Been watching
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni. (It's okay. Does some clever things. Handicapped by cheap animation. I'll have more to say about it when I've seen the whole thing, I think.)
But what really strikes me is just how time-consuming watching this stuff is. It's really kind of overwhelming. And I know people, or used to know people, who've seen all of
Naruto and
Bleach. Devoted watchers of
Inuyasha. I have trouble even imagining it.
I'm not saying here that watching anime is a waste of time -- for example, just recently I re-watched all of
Utena, purely because the series is incredible. I've been watching stuff at a decent clip lately, and enjoying it. But I think lots of people -- the ones who want me to do things, at any rate -- would condemn me for it. I can't work all the time, though.
Besides, this is what makes us otaku. The hobby demands that we spend a certain amount of time familiarizing ourselves with the territory. Internalizing these works -- it's practically part of the definition. It's kind of silly, but we signed up to enjoy pop culture, and enjoy it we shall, at length and in detail. I only get really angry at it when I'm watching stuff that's mediocre by genre standards.
Thankfully, it doesn't happen very often, and when it does, I can shrug and think to myself that I had it coming.
words from chris, 2009-06-11 04:01:39, los angeles
