A friend of mine who lived over there for a while told me that it's pretty much everything, yeah. Part of it is that it's really hard to make live-action stuff when there's so little land.
Yeah, while I tend to watch more SF/fantasy oriented anime, there's all sorts. I think we tend to get exposed to the stuff that appeals to teens/twentysomethings because that's what fansubbers are, mostly, and they do what they like; and the companies that translate it for over here aim at that same market. People ten years older than I am for the most part still see cartoons as kids' stuff. Or for "weirdoes" like you or Bear.
Note: getting stuff to download is slightly more complicated than clicking a link. Like I said, poke around for documentation. And you've got to have at least dsl, I imagine it would work with dialup but it takes me, on a good day, over an hour to download a lovely new episode of FMA. And that's a popular series that usually has plenty of share-ers.
"Or for "weirdoes" like you or Bear."
Hey! :) I'm not weird, I'm just extra-cool :)
Interesting about them not having enough space to film live-action. I guess that makes sense given how crowded Japan is.
I'd like to see what non-SF/fantasy anime is like. Wonder if there's a catalog somewhere.
I wouldn't mind taking an hour to download an episode of FMA, as long as I can save it afterwords. What bugs me is when it takes that long to download something and then every time I try to play it a second time I have to start from the beginning again--that seems to happen with certain files for some reason.