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Mar 6, 2018 4:54 AM
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Just curious as to what other kinds of fiction does the community like? What kind of books, movies, TV shows do you like, if at all. I love books as they were the first medium that got me into fiction and showed me how bland the real world is .
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Mar 6, 2018 4:56 AM
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Anime and manga are basically same shit,different anus.

Apart from those I play a lot of video games and I love lord of the rings
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Mar 6, 2018 4:59 AM
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Manga is of course on my top number 1 list. i’ve been living with manga longer than the other form of entertainment. sometimes i enjoyed books too, especially comedy or romance, it’s lighter than fantasy or science fiction. and there’s tv shows too, but i’ve stopped watch TV shows for a while.
Mar 6, 2018 5:00 AM
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The ATLA series and comics. But I'm still salty that Nickelodeon decided to animate Legend of Korra instead of the ATLA comics. I cut myself everyday because of it.
Mar 6, 2018 5:04 AM
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I've tired myself out of Asian fiction, be it anime, manga or light novels, recently. I've sampled Japanese, Chinese and Korean and found all of the ones I'm ever going to like, so I read English fantasy novels now while keeping up to date with what I follow and wait for new stuff to be released.
Mar 6, 2018 5:04 AM
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I want to poll but there's no Video Games (or all sort of games) there so... XD

Well, I guess I'll choose TV shows then..


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Mar 6, 2018 5:05 AM
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having a love life is the only fiction I can enjoy
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Mar 6, 2018 5:10 AM
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Since there are no opition for video games so I'll take tv shows istead.
Mar 6, 2018 5:11 AM
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I'd another option for video games but I've got no idea how to add another option.
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Mar 6, 2018 5:14 AM
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I enjoy watching movies mainly The MCU ones. I guess im just a BIG nerd...lol, and video games, and some sports too.
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Mar 6, 2018 5:14 AM
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Reading is my first love.
I think that my interests are pretty diverse, but my favourite genre is arguably epic fantasy, I read alot of Brandon Sanderson, Robin Hobb, 'The Wheel of Time' etc.
Collect comics as well.
Mar 6, 2018 6:05 AM
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Books, which also includes Manga. Though, I don't really have time to read.
Mar 6, 2018 6:42 AM

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but anime are tv shows....

anyway manga is pretty cool i guess
Mar 6, 2018 6:44 AM
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romagia said:
but anime are tv shows....

anyway manga is pretty cool i guess

I meant the western end of the spectrum. Stuff like Breaking Bad, even including Rick and Morty.
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Mar 6, 2018 6:46 AM

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especially colored ones or vanilla.
Mar 6, 2018 6:46 AM

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As long as it's not sci-fi then I'm good to go.

Haven't watched a movie in a long time though.
Mar 6, 2018 6:48 AM

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Visual novels are better than anime even with their shitty pacing

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Mar 6, 2018 6:48 AM

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Manga & Manhwa. Cartoons such as South Park & old simpsons. When it comes to regular movies, I tend to mostly watch Korean movies for whatever reason, just clicks with me.
Edit: Also those mainstream TV-series such as Breaking bad, GoT, Prison Break etc are pretty good
Mar 6, 2018 6:51 AM

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All of them. I love books, I often go to movies (recently watched Black Panther) and I watch some of western tv shows (new season Ash vs Evil dead an this moment)
Mar 6, 2018 8:26 AM

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I like manga, books, video games, etc.
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Mar 6, 2018 8:38 AM
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Almost everything, I enjoy tv series, movies, cartoons, video games and sometimes I read books too. I don't like manga, light novels and comics.
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Mar 6, 2018 8:39 AM

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Read a little, read some Asian web novels they're ass so trying to read more American stuff now I usually look for fantasy and adventure stuff but I prefer scifi type stuff the most. Movies are ok but I'm not a movie buff they feel to short a lot of times. If I'm watching TV I usually watch comedy or education shit like survival shows, how its made, or car restoration stuff even thought that isn't fiction. For me regular TV is too saturated with lame cop shows. I'll watch some cartoons every now and again but those on cartoon network and such are for total kids so that gets old quick.
Mar 6, 2018 8:50 AM

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How about all of the options in the poll, and more?

I've always loved stories/fiction/entertainment. I love books, comics, manga, Movies, Standup Comedy, western TV shows (live-action and animated) and even the occasional play or musical.

I have about 4 shelves of books, 4 shelves of comics/manga, half a shelf full of DVDs and BDs (mostly anime but also some live action and standup specials), 450 days of anime watched, 7 months of western TV Series watched and a letterboxd account with about 550 movies logged.

Here's some older pics of my collection from 2016 (not up to date ofc):
https://myanimelist.net/blog.php?eid=792432


So yeah, the bottomline is I don't care about the medium, I just pick the best stuff (or best suited for my taste) from everywhere. I believe anyone who just avoids whole mediums usually just isn't very informed about them and just judges them superficially on a few mainstream shows they know. Just like people who aren't into anime do to anime. I see anime fans doing the same to western TV a lot of the time, just being ignorant and reducing a gigantic medium with hundreds of shows per year to one type of show based on a handful of mainstream experiences. You'd think as people who managed to get into anime despite the prejudices and generalizations that are out there would be more open-minded in regards to stuff like this, but a lot of the time anime fans are even more closed-minded about entertainment than non-anime fans :/.
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Mar 6, 2018 9:58 AM
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What kind of fiction do you enjoy apart from anime?


Books, movies, TV shows, and video-games mostly (though, I tend to lean toward the first one the most because I'm such a MAJOR bookworm - have been since I was a little girl, so...). ^^;;
Mar 6, 2018 10:02 AM

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Video games and TV shows are ones that got me into reading manga and watching anime so I guess I have them to thank as they caused me to be interested in this medium.
Mar 6, 2018 10:04 AM

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Movies have always been my passion, miles ahead of anime. So yeah...

I do consider the Berserk manga to be the greatest piece of fiction ever created though.
Mar 6, 2018 10:12 AM

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Everything. Love a good book, love a good movie, love a good manga etc.
Mar 6, 2018 10:15 AM

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movies mostly, some tv shows but i usually get bored too fast of those
Mar 6, 2018 12:04 PM
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Games, movies and cartoons. Not a fan of books though (^:
Mar 6, 2018 12:23 PM

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TV shows, limited to only cartoons + CYE + John Oliver for the time being
Movies, limited to only cartoons. Only will watch live action if someone else wants to watch with me and they have the movie with them. Don't care about live action
Games, limited to only replaying the enjoyable retro games that I still have
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Mar 6, 2018 12:31 PM

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Nowadays I read some manga and books, but the college got me so busy that I can't continue read so much, at least 2 chapters or less.
Mar 6, 2018 1:27 PM

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I'm a huge book reader, so definitely books. I actually work with books and publishing for my job, so I'm super passionate about it. But I also really love video games. Some of the best stories that I have ever experienced came from video games, and I feel it doesn't get nearly enough love for how remarkable the storytelling can be in video games. Another more general fiction-type I enjoy are films.
Mar 6, 2018 1:29 PM

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cracked decensored upscaled google translated eroge games
Mar 6, 2018 1:31 PM
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i dont understand the comparison with media of fiction and anime, what do they have to do with each other?
Mar 6, 2018 3:33 PM

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since theres no video games, i guess manga or books for me but i agree that manga and anime are kind of in the same category
Mar 6, 2018 3:36 PM

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I’m a huge movie nerd. I actually like a lot of war movies. I also used to be a hardcore gamer and so I’ll play games if I don’t feel like watching movies or anime.
Mar 6, 2018 4:10 PM

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Fantasy or science fiction novels. Anything that isn’t normal. I sometimes read translated Asian classics.




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Mar 6, 2018 8:19 PM

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Aside from anime, I used to watch movies.
Sometimes, TV dramas but the manga is much better, so nowadays I read manga when I am not watching animes.
Mar 6, 2018 9:19 PM

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Books and movies. I love reading fantasy novels and I'm a big fan og Guillermo Del Toro's Spanish language movies.
Mar 6, 2018 9:31 PM

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I spent quite a lot of time watching films before switching to the anime. To be frank, sometimes those films that I watched still lingered around my heads, especially when I found some anime with the similar ideas/themes.
Mar 6, 2018 9:35 PM
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Although I love manga and movies (currently obsessed with the MCU and also movies that came from books I read), books have always been something I enjoy, maybe even more than anime tbh. Books have been a part of my life since i was young, and now I will try to read whenever I can x3
Mar 6, 2018 9:59 PM

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Were is videogames? I adore videogames, and some of them are just too good (in an artistical level). I don't know why it isn't an option, is fiction like everything else.

If I had to chose between the others, it would be movies, they are usually better than american TV shows, comics and that some manga. But the Live Action part really puts me off.
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Mar 6, 2018 11:28 PM
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Every entertainment media there exists, but i watch anime and read manga more.
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Books, and I'm open to a lot of genres though my favorite is fantasy. It broadens my horizons and lets me experience something different.







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Mar 6, 2018 11:58 PM

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Books are my no.1 but I also watch Korean dramas only of they’re good tho.
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Mar 7, 2018 12:16 AM

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I wanted to choose a video games but there's no option. So ..... books, I guess
Mar 7, 2018 12:41 AM

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My love life is a fiction that I enjoy.
Mar 7, 2018 1:40 AM

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I used to watch TV shows and movies but after I got into anime I only watch anime. Apart of that I play video games (dark souls and starcraft 2)

Mar 7, 2018 1:58 AM

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A very simple answer, visual novels.


Mar 7, 2018 2:13 AM
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Basically everything listed (except for Manga is much better or OP is a pleb). Love cartoons much as I love anime. Now if there were a MyCartoonList...

I really love The Amazing World of Gumball, far as currently running animated series. Almost 7 yeas strong! The latest movies I’ve seen is Black Panther and Maze Runner: The Death Cure. I’m not as interested in video games anymore but Doom, Smash, Mario. Sonic and Pac-Man would be my simple go-to picks.
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