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Quotes About Anime

'JoJo's Bizarre Adventures' - it took a long time for that to get animated because the old-school animation wouldn't have the glorious nature of JoJo justice. Watching shows like that and 'Super Kia,' 'Black Clover,' 'Attack on Titan,' being able to watch some anime the night before the game definitely helps relax me.
~ Mike Daniels
For children of my generation, anime was an escape from Japan's loser complex following World War II. Anime wasn't foreign. It was our own.
~ Takashi Murakami
My favorite anime of all time is 'Yu Yu Hakusho.' And this is because when I was living with my parents before I moved to Florida for NXT - which was FCW at the time - I just had a ton of anime that I was watching, and one of them was 'Yu Yu Hakusho.' So, I had seen it as a kid, but I never watched it all the way through.
~ Xavier Woods
I call this one the Ninja Center-fold! ~ Naruto
~ Masashi Kishimoto
Disappeare with the thunder....... Sasuke said
~ Masashi Kishimoto
My kids love anime, but I don't show them the really graphic stuff
~ Brad Bird
When it was released in the 80s in Japan, 'Blade Runner' was actually a series that influenced the Japanese media very much so. I assume that everyone in the anime industry has seen Blade Runner at some point.
~ Shinichiro Watanabe
I loved Japanese culture before even realizing it was, in fact, Japanese culture. The cartoons and anime I was watching as a child, my favorite video games, and even in pro wrestling - my favorite wrestlers and matches originated in Japan.
~ Kenny Omega
The different arenas that I've been able to do Iron Man in are fun, but some more than others. The anime that we did early on was tough. That was the hardest one. It was a reinterpretation of a reinterpretation. I don't think I'd do that again.
~ Adrian Pasdar
I do enjoy animated movies. I really love anime and movies like 'Spirited Away' and 'Howl's Moving Castle.'
~ Nicolas Cage
I love comic books and I love anime.
~ Samuel L. Jackson
Evangelion is not so much an original as itself already a copy of popular anime elements, "an aggregate of information without a narrative" or a "grand non-narrative" (O38). This results in part from industrial changes. By the '90s, any product can spawn all the others: a series of stickers or a company logo could bloom into a series of manga, TV or film anime, games and more. By now "the narrative is only a surplus item
~ McKenzie Wark
Everyone asks me about why I care about anime and football so much, but that's because anything dark that happened in my life, those two things would make me feel better. I just used to sit in front of the TV and watch football and breathe a sigh of relief. You know what I mean? It's another world. An escape.
~ AJ Tracey
For me, influences really come from everywhere: literature, comics, movies, anime, Internet, science, real-life situations. In fact, I think that writing is just about living.
~ David Cage
The anime that inspired me the most and one that I probably have influence from is the very first series of 'Lupin the 3rd.' I'm very drawn to 'Enter the Dragon' and 'Dirty Harry,' too. They definitely inspire me.
~ Shinichiro Watanabe
Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That's part of the art form.
~ M. Night Shyamalan
Come on sempai, would you please stop growing mushrooms in other people's closets? -Haruhi
~ Bisco Hatori
You, your grandmother, the chairman----YOU'RE ALL ABUNCH OF FRIGGIN' IDIOTS!!!" ~Haruhi
~ Bisco Hatori
I guess anime helped me understand the Japanese culture a little better and makes me want to honor certain language nuances that don't always translate to English.
~ Laura Bailey
One of the things I've always loved about anime is that, even though it comes from Japan, it's so international - so much of the big anime I love takes place in Italy or France or New York.
~ Ezra Koenig
I always thought of myself as the Kaneda of our dyad, but here I was playing Tetsuo.
~ Junot Diaz
Setsu... Setsuna... It's you!" "You idiot! You know there's no way I'd die and leave, right?" "Yes! Yes! Yes!
~ Kaori Yuki
In Japan, animation is a big part of your media diet. I moved out to Los Angeles at 9, and when I got homesick, I would watch anime.
~ Hiro Murai
When I was very young, even before I went to what you call elementary school, I used to read and watch Japanese comic books and anime all the time. These were the seeds of my future.
~ Shinichiro Watanabe