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Hmmm. I'd say anime and manga itself might be a bit too big, as both are a specific style (one could argue media), to say what attracts me to ut - like saying what attracts me to music, or to books. Different anime/manga tell stories differently, but(t) there are certain consistencies across most anime/manga, like there are certain conisistencies withhollywood movies, bollywood, or the entirety of rap (I firmly believe rap is a style, rather a genre). Lets just compare it to western animation in general: Western animation, in general and with exceptions (Avatar, Voltron, etc...), lacks deeper story telling/characters while most anime do tell a, sometimes long arching, story as opposed to an episodic one. Why that is, is, I think, plausible if you consider the history of anime and western animation. (Yes, there's slice of life, and I'd argue that anime like Cowboy Bebop, or Case Closed, do have, for most of its run time, something that could be considered episodic story telling but I'm talking about the majority here.) And here comes anime - the fact that it more frequently tells longer, conected stories with deep characters, conflicts, backstories and so on. Also, anime isn't afrait to put a mirror in front of society to raise questions why certain things are the way the are and critisize things, while most, almost all, cartoons predominantly focus on pure entertainment. And then you have the vast amount of different genres that western animation simply doesn't have. In short, variety. But there has been improvements with western animation studios, mostly due to the popularity of anime and a growing adult audience. So, what attracts me to anime/manga: I could go into different genres, but that'd be a bit... long... But I can agree with points raised in the other comments. The weirdness of certain anime, sometimes the great action scenes that are only possible with animation (in terms of manga, its the art style and different panel methods), partly the foreign feeling that are due to the fact that it is a style from a different culture (different comedy and themes), how it conveys emotion, the great combination of soundtrack and picture (at least in emotional scenes), and so one... Both, cartoons and anime, have different goals in mind and they often do the things they're supposed to do well and while there is much variety in anime, there are also a ton -like, alotalotalot- of clones, as comeone previously mentioned, and eventually it comes down to taste, but dismissing either of those two is, I think, a bit harsh. I have yet to find an anime quite like Gravity Falls or Animaniacs, which, if I made a list of my favorite animations series, would most definitely be in my top 10, while can't think of a cartoon with a great story like Monster or rough action like Berserk.

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I already have the means, but I don't feel the necessity to have them immediatley. I will purchase anything else I feel like as time goes by. Not like it's some sort of race, or is it?

Kimi ni Todoke - great romance anime (and manga) Hyouka - A bit of romance, but mostly school and mystery ReLife - Romance again, and comdey (and again, a good manga) Katanagatari has been recommended, and I'd recommend it too. It has very long dialogues (and every ep is 50 mins long) Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso - Romance and a lot of music, heartwarming and heartbreaking at times

Started playing DQ 11, and it is pretty enjoyable, though I wish it was as friendly for one handed play as the iOS ports (tried customizing controls, but they do not like cursor and movement controls being the same). Maybe, I should get a controller after all.

There us lots of good ways to get one of those. A lot pf people make, and sell them as well as make their own. Do you plan to get more anime things for your collection when you have the money.

I would argue that anime has taken more from western animation than cartoons have taken from anime. Apart from the fact that animation came from the west, look at the early exampels of anime (Benkei Tai ushiwaka from 1939, or even the more popular series Astro Boy) - their animation style was more or less a copy, or at least very heavily inspired, from the western (makes sense, since this was their only reference point at that time) except with japanese folk tales (like Momotaro, Spider and the Tulip) instead of european. These are integrale part of the history of anime and as such influenced later works, including today's anime, even if they seem so much more different. I'd say the 60s were a time when anime found itself an identity apart from its wetsern counterparts, yet it wasn't until the 70s where it manifested and until then, anime was heavily influenced by the cartoons of that time. In the meanwhile, anime started to (significantly) influence western animation some ten years ago (Avatar from 2005 as an example). In terms of Of course this only concerns animation - the drawing style of anime started to evolve way earlier, and story telling is an entirely different topic... and a bit more complicated as it might seem at first. I mean, the anime type story telling has just started off in the west, while the western episodic style has long been integrated into anime, in regards of this I think western animation has had a stronger impact on anime than vise versa.

Good stuff there I saw a cosplay for Gandalf the Gray at the last con I attended. I am currently working on one for Soutoshi/Ash from Pokemon. My finance, and I are going to a anime con as Ash, and Mysty. Do you plan to collect any other cosplay gear?

A Riku one? That's got to be so cool. I have also one from KH, Zexion from Organization XIII. The other cosplays I have are Ringwraith (Nazgûl) from LOTR, Gandalf the White and Gandalf the Gray, Elf outfit, and soon my currect one will be complete. It's a secret for now, but it is anime/game related. It's a crossdress in fact...

I think you hit the nail on the head with this overall comparison especially with this portion. The fact is western animation is taking more from anime then anime ever has from westerners. It is nice to see, but while it is nice to see western animation is progressing that fact only attracts me to anime more then. This is because it feels like to me western animation is only now just catching up to the idea that adults actually want to watch animated content wheres in Japan this has been common kowledge for some time. With that said there are many western animations from the west that I honestly like. Avatar, and Kora for one. Also SonicSATAM, Mario Bros super show, and many of the 90s Disney cartoons.

Funny, or rather gleeful in a happy manner. I can kind of imagine it to be some Town BG music in an old RPG. 6/10 Berserk - Blood and Guts

I did forget to mention my cosplays.. I am working on one for use in 2019. What completed cosplays do you have in your connection. I also have one of Riku from KH, and one of Kaiba from Yugioh DM.

Not much for now, but I have my manga and... that's it for now. (Do I count myself if I'm cosplaying?)

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The overall attraction to anime for me is the nearly infinite amount of variety there is. You can tell basically any story in anime format. I mean, it's semi-true for other formats as well, but then we're getting into visual aspect. I really like animated shows, I find them highly enjoyable. For specific anime, it's usually a combination of story and visual appeal

The thing that attracts to me to anime and manga is they give me something that American media/entertinment lacks, which are engaging stories and characters that actually come across as humans. There are exceptions out there, but a lot of things found in entertainment seem to have too much eye candy and something without any story or characters that one could relate to or understand, in addition to things coming off as dull. Anime and manga might fall into many of these problems too, but I find myself having a much more enjoyable time reading manga or watching anime, because it comes across as much more fun and gives me time to get to know characters, so that I am not expected to put myself in the character's shoes, which is not something that helps people understand others.

Dōjinshi (同人誌, often transliterated doujinshi) is the Japanese term for self-published works, usually magazines, manga or novels. Dōjinshi are often the work of amateurs, though some professional artists participate as a way to publish material outside the regular industry. though in laymans term's, its pretty much a work from someone who isn't in a company, a one-man-project (though it doesn't have to be a one-man, aslong as you're not in a huge group, then it should still be considered as such) usually people who make doujinshi, create R18 content, since those get most read, sometimes regular manga's, and the such, they tend to be sold in anime convention, i-i think, i never went to a convention to know these >.< (oh and copy paste from wiki and stuff, but below was pretty much what it meant in laymans terms) soooo TLDR; its manga yea, i think this is fair play @Optic-senpai, since it wasn't just a random post about advertisement on the said topic, just someone asking on the topic and the such ^_^, i was semi interested in what kind of art he does too, though

I'm kind of glad about this, maybe it's just the series I've seen but I feel like shows that drag on tend to get bogged while trying to basically never end, leaving the watcher wanting more I don't see as along as you feel satisfied with the ending. Personal say that I'm a bigger fan of older shows, but I feel like that could be cause it's so much easier to know what is a gem not only with the time difference but with how much anime gets released now days it's easy to miss a show that could really click with you.

@ArchieKun hellos !! That's true you could really see just how little people knew about anime back in the day before anime really become more popular the infumous pokemon is a cartoon thanks for the offer : D hopefully we do get to chat in the future. @Kohloo Thank thank you I hope I get to know quite a few of them. I'm from Ontario myself should have stuck around could meet up : D lol I kid. Idk favorite game is hard it would be ether Kingdom hearts or Bloodborne though kh is kind of cheating cause it's my childhood.

Yes! I just checked Steam today, and I can finally install DQ 11. Hopefully, things work out well for me, especially because Square Enix never provided a public demo.

That's fair! No haters here though, fortunately (also, that's not cool of them to be rude when they're the ones that asked the questions in the first place, some people eh?)

Thank you! I got it in November 2016, so only a couple years old

I watch anime primarily to experience a story. I don't give a crap about what the story is about, so long as it's good at what it's trying to do. That's why I hate cliffhangers so much, because it's almost always a huge waste of time to me. Why start a story and then never get an ending? You wouldn't read your child a bedtime story and then never finish it. It's dumb. So really it can be any number of things that draw me towards an anime, but overall, I enjoy anime as a medium because it tells its stories in a way that nothing else does, which is especially true for action stuff. You'd be hard pressed to find a live-action equivalent to this.

I'm on furaffinity if you don't mind that. Here's a request I did.

I'm currently watching Season 3 of Attack on Titan. I like how they're filling in the gaps and made the animation more ....dynamic during the fight scenes, but I get the impression that this might be the last season or something. It would really suck, if it came to that tbh.... I also don't like the Red Swan Theme for the opening cuz it sounds to....magic girly, compared to the other tracks they used in the previous seasons..... But that's just me.... Other shows I am watching are just old anime I used to watch from time to time when I was a kid. I'm re-watching them now, to follow them for their storylines and character developments.

The movie room in the library from my hometown wasn't big, by any standards, but it had some interesting VHS tapes. I remember we often borrowed The Wizard of Oz from the library, I would get sci-fi and mystery books, and my mom would get some mystery books on tape (that we would listen to on the way to and from school). I was a huge reader back in the day (still am, but I do a lot of writing now too), but my library unfortunately didn't have any anime in those days. It was probably unheard of for a library to have it back then. I still need to get around to returning a book I borrowed last month. It's only a week late now...lol... Thankfully, the libraries here have banded together so I can use the same library card to borrow books and movies from libraries across several counties and I can return the books to any of the libraries in the system. So much more convenient! As for the actual topic...haha... I have some Zoid model kits I've put together of the Liger-Zero. Fully articulating and everything. I have a few small statues too, some artwork from artists I've picked up over the years at various cons too that I've had framed... I have far more video game art than anime art. I tend to wax and wane on my anime and video game interests over time, gravitating from one to the other, so that doesn't surprise me. I had far more extra money back in my video game focused days than now in my anime focused days. Life.... Eats up your spare cash lol...

Thanks for letting me know @XII360