User:Angel Emfrbl/Animefan

Lets get something out of the way here:


 * 1) Gen anime fans - anyone pre late 90s who like the style before it became reconnised a lot.
 * 2) Gen anime fans - anyone who were fans when it was first coming over 1998-2004.
 * 3) Gen anime fans - anyone who was a fan during the "trendy" stage of 2004-2007
 * 4) Gen anime fans - anyone who hasn't moved on now anime has stopped being "trendy" and now is just another area of interest.

I fall into group one. I didn't know I was a anime fan, I can remember the days of not knowing what it was and all of the Japanese animations I saw as a child (exception:Thunder Prince ¬_¬' ) I enjoyed. I watched "Monkey" as a child in its second showing on the UK (man there was a big gap between no.1 showing and no.2 showing) when Sky was becoming more widely avaible as a TV saterlite service. Dragonball was never shown in my country but "Cities of Gold" was and takes my heart away as the show that I hold responisible for making me a anime fan. Incidently Cites of Gold is a smashing series and anyone who hasn't seen it should. I could tell you more if I could remember half the series now after a decade of not remembering but I can tell you its a dam good show. Too serious perhaps, it lacks the humour anime in the last decade has adopted, but thats okay.

See the trouble with Gen.1 anime fans is we have difficulty dealing with gen.3 and 4 fans because we were the anime fans who didn't see anything past seriousness of shows. There simply was no "anime humour" or very little of it. You just didn't play funny. I smile tough as this has its highlights, I can watch serious shows for anime and not be bored thanks to it. Most of the Gen.1 and 2 fans are now in the 20-30 age rating, gen 3 and 4 are under 20, 50% around the 13 years of age range. After 13 your either a fan for life or grown out of it by the age of 15. Gen.1 fans like the older shows and would happily accept anything you give us from that era both in series and merchandise, for a lot of us the old stuff is like a cult thing. We're long past fan worship, we're into "way of life" stage by now.

There is not much else to say about it... Other then thats just how things are. Thats not to say we don't like new stuff or won't get along with gens 3 and 4, its just we're a little impatient towards them because of the "gaps". Gen.2 - Gen.4 fans tend to accept yaoi and yuri easier then gen.1 fans... Why, I don't know. :-/

As I said, I didn't know what anime was when I was watching it and the first time I even heard the word "manga" was at highschool. Until then they were just another show but I like them. I got introduced to anime at the time of Sky opening itself up and watching Sailor Moon and Pokemon, taking an intereast in it all. First time I heard words that familiarised me with what I had watched and been watching since childhood. Accepted I was a fan back in 2002 when I had a lot of illness just before christmas and here I am... 6 years later.

I will never say I am souly a OP fan, I am always an anime fan before OP fan. My reason for taking to OP is to have one major long series to look forward to while I watch other anime shows beause their always much shorter. Buy now I can say "Every anime has its flaws and its up to taste." I don't like Dragonball Z for the fights and dumb storyline that wasn't in DB... DB was ruined by not being shown in order before DBZ. I don't like Naruto because I see it as a worst version of DB. I don't like Bleach because you have to stop and think about everything and it seems too uness. complex.

CLAMP shows are too fan-candyish and I feel like I watching a in fashion ad all the time rather then a show. The pace is slow, the storie pathetically, romantically boring. I'll watch romance even though I hate it if you control it right - no slow moments of "I love you Fred!" and no kissing scenes that are uneeded. Just two people, they have a story together and at the end they KISS. If they love each other for more then 50% of the story live length, I'll throw up by the end. I like to see the build up and reason why they love each other. And then nothing sloppyily done just to set up X character to kiss Y character.

Thankfully there are plenty of good anime to kill the bad, Tenchi Muyou is always one of the betters, Outlaw Star also is a must. Sailor Moon a "Just do it"and DB a "watch it once". Slayers, Louie the Rune Soldier both must be seen and you'll be a really lousey fan if you never see "Dragon-half" because had the creatators not been put in jail for drugs that would have been the best anime of all time!