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I was wondering why people hate anime so much. I mean, they're pretty cool and all, so what's to hate?
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There is actually a scientific explanation for this. If you have a bigger amygdala, you will react fearfully to unfamiliar things.
Jul 28, 2019 4:45 AM#3puneetsinghOfflineJul 2019542
Valeris said:I was wondering why people hate anime so much. I mean, they're pretty cool and all, so what's to hate? For plenty of reasons: 1. They had watched some weird/bad anime or some scenes which don't suit them. 2. Anime in general needs time because stories are like a journey. Someone who watch just movies may not get into anime because anime need your time to give something back to you. 3. There aren't that much anime movies which surpass anime series in general. 4. Stereotype that anime is just for kids. 5. Even if someone like it and just don't wanna watch it either because they have other preferences or they didn't give enough time to anime as I said that it is mostly the series which we recommend to people and even people like it they just don't wanna watch it due to time issue.
Should I troll in the troll bait threads? It is kinda idiotic to be logical in the troll bait threads. Well, it will depend on my mood.
Jul 28, 2019 4:45 AM#4SaltyScumOfflineMar 201930
yeah, probably the lolis.........
Jul 28, 2019 4:48 AM#5GendolfasOfflineAug 20183276
Probably, why people hate something in general.. Probably same rules apply to anime.. Majority of people I encountered, who actually not just felt "meh" about anime, but actually hated.. They were thinking it's for children or losers, so they don't want to deal with anything people like this like.. Of course, it's not so, but eh, some people believe so.. And other big part of who actually hated anime I knew - some trolls.. Just saying they hate something, so that people around feel bad about it, getting pleasure from this.. Or some bullies, using anime as a chance to bully someone.. Of course, there are others, but I didn't actually encounter anyone, who would hate anime for other reasons.. Majority of people don't actually hate anime, though.. Majorly just not interested..
Jul 28, 2019 4:54 AM#6ObscureObsidianOfflineNov 20141307
Okay, someone can please tell me where did you find all those anime haters? Because really, everytime i see one of these threads i have the sensation i live under a rock or something. But, for my past experience, it's always the same: Ignorante people wants to feel validated their biased opinions, despite they lack a solid foundation, because most of them have barely watched one completed anime in their entire life. So they go to share prejudices with more prejuidiced, ignorant, close-mimded people, and create a beautiful echo chamber, where they can spew bullshit.
Jul 28, 2019 4:55 AM#7AlcoholicideOfflineFeb 201034624
Cause humans are a hateful species.
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Jul 28, 2019 4:55 AM#8MiraiOfflineMar 20158333
There's just a lot of shit in anime which the public eye doesn't like/thinks is weird. Fanservice is the obvious one. Sexualizing any cartoon/game etc. is already seen as weird, then you have a medium where it's basically an everyday thing.
Jul 28, 2019 4:56 AM#9blankOfflineApr 201613028
People most of the time "hate" anime without actually hating it. I've brought many people that "hated" it into "liking" it, a genuine try does the trick.
Jul 28, 2019 5:18 AM#10alshuOfflineMay 201812819
"Why do people actually hate anime?" 1. A lot of anime fans behave like idiots - they create horrible image for the community. 2. Hating on something feels goooood.
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Jul 28, 2019 5:30 AM#11XstasyOfflineMay 20193563
Let me see: -Anime Fandom that likes to act inappropriately and edgy in public - Anime is Weird - Many mistaken hentai for anime - Bandwagoning other's hate it within their friendship circle so they don't want to be the weird one out. - Fanservice and Sexualization of lolies it put's off some people - Weird merchandise That said as anime is becoming more and more mainstream it is becoming more acceptable and respected. I don't see nearly as much hate for it this days as I used to.
XstasyJul 28, 2019 5:36 AM Jul 28, 2019 5:45 AM#12removed-userOfflineJul 2018558997
80s backlash for being too violent and sexist
Jul 28, 2019 5:54 AM#13NoodzillaOfflineMay 20171573
it is cringe often it gets weird it feels good to hate it
Jul 28, 2019 5:55 AM#14IpreferEcchiOfflineJul 20169529
Also maybe they saw this and thought it was an actual anime. Fake news. It should be an actual anime, though.
Jul 28, 2019 5:58 AM#15YossaRedMageOfflineOct 20171556
Because anime is a product of a foreign culture with a vastly different social outlook and world perspective, not to mention different moral sensibilities. Most people are highly social creatures that develop a preference for what is socially familiar to them. Anime fans on the whole tend to be much less slaves to groupthink. Personally, I know I am largely uninfluenced by social norms and the judgment of others. Most of my general outlook is based on what I decide I like / don't like / think is right. I rarely let society decide my opinion on most things. The biggest single facet of anime for which these ideas can be applied and analyzed is cute young girls. Japanese culture has much less of an issue with the idea of both appreciating and celibrating the beauty of youth in general. Shota / Loli is seen as a bit of a weird fetish, whereas in the west the vast majority of people when they see girls with barely pubescent features even slightly "sexualized" they are horrified due to western value systems. As a brief aside, I hate the word "sexualized". The human body is naturally sexual. The word represents a world view which is willfully ignorant of the sexual side of life because of frankly retarded, backwards views about sex, paranoia, and a lack of social trust. Japan allows loli/shota not because most people are ok with it but because they trust each other to have the empathy not to harm others. I could digress further and go in to the actual debate around the "sexualization" of young people, but I want to keep this brief and stick to my original point, which is about culture. Anime is largely still niche / unpopular in the west because it is Japanese. Just like how Bollywood is nowhere near as popular as Hollywood because it is Indian. The celebration of youth is one of the biggest aspects. Not just for the sexual reasons I mentioned before but anime as a Japanese subculture truly celebrates youth in many ways. People often complain about how much high school anime there are and just assume it is because the audience are all high schoolers themselves. But the anime audience is much more varied than that. The thing is, Japanese people, and many western fans like myself, like to see a story involving people around high school age because it an exciting, high-energy, beautiful time in life where people are making friends and lovers and discovering the world. But the west tends to prefer stories about "adults". In the west, kids are seen as kind of stupid and people would rather see people that have "accomplioshed" things in life (capitalist achievement-obsessed culture). This is true for Japan too in some sense but to a lesser degree, there is clearly a strong undercurrent of non-comformist, anti-achievement-obsessed subculture which has blossomed in to what we know as the Otaku culture. It's these attitudes that produce so many single NEETs; a group of people that reject the notion that their worth has to come from acquiring a mate or working for a capitalist system. This will offend some people I'm sure, but otaku culture is fundamentally anti-capitalist, and anti-western.
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Jul 28, 2019 5:59 AM#16PragyaRSOfflineJul 201923
Rhetorical question, I am guessing. If anyone asked it seriously on mal, one can just imagine the shitstorm that will follow....whew. Ot: I think, for me personally, after being on internet for a few years, I am actually scared to be honest and speak my mind on internet, esp forums, coz I have gotten attacked pretty bad.
PragyaRSJul 28, 2019 6:04 AMJul 28, 2019 6:01 AM#17PragyaRSOfflineJul 201923
BlancaXLobo said:Okay, someone can please tell me where did you find all those anime haters? Because really, everytime i see one of these threads i have the sensation i live under a rock or something. But, for my past experience, it's always the same: Ignorante people wants to feel validated their biased opinions, despite they lack a solid foundation, because most of them have barely watched one completed anime in their entire life. So they go to share prejudices with more prejuidiced, ignorant, close-mimded people, and create a beautiful echo chamber, where they can spew bullshit.speaking of echo Chambers, I think it goes both ways.
Jul 28, 2019 6:03 AM#18_Lunarai_OfflineJan 2018192
My friend said he doesn't like it cause even though its a cartoon it takes itself too seriously and that apparently makes him cringe. I told him there were animes that don't take themselves too seriously. I don't think he really cared.
Jul 28, 2019 6:18 AM#19SalamakOfflineSep 2017436
my friend told me she doesn't like animation in general, and she can't take it seriously. i had recommended kara no kyoukai to her, and he enjoyed the story a lot, but she said she is not willing to try anything else.
Jul 28, 2019 6:30 AM#20ObscureObsidianOfflineNov 20141307
PrudenceRay said:BlancaXLobo said:Okay, someone can please tell me where did you find all those anime haters? Because really, everytime i see one of these threads i have the sensation i live under a rock or something. But, for my past experience, it's always the same: Ignorante people wants to feel validated their biased opinions, despite they lack a solid foundation, because most of them have barely watched one completed anime in their entire life. So they go to share prejudices with more prejuidiced, ignorant, close-mimded people, and create a beautiful echo chamber, where they can spew bullshit.speaking of echo Chambers, I think it goes both ways.Yeah, that what i said "...it's always the same"
Jul 28, 2019 6:40 AM#21thevagusOfflineDec 20171115
simply because it triggers them. ..
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Jul 28, 2019 6:53 AM#22removed-userOfflineJul 2018558997
Because most don't have enough information, and don't bother to find more information, so they look to stereotypes. You know, anime (and anime fans) stereotypes, you know the ones I'm talking about.
Jul 28, 2019 6:57 AM#23xoriyoOfflineJun 20197
for people who never even tried watching anime and say they hate it, it depends on many factors. adults may link anime to pedophilia or "old men who watch cartoons" which is completely not true. teens will say anime is lame and throw a billie eilish cap and a netflix t-shirt at you, because teens hate anything that's not trendy. there is also a minority of people who say they hate anime because they ran into a shitty one like boku no pico or magical girls site.
Jul 28, 2019 7:41 AM#24removed-userOfflineJul 2018558997
I don't think I know of anyone who's actually seen an anime from a genre they like and hated it. There are those who simply refuse to try it but they don't hate it, they're just indifferent. I've heard plenty of reasons why people would refuse to try watching anime: cartoons are for kids, I can't get invested in cartoon characters, the character designs bother me, Japanese sounds weird to me, etc.
Jul 28, 2019 8:42 AM#25baylilyOfflineMay 2019159
A lot of people who hate anime haven't even seen anime before. Which is a real shame because anime has a lot of genres that regardless of what you're interested in you could find something for you. Other than that, maybe the fanservice and ecchi aspect of anime? Not everyone is really interested in that stuff and might turn someone away (even though if you turn away from anime completely just because a few series are filled with fanservice and ecchi you're kind of close-minded...)
Jul 28, 2019 8:45 AM#26removed-userOfflineJul 2018558997
IpreferEcchi said:Also maybe they saw this and thought it was an actual anime. Fake news. It should be an actual anime, though. not gonna lie i’d watch it and further the hikkikomori conspiracy but to answer the question, anime can be just very different than what other cultures are used to, and anime also gets somewhat of a bad rap online because of weeaboos, certain anime and overall just a misunderstanding of the medium or a distaste or it. i wish people didn’t hate what they don’t understand though, yknow?
Oct 16, 2019 12:28 AM#27EhurvaksOfflineNov 2017264
As an anime watcher myself, I dislike most anime myself for not having original story, plot, settings, and characters, so for those who haven't watched them but hate them it is not really that unfathomable. Besides, not all Japanese people watch anime or read manga too, and there are even normies in Japan that don't watch or see those Otaku stuff ( they call their normies "Riajuu" ). So, anime is predominantly an Otaku culture and definitely not mainstream culture in either Japan or the West...... It's just that the Otaku culture is stronger in the home country Japan than other places......
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Oct 16, 2019 12:32 AM#28FanofActionOfflineOct 20138045
They watch the way certain anime fans act, decide that's what we all must act like, then judge accordingly. It's called a making a generalization, and we all do it to certain groups whether we realize it or not.
Oct 16, 2019 12:39 AM#29Tomoyami_ReikiOfflineJan 201965
Valeris said:I was wondering why people hate anime so much. I mean, they're pretty cool and all, so what's to hate? Well, if you refer to people who only hating it because they don't like it or don't want to be called otaku just because watching it, I think they just misunderstand the art. Or they probably have try to watch it but turns out didn't like it as much as their friends who like anime or because he just being the one who wants to disliked everything. Or maybe to put it simply, they more like to watch real things. In summary, it's obviously not their taste in the beginning
Oct 16, 2019 2:27 AM#30TaditoOfflineJan 2019129
Why do people hate anime? Because they assume anime is something that isn't. A friend that I know tried to get his group of friends to watch Death Note with him. They asked what Death Note was, and he said it was an anime. He didn't even get to explain what the anime was about. His friends instantly shot his idea down, and told him they didn't want to watch "something racy" (they think that all anime is overly sexual). Most people that have never watched anime think falsely of what it is. From what I understand, most people assume anime is one of two things: something for kids, something nerdy, or something for people that love seeing boobs. To be a bit more specific on that last one, they assume anime is animation that is overly sexual and is all about sexy girls. A lot of people don't have a clue about what anime is all about. They thinkthey know what anime is about, and think it's something childish or sexual. They think all anime is like Pokemon, or like Highschool DxD, but they have no idea about what anime truly contains. They don't know how wide and varied the anime landscape is. They don't know that anime can be an epic thriller, a captivating drama, a heartbreaking love story, or an entertaining comedy.
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Oct 16, 2019 4:31 AM#31FreshellOfflineMay 20192637
to paint some broad stroke reasons: they think cartoons are inherently for kids they realize anime isn't actually that animated frequent sexualization of under aged looking characters a lot of it takes place in school a lot of it is legitimately pretty shit a lot of it isn't in english when it is in english, it's dubbed by voice actors that couldn't get a gig anywhere else Wait, why do I like anime again?
Oct 16, 2019 8:50 AM#32-MahesvaraOfflineJan 20155513
People will hate and hold prejudice for what they don't understand.
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Oct 16, 2019 9:00 AM#33removed-userOfflineJul 2018558997
I've actually never met anyone who hated anime. People I've met either like/love it, or they haven't seen much/any of it to have an opinion.
Oct 16, 2019 9:11 AM#34kronopyOfflineDec 20141130
It is a weird question to post on the forum of a community made of ''peoples'' who obviously don't hate anime. ''Peoples''? That generalizes a lot. Anyway, there is many reasons why some people would hate anime: - The hardcore and non-casual comunity can be very toxic. If they are not toxic they are weird. Or very obsessed. Or creepy. Or childish. The only cool peoples who watch anime are the casuals. - It promotes heavly sexualization of children and minors, and even child pornography with is a problem. Not only that, but even before the pedo community tried to paint themselves in a much more friendly manner by adopting the title of MAP - Minor Attracted Person, and try to enter in the LGBTQ community, the anime community come up with the weirdly tolerated and promoted term of ''lolicon'', which basically ended creating a much more friendly environment for pedophiles, and superficialized a very serious issue... I don't really know why the anime community thinks is alright to treat pedophilia in a fun manner and as a joke. - It has backward Japanese values, especially towards women, which can be seen in a very bad way by the West. It presents sexual assault and molestation as comedy which for the Western audience is unacceptable. A good example is Nanatsu no Tanzai, where Meliodas is molesting the female protagonist in almost every episode, and she is very fine with it, since the beginning, since before she knew him, before romance... Being used with it as anime fans we are not that bothered (which gives many peoples, more reasons to hate us), but for an outsider who doesn't watch anime, and watch such a scene at random or the first episode, is obviously not normal. - Hentai. Those are the ones I can think of now, but there are others too.
Oct 16, 2019 9:25 AM#35Ignoramus-OfflineAug 2017104
I think they are old minded and can't adapt to new generations' art/entertainment forms.. And because mostly bad animes are popular. And most of the people see 1-2 bad animes and they act like they have watched enough anime to hate the whole culture. (their bias) Well, yeah there are acctualy a lot of horrible animes. But every viewer should acknowledge that there are gems too.
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Oct 16, 2019 10:41 PM#36HunLeptoOfflineFeb 2019449
The main concern is how people are exposed to anime. For example, people in my country are only exposed to kid animes (which can easily be misunderstood as simple cartoons) and the likes of DBZ. They get the mindset that anime is most likely for kids or those who love hearing people battle with shouts (because let's be honest, Dragon Ball is not really more than eye candy in the end of the day). They don't know about the other genres and other great works, they literally have no way to get exposed to it, since alot of things are just untranslated for us and we also don't market it at all (and worst of all, only around 5% of the animes are dubbed), dunno about mangas and other in the media, I'm not a city person. Most people here also can't speak English well, that's also another minus. So yeah, I'm generally open to people about my likeness for anime, but I also know that it would not do much good advertising it for those who are not interested. Though overall I don't really get hateful looks from people for it.
Oct 16, 2019 10:56 PM#37iLoveWaterOfflineJan 2019442
Either they're a Boomer who think Anime is Cartoons Or they're some other type of Human that think Anime is Cartoons. They have nothing else to do but unnecessarily Hate Anime. Having your own preference is okay, but hating things for no reason at all other than "Its just drawings, they're aren't real" isn't a good reason at all.
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Oct 16, 2019 10:59 PM#38RyuseishunOfflineMar 20163261
Many of those people probably fail to appreciate more diverse options of different artstyles, something that those western TV shows and films can't really do a lot with, if at all, tbh.
Oct 16, 2019 11:08 PM#39GreyleafOfflineJan 20181895
Because if something is animated, that obviously means it's either for small children or virgin weirdos who like to do make-believe kamehamehas in their backyard before jacking off to loli hentai.
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Oct 16, 2019 11:16 PM#40removed-userOfflineJul 2018558997
i would not touch any anime after watching a anime where adult male marries 9 year old.
Oct 16, 2019 11:24 PM#41CrimsonMidnightOfflineJan 20106541
1. Because anime is for kids 2. Because anime fans are weirdos, obnoxious and lame
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Oct 16, 2019 11:44 PM#42AxxLifeOfflineJun 2019178
because of loli garbage like k-on and school girl anime
Oct 17, 2019 12:55 AM#43LunaEstlinOfflineFeb 20191454
It's usually less about hating the anime itself and more hating the fandom The Entire fanbase isn't bad but there's a vocal Minority just a small percentage of it that ruins it for everyone else.
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Oct 17, 2019 2:17 AM#44PreacheeOfflineDec 20182185
The high-pitched moans, degenerate peculiar sexualization of 2D characters that aren't supposed to be viewed that way irl and the art style, all engender annoyance and hatred. Not only that, besides from anime itself, a large fraction of those who watch it inevitably turn into a screwball retard who talks half-ass Japanese bullshit and over-enthusiastically sings some moe kyun outlandish openings. AxxLife said:because of loli garbage like k-on and school girl anime wtf loli exists in K-On?
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Oct 17, 2019 2:42 AM#45removed-userOfflineJul 2018558997
Because most anime is trash and overrated If you see people getting excited about something that sucks it just makes you dislike that thing even more. Anime can be anything it wants to be but it has decided to only appeal to its mainstream otaku audience. Reap what you sow.
Oct 17, 2019 9:46 PM#46ApacheSnow69OfflineSep 2017503
*look at waifu war* Yeah.. The anime community can be quite ridiculous with the paring war. Also, the meme user can be annoying(Ex: constant bombardment of Jojo meme).
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Oct 18, 2019 11:07 PM#47removed-userOfflineJul 2018558997
Cute aggression. They just can't take it!
Oct 21, 2019 3:09 AM#48KamisamaHatatanOfflineAug 2013191
Why do people hate anime? It's something strange for them and the communities bad side doesn't make it better.
Oct 22, 2019 4:59 PM#49Danzig87OfflineJun 201926
People don't hate anime. They either never heard of it, can't get into it or just don't care for it. But that's what makes this medium so unique. Not everyone is going to dig it.
Danzig87Oct 22, 2019 5:36 PMOct 22, 2019 5:10 PM#50XquisiteWigOfflineOct 2015873
They are just being ignorant and making assumptions about something they have no knowledge of.
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