Heres a post I made in a different forum on this very topic. Forgive the lack of capitalisation but it seemed appropriate at the time.
whats with the whole japan thing? i look through my msn list, half the people have japanese characters in their name or names like Rokiro or whatever, what the hell is that. they all watch anime, some of which is good i have to admit but the majority of it is annoying crap, or cartoon bestiality porn. also the ^^ emoticon pisses me off. it has no mouth. you cruel bastard, bringing an emoticon into the world without a mouth. to summarise, if it wasnt for awesome tv shows like takeshis castle and iron chef, i would fart in japans general direction. and dont put random japanese phrases into conversation. and just because a movie is anime doesnt make it good. the same movie done with live action would be just as good, if not better. in fact it would likely be better since only 0.5% of anime is done well. the rest has annoying jerky motion and more detail seems to be in the MOTION LINES than the characters themselves. to be fair however this style is often aimed towards children. that doesnt stop 20yo geeks watching it tho, just because its japanese and supposedly that makes it good. just being anime, or japanese, does not automatically make something good. there is bad anime. there are bad japanese things. not all anime is bad. not all japanese things are bad. but its sad to see so much bandwidth hard drive space and dvds used up by CHILDRENS TELEVISION SHOWS.
wow, that felt good.