People like bad anime

[Andromeda18_]

one quick thing

whether something is good or not is not based on oppinion it's based on truth.

Such as whether or not you like bethovan he is still an amazing musician and so forth.

But yeah the guy who started this thread took it way to far into oppinion.

So yeah i have nothing against people who like ruroni kenshin yuyu hakisho or inuyasha.

so yeah

Well, I have to say I don't agree with you. Why is Beethoven an amazing musician? Because a lot of people along the years have liked him. You say he's an amazing musician but you only say it because that's what you've heard your whole life. It's because people like his music that his name has gone down in history. Now, imagine that Beethoven had been born in our time. In an age when very few people enjoy classical music do you think he'd become nearly as famous as he indeed is? Or let's look at it the other way around. Nowadays U2 is (considered) the greatest band in the world. It can be said of them that even if one doesn't like their music they're still amazing musicians. Well, if you took them back to the 18th century they'd be thought of as rubish. I would be foolish to deny Beethoven's technical masterdom, nor am I denying his talent for that matter, but the cultural environment he was born in played an important role. He's the Beethoven because he was born in the right age, a time when people loved his kind of music.
When it comes to movies (as well as tv series) and books what is good and what is bad is even harder to define. A director might be extemely good, a writer might write like no one has ever written, yet if the story being told doesn't please the viewer/reader then the movie/book won't be good to that viewer/reader. Technical quality isn't everything.

I've said before that I don't consider Kenshin and other such series to be masterpieces either, and I'm not saying swmaxxx can't say they're bad. What I don't think he should've said, and what has pissed many people off, was that people who like that kind of anime aren't anime fans. Not only is there no truth to that as it is an extremely narrow minded point of view. It denies other people's perspectives and opinions.