Praising Shows You Don't Watch: Difference between revisions

* In the 1990s, the success of the movies of ''[[Akira]]'' and ''[[Ghost in the Shell]]'' meant that many in the West professed to be 'into manga', in many cases without ever seeing any more examples of the form than those two films. Or appreciating the difference between manga and anime. Or that there's a ''lot'' of different genres within the anime/ and manga world, besides [[dystopia]]n sci-fi.

* Happens a ''lot'' with movies—moviesfilms—films known for being good, but unseen by many of the people who praise them. Many of these nevertheless become used as benchmarks, which terrible movies will often (according to many a review and rant) be described as "making merely [[So Okay It's Average|mediocre movies]] look like...".