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<blockquote data-quote="Greboruri" data-source="post: 500873" data-attributes="member: 258">When I first got into anime some 20 years ago, it was mostly sci-fi/mecha stuff, but soon discovered stuff aimed at young women and girls, magical girl shows, fantasy stuff like Lodoss War. A lot of my all time favourites are in the mecha (robot) and sci-fi genre, with a some magical girl, shoujo, josei, kuuki-kei (slice of life), a lot of action orientated stuff and fantasy epics. In recent years I have gravitated towards kuuki-kei stuff, a lot of school based shows, a lot of idol related material and only mecha from the Gundam and Macross franchises.But if the story's good, I generally go for it. Most recent titles I've liked are stuff like outside those genres are Yuri on Ice and Flip Flappers. Another thing I find interesting is family/children's films such as Stormy Night and the more commercial fare which gets released in cinemas in the west. Sports stuff I don't mind, as long as it avoids the usual cliches. Something I started collecting about a decade ago was anime music video compilations, such as Macross Flashback 2012 or Mospeada Love Live Alive. They were pretty popular in the 1980's and 1990's but fallen out of favour in recent times, maybe due to music rights issues.For older material that's released on BD and DVD, I usually go for mecha shows and classics like Tomorrow's Joe and Rose of Versailles. There's little I don't enjoy; I do get tired of the cliches in stuff based on shonen manga, the ecchi stuff (especially harem), yaoi stuff mainly because a lot of it really poorly written (the OVAs based on Zetsuai 1989 are brilliant though), ditto for gyaku harem. The only genre I really dislike is ero anime (hentai). It's either absurd or grotesque, not at all erotic to me.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Greboruri, post: 500873, member: 258"] When I first got into anime some 20 years ago, it was mostly sci-fi/mecha stuff, but soon discovered stuff aimed at young women and girls, magical girl shows, fantasy stuff like Lodoss War. A lot of my all time favourites are in the mecha (robot) and sci-fi genre, with a some magical girl, shoujo, josei, kuuki-kei (slice of life), a lot of action orientated stuff and fantasy epics. In recent years I have gravitated towards kuuki-kei stuff, a lot of school based shows, a lot of idol related material and only mecha from the Gundam and Macross franchises. But if the story's good, I generally go for it. Most recent titles I've liked are stuff like outside those genres are Yuri on Ice and Flip Flappers. Another thing I find interesting is family/children's films such as Stormy Night and the more commercial fare which gets released in cinemas in the west. Sports stuff I don't mind, as long as it avoids the usual cliches. Something I started collecting about a decade ago was anime music video compilations, such as Macross Flashback 2012 or Mospeada Love Live Alive. They were pretty popular in the 1980's and 1990's but fallen out of favour in recent times, maybe due to music rights issues. For older material that's released on BD and DVD, I usually go for mecha shows and classics like Tomorrow's Joe and Rose of Versailles. There's little I don't enjoy; I do get tired of the cliches in stuff based on shonen manga, the ecchi stuff (especially harem), yaoi stuff mainly because a lot of it really poorly written (the OVAs based on Zetsuai 1989 are brilliant though), ditto for gyaku harem. The only genre I really dislike is ero anime (hentai). It's either absurd or grotesque, not at all erotic to me. [/QUOTE]

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