(I know I responded to Jon’s post from the 7th and now it’s gone. Bah humbug! It even referenced Legend of the Overfiend’s proclivity for tentacle porn. I’m dissapointed now and will redo it here… sans Overfiend references.)

Amanda is more than welcome to brand me an idiot Jon. I revel in the label.

I stand by my dislike of all things anime however. Call it personal mental aversion brought on by too many years in the Warp & Outland trenches catering to the bad side of the hardcore fan base. I refuse to call them Otaku though. For me that name is and always will be synonymous with part of the Decker subculture in Shadowrun.

While I’m not a fan, and I doubtfully will ever be (so you can stop trying to suggest things – hint hint), I do respect the art form and I believe it is valid, and I have even liked various movies that I watched and comics that I read; Akira will always be a personal fav, and I have enjoyed reading the occasional Appleseed and Battle Angel: Alita comics. Hell I even liked parts of Overfiend (So much for not mentioning it).

My distaste stems not so much the work itself as the subculture that it spawned and to me I really can’t see one without the other due to my past interaction. Separating the two is something I just can’t be bothered doing at this point so rather than try, I’m going to keep my personal prejudices.

Also Jon. you are correct, I do dislike Ranma, but not for the reasons you may think. I have, in fact, never watched an episode of the show and never will. I won’t watch it because there was a point when my friends ALL went mad for it and became fanboys themselves (like slavering, rabid dog fanboys out of my worst Warp/Outland nightmares) and I just wasn’t interested. All they did day in and out for a few months was talk about it which was really fine by me. Live and let live as they say. I wasn’t interested but they were and that was cool enough. They even bought the occasional book from me at the store so I wasn’t going to complain. What wasn’t cool though was the constant and consistent badgering that I received about it. Telling me that “I HAD to watch it!” and that it “was the best thing ever!”. They didn’t let up and it pissed me off and wasn’t cool. Call me a stubborn ass, but no one tells me what I have to watch. So I haven’t… and won’t. End of story.

I think Cowboy Bebop or Trigun might be more his thing.

Possibly FMA.

And Amanda recommends Ghost in the Shell, of course.

Neon Genesis Evangelion.

But then everyone needs to see that in the same way everyone should read Sandman.

So that leaves…

Love Hina.

I don’t know. Greg just seems like the harem type of guy.