-you're actually considering watching it because you "like anime" and want to watch anime.
That just sounds like torture to me, it's the root of my frequent complaints about people I know watching
entire seasons of something they clearly despise. I don't think I'll ever understand it. The person I live with is addicted to watching shitty horror movies and when one's over I spin around in my chair (because I can't help half listening when I don't have my headphones on) and we complain about it together and once we're done I always ask: "so why do you
still watch them?! e.e" and she always just shrugs and puts on another. *tears at hair*
Maybe it's because I have a strong will to explore and try new things, but I've never managed to put myself in that kind of position when it comes to entertainment. The only reason I would waste my time and play a video game or watch a movie I thought was bad is because I went into it with the expectation
that it was going to be good. Recently I did run out of good old games to play so I made a thread and people found some more for me and I'm currently enjoying them, and during that interval in which I didn't have any good games to play I was reading other mangas and watching anime that I enjoyed!
If there was one trend in anime/manga that you could completely remove, what would it be?
I would rid myself of (pseudo)adolescent protagonists. I struggle to think of the few anime where the protagonist wasn't a teenager or small child: Mushishi, Baccano!, Samurai Champloo, Cowboy Bebop, Planetes (pretty sure Hachi and Tanabe were in their mid to early 20s at the beginning of the show but I could be wrong), Space Dandy, Trigun.. Is it a coincidence that they all happen to be among my favorite anime of all time? >:I