How close to this definition of Japanese viewer are you?

[Njr Scrawl]

Reading this editorial from Animenation http://www.animenation.net/blog/2009/03/20/ask-john-editorial-what-exactly-do-japanese-american-otaku-like-about-anime/#more-15064 makes me realise I'm closer to the Japanese otakudom "pole", than the US "pole".

How close do your overall tastes & shows to watch &/or buy stand. I'm about 7/10 toward the Japanese. :cool:

[DenpaWa]

Reading this editorial from Animenation http://www.animenation.net/blog/2009/03/20/ask-john-editorial-what-exactly-do-japanese-american-otaku-like-about-anime/#more-15064 makes me realise I'm closer to the Japanese otakudom "pole", than the US "pole".

How close do your overall tastes & shows to watch &/or buy stand. I'm about 7/10 toward the Japanese. :cool:

Mark me down on the Japanese side for preferences. I enjoy slice-of-life as much as the epic scale space opera/mecha wars/etc. In fact I'm more likely to enjoy the latter if there are quiet moments where the characters' ordinary lives matter. Which, I just realized, is why Soukyo no Fafnir appealed to me so much. The children were raised not even knowing there was a fantastical side to life and the emotional conflict was a big part of the show.

[Njr Scrawl]

Fafner is on my Geneon to-buy list. I have Stellvia already & enjoy its everyday-ness. To a lesser extent Gunparade March as well (I wish GP Orchestra would be licensed).

As someone who buys shows mainly blind, but before certain seiyuus who I like, character-emphasis shows are like adding friends in a way. They have more re-watchability just from the enjoyment of hearing, & how characters speak & interact with each other. Not neccessarily worlds I would want to live in (as my life is at the moment), but would like to visit. Aria is #1 in my imaginary travel wish-list. :)

[Fencedude]

Fafner is on my Geneon to-buy list. I have Stellvia already & enjoy its everyday-ness. To a lesser extent Gunparade March as well (I wish GP Orchestra would be licensed).



Orchestra is crap.

[Kouji Tamino]

Now you see, this is why I don't like shoe-horning things into categories. I don't particularly sway towards either in any big way. I'm somewhere in the middle, I'd say. It's a combination of the types of shows that I grew up on still appealing to me, while at the same time my tastes continue to expand.

[Draneor]

Well, I'm not Japanese, so I can't be an otaku, even if I wanted to. On the other hand, I don't really fit in with Western fans either. My tastes and values are too foreign for where I live. I consider myself stateless.

A few weeks ago, when I was reading the first volume of the Lucky☆Star manga at Otakon, I realized I'm basically a male version of Konata.^^U

I enjoy slice-of-life as much as the epic scale space opera/mecha wars/etc.

Slice-of-life is really a Western genre.

[Psycho 101]

Now you see, this is why I don't like shoe-horning things into categories. I don't particularly sway towards either in any big way. I'm somewhere in the middle, I'd say. It's a combination of the types of shows that I grew up on still appealing to me, while at the same time my tastes continue to expand.

I would be about the same. I love my action don't get me wrong, but I equally love shows base don the characters that are more deep in terms of plot and and character development. So I'd place myself near the middle a bit close to the American side though. I say that simply cause I have no desire to marry an animated character heh. I much prefer real women tvym.