Confession of an Erstwhile Anime Fan

[rynling]

I'm sitting there watching moé shows like.



Although to be honest I'm not sure I even like anime anymore?

I recently made this observation to a friend of mine, and he was like, "How can you dislike an entire medium?" Idk, when an entire medium is either creeping on adolescent girls or following screaming teenagers across an endless series of battles, it's difficult to stay interested after ten years. I'm still vaguely into cinema anime and experimental anime and anime-style fan art, but I think it's time to give up on catgirls in maid uniforms.

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[renegadefolkhero]

It seems like there was an uptick in availability of domestic translations in the late nineties/early aught, and I had friends who were really into anime, and I ended up watching A LOT of stuff and I never really recovered.

I mean, I binge-watched Evangelion over two days. Total blur, all I remember is giant Rei heads. To this day, whenever I see any kind of mecha-anything my instinct is to jump out a window.

[rynling]

I had exactly the same experience with Eva.

People keep trying to get me to watch mecha shows put out by Sunrise, and I am like, NOPE nope nope nope.

Instead I have turned into one of those adult men who watches shows about high school girls, Cthulhu help me.

One of these days I will be detained at the Canadian border, and they will take one look at the Yotsuba&! desktop background on my laptop and arrest me for attempting to bring obscene material into their country. I will be sent to Canadian prison, where I will find out that all of the miscreant lumberjacks there are also into anime, and we will put together our own prison anime convention, which will feature all sorts of moé cosplay...

...wait what?