The State of Anime Today

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Yet if Feels so Good!</U></A></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> The State of Anime Today</div> <div> Hey, you know what would really warm my heart?  It would be if across America there would be some kind of anime awareness program to do something about the horrible bind our favorite hobby is in.  You see, I am sickened at the state of anime today.  For some reason, anime has reached nearly mainstream status; however, this has proved to be nearly fatal to morality and justice that revolves around anime.  For instance, as was stated in my La Blue Girl review, I got that tape from a 5th-grader, sickening me worse than when I felt sick at the prospect of simply getting the tape at all.  Not just that, but my little brother (fourth grade) tells me that his classmate's cousin showed a movie called Ninja Scroll to him (my bro's classmate).  This is just as disgusting.  For some reason, people still believe that just because it's animated, it's okay for children.  Even worse is the cousin of said brother's classmate.  These guys should know better than that.  It has been my experience that jerks such as these who have access to anime are not true otaku and would be the same type who would show children American Pie.  Damned perverts.  <I>YamiD50: Hell, even I wouldn't do that!  That's just wrong!  Let them get corrupt </I><I><U>on their own</U></I><I>!</I>  In my eyes there are only two ways to stop this.  Number one is to somehow revert to the past and make anime much less accessible.  However, this is not only impossible, but it would anger most of us.  Number two is to accelerate the growth of anime in America and make it mainstream.  This could take a while, but it's possible.  Even so, it's not practical; after all, there are only a handful of channels that show foreign programming, so making anime mainstream wouldn't be fair.  There is a third choice, but it is the choice we make now, and it doesn't work.  That choice is to simply try to suppress the growth of mainstream anime and shout out that parents should pay more attention to what their children watch while also telling them that anime isn't a disgusting cartoon, but an alternate form of entertainment.  They are not Japanese cartoons.  Or, I guess there could also be the argument that The Simpsons isn't necessarily for kids; after all, it has an amazingly large adult audience.  </div> <bR> <div> I guess I just want a way for only the right people to have access to anime.  Too many children simply think it's okay to watch because it's animated, and too many idiotic teens are out there that have access to anime and are just plain stupid perverts.  Somehow, some way, the record must be set straight.  Anime exists for a target base; if people out there watch whatever anime they can simply because it's different instead of because they're interested in the story (for instance, watching Evangelion and telling others about it because of that one semi-sex scene in that one episode, or that one scene that's supposed to be disgusting in the movie, but saying how "sick" (in a good way) it is, rather than the tragic characters and plot), then I'll just be tortured for the rest of my life.  If there's one thing anime has taught me, it's that I have the power to change the direction my life takes, and I'm not allowing fools to ruin it for me, you hear!!  </div> <bR> <div> Next time: It'll be called "My Worst Nightmare! Time-Warner and insatiable greed may give rise to the destruction of dreams."  It'll probably be shorter than that, though!</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>