Magic: Who thinks they can do it, and why otherwise intelligent people buy it.

[Freeky]

Cowboy Bebop is the absolute single worst thing in existence, period.

E/O/T.

Inuyasha is way worse.

You both fail. 

[Jasper]

Anyone ever notice how Japan has sort of hijacked youth culture with anime?

Just throwing that out there.

[Cain]

Felix, it was pretty deliberate too.  Japanese companies flooded the American market with pirated copies of old anime and first seasons of new programs in the 90s in order to create a demand for it.  Obviously, when you give out a lot of free stuff, people think "why not give it a go", and then they get hooked, and then you introduce the pay-for versions and new seasons.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

We're turning Japanese.

I really think so.

[Cain]

I've got your picture of me and you

[LMNO]

I want a doctor to take your picture so I can see you from the inside as well.

[Jasper]

Well, we nuked them like twice.  It's not like we didn't have it coming.

[President Television]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIO4Uw36-JE

[Freeky]

But it's SAAAAAD!

[Golden Applesauce]

Only for about an episode at the end.

On the other hand, there are plenty of shows that really are sad, the whole way through, not in the "plot is a tragedy" sense, but in the "I despair because some human being actually approved this scenario/script/series" sad.  (And this goes for every kind of media, naturally.)

[Freeky]

Ok, you have a point. Only the end episode was sad. Mostly. But I can't watch it anymore without going "OMG he DIESSSSS!!!!!! "

[President Television]

I repeat:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIO4Uw36-JE

This is all you ever need to know about anime.

[Jasper]

I repeat:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIO4Uw36-JE

This is all you ever need to know about anime.

There are a handful that don't suck.  No more than maybe 8 out of the hundreds (thousands?) that America imported though, so it's kind of a moot point.

[President Television]

I repeat:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIO4Uw36-JE

This is all you ever need to know about anime.

There are a handful that don't suck.  No more than maybe 8 out of the hundreds (thousands?) that America imported though, so it's kind of a moot point.

That one sucked? I thought it was hilarious.

[Jasper]

It was amusing I guess, but I've become extremely snobbish about anime since there's just way too much that is no good. 

Felix,
I used to like anime for itself.  When I was still a child.