what do you like about anime and manga

this the first forum I have made ever,XD I'm interested to hear why you like anime or manga. for me it is a great escape the this boring world into another that always leaves you asking "what next" so please make alot of replies

I certainly do not like all anime and manga. After years of watching and reading I have come to up my standards for what I consider a good anime. When I first started any old fan service anime or manga was enough for me to find joy in, but now I come to expect more. It must have an in depth plot that I can really get into and if it draws me in on an emotional scale like say Clannad and After story then it is even better.

The ability to make me laugh matters the most, afterall, i'm a hardcore comedies watcher/reader.

Secondly, the plot. I do not enjoy reading and watching plotless animes and manga some which include lucky stars which literally fried my brains in the first episode and Naruto/bleach which i expect has no longer the ability to perform good plots.

The fact that most of it is better than real life >.>

That's why anime and manga have become such a big business I believe.

For me it's that, pretty much, the only limit is the artists' and writers' imagination. Sure, more frames cost more money, but it costs the same to have the anime set in the year 3400 on Mars as it does to have it set in 2009 in Chicago. With movies, very expensive CG would be required (or expensive sets, at least) whereas with anime and manga you can just draw whatever you like. That's why it's so sad to see how often anime and manga stick to the same old formula.

Oh, another nice thing is that - and this applies to books too - there are no real people playing the characters. In a movie or TV series, you know that it's, say, Kiefer Sutherland NOT actually Jack Bauer, but Goku is Goku, Lelouch is Lelouch and so on. Sure, they have voice actors but that's much easier to ignore and accept. Actually looking at Tom Cruise's face in Mission Impossible makes it hard to ignore that this is the same guy from Top Gun, Cocktail and Days of Thunder. Unless you really get into voice acting in a big way, you needn't think of Luffy from One Piece as Krillin from DBZ even though they share a voice actress. Also, because they're illustrated rather than being real people, derivative fanworks are possible. Not just doujinshi, but games and other spin-offs. OK, again, you get games of series like 24 but there's a real disconnection between the polygon model on-screen and the real Keifer Sutherland whereas in a Naruto game, it's far more convincingly Naruto, Sasuke etc.

I like anime because the stories are very interesting. I believe that anime has given me more of a philosophical perspective of things that I have not seen in a long time. If you watch the adult ones, you can see for yourself their amazing storytelling that does not come off in American cartoons or movies in Hollywood. I'm not saying that American cartoons or movies don't provide good storytelling, it's just that they don't give a deep storyline that can be engrossing and mind boggling.
Of course, there are also stupid anime but let's not get into that.

Another reason would be the animation style. Although anime has different types of art styles, the artists always find a way to make their characters alluring and cute by just looking at them.

the first thing that attracted me was manga and i's art, it's like nohing i've seen before the people look amazing and was an awesome alternative to other read material

I mainly enjoy the art (obvious), but it has to have more than that for me to be able to watch it. Like Animeholic, I've been getting pretty demanding along the years, and now a simple harem or a cheezy comedy isn't enough to entertain me. Now when I watch an anime, I take close attention to the art, the story, the music, well, basically everything.
I'm not genre picky. A great anime is a great anime no matter what genre it is (I say this from personal experience). I only demand that it's good.

The same applies for manga, and unfortunatly, I have yet to find a handfull of titles I thought were good.

This ^_^

Also it's very entertaining, funny and it really kills time =O

Guess i couldn't live without anime anymore ^^"

one word: variety.

Anime and manga has variety. Not much boundaries are there for imaginative concepts, ideas and storylines. Lots of genres, interesting characters, well-drawn but distictively and artistically unique to each creator.

I enjoy manga because it's like reading a book, except you don't have to read lines such as "he raised his eyebrow in curiosity" because it's drawn out for you. I'm lazy like that. The plot is generally well thought out and I really enjoy the art style.

Comedy is also a major factor in my choice of manga. They don't all have to be funny but I generally enjoy having light-hearted moments in any manga. Having well-done characters can make or break any story and I like having a fair share of every type of character arch-type

You don't explain/rationalize addictions. You die from them.

But yeah, variety if a good word. I've been stuck in this for many years now (anime more so than manga) and even though my preferences evolved and changed quite a bit, there's still a fuckload of stuff I find entertaining.

thank you for so many replies so quickly there is just one thing I disagree with and its that "bleach and naruto don't have good stories" they have great stories but I to also hate pointless storylines the best story I have read and watched is "fullmetal alchemist". but thank you for your replies so far

my ideal anime or manga is that which contains anything that is unique. For ex, Tsukihime
Fate/stay night
Negima
Black Cat
Black God
etc

Some may have a bad plot but their ideas of the unthought of are what pulls my attraction.