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My favorite Anime is ROD the TV, its score is pretty low and a lot of people say its a poor anime. I defend ROD by describing its unique aspects such as the Powers the sisters have, the story line and twists that it has, as well as the setting.

Anime is something that effects everybody differently, while reading this thread I think I saw that somebody didn't agree with somebody else liking Angel Beats in their top 5. This is a perfect case of how anime effects each person differently is the sense of emotional feelings for the story line and feelings for the characters, if you didn't enjoy Angel Beats you were obviously missing the point and theme of the story. You could say that anime is like book and food. Everybody has different taste and likes, as well as experience it in a different.

Example:
Person A "This pizza is really good!"
Person B "This pizza has too much sauce on it"
Person C "I think it needs more cheese"

If people don't want to watch the shows on my favs, their lost lmao. They are missing out on some great work.

Especially on Kaiji since most people don't want to watch it just cause the art looks weird at first.

Ad hominems, denial that my opinions are not facts, and questioning the poster's sexual preference.

I'm actually pretty open-minded with criticism toward my favorites so long as they're well-reasoned and not obscured by vitriol. Since most people can't do that though, I have the "pleasure" of posting one-liners or just ignoring them completely. However, it's really nice when a substantive discussion actually happens.

Besides, I tend to find the faults in the shows I really like anyway. Though from my experience it seems others usually don't do the same.

I dislike it :3

I generally just accept opinions. If they continue to argue why "your favorite anime was sh*t", I try to reason with them and move on.

I defend it only when it is unjustly criticized; I mean I hardly ever get people who are giving honest criticism of a series. It's always a blunt statement that either presents items of opinion as fact, ("Kamina is a stupid character, so Gurren Lagann sucks") or they provide no explanation at all. If you say you just let peoples' opinions go without arguing... well it kind of defeats the purpose of a forum, doesn't it?

Lol everyone hates on TTGL when they only seen the first episode, you just gotta "fight the Powah!!"

God forbid people don't see anime in your point of view.

Like most people have said, it depends on the argument. If someone were to just say something like "the haruhi series is shit i hated the characters they annoyed me," then I'd say whatever. If it was something like "None of the characters had any proper development," then I'd actually take them seriously.

don't have to
they fail to see how amazing DRRR!! was//

I suppose I've never really had to do that, but I'm gonna go ahead and offer up an opinion anyways.

First of all, never say you have bad taste in anime. I don't think that anyone can say that about themselves. You like what you like: that's that.

As for defending your favorite anime go ahead and get emotional. That's part of the fun of being a fan of anime is that we get emotional over anime. It might be dumb, but that's just how it is.

Anyways, bottom line I think for me anyways is go ahead and get emotional, but at the same time take their arguments on a case by case basis and shut them down with your knowledge of the anime. Odds are you know more about it than they do.

Final words of wisdom: At the end of the day nothing's going to change. People never really change their minds based on discussion or argument and that's just how it is. Look at politics. Nobody ever changes their minds about anything.

And I'm not sure that's a bad thing. You're entitled to like it and I'm very glad you do :D Who cares if he does or not? I'm not saying don't argue with him over it, because arguing is fun. But argue, have fun, and then afterwards don't worry about it, k?

O-Okay w-well t-thats your opinion...

;_;

People are supposed to have different opinions, so I just tell what I like/dislike and listen to what the person I talk to has to say about it. Defending would be just a pointless arguing, because most likely neither of us is going to change our mind.

Well, unless I talk to a complete retard. Then it's an immediate give up and a goodbye.

The first episode was good, to be honest. It kind of sets the tone for the rest of the series, although the beginning 30 seconds was kind of misleading.

I used to write long walls of text posting on the TTGL overrated topic. Now I just don't care. People often hate stuff just because they went in with the hype, not really checking if the stuff people liked was actually something they'd like.

--Can't stand it. But you don't have to defend it! ;-) I like a lot of stuff others don't. Shrug. I really love it when I run across someone who has seen something obscure and finds it wonderful.

With a machete

I don't really care if someone likes or hates the anime I like. I dislike the idea of sports anime.I don't watch male homosexual anime and I am not going to berate someone for watching those shows.Opinions are like assholes, everybody has one.

I don't. Most people hate sports anime and I'm okay with that. Sometimes I say I hate a series just to laugh at how hard someone defends it and the flurry of personal insults they throw at me.

It's ok, they are just hipsters.

Everyone like's and enjoys different stuff, if somebody dislikes my favourite series i don't think much of it. My best friend hates madoka and ergo proxy, i just tell her she has shit taste and leave it at that. I don't really mean it, just means she has different taste.

Haha I know what you mean, its pretty misleading though, I know so many people who dropped TTGL because they hated the first episode, then they usually come up with dumb things like "I'm not gonna watch an anime based off of cavemen" or they say they hate Kamina or Simon, what I find the most amusing is when people say TTGL lacks action