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Anime for People Who “Hate Anime”: Part 2 of 3

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Anime for People Who “Hate Anime”: Part 2 of 3

For those of you returning from Part 1, welcome!  For people that didn’t read Part 1, fear not! You don’t need to have read that to read this one.

In Part 1, I covered the “Soft Start” to finding anime that has the potential to hold the interest of even the most anime-avoidant viewer, focusing on three spectacular films (Tokyo Godfathers, Spirited Away, and Metropolis) and one spectacular show (Avatar: The Last Airbender).

So in this one, I’ll cover “classic” anime, which for this list I’m defining as having aired in or before 2005.  I also stuck with my guidelines from Part 1, only including shows around 60 episodes or less, and avoided the seriously strange ones (even though my heart wanted to include titles like Paranoia Agent).

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Anime for People Who “Hate Anime” : Part 1 of 3

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There are many reasons why anime may not appeal to someone.

The art style itself. the subject matter, the voice acting, or only having the option to watch with subtitles for many series can be a big turn off for a lot of potential Western viewers. But if you’ve ever heard any of the following  phrases:
  • “I don’t like books.”
  • Or “I hate movies.”
  • Or rarer still, “I don’t care about music.”
…then you know what it is like for an anime fan to hear, “But I HATE anime”. Because there is so much variation in the medium itself, you can’t even fathom someone hating all of it entirely.
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