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Quotes About Anime

I really enjoy listening to Japanese pop aka J-Pop and I also like listening to anime songs as well. Both of these types of music are unique to Japanese culture and listening to these types of music gets me going.
~ Moa Kikuchi
My favorite anime movie is 'Fist of the North Star'.
~ John Cena
One of the things that slaps you in the face when you arrive in Japan is their obsession with everything cute.
~ Stacey Dooley
A lot of 'Shonen Jump' anime, you see a lot of battles, a lot of aggression, and it's very relatable to players. There's a hero, and he has to go through a lot of rough training, put his body through the unthinkable so that he can save the world or do his task. His or her challenge is saving the world; our challenge is winning the game.
~ Mike Daniels
I do enjoy a bit of the fantasy world that anime provides, but at the same time, I need the reality in it. I'm very much a stickler about the actual animation. I'm not into the cutesy, stereotypical animation with big eyes and a small chin. That annoys the hell out of me.
~ Thundercat
To me, the thing about anime is that it's so adult-oriented. I remember going to Suncoast growing up, and you see 'Akira' there with the little 'Not for Kids' sticker on it. That always made an impact on me.
~ Adam Wingard
I've always like 'Dragonball Z' and 'Naruto,' that kind of drawing. My older brother draws so he was always drawing 'Dragonball Z' characters and so I got into it from there.
~ Santan Dave
My aesthetic sense was formed at a young age by what surrounded me: the narrow residential spaces of Japan and the mental escapes from those spaces that took the forms of manga and anime.
~ Takashi Murakami
There's how, basically, Son Goku from 'Dragon Ball' doesn't fight for the sake of others but because he wants to fight against strong guys. So once 'Dragon Ball' got animated, at any rate, I've always been dissatisfied with the 'righteous hero'-type portrayal they gave him.
~ Akira Toriyama
When you're making anime, if you get all of your inspiration from anime... it's going to lack originality and creativity, so I try to get my inspiration from different genres.
~ Shinichiro Watanabe
Like many other kids, I liked watching anime.
~ Takashi Murakami
While the characters drive the epic story of Robotech, it's the robotic mecha that capture the imagination.
~ Unknown
Fortunately, this all happened in the alternative reality of Twitter, where such things are posted by anonymous accounts with anime avatars.
~ Dave Rubin
We sat together on the couch, watching the cartoon skater fail to land jumps and fall in helpless, and probably unrequited love, with his coach. (They're watching Yuri on Ice!!)
~ Holly Black
Rain, rain, go away, come back when I am marathoning anime.
~ Holly Black
I'd forgotten I'd done the anime called Spirited Away, the English version of a Japanese film.
~ David Ogden Stiers
I'm just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
~ Grimes
There was lots of noise and action, but if you listened carefully, you could tell that the kids in the bushes were actually playing in other universes, all choreographed so neither players nor equipment would get in each other's way. She had picked the right cover; classical anime was just too highbrow for these dorks.
~ Vernor Vinge
Lots of times when you watch anime, the characters all have white skin - all the characters in fantasy stories all have white skin, which I never liked.
~ Shinichiro Watanabe
I get most of my inspiration from anime and video games.
~ Bella Poarch
Phoebe is a manga fan. She's so enamored with manga and anime and the culture around them that she's started to teach herself Japanese and plans to take it as a course next year.
~ Unknown
Geek cred points for trying to stump me, but sorry, you'll have to do better than that. Would you like to try anime for a hundred? When she looked blank, he sighed. What took it down, anime, or the Jeopardy reference?
~ Rachel Caine
I'm a huge 'Dragon Ball Z' fan, so when they were trying to make a live-action movie, I was, like, 'No!'
~ Ashleigh Murray
You love 'Dragon Ball Z' for what it is, but when you really start to look at it, you're like, 'What the hell am I watching?' sometimes.
~ Thundercat