The Anime Reality

When you’re a 14 year-old anime fan, and you hear that an Anime movie has won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature, followed by an insane amount of hype, you can’t help but feel a little excited. You watch the trailer, and think: “Wow, this must be amazing! I can’t wait to see it!” A few years later, you finally get to watch it. It… doesn’t hold up. …This was supposed to be an awesome movie, right? Then why do you feel like you’ve been cheated? You rent it, and watch it again – twice. Maybe you just didn’t “get it” the first time around. …But no. You don’t get anything from the experience but an empty void. There was something there, but it was so vague and lost within itself it just evaporated before you could grasp it. The story is thin, most characters are either pointless or plot devices, and, to top it off, the ending (before the credits, I mean) is a downer.

It is with my deepest sorrow, thus, that I state: I hate Spirited Away with a passion.

Okay, granted, part of my hatred for this movie might come from all the hype thrown at it. I just don’t think it lives up to it, outside of its artistic value, but people seem intent on simply not finding any flaws in it, just endlessly praising it to the ends of the Earth. It probably doesn’t help that I found out it was up against Disney’s Lilo And Stitch and Treasure Planet for the Oscar. Pixar wasn’t in the competition that year, so it was the one chance Disney had at the Best Animated Feature award. One chance, two movies, both good, and both movies lost. To this.

Man, it had no Gokus, no fireballs, no katanas, no nothin’! It was the worst anime I ever saw. Courtesy of the TvTropes.com forums.

One thing I’ve noticed from all these retweets is that a lot of non-Asians seem to think that Asians look like anime characters.

Anime, manga, video games, and rpg's have ruined reality for me. It's so damn boring.

January 22nd, 2012 12:23 am via webReplyRetweetFavorite

@LooptronKDI

Stephanis Koukis

I live in different worlds. Reality, furry, anime, skyrim, and pokemon. Playing skyrim. Killin' wolves.

January 22nd, 2012 9:14 pm via txtReplyRetweetFavorite

@ravervixen

Kori Vixen

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Lots of good twits this week. Enjoy.

If you get a haircut and are told you look like a japanese anime character, you lost.

January 15th, 2012 8:52 pm via webReplyRetweetFavorite

@AllahtheGOD

SWAGTACUS

that pizza delivery guy was weird as hell look like he wear them button up shirt wit dragonball z characters on the back n beat off to anime

January 15th, 2012 10:11 pm via Twitter for iPhoneReplyRetweetFavorite

@JLSmittyy

Flukey Stokes

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This dude is 18 never had a girlfriend. Is really into anime. He plays fucking games on fb

January 8th, 2012 12:05 am via txtReplyRetweetFavorite

@iDopeAF_KTA

✔ Verified Whore

((I wish I was a real anime character, so I could just disappear from reality))

January 11th, 2012 11:27 am via Twitter for BlackBerry®ReplyRetweetFavorite

@Nastassyes

Hitomi ♥

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Evangelion is amongst the richest, most complex and profound works of art ever created in any medium since the beginning of time.

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Screw reality. I want to live in an Anime World.-where i can be whatever i can and eat everything i want and not getting fat. :D

January 2nd, 2012 4:28 am via webReplyRetweetFavorite

@doodledude27

Celina Thyra

it's because I love #Anime, doesn't mean I don't care about @taylorswift13, of course, I care a lot about her, she's my reality ROLE MODEL.

January 2nd, 2012 11:25 pm via webReplyRetweetFavorite

@OtakuForSwift

シャナ ▲¹³

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Happy new year, everyone.

My love for anime guys has returned. The only flaw they have? They're non-existent.

December 28th, 2011 9:39 am via Twitter for iPhoneReplyRetweetFavorite

@fuehfueh

CHR1571N3 ♥¹³

To qualify as my Asian girlfriend you gotta be able to make sesame chicken, wear the "X" chopsticks in yo hair & draw anime.

December 28th, 2011 1:57 am via webReplyRetweetFavorite

@KingBeats

KingBeats™ #OVO

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Merry Christmas, everyone.

Anime is a delusion of reality, but the world SHOULD BE LIKE ANIME

December 18th, 2011 5:39 am via TweetDeckReplyRetweetFavorite

@RiXtopia

Eric Anderson

Japan and Animes are like meant to be together.Anime must have Japanese language and culture to look nice.

December 19th, 2011 11:42 am via Twitter for iPhoneReplyRetweetFavorite

@troparanoidable

Elcomsmiling:)

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"Anime is always there to relieve us when reality is too hard for us to bear."

December 11th, 2011 4:52 pm via webReplyRetweetFavorite

@endlesstimesyj

Yanet Jaimes

Anime helps me escape reality for awhile. I don't think it's childish.

December 12th, 2011 4:33 am via EchofonReplyRetweetFavorite

@nakedratnana

Carnie

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