When I was about 11 I saw Akira on a bootlegged video someone got from someone who got from someone else. I was astonished I had never seen a "cartoon" that had blood, violence, ....anything cool in it before.

I still can't understand why the west dose not realize the market out there and start creating some non-disney "Cartoons"

I watched Akira after readign this post to bring back some good 'ol memories:ywave:

But there is non-disney west cartoons!

Well i think it's common for other parts of the world are being discriminated actually. Same goes for Europe, American people always see European poeple living on the country side and no big cities. They all think we're just farmers.

Wait you must be wrong!You said "They all THINK we're just farmers"

Who told you that americans think????

Hate to interrupt the person in the previous post, but I did want to say something, haha, as you can see. XD

First off, though, in reply to the person above who I'm too lazy to quote, lol, I wanna say that if you're basing it all off of the 'uncool' factor, stop it. I don't believe in 'cool' anymore. I'm 15 (damn young) and don't believe in being cool in the first place. They're just doing what they want to do because they enjoy it.

Now, back to what I REALLY wanted to say. At my high school, there's almost COMPLETE discrimination against otaku. It's like people consider it some type of disgusting race now. 9/10 people here would say that they would never TALK to an otaku and that they wouldn't even be able to carry on a conversation without somehow getting into a debate about how japanese skirts have evolved in the past four years (direct quote taken from someone i asked -_-). There's an Anime Club at my school, and along with it came the idea for a fucking 'Anti-Anime' club, which was all over the myspace forums for the school.

I've been ranting about this kind of thing for as long as I can remember since I've been into anime for so many years. Same basic argument that kind of revolves around this 'Why can't people be open to ideas from other countries instead of believing America's the best and anything from outside it HAS to suck." Lots of people say that anime's ridiculous, but seriously. Just think of this.

Me: I watch anime. Filled with blood and gore and several other things that you wouldn't consider to be childish, ya know? Rated NC-17 fcking cartoons.

People who say American cartoons are a lot better: American cartoons= most aimed towards CHILDREN. In many arguments people at my school may say Spongebob's better than Samurai X. -_- That's just the saddest thing I've ever heard.

All it is is a bunch of close-minded idiots who, most of the time, are too stubborn and immature to give something new a chance.

Yet again, sorry for the rant. T_T'''' But, God I love ranting about this in particular. XD

Speaking about Pokemon, have you ever had someone at your school think that ALL anime looks like either it or Digimon? o_o hahaha, that's how it is over here. XD According to them, Beavis and Butthead is ten years ahead of anime in quality of animation, rofl.

Most likely the latter, haha. xD

I'll try to answer that in a language you might understand:

Yo, esse, ya ain't sayin' stuff like that against my homeboys. That makes me go wack, you know wa' sayin' ? I don't think you wanna have my 25 against ya head.