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kleinbl00  ·  3139 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: JTHipster's Summer of Anime

There is nothing I hate quite so much as "slice of life" anime.

Planetes - realistic space-faring near-earth drama about... fucking nothing.

Vedura of the plant or whatever - space mecha and genetically engineered people on a water planet about... fucking nothing.

Patlabor - cop mecha that fight crime for two minutes while we twiddle our thumbs about fucking nothing.

Know why anime never went mainstream in the US? 'cuz 95% of it is a badly-written boring-ass soap opera with a giant robot in the background.





Herunar  ·  3139 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah you're right on the money on the badly written/boring bit - hell, the vast majority of anime's not even mainstream in Japan.

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