Guys you have no idea how long I have wanted to rip into this topic. That’s right, today I’ll be writing about anime. Buwahahah be afraid.

Now I’ll admit, I’m a video game girl so I’m impartial to video gamers, but honestly some anime fans make me want to insert my head in a door frame and slam the door repeatedly. To begin with, DO NOT CAPITALIZE THE WORD anime. Do we say “Hey let’s watch a Movie”?? NO! SO DON’T CAPITALIZE IT!

Okay my pet peeves aside, anime is an animated form of entertainment that is very popular in Japan. It’s basically animated TV shows that are aired on television. Dozens of new shows and new seasons are release yearly. The target audience for a show can vary, but a lot of shows are aimed at the teenager through the twentysomethings crowds. Only a couple shows are selected to be English dubbed every year, but a lot of bilingual fans will translate the shows, insert subtitles and then release them on the Internet.

So you know what anime is, so what are the stories like? To make things more interesting I’ll list for you the bias that an anime fan would have if they believed everything they saw in the shows. (And I did a lot of extensive research on this!) So here we go. If an anime fan believed everything they saw they would think: giant robots freely roam the earth; the world will end in the year 2020; the world already ended in the year 2000; clumsy, stupid girls make the perfect candidates to save the world; in every school in Japan there is at least one magic girl with a five minute transformation scene; changing your clothes in Japan to that of something magical will make everyone think you’re a different person; Japan just happens to be a mega-center for all sorts of human/demon things who want to take over the earth; in every classroom you have the typical stupid girl, smart girl, hott girl and athletic girl; swords/katanas will always beat guns; ninjas, who are supposed to sneak around, will either be faceless or wear bright jumpsuits; normal people can jump in the air and hover for a while before picturesquely falling back to earth without breaking a leg; all high school students in a sport can defy the laws of physics and the most needy/emotionally stunted guy will always get the girl.

Whew. I think I described an aspect of almost every anime. Or at least a great portion of them. That’s all for today, class dismissed!