>>18053005no, in fact there was a time when i was just finding out about anime online where i had a distaste for it for not understanding it.
i already had a preference for animation early one once i figured out that hey you that boring live action shit is limited by what props the guys that film it can afford and what happens to the actors while with animation you can just age up age down the characters do whatever the limits are what the animators and voice actors are capable of
i watched some anime when i was a kid, particularly one piece detective conan and yugioh, regret not watching the channels that showed anime more because that would have been better than how i met your mother scrubs and tbbt
i still liked a lot of western animation, every edgy kid was into south park, simpsons, which I started watching early because “too mature for those toddlers shows, show me the adult stuff”; the spongebob reruns were also really funny and made me wonder why the rest of the cartoons they shat out in that time were so crap in comparison. never had access to disney/cartoon network stuff due to being a poorfag.
the stuff people actually fawn and waifufag over doesn't really get aired on tv that often, outside of the usual surface level garbage with shit voice acting (for a country that is actually pretty capable of dubbing things), i only got into seinen stuff you usually see through the internet. learning english early on was a boon too, but I think I really got into anime rather late compared to most people around here. Uh, I think the first animes I watched were Rozen Maiden and Hitsugi no Chaika because le memes, and they really had their moe moments so that already hooked me on. But I think I got out of my main anime phase a long time ago, in fact it has already been some 6 years since my high point of it. I want to explore the medium again and find some actual worthwhile stuff, need to tick off a lot of the “classics” too, but I rarely find myself in the right mood
