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NY Times on Anime

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the art-at-just-short-of-24-fps dept.

An anonymous reader submitted a NY Times story (you know what that means: annoying free registration required) about anime as Japanese Film's 2nd Golden Age. It covers a lot of ground, as well as a lot of really amazing films including (obviously) Miyazaki's work, but also stuff like Ranma 1/2, Perfect Blue, Cowboy Bebop and Evangelion to pick a handful of my favorites. In short, it's a good piece with its share of criticisms and commentary, but it's cool to see a mainstream source talk up something that was so much subculture just a few years ago.

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  1. No Taco, Anime Is Not Mainstream by tealover · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I'm sorry Taco, but you are still a geeky, dorky suburban whiteboy and that's not going to change. Anime will still be a fetish for people like you. So stop searching the internet for clues that it's going mainstream. Believe me. it's not.

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    -- You see, there would be these conclusions that you could jump to
  2. Annoying free registration. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You know, Slashdot insists on an annoying free registration to post articles non-anonymously. Why is what the NYTimes doing any different, you fucking hypocrite?

  3. fuck anime fags by parasite · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You fucking anime fags can all go to hell and BURN. Fuck you fucking piece of shit, it is thanks to my relentless hatred for your worthless poseur FUCK kind that I got a goddamn C in my Japanese class. I got it because I was surrounded by your disgusting kind, thank god I've moved to the morning class this semester. Fuck you all pieces of CARTOON LOVING PEDOPHOLIFIC FUCKS.

  4. Anime Sucks by MisterBlister · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Honestly it does. Bad art, terrible plots, all sorts of really twisted underage-girl-rape subthemes. Why do people watch this crap?