Well, that was certainly an arduous read. I hate 4chan formatting then I get to realize how shitty my eyesight is trying to read it made into a giant image.

The points on anime pretty much reflect why I started watching it. I never tried it before last year, but American media has just fallen way, way off a cliff. Quit trying to sell me alphabet people or merchandise, and just make a good story with good characters. Anime sticks to character development and tried-and-true formats. At least in the short foray I've been into it. I really wish I hadn't thrown it off as weird for so long and never given it a chance. That's an odd one for me, as I've never cared about "acting my age" with respect to entertainment, so I can't blame it on being near 40 and watching kids cartoons, because I never cared about that. I guess I didn't like the extremely stereotypical formats of the art style and never looked beyond that.

The whole suburbia part was a bit interesting. I'm really weird in that I live in a fairly diverse suburb, but the only reason I think it works out is it's not very economically diverse and isn't forced by the government to be. Being pushed out of the city/totally urban lifestyle is wholly based on cultural issues that the the fault of liberals and government. I could see myself living in a city if it wasn't for that. I don't hate the city lifestyle and I've enjoyed myself in nicer, not ghetto, cities (e.g. Stockholm). Instead, I'm pretty sure at some point I get pushed totally into the country and I'll adapt to that. I'm not moving to another typical suburb.