[quote=Yog Sothoth]
I said this once and I'll say again, there's way too much anime on this cite and it gets so annoying. It's like people can't characters that are anything else except anime themed characters. I don't like anime with the exception of shows I was into as a kid just for nostalgia purposes, but the rest is just boring and uninteresting, and it's everywhere. Seriously people have some variety.
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My first problem with this is that you're generalizing [i]all anime[/i] as "boring and uninteresting". I won't dent that there's a lot of trash anime (and some would disagree with me about that), but to me, there's also a lot of trash Western/superhero/etc. stuff (and some would disagree with about that too). Anime, while it does not interest [i]you[/i], are appealing to a majority of people on this site, as I assume the biggest age group is 14-21 or something, and if I'm not mistaken, that's the age group that's most interested in anime. I'm not trying to defend it, since a good anime is far and inbetween (to me), I think a lot of the ideas the shows have are kinda interesting concept-wise, and thus intrigues people to combine this show they really enjoy with their hobby of RPing and blammo.

Unless I'm unaware of some hidden selection of shows, then I think that another reason people like anime is because there's a bit of a lack of more serious (for lack of better word) genres on animated shows on Western. Like, 90% of the animated things I see on TV are straight comedies. I think superhero stuff is more serious than most cartoons, but then there's the issue that some people such as myself either don't care for that, want something more than just "generic hero that's better than everyone else saves day" (which is ironic for me to say, since I just complained about you generalizing), or something like that. I don't know how to word what I'm trying to say in this paragraph without being an ass.

Anyway, back to the main point. There are some people who just rip off anime for their characters and their plots, but there are some people who like concepts or ideas from anime and thus would like to RP in that setting/whatever. I'm extremely confident that you have, do, or will do exactly that, but just with the things you yourself like. Anime is a big thing right now (to the dismay of some), and if you can't handle that people like something you don't like, then that's your problem. 

I guess my "complaint" is people generalizing things further than they should. I'm like 99% sure "Anime" is not a genre, but a catagory for shows to be in and [i]then[/i] be assigned genres.