1: WORD. I'm quite sick of people who use someone's fandoms (especially anime/manga) as a means of putting them down or writing what they have to say off as irrelevant. Yes, there's a lot of crappy anime and manga (so much that I don't read/watch a series unless it's been recced to me/I've read and loved fanfiction for it/I could preview it on YouTube or crimsonevening or flip through a book in a store), BUT there's also very much good stuff. For every five or six crap series, there's one like Cowboy Bebop or RahXephon which totally uses the genre to make a good story, and there's also occasions of the anime being mediocre/OK but the manga being really great.
And you know what? Thanks to the ease of accessing anime and manga online, it's a lot easier to spot crap on sight and avoid it than it is for, say, an American movie which only has its best promotional clips online. Yes, some of us "stupid otaku" are actually quite picky about what we will and will not read or watch. We're NOT all "omg it's anime it must be good."
Not to mention that American/British/Western media has its fair share of crap too. Think of all of the rightfully canceled TV shows and the ones people watch that appeal to the lowest possible common denominators, the box-office bombs and the generally pointless, plotless stuff that yet becomes a big hit instead of a bomb, the books that are so forgettable you wouldn't even remember the author's name or that are so bad you do remember and vow never to read again.
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And you know what? Thanks to the ease of accessing anime and manga online, it's a lot easier to spot crap on sight and avoid it than it is for, say, an American movie which only has its best promotional clips online. Yes, some of us "stupid otaku" are actually quite picky about what we will and will not read or watch. We're NOT all "omg it's anime it must be good."
Not to mention that American/British/Western media has its fair share of crap too. Think of all of the rightfully canceled TV shows and the ones people watch that appeal to the lowest possible common denominators, the box-office bombs and the generally pointless, plotless stuff that yet becomes a big hit instead of a bomb, the books that are so forgettable you wouldn't even remember the author's name or that are so bad you do remember and vow never to read again.