Guide to Watching Anime

All you need to know about watching anime and avoiding spoilers XD

Guide to Watching Anime

 

Never guess the plotline.

The chances of you actually being right are very high, especially if you are a frequent anime watcher. Anime – well all media, actually – can become boring if one already knows what’s going to happen. The only aspect of guessing the plotline that one may find appealing is the constant pleasure of being proven right.
Examples include;
-Naruto
-Saiyuki
-Bleach
[Basically, all the main characters die, but then they don’t.]
Admit it’s true. I’m not dissing those anime (I actually enjoy them), I’m just stating facts.
Exceptions include Anime such as Cromartie High School.
Especially Cromartie High School... If you’re watching a scene where the lead character drops a pencil, and then think, “Oh, I bet some random person is going to come and eat that pencil...”, then you have serious issues.
Sorry, no offence, but it’s true.

Spot the bad guys!
Characters with slimly drawn eyes and/or quiet voices are either the bad guy, <insert>maniac’s, extremely intelligent, or all of the above.
Examples include;
-Fullmetal Alchemist – Roy Mustang is a Pyromaniac.
-Fruits Basket – Akito is, well... A maniac, and when she’s not screaming at assorted family members she has a rather low voice. Yes people. //She//.
-Saiyuki – Kougaiji is the bad guy
-Death Note – Light-kun is a megalomaniac
-Azumanga Daioh – Sakaki is a brainiac

Beware of fan service.
If it’s a best seller, it’s probably got fan service.
Fan service is basically when all the female characters get together somewhere, usually a beach, and viewers are forced to exclaim, “Oh my! Look at those bathers she’s not wearing!”
(Beach)Examples include;
-Azumanga Daioh – About three times, at least.
-Chobits – Good old Chi... That’s right, jump off the back of the damn boat!
-Love Hina – The entire thing is Fan Service, seeing as its set at a hot spring!

The Japanese seem unable to stick with one language.
At the beginning of every anime, there is usually a very badly sung J-Pop song. Have any of you actually sat down and listened to these? It usually consists of a chorus made completely of English (which you can usually only decipher if you’re reading the subtitles) and the rest of the verses in Japanese. Or then we have songs that have English word stuck randomly everywhere.
Examples include;
-Death Note – What’s up people?!
“Hey, Hey, Nigen F****r” – Apparently Nigen means ‘Human’
“What’s up people?!” – You know that bit they scream at the end about three or four times?
-Azumanga Daioh – Raspberry Heaven
“Raspberry Heaven” – is IN the chorus.
-Fullmetal Alchemist – Ready, Steady, Go!
“Ready steady can’t hold me back, ready steady give me good luck, ready steady never look back, Let’s get started, ready steady go!” – Is the chorus


By J.M Selleck

Author's Note

Just some fun I did when having a two-week-stay-up-at-rediculous-hours-and-watch-anime-fest

Please rate and review!! I'd love you to the end of eternity!!
Next to come will be 'Guide to Watching Yaoi'... I just have to watch a couple more, first...o_O;;

Reviews

[~Death The Kid~ ☜..]

truw ^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^

[Izzy]

so true idk why they do that

[Hanajima Saki]

UMM THIS IS COOL SO TRUE THOUGH ALTHOUGH I LOVE DEATH NOTE FURUBA AND AZUMANGA DAIOH ():

[Kairi_Lynn]

LOL that was hilarious! I love Bleach but it is kinda easy to predict. That was great and I cant wait for the guide to Yaoi!

[UndertheGround]

All this is so true lol, nice work!

[One Last Drop...]

LOL Jess I love how you wrote this. I crack up every time. It's hilarious. Now, where's that guide to watching yaoi? XD