[me] shivers [/me]
Anime? *shiver*
I deeply dislike anime. I freely admit to have not watched much of it, but what I've seen has been generally god-awful. I've seen Gundam Wing and Dragonball-Z, both of which seemed like janked up action movies without a specific purpose (only one episode of each, though, so I could be wrong).
Watching Escaflowne wasn't _too_ bad (at least that had a solid plot), but between animation that looked like a 70s cartoon, and only having one real 'character' along side a bunch of cardboard cutouts (and the only realy character was an insane evil guy!) and a cat. The plot was cool, but lacking in a conclusive ending, and pretty screwy in a few places, obviously drawing from other sources.
Then there was *SHIVER* Kenshin. Ouch. I saw two episodes/segments/whatevers of that. Brr.... It couldn't have been worse if it had been trying! During a battle scene (which happened to be better than most), I QUOTE: "I measured the length of his arm with my sword." During a fight. Uh-huh. Righto.
And I thought the characters in Escaflowne were weak; the characters in Kenshin were literally bits of paper in the breeze. One rule of good literature and movies: When a character starts a speech like a brilliant orator with money to spare, he should not end it like some random bum off the street. Kenshin flung this rule to the floor and danced on it. And it wasn't just the translation, either.
And I've seen some other random animes too. Some oddball thing with tiny fairies that couldn't decide if it was being normal or The Wizard of Oz. Something with a huge Phoenix that was really an airplane, or somesuch nonsense. About thirty seconds of painfully dubbed Pokemon. (Ya' know, the subtitles really make the anime about ten times better? Even then...)
Finally, there was Mononoke Hime, the _only_ anime I have thoroughly enjoyed. That was an _awesome_ masterpiece, with characters worthy of a medal. The plot, people, and ideas presented were very solid, well written, brilliantly timed, and even well animated. And beyond all that, the pyschological and philosophical implications behind the Mononoke were carefully planned and considered, and were actually fun to think about...
*brr....*
I am not an anime person. I like my movies either well animated, with frames _between_ the character looking straight up and the same guy sitting down crosslegged. And characters don't hurt. Maybe I've just had bad anime examples. But you won't get me to watch more...