I never really watched anime until Cowboy Bebop came on adult swim. I was like "whoa, is this what I've been missing out on?" The answer is no, it is a a unicorn. One of one. Basically nothing I've watched since has been even remotely as engaging for me. I've had a couple OK ones (Berserk) and guilty pleasures (Baki), but overall the medium as a whole just doesn't seem targeted toward me. And that's fine, I'm not litmus test for the universe. I enjoy other stuff.
Shonen is mostly a garbage genre for teenage boys.
I really adore more pensive slice of life stuff like Wandering Son and Yuru Camp.
The answer is no, it is a a unicorn.
Plenty of good anime on par with Cowboy Bebop. Samurai Champloo leaps immediately to mind. Anything by Satoshi Kon also very good - Tokyo Godfathers, Perfect Blue, Paprika...
There's a bunch of crap, sure. But that's true in every medium. People just like to pick on anime.
Champloo was fine. I made it through the whole run, which is more than I can say for most series.
I was under the impression that I wouldn't get bullied if I was cool
"The construction of the other is by itself a violent process and therefore the other willaalways be the recipient of violence" or something like that. We don't have a Levinas emoji.
DBZ was so popular in my school that even the preppy kids were turning in to see Goku whoop Frieza.
Yeah it pretty much all started because I didn't watch Dragon Ball Z when everyone else did. I only ever watched it because a show I liked came on right after it and the only DBZ episodes I watched were boring AF.
All of my DBZ knowledge comes from watching Abridged in the mid 2000's
All the good parts of DBZ are the stupid bits nobody cares about - stuff like Piccolo getting his driver's license and Gohan going to high school
Pretty much me until this day with DBZ. I did end up watching the Cell saga at some point and it was cool, but I could never really get into the whole series. Its a bit weird too because I've just absorbed some knowledge of the series from what people around have said about it and thats it lol.
You're not the only one. I've been ragged on in a sumo channel's chat for not knowing what certain anime are or whatever. I used to watch, but haven't watched anything in probably 12 or so years. It just doesn't seem any different from any other TV series. They're all derivative and nothing has creativity anymore.
No, the only thing that worked was that time in high school when a pretty girl asked me to come to her place and watch anime.
It was all very horny anime and the anime watching didn't last long
I too am not an anime enjoyer.
I watched Akira back in the 90s once and that was it.
It's not that I don't enjoy anime it's that so much anime I'd like to watch either hasn't been dubbed or has an awful dub
I hear from dub watchers that Delicious in Dungeon has a good dub.
It's also just a very good show.
I keep hearing about delicious in dungeon. I remember being tickled by Fighting Foodons, does it scratch that same itch?
It's a DnD party with a dwarf that is very concerned about nutrition and sustainable farming, the most divorced hobbit alive, a neurotic elf mage and the fighter is that kid in class that was really into dinosaurs.
I never saw Fighting Foodons, wasn't it like a gag Pokemon ripoff?
Delicious in Dungeon is about cooking and ecology (and being autistic) in the setting of a classic tabletop dungeon delving roleplaying game type fantasy world.
Yeah, Fighting Foodons was a parody of the fighting monsters genre.
I guess Delicious in Dungeon is just about how to cook monsters. Which isn't a million miles away from something I wanted to do with a D&D campaign
I mean that's a thing that happens in basically all my D&D games whether I intend it or not
