It's like asking why I haven't quit watching movies. Even if US American film is in a similarly terrible state right now, there's always a ton of stuff from the past to look at. For anything I watch, if I find something interesting, I'll watch it. There's never any point where I completely quit watching a visual medium, let alone discriminate against it because it's anime.
To be honest, it's weird that people keep talking about anime as a monolithic thing.
@MelodyOfMemory That's because of years and decades of dismissive arrogance believing entertainment from another country has garnered merit "is not unique" while coming from a nation rightfully reputed for starting the modern day entertainment industry but also suffering from problems like labeling anything drawn and animated as "kiddie garbage", such trains of thought tends to be rooted in things like nationalism, jingoistic sentiment, and even racism and ethnocentrism, and of a subconsciously ingrained kind that you don't need to be wearing white bedsheets or shaving your head to express.
No, I'm not going to pull punches on this. I love watching shows made here in the USA and all sorts of entertainment, but just because you proclaim yourselves as open minded and progressive, that doesn't mean squat if you don't think about your place in the world on a wider existential scale and what kind of inherent beliefs you carry from your upbringing that causes you to think myopically within institutionally established borders and colors of skin than an authentic human level. This is all why stupid insults and ingrained stereotypes like weeaboo popped up and why liking anime like anything else is looked at as weird.
And if it seems like I'm attacking you, I'm not. At the same time, not many people authentically work at being better people, especially in the realm of being more than a race or an ethnicity and looking beyond that. If it stings, it's because you know there's work that has to be done. Funny this comes from the mouth who threw a piss fit yesterday, but I honestly don't give a shit, even if this is wasted on people on ignore.
FINAL EDIT: It could had been with any other form of entertainment or anything else, but this is why anime shit is something I'm going to live and hold onto and die to the end. History and meaningful cultural impact was made with anime shit that I fucking noticed. If you see in the news "Man dies suffocated and crushed by anime DVDs, VHS tapes, video games, and manga comic books", that's going to be me. |