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Why the hell has it become so popular over the last few years? Don't get me wrong, not all of it is bad, but for the most part it's soooooo fucking annoying. All the stuff they show on Adult Swim after the good cartoons is just terrible. Inuyasha, FLCL, Lupin III, Big O, etc. Back in the day everyone and their mother told me to watch Akira. Long story short...I own the movie, have seen it 5 or 6 times and still couldn't tell you what it's about. Now a lot of movies coming out of China/Japan/Hong Kong (yeah...HK is in China but it's got it's own little film industry going) are absolutely genius. I could give you about half a dozen asian live action films that will stomp the living fuck out of American movies (for a list longer than that, check out my homepage...tons of asian movie reviews. Some better than others). They just can't seem to muster the same quality for their animation (in my opinion). If I've missed something, please advise me as much of this is mostly just my opinion and I know I haven't seen every piece of anime under the sun...but what I have seen annoys the fuck outta me.