Why does anyone watch anime

[KungFuSandwich]

I honestly dont get it. Whats the attraction. It seems boring and childish to me.

[BradleyT]

Hentai is even more [censored] up.

[InchoateHand]

'Cause they hate themselves?

[Macdaddy Warsaw]

Because certain anime films and series are the work of geniuses?

[smokingrobot]

neon genesis evangelion was a pretty interesting series. im no anime freak, but i saw those and i dug the whole hegelian allusions and the search for identity ideas.

[smokingrobot]

i dont see the draw for hentai (no pun intended)

[smokingrobot]

there are a couple other good ones i saw too, but i know people who will watch anything and everything anime related... no discretionary taste whatsoever.

[ilya]

Most of it is crap IMO but there is some good stuff out there, e.g. "Princess Mononoke."

[Spladle Master]

Anime isn't really a genre. You might as easily have said, "Why does anyone watch movies?" There is a LOT of anime produced every year. Some of it is good and some of it is bad.

[randomstumbl]

Imagine being in Japan and seeing Carrot Top do his routine. You'd really wonder about American stand up comedy, wouldn't you?