Do you think anime appeals to the majority of people & is it a worthwile hobby?

Question

My friend reckons that anime (Japanese in particular) is a very worthwile hobby. He thinks that achievements and honours he gets for his anime video compilations will impress people at interviews for a job/universtiy.

Just wondering how many people agree with him that anime is a worthwile pastime that is useful for progressing in the world.

Answer 1

Despite how controversial this topic may be, anime is viewed globally, to a large extent. Many people deem anime to be usually targetted towards children and, often as a result of this, 'good' anime have been neglected because of a failure to achieve popularity.

However, anime is targeted to a range of ages and genders. An example may be about more violent series such as 'Blood+'. The violence is considered too strong to be viewed towards children and other series such as 'Naruto' are watched instead. The success of the series demonstrates its popularity and how it is viewed everywhere.

There are even anime series designed for all genders. Anime for girls, through romance etc and anime for boys, through action etc.

However, the wrong conventions are applied to anime. Anime has been viewed as a teenager's or children's show and many controversy has blossomed because of this. Despite this, anime can be viewed for adults, through 'hentai' and violence.

Watching anime isn't something that would be considered an 'impressive' hobby. However, creating a compilation or an AMV (Animated Music Video) can be. Depending on the quality of the AMV, it can be considered as art and an impressive hobby. Achieving an honour on YouTube through this can be hard but would be shunned upon because of lack of productivity or creativity. Two important things to enter a great university. An example of creativity and productivity could be applying to various competitions world wide, entering conventions (for AMV's), gaining prizes and medals.

As for a job, an AMV is great for showing your editing skills to enter for a job to do with video production.

To conclude anime is the best thing in the world.