Ok, too much blabla for me to look around but I'll tell you my opinion about animes.
There are anime for small children, and anime for other people. Take Pokemon, Digimon, Sailor Moon and other such animes. YES, I used to watch these all when I was a child and I even have Sailor Moon on CDs and from time to time it feels good to look at an episode or two, because it reminds me of cool stuff I used to do in the past. These are the "cartoons" of my childhood and I will not forget them. Oh, and I now hate Pokemon.
On the other hand, there are animes with such themes and action, that I could hardly believe that they are made for children. I recently saw "Ayashi no Ceres" and to be honest, I was quite shocked of what I saw. Everybody slept with everybody, even though it wasn't porn or something. In the beginning it seemed like it was a soft anime, until a lot of people started to die in an awful way, and well, yeah, the everyone with everyone stuff. Heh, I'm exaggerating a little but that one is surely not an anime for kids.
And I find animes an original thing. Just because you found crappy animes or those from the first cattegory (some of which indeed suck, but others are cool
) doesn't mean that all animes suck. Just because you don't like something, doesn't mean that that thing must really suck, because a lot of people like animes. If animes would've been so bad, nobody would've watched them.
Ok, and getting to the "people who get dressed like characters in animes", ok, I understand that some kids might do that. But it's pathetic. Yes, it's fun to watch it, but that's it. Don't push it! Don't turn an anime into an obsession. It is just a movie and nothing else. It's cool to dream, but... not lead that to extreme.
You would be surprised to see how many people watch animes, and have clubs of animes and stuff like that. Even here in Cluj-Napoca there is a club (I think... I saw something on the internet when I was looking for a music theme) but I personally find the "time sparing" into such a club a waste of time. Ok, maybe people in that club exchange opinions about different animes and even exchange animes but I'm not that attracted to animes. I rarely watch one (I have a friend who is an anime maniac and has hundreds of CDs with animes taken from Torrent) and he sometimes gives me some so that I can watch when I have some time and I feel like... But that's it. No obsession, just entertainment.
Oh, and I almost forgot... I loved "Spirited Away" and "Howl's Castle" movies. Those are the only anime movies I've seen (non-series) and I really liked them. As for series, my fav remains Sailor Moon. It has some cool ideas and some funny parts.
It's probably because I didn't see many other series...
~Daelin
