My kids love anime, and I have to admit I can't stand the stuff.
I love traditional and modern Japanese art and culture, but I find anime to be nauseatingly sentimental. The crudely drawn figures with garishly oversized (and usually moist) eyes, the simpering voices, the coos and whimpers of female characters, the dorky bravado and machismo of the male characters, set my teeth on edge.
The very youngest female characters flash disproportionately elongated legs under impossibly short skirts, hair in pigtails, eyes wet (of course), and trembling with whatever emotion they are conveying, while they communicate with little whimpers and cries of surprise. It smacks of pedophilia porn to me.
I don't understand the western interest in anime at all, particularly with young people. What makes it so attractive that scores of young women decorate websites and blogs with anime characters? How can they identify with these characters, and why would they want to?
I've waited a long time for this fad to die out.
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