What attracts you to anime in the first place?

When I was a kid and 4Kids still existed, I just watched their shit (Pokémon, Sonic, One Piece, Yugioh ect) because that was what happened to be on TV. Never registered on me that they were foreign, though they certainly seemed a bit different in terms of general look and feel than what I had seen in other cartoons. It wasn’t really until I watched Transformers Armada and DBZ though when I started to think: “Hey all these shows like kinda similar”, which made me look into it and finding out what anime was around ‘08/‘09. Though by that time the anime I could watch on TV in my country started to fizzle out and I moved on video games as my fun time hobby. Looking back I think the general idea of watching a serialised story in animated form as apposed to episodic gag shows was something I was too young to consciously notice at the time, though I still watched quite a fair amount of what was put on TV so I guess the appeal to young me would’ve been seeing cool characters doing cool things every episode. Over time, my tastes have changed a lot though I don’t really think I could definitively answer this question because of how many anime is out there and how many niches it covers. It’s complicated.

I like how the anime industry is so quick moving most things tend to end and be replaced before they get drawn out so long whatever was good is squeezed out. I also like how that contributes to a lot of different specific things being made. The variation is nice. Most importantly though 2d girls just don't have the flaws that 3d girls have, and Japanese otaku pretty much have it figured out how to make a cute and ideal 2d girl

Asuka looks very cute here

i just like 2D animation

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Mostly the fact that most of them aren't political. I see media as a way for authors to explore existential themes and do philosophy through storytelling. The problem is that in western media, more often than not people will do stuff only to force political ideologies in them, they'll build the story around said ideologies. Politics will always get in the way of existentialism (just look at how many people are still denying that our will is determined just because they think accepting it will lead people to stop feeling responsible for their actions), and i'm more interested in what objectively exists than what we made up.

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Art style, the story, fantasy elements. All kinds of stuff.

Pic related is a favourite of mine, way better than real life trash like big brother or coronation street even if it was short.

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Cute girls.

Because I started watching DBZ when I was a small child and from there it became habitual until as an adult I realized my nerdy hobbies have contributed greatly to the shittiness of my life and that I would be better off if my family had forced me to play football forever and ever.

Good diversified stories. Depending on the series, It handles classic storytelling techniques with grace until it inevitably go in the trash can.

>most of them aren't political
the problem isnt even them being political
the problem is when they have real world modern day politics

top teir politics in media is a unqiue world with its own political ideologies that are completely different from anything in real life

it lies in the comfy middle ground between real people with unrealised concepts and realised concepts without real people.
also, I adore many of the aesthetics - GitS, Utena, Houseki no Kuni

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It's somewhere in between "the characters and storytelling, while cliche, are a totally different cliche from Western works, and I enjoy getting to understand a very different culture from my own in some small way;" and "I am suicidally depressed every day of my life but watching cgdct drivel and wasting money I should be putting towards bills on figures and BDs temporarily fills the void in my soul."

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What do you mean "here"? I'm- I mean she's always cute

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Art style
Art style
Oh and also art style
I guess thats why I watch so much KyoAni and PA Works shit, I also dont read books because letters are boring
The fact that most anime girls are completely unrealistic and ideal also helps, I would even say I fill all my emotional needs with anime, irl Im a zombie that no one cares about yet I have never felt lonely once in my life, I have a dog tho

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Main characters that I can self insert of course.

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Asuka is a slut who's addicted to anal sex, she's far from cute.

True, but the simplified art makes her look extra cute

It merges the patrician fetishes of watermelon sized tiddies and 12 year olds

I was on my 5th grade when I discovered Gundam and EVA and Super Robot Wars in general.
Fast forward 20 years later and I still love the super robot genre, it's my gateway into anime and a very important cornerstone in the anime-manga culture

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I like the aesthetics and the general approach to storytelling.

Lotsa stuff.
Every anime have it's appeal.
Originally i liked it was not moral bullshit like the americans. I hated that burgershit treated me like an idiot with their cheap morals. With all their "don't do drugs" "don't disobey parents" and shit. Watching Kenshiro poking to death people was way more interesting. Plus it explored many themes that looked like taboo in burger production. Feeling more mature.

I don't get this viewpoint at all; isn't all media inherently political?
e.g. the trope of the Kind Vicar/Priest is assumptive of viewing the Church/Temples as a positive, the trope of the asshole boss takes a critical view of the exchange of labour for money under capitalism, kid's cartoons take the view that there's always a better alternative to violence, much of Japanese media accepts their current cultural status quo without much (if any) challenge
some are certainly more preachy than others, but all media requires being able to relate to the viewpoint of the 'intended reader' if the reading is to make any sense

>isn't all media inherently political?
I'd phrase it more as "no media is absolutely apolitical", but the basic point remains the same; politics is always there in some way to some extent. Anyone who thinks anime is apolitical is just too unobservant to see the politics in it. Also, a lot of people think "political" means "politics I don't agree with".

>much of Japanese media accepts their current cultural status quo without much (if any) challenge
Yes, and unlike what the left wants you to believe, not challenging the status quo isn't a political stance, it just means you don't give a fuck