Prejudice comes in all shapes and sizes, and surprisingly, mine is for the literary world. It's probably a natural thing for a reader to be drawn away from certain books or topics--simply because they think they know what they like already. Some people are Western-aholics, while others prefer to escape into fantasy or science fiction.
When I was younger I told my mother, "I am never growing up from Anime. NEVER." I spent thousands of dollars on it, buying a DVD once a week, importing movies from Japan back here to America, spending hours upon hours in Japantown hauling back pound after pound of manga in a language I swore one day I would be able to read.
So what are your favorite animes to watch, I started watching anime for about half a year I have enjoyed numerous series.
Fullmetal Alchemist is arguably the best artistic exploration of a philosophy ever. Anime fans tend to dislike it because it's a popular American anime that seemed to be developed to cater more to Western tastes than Asian. Americans may not like it because it's anime, or because it makes you think, or because it takes you far away from your comfort zone. That's what makes it so artistic.
As most people know, I'm agnostic. But there have been moments when I've nearly converted to Christianity. Once because I was tired of hearing it being bastardized and degraded by my own friend (just one) and another time because a touching story from one of my favorite actors made me consider it.
