So...this only became popular because the yellow-man is emotionally repressed?

That was more informative (you know, in a good way) than I thought it would be.

When I was a kid, I came under the spell of anime, largely because it was during the tail end of the Disney Afternoon era and the beginning of the long slow slide of The Simpsons. I liked that there appeared to be a vibrant and adult animation culture. I liked the episodic nature of the beast, and how it appeared to address things Western animation didn't.

All went well until I saw "Tenchi Muyo".

I never watched anime again (barring Miyazaki and a box set of "Excel Saga"), and I wonder how the hell I thought it might have been valuable.

I read that as "Manga Dad" and thought it was going to be similar story arc to the Donkey Kong Killscreen Dad, but with more backwards black and white comic books.

I thought this was going to be full of the kind of casual, sanctimonious bigotry you always see when Westerners make a documentary about Japanese culture, but this was actually very sensible.

I especially liked the part with Junko Mizuno at around 25 minutes in.

This is so boring.

with awful music from ten years ago