Quote Originally Posted by Leeza
How so, DMKA? Dingo has more or less expressed my views on the subject as well. Except I don't <i>hate</i> it. I just don't really care about it one way or the other.
Exactly, you don't hate it. I find it funny enough when people just hate things like anime, or baseball, or plad boxers, when there's no real reason or need or anything gained by paying enough attention to these things to hate them.

But, the rest of the post is just funny for too many reasons, which you'd most likely have to be an anime fan to understand. I'll just say that anime is "cartoons", but from Japan. "Anime" is the Japanese term for animated programming. The reason people get pissy or whatever when someone calls anime "cartoons" is because anime has so many things cartoons don't have (which I won't being to preach on here), including the fact that it reaches out to a wider audience and a wider array of situations (I've yet to see a "cartoon" with gay/lesbian romances, for example, which is quite common in anime). Also, when you say "cartoon", it's usually pertaining to animated programming for children, which is a big assumption for all animated programming by many people in this part of the world. Just as there are non-violent, kiddie animes...

Disliking obsessive anime fans is fine. Not caring for it is fine. But hating anime itself? I'm sorry, I just find that too funny to bear.