Down With Anime

This article wishes not to spawn a legion of Toyski-hater Otakus. Neither to deride them for being Anime fanatics. Although, some of them, without a doubt are irritating for being silly, conceited, inane, elitist, and thickheaded and that being among the crowd of them is like being the only sane person trapped in an insane asylum, again, this is not to haul them over the coals.

I really wish to be fair, but I can't help it but manifest my partiality (hehehe). Well, this is just a personal response to the brisk and immense rise of the Anime domination (my response). You can't blame me if I still stick to the X-Men standards. Tell me of any Anime that matches the X-Men caliber and I'll be Anime's best advocate. Although I consider myself a bit a fan of Lupin III and Doraemon, I still have to take a broad view that "I hate Anime!"

The stereotype is of characters with huge eyes, tiny lips and weird hairstyles, scenes wherein only either the lips, or the eyes move, and fighting scenes that make you wait almost forever before they start. Only a dull-witted viewer would enjoy that.

Let's face it Anime is juvenile, insipid and endless in its artistic thematic storyline "incestuousness." Every character looks like they came from the same artist--an artist who he himself is obsessed with impossible body figures, puppy dog eyes, and huge, funky, and immovable hair. I swear I saw lots of anime that seem to have the same characters, the same sound effects and even the same plots. They just keep borrowing from each other.

Anime is a multi billion dollar market in Japan (I heard) wherein they can cheaply produce sci-fi flicks complete with sex scenes, explosions, fighting scenes, and plot twists of Hollywood bluckbusters.

More and more fans are drawn to Anime. They say Anime is fun. Maybe to them, coz' to me, Anime hardly makes sense. But still I'm sort of grossing over the fact that all those I saw were just craps of Anime's bests. Peace, Otakus?

© 2006 Jonathan Susvilla