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Originally Posted by RealJames
I haven't watched any anime since I came to Japan haha, how's that for irony.
After coming here my Japanese for a long time wasn't good enough to understand it, and then only good enough to understand it, but not enough to Enjoy it. And it has no subs here ...
Honestly it's a habit or hobby you might not want to get into, once you start an anime you like it is VERY difficult to go to bed at a normal hour unless you've finished the entire series lol.
There are few animes that I watched which took more than a few days to finish from first to last episode. But maybe that's just my style and others can pace themselves...
If you enjoy your life without it, it may encroach upon the other things which you like and damage them or push them out of your life, in the long run you might regret it.
If you spend a shitload of time watching American tv-shows anyways, just swap in anime for one of those series.
cowboy bebop
samurai 7
those are the 2 I want to watch again after years away from anime
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this post made me lol. Yeah, I wasn't ever into anime before coming to Japan, and I haven't watched any (save for some of Evangelion as I said before) since I've been living in Japan.
I really didn't even watch a whole lot of American TV back home; I think the only thing I was actually ever kind of faithful to was UFC or DREAM/Sengoku fights.
The whole reason I created this thread though is because I feel like Anime, along with other pop culture like music, is one facet of Japanese culture that I'm just extremely out of touch with. It's not like I want to become some anime junky, it's simply that I have no idea what's going on compared to all of my friends, both Japanese and non Japanese. My Japanese friends know a lot about the pop culture simply because they grew up with it, and my non Japanese friends know about it because for a lot of them it's what drew them into Japan in the first place. I don't hang out with weeaboos, but it still seems like all of my friends know what's going on and I don't. There will be a cartoon/anime character on a sign, or on a drink bottle, and everyone will immediately know who it is but me. Or a song will come on the radio, or come up in karaoke, and everyone knows who it is and all of the lyrics except for me. It's bothersome...
So I'm kind of playing some catchup. As I asked before, I'm just looking for standard "everyone knows" kind of anime, that's easy to break into. I'll consider some of the suggestions already made, and I thank you guys for your contributions.