What do you think about anime?

I've used to watch the older anime(Lupin The Third, Spiral, Case Cold, original DBZ, Galaxy Railways, etc.) but so many series were coming out I was just overwhelmed. My friend then introduced me to World War II and I got hooked to it and I still am. I tried watching Attack on Titan though, but I lost interest after the fourth episode. I have no hate on anime or that would be very hypocritical of me.

Never understood the obsession so many people have with it. I find it strange, creepy and too foreign.

Calling anime in general is immature just by looking at one or two titles' art style are like calling video games childish just because you've only watched people playing them imho. Several anime titles, particularly story heavy, psychological and thriller anime are more mature oriented, both in art style and the plot.

On the other hand, most mainstream anime titles are decent at best. Mainstream anime, which what would most people know, are usually targeted for younger audiences. Most of them are also mainly followed and preached by ignorant and immature weebs. The general hate and misconceptions on anime are largely caused by them, so I partly understand where you're coming from.

Also, how you feel about its art style probably depends on your taste. Generally, most people would only know about (and have only looked at) bishounen, bishoujo, and moe anime art styles.

That said, I occasionally watch story-heavy anime titles and don't really like the aforementioned art styles. I still prefer manga over anime anytime though.

Well, I think ( I may be wrong) you don't have kids yet. Once you do you will start loving these things again. :-)

I love Spirited Away, Howls Moving Castle, and My Neighbour Totoro... I got my friend onto those Anime and he though "kids cartoons" etc, now he's falling in love with them...

If it hasn't been mentioned, the original Ghost in the Shell movies are very mature and psychological, with only slight pandering. There's very little to no fan-service, and has a pretty interesting storyline (since they're movies they don't have filler episodes which is a plus). I agree that most anime now is "teenagers punch stuff and explosions happen" which gets old fast, but I can pick out the occasional serious series like Psycho Pass or not-as-pandering-but-not-completely-serious Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet. (If these are generally looked-down-upon series, I don't care I really enjoy them) Although most cartoons are indeed directed at children, not all of them are. There are those cartoons that can touch on serious topics and not be idiotic about it. And of course anime isn't realistic looking, that would be really weird feeling (for me anyway). The general art-style allows anime to get away with things that realistic or live-action shows can't get away with, that allow the artists to create a world that couldn't exist otherwise. Just like video games, books, movies, TV shows, etc. Anime is a form of artistic expression. Obviously that doesn't mean it all has to be GOOD expression, but there are definitely a few gems in there that if found, will surprise you.

I watched around 2500 anime titles 600 of them hentai

I WATCH IT! i would live in there if i could XD
sadly i can't T_T

I dont like them. I want persons that are real (thus, I also do not watch TV soaps), because I want to see new perspectives on the world that actually exist. In consequence, I tend to listen many podcasts and also only some Youtubers I trust. (if they break my trust e.g. by doing product placement, I instantly unsubscribe them ofc, because then they do not present me their real view on the world anymore.)

Ehh, I like to watch them. I only don't like anime with much Ecchi content :/ (there is only 1 exception for that).

As with movies and TV shows, anime has different genres and different art styles. Some are good. Some are bad. As with movies and TV shows, some are to my taste, some aren't. The ones I dislike, some do. And the ones others like, I might not.

Is this still relevant? Honestly, my piece on it is that I have no interest in anime and I've never seen any but I recognize it more for its animation rather than "Japanese exclusive tv shows". Society-wise I'd definitely feel ashamed to watch it but then again I feel ashamed to watch any kind of teen-themed western TV show, or even super-hero TV shows. So... For me, it's not so much about what it is but what watching it details. That's not to say I'm judging it but if I feel that if it is embarrassing/weird to watch, even by myself, then I'm probably going to take heed of that and be more "cautious" about getting into something. I started watching Fringe a little while ago and that's a show that requires a certain taste to enjoy it. If you don't enjoy it, it would definitely drag on pretty easily.

Now, I'm kind of a hypocrite because just recently I randomly found a manga website and I decided to try reading some random ones (do note that nearly none of them were of a good quality, in my opinion. I decided to be a disgusting weeaboo trash asshole and see how bad the yuri stuff could get, which was actually not that bad but still, I am ashamed) and... It's not bad. I can relate it to reading newspaper shorts or what little I have seen of comic books. So, so far, it's not horrible but it's kind of fueled by my boredom. It also seems to be better for when you don't want to spend 30 minutes reading huge walls of text.

I'm probably just contradicting myself a ton and at the same time being an ignorant asshole that is talking out of his ass, but... Media and all of the "society's standards" bullshit is pretty hard to argue against, in my opinion at least. I don't see anything wrong with watching it but I'm not going to flaunt my experiences anywhere outside of the internet and at the same time I'm probably not going to broaden my horizons even though I know for a fact there's a ton of good anime-styled content (like that one movie about the giant smiling cat, whatever that's called).

I'm also wondering if any of this is even on-topic. I suppose as a "TL;DR" my point is that there's nothing wrong with it at all, people(including me) just tend to see it as a "taboo" if you're not from the correct audience (e.g. girls watching spikeTV huehuehue). Hell, I bet there's a ton of content out there that is a million times better than the shit America pumps out on a daily basis.

I really like anime, except those weirdo ecchi, yaoi, yuri, hentai, fanservice... like wtf

I treat them as cartoons, I watch South Park, Bob's Burgers, Archer and an anime like JoJo's Bizzare Adventure from time to time - if it's good then I watch it, without worrying about looking childish or anything, because why would I?

the quick anser is that it depends on the Anime. There's a huge range in quality, maturity and subject matter, with some of them having very grown-up themes and concepts.

Western animation very rarely goes into non-kid-friendly territory, and I don't think there's been a decent mainstream grown-up oriented animated movie since Ralph Bakshi's stuff in the '70s

I don't agree that Anime are childish, but I pretty much hate them (with few exceptions)... Story might be good, but usually, the way it is presented is painfully bad... Movies are almost always too fast and confusing, and on the opposite end; series are very, very slow and repetitive...

Violence is usually exaggerated, characters completely unrealistic (I'm not talking about abilities) and script is very weird...

Anyway, aside from few exceptions, IMO Anime are very, very bad...

But; to each his own...

If I had to choice one -> Crunchyroll or Netflix, I would pick Crunchyroll.

I'm not a big fan, but there's some good stuff out there like Persona.

In the 80's and 90's it was good, from mid 90's to now OMG! Total decadence... Hard to find something good these days...

Welp, I say "anime", but I only read mangas, I don't like the animation or the voices so, yeah

I love anime.

Not the ones that oversexualize women and have shitty protogonists that cry about everything. I watched hundreds of animes but I'm really picky on what I watch.

I loved Steins;Gate , Death Note, Code Geass, Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood.

I kinda love the One Punch Man too. Weird for my taste but it's pretty fun.

I like anime implemented in JRPGs most,
I like animation too including ero anime, if no one watch it, it would be a waste, so I'll go and volunteer myself to watch.

Mushishi, Elfen Leid and Hellsing.

Apart from those, which I carefully watched a while back and the plots really interested me, I think I'm one of those whose opinion on Anime is just meh. Why? I wish I'd know too. Most of the times I find myself trying to watch anime content just to realized I'm either bored to tears, cringing with the excessive kidification (Is that even a word?O_o It is now.) of the series or the over sexualization of same characters. (like, seriously, 15 year old girls with HUMONGOUS bouncing boobs is not giving me something to stay and watch..) I also can't stand the voices,but prolly that's my fault, not the genre's.

TL,DR--> Some are ok, some are meh, just like any other genre.

Anime is overrated
I read manga and manhwa. Well most anime, if not all, is from manga anyway