I might be the only one to say it this way, but contrary to popular opinion, I'm not sitting here with a boner oogling under age school girls flashing their undies
I'm extremely well educated, I've read and seen a mountain of history, and science.
I am fully aware of the facts, not the spin doctored crap, but the actual science and history of this sorry little planet and it's nasty little sentient race.
And after a dose of catching up on the latest atrocities, the invariable delusions, the bullshit, the political meddlings and all the rest. I NEED the harmless funny charm of anime.
It's not stressful. The real world sure as shit is though.
The difference between anime and a soap opera, is the soap opera is still real people in the real world. It might be made up, but it's just them pretending to be doing all the shit everyone is actually doing to each other.
Anime is a lot more fun. It's overly pretty girls, overly buff guys, mechs, space battles, ninjas, martial arts, monsters, love and romance, silly adventures, epic quests, good guys vs the bad guys.
And you don't get any of that on trendy crap like the Simpsons, or obnoxious poorly drawn garbage like South Park. That stuff is all dated, and a week after it airs no one cares if they see it again.
Anime, one of the few things about the internet that doesn't make me hate the internet.