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Link to original post: [drupal=1294]Anime freaks and why I don't get them[/drupal]
When it comes down to anime, it's just another form of entertainment for me. To me, watching an anime is just like watching any other series with a similar base. But what I don't get are those Naruto-headband wearing, sub-only watchers who curse their American heritage every day of their life. Yeah, there's anime I like but nothing could ever compel me to go out an buy a Millennium Puzzle replica or anything like that. And I never saw what those people have against dubbed anime. Yeah, there are some terrible dubs out there but you can't just say "it's not the original Japanese audio so it must be bad!" Like Black Cat and Full Metal Alchemist I've seen both subbed and dubbed, and I have to say that actually liked the dubs more than the originals.
And here's another thing I don't get: Cos(t?)-players. I've heard that's it's apparently "fun." I guess to someone who piratically worships these characters dressing up and pretending to be them would be fun. But spending hours making a costume, then wearing it for only a day at a convention so that way you can pose for a whole bunch of pictures only to come home all sweaty from wearing something like that doesn't seem like a good time to me. I don't know how anime fanatics could find this "fun" in at all. I guess some people have odd tastes?
You know, call me sexist, but it's never guys who you see that are like this. Before I get bombed for apparently being sexist I want a show of hands. How many of you see more girls wearing Nauto head-bands than guys? Okay, put your hands down. Personally, I've never seen a boy wearing one of those. And as a male fan of anime (but not a fanboy) the only thing relating to anime that I own are the first three seasons of Dragonball Z (which I got for dirt cheep from a used book store), a few Zatch Bell cards from when a friend of mine was into that series, and a whole crap load of Yu-Gi-Oh Cards. But assuming that you were either in Elementary or possibly Middle-School when the crappy 4kids dub came out, then you too probably have Yu-Gi-Oh cards. And speaking of cards, an anime freak friend of mine blew around fifty bucks on Naruto cards (even though she doesn't know how to play the game) just because they were Naruto. That's fifty bucks that she could have spent on something better, like Twilight Princess or the Orange Box. And what's with those creepy fanfics that fangirls write anyway? And why do those freaky fangirls always do their best to misinterpret every possible scene so that way they can pretend that two characters are gay with each other (even if they're both clearly straight)?
If there's a point that I'm trying to make here, it's that I'm the kind of anime fan who hangs out on the outskirts of anime town along with other dub watchers. And the reason why I hang out on the outskirts is because while I enjoy my time there, it doesn't consume my every thought and I acknowledge that anime is just another form of entertainment so I can leave at any moment. Plus if I hang out on the outskirts I can still enjoy anime without getting to close to the center of town where all of the sub-obsessed fangirls who smell like weird meat and write bizarre fan fictions hangout. Now back to the point that I'm desperately trying to get out. I could care less if you're an anime freak, I just don't get them. Yeah, yeah, you can be what ever you'd like, ect. ect. ect. politically correct bull that I don't believe in, ect. But seriously, its not like I barge into the anime freaks hang out and demand that they give me a chair and a headband. I just don't get them, and I don't think that anyone, regardless of how well they explain how what they do is "fun" could ever get me to.
When it comes down to anime, it's just another form of entertainment for me. To me, watching an anime is just like watching any other series with a similar base. But what I don't get are those Naruto-headband wearing, sub-only watchers who curse their American heritage every day of their life. Yeah, there's anime I like but nothing could ever compel me to go out an buy a Millennium Puzzle replica or anything like that. And I never saw what those people have against dubbed anime. Yeah, there are some terrible dubs out there but you can't just say "it's not the original Japanese audio so it must be bad!" Like Black Cat and Full Metal Alchemist I've seen both subbed and dubbed, and I have to say that actually liked the dubs more than the originals.
And here's another thing I don't get: Cos(t?)-players. I've heard that's it's apparently "fun." I guess to someone who piratically worships these characters dressing up and pretending to be them would be fun. But spending hours making a costume, then wearing it for only a day at a convention so that way you can pose for a whole bunch of pictures only to come home all sweaty from wearing something like that doesn't seem like a good time to me. I don't know how anime fanatics could find this "fun" in at all. I guess some people have odd tastes?
You know, call me sexist, but it's never guys who you see that are like this. Before I get bombed for apparently being sexist I want a show of hands. How many of you see more girls wearing Nauto head-bands than guys? Okay, put your hands down. Personally, I've never seen a boy wearing one of those. And as a male fan of anime (but not a fanboy) the only thing relating to anime that I own are the first three seasons of Dragonball Z (which I got for dirt cheep from a used book store), a few Zatch Bell cards from when a friend of mine was into that series, and a whole crap load of Yu-Gi-Oh Cards. But assuming that you were either in Elementary or possibly Middle-School when the crappy 4kids dub came out, then you too probably have Yu-Gi-Oh cards. And speaking of cards, an anime freak friend of mine blew around fifty bucks on Naruto cards (even though she doesn't know how to play the game) just because they were Naruto. That's fifty bucks that she could have spent on something better, like Twilight Princess or the Orange Box. And what's with those creepy fanfics that fangirls write anyway? And why do those freaky fangirls always do their best to misinterpret every possible scene so that way they can pretend that two characters are gay with each other (even if they're both clearly straight)?
If there's a point that I'm trying to make here, it's that I'm the kind of anime fan who hangs out on the outskirts of anime town along with other dub watchers. And the reason why I hang out on the outskirts is because while I enjoy my time there, it doesn't consume my every thought and I acknowledge that anime is just another form of entertainment so I can leave at any moment. Plus if I hang out on the outskirts I can still enjoy anime without getting to close to the center of town where all of the sub-obsessed fangirls who smell like weird meat and write bizarre fan fictions hangout. Now back to the point that I'm desperately trying to get out. I could care less if you're an anime freak, I just don't get them. Yeah, yeah, you can be what ever you'd like, ect. ect. ect. politically correct bull that I don't believe in, ect. But seriously, its not like I barge into the anime freaks hang out and demand that they give me a chair and a headband. I just don't get them, and I don't think that anyone, regardless of how well they explain how what they do is "fun" could ever get me to.
but Gundam, first season) it could just be nostalgia... but man I loved this show when I was little. 
