Enter The Anime on Netflix

[Bolt]

Check it out..

Not for kids..

Edited August 7, 2019 by Bolt

[kajnrig]

Um.

Think I'm good, thanks.

[tekering]

3 hours ago, Bolt said:

Check it out..

Not for kids..

Not for anime fans, either... unless you're into some of the bizarre, counter-cultural stuff Netflix is promoting.  I foolishly ignored kajnrig's warning and watched it anyway... and it's awful.  

Ostensibly, it tells the story of this unidentified woman:

She narrates the whole thing in the first person, telling us about her exploration of anime and her trip to Japan, without ever even introducing herself or telling us who she is... and since she turns out to be neither the writer, the producer, or the director, it doesn't matter anyway.  

Of course, this guy makes up for it by introducing himself on camera no less than five times.  In a row.  

This guy tells us he's a time traveler, and introduces his "human" companion, a dog who "can literally understand English."  

The interview segments got so increasingly bizarre I began to think this was just a silly mockumentary, an awkward parody about cultural confusion... I mean, were any of these new shows actually real?  it's not like I'd ever heard of the crap Netflix is co-producing in Japan anyway.

I mean sure, they touch on hits like Evangelion, by interviewing... the woman who sang the theme song...  

...and their research into Saint Seiya wasn't quite enough to realize it's not the protagonist's name.  

Fans of Shinji Aramaki's design work will be disappointed to see Mospeada, Bubblegum Crisis, Gasaraki, Witch Hunter Robin, and numerous others get totally ignored...  

...and if you know any Japanese whatsoever, you're more well-informed than the Netflix staff.  

What a tremendous waste of time.  

[Valkyrie Hunter D]

So it's a documentary on anime made by Netflix that essentially becomes a commercial for anime on Netflix?

[tekering]

No, it's a commercial for anime on Netflix, made by Netflix, that essentially pretends to be a documentary.

[TangledThorns]

I may have to watch it just to see how awful it really is. 

[Bolt]

Ya, I said check it out. I didn’t say love it. I found it to be quite pretentious and self aggrandizing Of Netflix. And this woman , who isn’t even an anime or manga fan , was some week sauce. I can go on and on, in fact I already did to my GF.  It left me feeling like where’s the real anime documentary? Not on Netflix..

[Mazinger]

Yikes, seems very cringey.

[peter]

I met a time traveler once.  

 

My martial arts club demonstrated at an anime convention once and this girl wearing a hanbok told us she traveled there from ancient Korea.  She stayed in character the entire time.  

[JB0]

7 hours ago, peter said:

I met a time traveler once.  

 

My martial arts club demonstrated at an anime convention once and this girl wearing a hanbok told us she traveled there from ancient Korea.  She stayed in character the entire time.  

I've never met this girl, but I respect her and her dedication to the role/I hope she found her way back to her home time

[Hikuro]

The moment I knew this was crap was after 5 minutes of seeing nothing but Netflix anime footage being filtered in and nothing more so I gave up and watched some Gundam.