| I guess this is something I've always thought about but never asked around here. Obviously everyone on here (I assume) is an anime fan, but I wonder if that's their favorite visual entertainment medium. For me as you can see on my profile, sports is still my greatest passion, but as I go further down the list I realize that American TV dramas and American movies still hold more weight than anime. What about you? Please do NOT list, this is not a listing thread. |
| For now it is. Since the American TV shows I watch are in hiatus for now, I'm watching anime now to catch up what I have missed out. |
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| It is next to gaming. |
Paul said: It is next to gaming. I'm going to go ahead an assume that a LOT of people on here have gaming as their #1 or #2. I think the last time I was really into gaming was when playstation 2 was still relevant. I don't know why, but eventually I just stopped caring for it. |
| Yes, I find in anime the most absurd but entertaining stories. This medium have themes I don't find in any other place. |
| Without a doubt, yes. |
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| Next to watching fail videos, yes. Nothing is more entertaining than watching other people hurt themselves. Not even anime. |
Ntad said: Next to watching fail videos, yes. Nothing is more entertaining than watching other people hurt themselves. Not even anime. Russian dash cam crash videos are better. |
私のホバークラフトはウナギでいっぱいです。 |
| Sports is still #1 - football / hockey Then certain tv shows - Breaking Bad, Suits, HIMYM... Then anime Then cartoons - American Dad, Family Guy, Avatar... |
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| Yes, my favourite is hentai anime, it has no limitations lolis can have boobs bigger than watermelons. |
BRhueBRJul 7, 2013 2:18 PM
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| It's right there with live action movies. I can't really decide. |
| Sports then anime. |
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| 1. gaming 2. anime 3. other cartoons |
| sexual incest in nisomonogatari - no one bats an eye romance incest in SAO - everyone loses their minds |
| I like some tv series more than anime, If I had to choose one over the other it would be movies and tv series. |
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| Tokusatsu and Manga are my favorites. Anime comes third. |
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| Guess. |
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YorozuyaGinSan said: Tokusatsu and Manga are my favorites. Anime comes third. What are some good Tokusatsu? |
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| Yes. In an anime you can normally see situations that in a movie would require an extremely high budget (like all the shonen's battles). Also,I think anime involve more in become attached to the characters (and suffer for their death). In fact, in a movie, when I see a character die it doesn't make me any effect, because I think that I'll see that actor again in another film. Sorry, I don't know if I expressed myself correctly, I'm Italian and I'm not very familiar with English. |
| http://i50.tinypic.com/2a0hjd5.gif Kurapika is the MAN! |
nanny96 said: Yes. In an anime you can normally see situations that in a movie would require an extremely high budget (like all the shonen's battles). Also,I think anime involve more in become attached to the characters (and suffer for their death). In fact, in a movie, when I see a character die it doesn't make me any effect, because I think that I'll see that actor again in another film. Sorry, I don't know if I expressed myself correctly, I'm Italian and I'm not very familiar with English. I'm Mexican and i understood that perfectly, actors come back but dead anime characters only get OVA's, tis a sad fact of life. |
| 私のホバークラフトはウナギでいっぱいです。 |
nanny96 said: This happens to me in anime also when two similar characters are played by the same voice actor, either in Japanese (Rie Kugimiya) or English (Todd Haberkorn or Josh Grelle).In fact, in a movie, when I see a character die it doesn't make me any effect, because I think that I'll see that actor again in another film. They don't die, necessarily, they just evoke the same emotional reaction from me. |
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YorozuyaGinSan said: Tokusatsu and Manga are my favorites. Anime comes third. Had to look up what "Tokusatsu" was...lol. I was thinking that maybe manga isn't visual entertainment, but then again, since it's mostly drawings.....I guess it is. |
| In the past 6 months or so it has been (after gaming, although I don't really get into games much anymore). I don't have the channels for sports and can't be bothered watching live action shows that sound interesting so for the time being its definitely anime. Reading/Manga probably come in 3rd (I've not read many mangas but out of the ones I have done they don't compare to some books). |
jal90 said: Simple for me. It's live action movies. I don't know. It seems I can tolerate mediocre movies, but I can't tolerate mediocre anime anymore.It's right there with live action movies. I can't really decide. It goes back to the fact anime is still by and large targeting teens. The mediocre stuff is always some moe/romcom/SOL highschool thing when movies mediocrity has many more genres and not restrained to a single culture or demography. |
TachiiJul 7, 2013 3:05 PM
| Out of all my hobbies watching films and shows is my main one (though I never really considered myself a film buff), and out of those anime just happen to be my favorite to watch so I think that counts. |
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Ghostony said: 1. gaming 2. anime 3. other cartoons |
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Tachii said: jal90 said: Simple for me. It's live action movies. I don't know. It seems I can tolerate mediocre movies, but I can't tolerate mediocre anime anymore.It's right there with live action movies. I can't really decide. It goes back to the fact anime is still by and large targeting teens. The mediocre stuff is always some moe/romcom/SOL highschool thing when movies mediocrity has many more genres and not restrained to a single culture or demography. It has to be said though that I do watch way more stuff in live action form (mostly movies) than in anime. Maybe in the future with more experience I'll start to get tired of those certain patterns, but well whatever. It's worth of notice that my average in both anime and movie rating sites tends to be the exact same. |
Tachii said: It's live action movies. I don't know. It seems I can tolerate mediocre movies, but I can't tolerate mediocre anime anymore. I kinda understand... Although, I still deal with mediocre anime. But I'd rather see a mediocre movie than 12 episodes of mediocre anime, that's for sure. |
| No, I don't think so. |
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| Yep, right after Conan O'Brien |
| after gaming |
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JustALEX said: Lol yeah the time thing is certainly important. I might get bored of a movie but it's still usually just within 2 hours. But like, sometimes I can't even finish a single episode in a mediocre anime. :| I usually don't even put them on my list now if I only just saw 1-2 eps and got bored of it.Tachii said: It's live action movies. I don't know. It seems I can tolerate mediocre movies, but I can't tolerate mediocre anime anymore. I kinda understand... Although, I still deal with mediocre anime. But I'd rather see a mediocre movie than 12 episodes of mediocre anime, that's for sure. |
| I love video games as much as I love anime. I don't watch as many movies as I used to but I still enjoy them from time to time. I also occasionally watch American TV dramas. But I watch those even less than I watch movies. I only keep up with about 2 or 3 of them. Grey's Anatomy and Breaking Bad are my favorites right now. |
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| i Prefer the Internet [0.0] In the last few years, I alternate anime, movies, and books (and manga mostly, though I occasionally read comics). Due to constantly reading something I don't especially like (for work purposes), anime might take over - like following closely a season. Since watching movies was also a necessity few years ago, books were what I read most at the time for pleasure. If I have to rank them now - books and anime, movies, manga (because of the releases, hiatuses, or being just new). Anime can get away with almost everything, but reading manga is a torture if it's not finished in some way. |
| It varies, sometimes it's gaming, sometimes it's anime |
| Now that my favorite fighter lost anime is officially number 1. |
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| Currently yes. If I get more general though then i'd say watching movies/shows and gaming are my favorite forms of visual entertainment and anime is just at the focal point of it right now. |
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| At the moment it is anime which it is usually. Although sometimes every now and then it becomes live action tv or movies. It's pretty much never video games, I still play a fair amount but it always remains as a secondary hobby. |
| yeah, anime is my #1 visual entertainment medium. but i dont think that animes is greater than movies and cartoons. second goes to gaming, i'm a picky gamer, so i just playing one game which i never get bored same as movie, i would choose fantasy, action and horror movies. |
| For me it would be Anime, Sports and games. In that order. But occasionally it changes for me depending on the situation |
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| I'm really lazy for tv series and movies, I'm finding anime a lot easier to watch. |
| anime is my third favorite visual entertainment, right after movies and american TV series (Game of Throne,Walking Dead,Breaking Bad,etc) because I can't stand too many lolis,siscon, or whatever fetish that japanese has |
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| Music is my favourite form of entertainment but as for visual entertainment? Yeah, I guess so. I used to play video games a lot but I'm kind of out of the loop. |
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| Yep. It's tied with manga. |
| Salmon is delicious. |
| Anime and video games. Fuck Hollywood. Well, besides dashcam vids of cars crashing in Russia. |
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| eh, it was for a time, Anime was everything back in junior high. Nowadays im more into Cinema, Games and Literature/Manga(Comics), Basketaball. I do kinda miss that drive i had for anime back then though, when stuff like TTGL and Code Geases were mind blowing awesomeness just feels cheesy now lol. |
| Wait, since when was gaming a visual medium? It's an interactive entertainment medium, not a visual medium. OT: Yes. Yes, it is. For sports, I only watch Liverpool's games and the World Cup and the Euro Cup. I don't have any TV shows that I watch. I don't watch many movies. I stopped watching cartoons some time before coming to Lanka. |
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| It's my only visual medium since I don't watch TV or movies anymore. So yes. I would say gaming, but I don't play as much as I used to and don't find it as fun. I will once GTA V comes out though. Then it'll become my favorite. |
| I prefer gaming to anime (since most anime are really just adaptations of manga, light novels or games). |
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