Rant on anime

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If you watch Cartoon Network late at night, you'll run into its Adult Swim programming. Over half of it is devoted to this "anime", or Japanimation as some call it. I admit that I have watched several of these shows and I don't see the appeal of it.

For one thing, they're cartoons people. Cartoons! I can't take a story seriously when it's in cartoon form. Not only that, they're drawn really weird. They've got these freaking HUGE eyes. HUGE. When was the last time you saw people with eyes as big as their ears?

And I hate the dubbing. People randomly talk and their mouth movements might sync up. That'd be a problem of trying to dub over another language, if they even show their mouths moving at all. Half the time, people will randomly put cups of coffee in front of their mouths or the camera will focus on their eyes when they're talking. Also annoying are those scenes where the camera backs out to focus on the landscape and stays there for a minute or so while the characters talk. I'd like to see the characters talking please.

I haven't even mentioned the stories. How many times can Tokyo burn? Does the world need saving every single day? Why is the main character too good?

Also, you have these unrealistic love triangles/polygons. Ninety nine percent of lead characters are pathetic wimps who couldn't land a girl in real life even if they were handed a manual. Yet you have the entire cast of female characters fawning over this poor kid like he's something to be sought after.

Then there are the endings, which really aren't endings at all. They're usually some sort of philosophical comment on society or they just plain stop. Yes, anime tends to stop right when the story is getting interesting. Argh.

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