Shoegum said: In this website, there are still people who specifically go out of their way to search for "intelligent", "artsy", (pretentious) anime, shunning the "stupid" and "generic" anime. It makes me wonder: how can people be such conceited assholes? Do they really believe that their taste is better than other people's? Do they really think that there are some anime with more inherent artistic value than others? Do they not know that all criticism is subjective and doesn't actually mean anything? It just baffles me how people can be so self-important and completely disregard the feelings of us normal anime fans. If we want to watch "generic" harem shows with "one-dimensional" characters, we shouldn't be made to feel as if we have worse taste or that we are less intelligent for doing so. People should be able to watch whatever they want and call it good, as long as they like it. So, it begs the question: why are there people in this community who still go out looking for specifically "intelligent" anime? For me, it seems to be only because they're pretentious and want to boost their fragile egos. But what are your thoughts? Share them down below. Maybe my guy @andocommando can answer this. I got no clue pal. My only hypothesis is it makes them look cool, smart or different. Digibro basically called people out who do this. Everytime I see these people they don't look particularly intelligent to me, but the opposite; close minded and conceited. |
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| I like watching shows that has lots of things to make me think about. But that's just because I like to see the deeper meaning in everything, nothing related to boosting my ego. The thing that I like the most when watching is when they make me think about my life in general: whether with a character who I relate a lot or through an aesop. However, I respect that no everyone likes it, and that's completely ok. Everyone should be able to watch things the way they like, not the way the others want to. PD: Once again someone who says objectivity doesn't exist... -_- |
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| I'll bite. People should be able to watch whatever they want and call it good, as long as they like it. Yeah, I agree but then:"If we want to watch "intelligent", "artsy", (pretentious) anime, we shouldn't be made to feel as if we are assholes or that we feel superior to everyone else." sometimes seems like people are just victimizing themselves for some sort of inferiority complex. Are you so insecure that you get offended but what anime some random people likes on the internet? they'd realise that Fairy Tail and Highschool DxD are just as enjoyable as their 'Legend of the (Gay) Heroes' or whatever How do you know since you haven't seen Highschool DxD? And if FT and LOGH are equally enjoyable why you have only LOGH in your favorites?Where did "enjoyment is subjective" went now that you advocate equality of enjoyment? You might've found them equally enjoyable but overall I didn't enjoy FT as much as LOGH. |
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| LoTGH and Fairy Tail equally enjoyable? It is like saying that sex and having your nuts kicked by an UFC figther are equally enjoyable. Not saying that people who like to have your balls kicked hard doesn't exist, but I don't think many people will find it normal. I like LoTGH as much as I like some cheap comedy anime, but don't go so low as Fairy Tail please. |
| Does it matter? Depth of animes is low, doesn't matter of genre. Those people search for sth what will differentiate them from 'otakus', ordinary viewers, etc. Summary, ppl like that want to think they are different - better. AmMar-Sama said: B-but.. Serial Experiment Lain is O B J E C T I V E L Y good. It's a masterpiece even though I don't like it, because the show has deep themes. It's made well in oldschool style, when anime wasn't steeped by commercialism & popularity. U said u dont like its deep themes & this thread is about ppl who likes deep themes. |
| Is it GreanPeace? I don't think so - whine to your parents or tell'em to buy sth for ur buttpain. Those ppl won't help you. .. ..  |
| Watching smart anime makes you look smart according to people who watch smart anime... |
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| Most smart anime isn't actually all that smart. |
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| A portion of them do it because that is what they genuinely enjoy watching. They might not be very open minded and give other types of shows a chance. The other portion are unemployed kidults thinking that watching these shows gives them some edge over others. |
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| I think most of you missed half of definiton - 'intelligent show'. |
| Is it GreanPeace? I don't think so - whine to your parents or tell'em to buy sth for ur buttpain. Those ppl won't help you. .. .. |
| Damn, that's some low quality bait. Like, what's the point? |
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| maybe because wants to think instead of relax? |
| There's probably no set in stone answer for this, but from what I've seen some people want to 'fit in' with the majority of tastes of others, so that they don't appear as the odd one out so to speak In connection with that thought, some people might think that by seeing these 'intelligent' anime, their 'tastes' will change, allowing them to recognize the shit/generic anime |
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| Because they are hipster and pretentious people who are insecure about their own intelligence. Just go get a good grades/cgpa to prove your intelligence instead of anime. Someone with good grade but life key Fairy Tail is certainly more intelligence than someone who like Logh but has poor grade. Btw dude, at least remove Logh, Lain and Eva in favourite before baiting. |
| 'America is a stolen country' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM8WZ0ztMuc Zapredon said: It doesn't matter if you like LoGH,Monster etc.If you are a jobless or college/school dropout living in your mom basement, you are still an unintelligent loser. Taste in anime does not make you a better person. Totally agree! |
| I guess I'l take a stab at this. Shoegum said: In this website, there are still people who specifically go out of their way to search for "intelligent", "artsy", (pretentious) anime, shunning the "stupid" and "generic" anime. Is there something wrong with having preferences? Or is being able to look at something and say "I don't think this will be a worthwhile experience" a bad thing? Shoegum said: It makes me wonder: how can people be such conceited assholes? Do they really believe that their taste is better than other people's? Do they really think that there are some anime with more inherent artistic value than others? Here's a specific example: you're not going to find a lot of people who would say something like Mars of Destruction holds the same "inherent artistic value" as something like Steins;Gate. For those who do, it's not a likely case for them to consider either of them to have much "inherent artistic value". Most of their reasons are likely to be the same, pointing towards Mars of Destruction's crudely simplistic visuals or how its story is similar to certain other anime that, with more than 20 minutes of runtime, do a better job of telling it. So yes, many would make a case that some anime have more "inherent artistic value" than others. To boil it down, those who don't give ratings purely off of personal enjoyment have a system by which they attempt to quantify and compare this between anime (or whatever other media they're rating). In this sense someone's "taste" would be how much value they place on specific elements of whatever they're rating, in this discussion's case anime. While there are definitely people who take all of this way too seriously (as with any other activity, really) the differing interests between someone who watches like this and someone who watches simply for enjoyment's sake tends to give the impression of conceit when one party doesn't recognize that the other isn't even going about things in the same way (and this goes both ways, mind you). Shoegum said: Do they not know that all criticism is subjective and doesn't actually mean anything? Subjective ≠ meaningless. The criticism holds meaning to the critic considering they built it off of their system. Those with similar tastes can then use said criticism to determine if something is worth their time or not. Spending 5 minutes to read a review to prevent yourself from watching many hours of something you won't appreciate does hold meaning to people, even if it's built off of subjectivity. Shoegum said: It just baffles me how people can be so self-important and completely disregard the feelings of us normal anime fans. If we want to watch "generic" harem shows with "one-dimensional" characters, we shouldn't be made to feel as if we have worse taste or that we are less intelligent for doing so. People should be able to watch whatever they want and call it good, as long as they like it. Last I checked no one here has been preventing other users from watching shows they don't like. You could also say people should be able to watch whatever they want and call it bad, if they don't like it. If someone presents a viewpoint that someone else disagrees with there's no reason they shouldn't be allowed to debate their opinions. Likewise no one is forcing anyone to debate anyone else. Moreover, anyone can state their opinions in a review and can choose to regard or disregard any other review they want. Shoegum said: So, it begs the question: why are there people in this community who still go out looking for specifically "intelligent" anime? For me, it seems to be only because they're pretentious and want to boost their fragile egos. But what are your thoughts? Share them down below. There will always be people who do things just to make others think about them in specific ways, but in my experience you're more likely to find someone who actually prefer said anime over things they would call simple/generic/etc. |
| your iq needs to be higher to understand these complex shows, my iq became higher after watching revolutionary girl utena. |
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Maellirn said: Why are people replying serious to this low quality bait thread? Because welcome to MAL, where people are bored and lonely and reply in the hopes it leads to some human interaction ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ |
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| I don't understand what you mean with "intelligent", maybe animewhich push us to reflection? Anyway I like productions reflective and based on human psychology, but simple because I like, and I think this is normal, we do the things which like us, surely there are people like to feel themselves superior also trhough this kind of anime, but not everyone is in this mode, and about the egocentric people this is their problem. And few times the things are black or white, I like reflection, sad stories, psychology and other things which I presume you mean for intelligent shows if I understood, but for example I like also adventure and comical stories , |
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Johan said: Shoegum said: In this website, there are still people who specifically go out of their way to search for "intelligent", "artsy", (pretentious) anime, shunning the "stupid" and "generic" anime. It makes me wonder: how can people be such conceited assholes? Do they really believe that their taste is better than other people's? Do they really think that there are some anime with more inherent artistic value than others? Do they not know that all criticism is subjective and doesn't actually mean anything? It just baffles me how people can be so self-important and completely disregard the feelings of us normal anime fans. If we want to watch "generic" harem shows with "one-dimensional" characters, we shouldn't be made to feel as if we have worse taste or that we are less intelligent for doing so. People should be able to watch whatever they want and call it good, as long as they like it. So, it begs the question: why are there people in this community who still go out looking for specifically "intelligent" anime? For me, it seems to be only because they're pretentious and want to boost their fragile egos. But what are your thoughts? Share them down below. Maybe my guy @andocommando can answer this. I got no clue pal. My only hypothesis is it makes them look cool, smart or different. Digibro basically called people out who do this. Everytime I see these people they don't look particularly intelligent to me, but the opposite; close minded and conceited. Nice shitpost. @Johan thanks for the short read. |
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| anime that test your intelligence will be more enjoyable if you had some other ways they would be boring thats for sure ,some ppl like to watch such anime because they make them focus and create a challenge for them . by the way if u find death note a boring anime i dont recommend make a debate with those ppl |
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Shoegum said: In this website, there are still people who specifically go out of their way to search for "intelligent", "artsy", (pretentious) anime, shunning the "stupid" and "generic" anime. It makes me wonder: how can people be such conceited assholes? Do they really believe that their taste is better than other people's? Do they really think that there are some anime with more inherent artistic value than others? Do they not know that all criticism is subjective and doesn't actually mean anything? It just baffles me how people can be so self-important and completely disregard the feelings of us normal anime fans. If we want to watch "generic" harem shows with "one-dimensional" characters, we shouldn't be made to feel as if we have worse taste or that we are less intelligent for doing so. People should be able to watch whatever they want and call it good, as long as they like it. So, it begs the question: why are there people in this community who still go out looking for specifically "intelligent" anime? For me, it seems to be only because they're pretentious and want to boost their fragile egos. But what are your thoughts? Share them down below. EDIT: And another thing to add: Why do people even watch intelligent anime at all? If only they turned their brains off and stopped criticising everything, then they'd realise that Fairy Tail and Highschool DxD are just as enjoyable as their 'Legend of the (Gay) Heroes' or whatever. But no, they nitpick everything because they want to appear smart to everyone else, and they're forced to watch boring old shows with shit animation just because they have "smarter" plots. No-one actually enjoys smart plots, they just pretend to. So you're saying that there is no difference in terms of quality between certain works at all? you are denying the very existence of quality?! If I were to make an anime with awful drawing like this:  and and a likewise awful plot, for example standing in an empty room for 100 episodes not doing anything but eating their own feces, are you telling me it's all subjective and my work wouldn't objectively be worse than your much liked Simpson's, Serial Experiments Lain, Kuuchuu Buranko, Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu or Samurai Champloo? If you go as far as comparing "the liking/subjective opinion" of every existing being in the whole universe then there probably won't be an inherent uniform opinion/taste, so quality might be non-existent in a general manner, but within our own species you can very well differentiate between the level of quality of most things |
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| i'm surprised that people can actually take you seriously |
| Lets make one thing clear because you guys are such babies. The reason why a lot of y'all were able to watch anime was because some weeb-like people out there from older generation made the anime culture more acceptable. Not that anime culture was not widespread earlier but it wasn't as acceptable as now. You'd feel the social pressure to not watch it or find it unvaluable or unacceptable. You would not be able to feel enthusiastic about it without making yourself a butt of ridicule among your friend circle and social circles. You now see it as a normal thing because some people in the past tried to normalize it in the society. Now there are weeaboos promoting it on a different level and it breaks my heart to see how you guys reject the weeb community which are like the reason why you can watch and enjoy anime in present times. Its like making a joke out of our soldiers who go on the battlefront because obviously there's a reason why they ended up being so unfit for the society and instead of trying to find that cause which is in turn helping more people open up to the anime platform and take it as a serious form of art and culture, you guys make fun of them, reject them, detest them. Karma is watching y'all haters. Mark my words. You're the real normies in the realm of animism. |
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| I read through your entire text and saw nothing to give a fuck about, I will keep you informed in case I find something. |
| because being different is satisfying. having a knowledge that not everyone have and ignorantly bashed everything that is considered common is the best feeling ever, at least in my whole experience seeing those "kind" of people. something that is easy to understand, like popular genre anime, are not worth explaining, but when they see something different and "special", it is worth explaining. and when they explain it, they will explain it VERY FUCKING HARD that you'll annoyed. but just stop bashing them too much okay, they are easily misunderstood, they're probably a saviour that will help us, brainwashed "generic anime" audience to be enlightened by their sheer knowledge of avant-garde and intelligent anime. and we will thanked them for saving us someday, just someday... now im curious to find "intelligent" hentai anime, if anyone have recommendation, hit me up |
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| This thread's too fuckin' deep for me. Can I get a sparknotes version? |
| They have to stand out I guess. Watching "intelligent" Anime and looking down on others taste makes them feel special. Probably the most special they will ever feel in their lives because their lives suck. Or they are just pretentious assholes lol |
| "Intelligent anime" is for elitist fans to circle jerk to the idea that they are more intelligent than everyone else because they've watched specific shows. I think it originates from that strange feeling you get when you finish watching something like "Steins;Gate" for the first time, it feels like you're somehow smarter than when you started watching it (obviously this isn't really the case) and so some people take this way too far and are obsessed with finding anime that gives you that same feeling and to those people every other anime isn't enough. Basically when people get like this they think any other anime that doesn't 'mentally stimulate' them as much is shit and an insult to them which is why a lot of them feel the need to shit on anime and people who like them in order to make themselves feel better. To be fair it's usually just a front to cover up the fact they like light-hearted anime as well |
| The only thing worse than elitists are those acknowledging and complaining about them. |
| Dunno, I wasn't aware such people existed, since media entertainment designed for the unintelligent, by the unintelligent. It's certainly understandable to prefer a more thought provoking, quality piece of entertainment, but to only watch something so far and few between, probably isn't going to happen. "Turning your brain off" is easier said than done. I can't watch anime like Fairy Tail without also doing something else; there's just not much going on, which would otherwise give my mind too much "idle time." |
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Shoegum said: Gymkata said: The only thing worse than elitists are those acknowledging and complaining about them. But judging from your anime list you are an elitist too. Are you just not acknowledging yourself? You just proved who the real elitist is, dingus. |
| Honestly in this world full of sheep, I need intelligent anime such as Mirai Nikki, Psycho Pass, Elfen Lied, Madoka Magica, Zankyou no Terror and Zetsuen no Tempest in order to stimulate my large brain and high IQ. |
| It's the idea of superiority based on low self esteem, in reality... These people have nothing else but anime (well so they think) so just as a high school bully tries to make themselves feel better by putting down others, these types of watchers conceptually do the same thing... It gives them the idea of self gratification... Trying to show something for the years they've wasted their lives and refused to face their problems... They want to gratify their choice even though they technically just gave up on life to become a sad sack... By claiming to have superior taste they gain this fake sense of being worth something... They feel like maybe they are living if they're better at others at something... But in reality no one can have superior taste in anything because everything is purely based of human preference and idealism... Objectively being better than someone at something is based off true fact, cannot be denied or questioned... If person A jumps higher than person B, it is fact that A is better at jumping than B... But if A thinks X show is shit and B thinks otherwise... That is purely subjective because there is nothing put to the test, more precisely, there is nothing to test... Long story short this idea of being this way is based purely off lack of emotional development, which can equal a multitude of things... Depression, self hate and so on... All this superiority thing is just someone trying to feel better... Don't let it bother you... Just pity them for choosing to escape life and become an asshole... Than actually try to make things better... Things only stop working if you stop trying |
| I find it interesting you say that when most of your favorites list consists of “artsy” and “deep” anime... Lol I’m surprised your bait reeled so many people in... |
| Lolololol nice bait op you got me good xd |
| At this point, a lot of us only really do it for the meme...and walk away with red pills. |
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| I don't even know how anime precisely aimed to be for intelligent or something. Whose YTer said that OP? |
| They don’t have an open mind when it comes down to anime |
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