#im rambling and yes this is bc of a poll but it bugs me when people say they ‘don’t like anime’ | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

aliosne · 3 months ago

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It’s extremely cute when people are like back in MY day we watched the animes in ten parts on youtube uphill both ways in the snow like my friend. My child. I remember renting bootleg fansubs from weird video stores. And feeling lucky to have that.

#passing around copies of copies someone’s brother’s friend’s aunt brought back from Japan #you were lucky if they were in order and complete and still watchable #and you were at the whim of someone else’s curation #which you always were but when there’s fewer people curating/sharing stuff…#I do think some older people’s bad opinion of anime comes from this period bc a lot of what was floating around was shitty harem anime etc #and then now if you’re not ‘into’ it your main exposure is whatever gets super popular #and a) overexposure makes anything seem shitty and b) popular doesn’t necessarily mean ‘good’#im rambling and yes this is bc of a poll but it bugs me when people say they ‘don’t like anime’#bc usually people are writing it off based on limited exposure or straight up racism #or lacking cultural context. and while you shouldn’t have to like. take a course to understand your leisure reading #I do feel like people are a bit more willing to extend grace and accept cultural norms/language that are unfamiliar when the culture #in question is also majority white

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