what do you love that everybody else hates?

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if I could cook, and if I had more moolah I'd be eatin' more of the healthy food you describe.

Healthy food is unfortunately much more expensive than the processed crap nowadays

I try to eat the healthiest processed crap I can find

It took me a week to read all the post. Wish I followed this sooner.

Things I hate everyone else loves:

-nutella and chocolate hazelnut spreads
-this trend in food that is excessive, were all they do is make the portions bigger, there is this place in SoHo called Black Tap that just dumps every sweet thing in existance together for a "milkshake"
-Minions from Despicable Me, I have to supress my rage whenever I see a minion post on facebook or minion merchandise
-mainstream music
-console gaming, sorry I'm part of the glorious PC gaming master race, hard to discuss gaming outside of multiplats
-mainstream multiplat games, I could care less about Call of Duty, Assassin's Creed, or whatever overhyped AAA game is coming out, my taste is for games that aren't milked to death or generic
-Voxel art style games, when I see them all I see is desperate attempt to cash in on Minecraft's fame
-Most fads

Speaking of anime

Depends on the anime and some of that stuff applies to Western cartoons as well. I hate the art styles for some Western cartoons as they look to "realistic", gross, weird or lazy.



I can understand some that the big eyes do seem a bit disturbing for some. Not all anime characters have big eyes though in some the art style looks like it was made by a Western person and in some animes some characters have big eyes while others don't.

So I'm address some of the issues both you guys have with anime by pointing out ones that don't do those things like big eyes or stereotypical/racist drawings of other races/ethnicities

Fist of The North Star






Trigun





Berserk




Space Dandy (well at least with human/human-like characters)





JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (if you look at the manga it could pass for a western comic with its art style)





Cowboy Bebop





Cyborg 009 definitely does not look like a typical anime


Eureka Seven




One Piece, if anything the characters got big mouths







Full Metal Alchemist






Michiko and Hatchin






One Punch Man (Tatsumaki is pretty much the only character with big eyes and small mouth)








Hunter X Hunter (to be far some characters do have big eyes but not really ridiculous)










Naruto








Bleach (there are only like 2 big eye characters)








Soul Eater







Parasyte




Hellsing
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@ SnailHail

Thank you thank you thank you for finding all those pics of non-big-eyed anime. I never wanted to take the time to dig all that up.

From what I understand about Anime and Manga is that it is more of a cultural philosophy and not specifically an art style. That's why many times the West's attempt to do the style loses it's validity. They ape the style without understanding the cultural underpinnings.

For instance, Godzilla (the original) was not a 'monster movie' per se, but an actual socio-political statement about Nuclear power and the devastation it can wreak.

Nice pics. I guess not all anime is bad. I'd have to watch some of those to see if I'd like it. The vocal sound effects can be a little weird, but I think that has to do with Japanese culture and the ways they have of vocally expressing emotion on tv.

It's not all created equal for sure. There is some awesome examples if you want to get started. If you like Sci-Fi, you could try 'Akira'. Really amazing piece of work. And the person who is responsible is one of the true geniuses of the medium.

It took me 2 and a half hours to get the pictures I wanted, I decided to stop before I dumped like 10 more on you guys and my entire post would be the equivalent of 2 thread pages minimum.

As far as I know these art styles aren't really that popular in modern Japan since they prefer that "cute" art style. Hence some shows they have the typical small girls or a very generic art style that is considered cute.

Anime and Manga art styles and how they design their character fashion really do reflect on their society. I was wondering how in the world some Japanese people identified some characters as Japanese when they looked nothing like them till I learned about the rampant plastic surgeory in Asia, and started looking at more famous Japanese people like those from boy bands which can look like the anime characters if they chose to cosplay.

I don't think there is much meaning into the styles other than that it depends on the individual, especially in the earlier days the Japanese did copy Western styles for comics and cartoons just look at stuff like Astro-boy.



As zkydz suggested with Akira, you could also try Hayao Miyazaki films like Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle and My Neighbor Totoro, Hayao Miyazaki is basically the Japanese version of Walt Disney.

Cowboy Bebop is amazing, its messages really touch you and make you think.

I love Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle! I'm not a big fan of Disney, though [or Kingdom Hearts, for that matter].

Those are some great suggestions that were made. My mind is focused on other things right now and I could not think of those names.

Totoro is really good too. But it can be cute. But the stories are not cute. They are amazing. Well, can be amazing. As in all things, there are bad examples of anything.

As for the cultural aspects of the Anime and Manga are that each character is based on some sort of Archetype. There are always small clues to the characters visually to foreshadow things.

I hate it when people take forever at a stop sign before pulling out into traffic.

I hate women drivers. Yes, I know that's sexist. And I am a woman. But the majority of people that almost wreck into me are soccer moms or young women blabbing on their cellphones. And really old people.

I love making budgets and paying bills.

^^^^I never thought about manga and anime characters like that before!

I hate it when people drive slow in the fast lane.

People do that on purpose, here. Not sure why. To piss people off, maybe?