Samsonator wrote:Just thought of another one.
I used to be big into anime in my late teens-mid twenties. Interest started to wane after that and over the last few years, I've really fallen out of it, only picking up a show here or there because the concept interests me (or if it's Gundam in nature, but lately even those have had to really grab my interest for me to continue with them). I still enjoy the stuff I used to watch, like Dragon Ball, Trigun, Cowboy Bebop, Evangelion etc. I've never liked Naruto, Bleach, One Piece or many other popular titles. I gave them a fair chance, and even enjoyed some portions of the manga when I used to read them, but overall I never found the anime adaptations to be particularly good.
Pretty much the same for me. I was a huge fan of anime back in the 90's (damn, I feel old). Maybe it's just the geezer in me talking but the 90's felt like the golden age of anime. Evangelion, Ghost in the Shell, Akira, Armitage III, Cowboy Bebop, Lain...those were classics.
Samsonator wrote:The biggest one now, from what I understand, is Attack on Titan. Again, I tried to give it a fair chance to grab my attention, and again I started by reading the manga. After probably about a dozen or so chapters of the manga, I realized that I just really didn't care about the characters or the direction the story was going. As such, I've never even watched the anime, and probably never will.
As I understand it, the anime is supposedly more concise and focused. I've watched bot seasons of the anime and read some of the manga, and I enjoyed the anime MUCH better. The artist's artwork is unrefined, to say the least.
Maybe you should be give anime a try.