good for society. It expresses the values of morals, individualism, teamwork, love, hate etc etc. It's a lot better than watching wtf the Kardashians, flavor flave and all that reality bs. Anime is enlightening and it opens your eyes to the possibilities. I wish we could shutdown half the bs played on America tv and put more anime shows on it.

Well to be honest tv shows, cartoons, comic books, movies, and films can offer the same lessons and experimces as you get with anime. In my experience the combination of them all generally speaking do it better since there is a much bigger variety of them and ways to do it that affect you on a deeper level.

I understand what you are saying but way to often in the anime community is anime overblown as the ultimate medium of entertainment.

There are just as many bad anime as there are bad cartons movies, games, comic books ECT. Though due to the environment of the anime community, that is heavily influenced by the fact that anime is from a foreign country so the ones whom would be best at understanding and analyzing it aren't around. It becomes over glorified by the fans due to there experience of it which comvinces them to belive anime is some diamond amongst valueless rocks in the entertainment medium.

 

[Umari Senju]

People claim to hate it in public but in secret they love it

Nothing more to read here Exaar nailed it /thread

I watched more anime than anybody that I've personally known and i still get more bxtches. The jokes on them really and they're missing out.

So true XD Dem ladies do like to cos play and a dude who isn't afraid to do that with them...well ends up with them.

 

[demon of the leaf]

I think much of the hatred comes from those tired of people who overly glorify anime i used to not stand naruhina and narusaku when that whole pairing war nonsense came about then came the over glorification or down right hatred of certain characters which can stoke the fires of the hate anime camp if anime fans tone down alot of what they post i think it would help by a large margin

 

[Dantee]

Well to be honest tv shows, cartoons, comic books, movies, and films can offer the same lessons and experimces as you get with anime. In my experience the combination of them all generally speaking do it better since there is a much bigger variety of them and ways to do it that affect you on a deeper level.

I understand what you are saying but way to often in the anime community is anime overblown as the ultimate medium of entertainment.

There are just as many bad anime as there are bad cartons movies, games, comic books ECT. Though due to the environment of the anime community, that is heavily influenced by the fact that anime is from a foreign country so the ones whom would be best at understanding and analyzing it aren't around. It becomes over glorified by the fans due to there experience of it which comvinces them to belive anime is some diamond amongst valueless rocks in the entertainment medium.

I mean we are the anime community. Wouldn't it be normal for people who love anime to put it over other forms of entertainment? The anime fandom only shows it's true numbers online and during comic con events. TBH I think the anime fandom is bigger than a lot of people realize. The first college I went to all of the guys there were into playing the naruto game and they weren't weaboos like everyone stereotypes them to be. Regular, everyday people who go to college,parties and hangout social people and they love Naruto (probably not as much as me) but still.

 

[Bad Touch Yakushi]

Me & everybody at my Uni playing / watching Naruto are as far away from 'weeaboos' as you can get....

Honestly not even a thing looked down on by 'newer generations' in the UK. This is a new problem to me.

 

[-immortal-]

It is because those fat sweety weeaboo whohave anime avatar on YOUTUBE and get mad when you say something bad about anime.
It is because the only people that are "open" about anime are the emo kids with BLUE or any COLORED hair color walking in school thinking they are in highschool of dead or something. I dont see anyone being green because he loves the hulk.
And please don't ever in your life think about taking anime seriously lol

Weebs are literly the most cancerous creature to still exist to this date.

 

[Bling Kai]

Addressing the op. For me personally I don't like anime. I like some things that just so happen to be anime, but anime as a whole doesn't interest me like it use too.

I don't like the seemingly limited variety of art(I feel as though there are few art styles in the medium) I don't like the oversexualization of female characters. If I wanted to masterbate I would not be watching anime.

I don't like the sub vs dub shit I just want to watch the anime in my native language so I want dubs not subs. I dont get why there is so luch controversy in the anime community about this. I dotn lien that there are words I cant read all over the place in animes either.

But worst of all I can't stand the ****ing community. The community ad a whole is so ****ing elitist and pretentious and that's not all!

There are too many things I hate about the community to list willingly here but I suppose the worst thing to me about the community is hoe blind they are of there own ignorance

They are the only community of people whoms critiques will call chapter recaps, chapter reviews in such a high frequency. They are the only community whoms critiques will say something in their medium of entertainment is written good becuase its complex in such a high frequency. Which isn't true because the point of writing isn't to be as overly complex as you can bit to communicate thoughts, feelings ect to your audience. This can be done in fact its done much easier without complexity for obvious reasons.

 

[Umari Senju]

I mean we are the anime community. Wouldn't it be normal for people who love anime to put it over other forms of entertainment? The anime fandom only shows it's true numbers online and during comic con events. TBH I think the anime fandom is bigger than a lot of people realize. The first college I went to all of the guys there were into playing the naruto game and they weren't weaboos like everyone stereotypes them to be. Regular, everyday people who go to college,parties and hangout social people and they love Naruto (probably not as much as me) but still.

You bring up a really good point. In fact. What a number of people don't realize is shows like the Simpsons/family guy/ Venture Bros etc were made possible because of the more adult targeted audience from eastern influences. They don't see cartoons/anime as somethings solely for kids. That idea influenced western animation which use to solely target kids. Western culture saw a market in this and tailored western cartoons for a more mature audience over time. Even the shows designed for kids these days possess an element of adult humor as a result. From a marketing standpoint, eastern culture knew what they were doing.

Even if western culture degrades anime, it has influenced our own style of animation greatly.

 

[DominiqueX]

Well, I have to say that the "hype-trains" of some anime like Attack on Titan, Tokyo Ghoul and lately One Punch Man are really annoying. Like KingForever7 said, social media and sites like Tumblr are full of it. But that is not limited to anime. All hype can be very annoying, for example these super-hero movies that are literally everywhere currently.

Besides that, a lot of anime are trash. Squeaky voices and sexualized women (even young girls) are not something that is enjoying to watch, at least for people who are not some horny male teens. So there is a high chance that people only see these low-quality anime.. or they see extremely ugly stuff like most of the "Naruto-" and the "Dragonball Cho" episodes. How are they supposed to not have a bad impression then? xD

 

[Illuminater]

To be honest, you have nothing to really back up your claim so I'm going to dismiss this theory of yours.

 

[Bling Kai]

I mean we are the anime community. Wouldn't it be normal for people who love anime to put it over other forms of entertainment? The anime fandom only shows it's true numbers online and during comic con events. TBH I think the anime fandom is bigger than a lot of people realize. The first college I went to all of the guys there were into playing the naruto game and they weren't weaboos like everyone stereotypes them to be. Regular, everyday people who go to college,parties and hangout social people and they love Naruto (probably not as much as me) but still.

Yes that is normal but some of these people, (seems like nearly all of them to me) really think anime is infallible and is the highest form of entertainment that not only exists but can even be created.

In short some people take it to far. But yeah I see what you are saying.

 

[Umari Senju]

Well, I have to say that the "hype-trains" of some anime like Attack on Titan, Tokyo Ghoul and lately One Punch Man are really annoying. Like KingForever7 said, social media and sites like Tumblr are full of it. But that is not limited to anime. All hype can be very annoying, for example these super-hero movies that are literally everywhere currently.

Besides that, a lot of anime are trash. Squeaky voices and sexualized women (even young girls) are not something that is enjoying to watch, at least for people who are not some horny male teens. So there is a high chance that people only see these low-quality anime.. or they see extremely ugly stuff like most of the "Naruto-" and the "Dragonball Cho" episodes. How are they supposed to not have a bad impression then? xD

Now I can agree with this point of view and I do agree. Anime can be a lot like independant films...you have to weed through a ton of crap to find the few diamonds in the rough.

And the over sexualization of pre adolescent teen girls (and even the boys) is just disturbing by western and other cultures. But it's not like western cultures do t do this too. Our medium is done with live action tv shows( watch the 100. Those are kids and they all are shaking up with grown men and women) but still your point is a valid one.

 

[Illuminater]

Now I can agree with this point of view and I do agree. Anime can be a lot like independant films...you have to weed through a ton of crap to find the few diamonds in the rough.

And the over sexualization of pre adolescent teen girls (and even the boys) is just disturbing by western and other cultures. But it's not like western cultures do t do this too. Our medium is done with live action tv shows( watch the 100. Those are kids and they all are shaking up with grown men and women) but still your point is a valid one.

But Western culture shouldn't care about what another nation is doing with their manga. For example, Sarada is perfectly fine in Japan and that's because they live in a different culture than us. What about the shit America does that Japan finds wrong?

 

[Umari Senju]

But Western culture shouldn't care about what another nation is doing with their manga. For example, Sarada is perfectly fine in Japan and that's because they live in a different culture than us. What about the shit America does that Japan finds wrong?

Note I mentioned such things like the 100. This isn't solely something Japanese do. And you are right it isn't something we should concern ourselves with...up until the point that their cultural values are being shared amongst western media. The sexploitation of minors is something frown upon(at least publically) here in the US. Since these types of things are sold to a younger audience, it raises concern amongst parents.

But that in no way excuses Western cultures in their wrongdoings for sure.

 

[DominiqueX]

Now I can agree with this point of view and I do agree. Anime can be a lot like independant films...you have to weed through a ton of crap to find the few diamonds in the rough.

And the over sexualization of pre adolescent teen girls (and even the boys) is just disturbing by western and other cultures. But it's not like western cultures do t do this too. Our medium is done with live action tv shows( watch the 100. Those are kids and they all are shaking up with grown men and women) but still your point is a valid one.

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Wow, it's impossible to describe it more accurate, thanks.

And yes, it is sadly true that our western culture does similar things. I mean, I'd like to vomit and scratch my eyes out everytime I see music videos from Nicki Minaj, Lady Gaga or some "twerking" teens. It's both bad

 

[ToshiZO]

Around my area, its become the popular thing among teens.

 

[-Punk-]

Yaaaawn*watches anime*