Enter the Anime

Please do not waste your time watching this, for the following reasons:

1.) It is not informative or entertaining. The documentarian/narrator is clueless on the topic and offers no meaningful insights. 2.) It is artless garbage, with editing so poor that it is close to physically painful. 3.) Its condescending oversimplifications of Japanese culture are extremely embarrassing to have to hear. 4.) It isn't even a documentary, its mainly a promotion, as the majority of the shows discussed are recent "Netflix Originals" rather than iconic or well-known series.

So please don't watch it, if too many people do than Netflix might get the wrong impression and make more utterly unforgivable rubbish like this. A true dumpster fire.

Felt like made hastily just for promoting the animes on netflix, ignoring all the milestones of the genre, with an annoying host who has no idea about anything, a total waste of time.

This would be miserably disappointing even as a first draft to a documentary about anime. How did this even get made?

Bottom line, I got more about the insights of manga and anime from the first 5 minutes of the Transformers episode of The Toys That Made Us and those 2 minute segments the Space channel use to have.

This laughable excuse of a documentary had no direction at all, and seemed to glaze over Japanese culture and its association with anime.

Plus no early anime like the 1960's Astroboy -- let alone Namakura Gatana from 1917. It's mostly disjointed interviews of modern producers of anime with editing effects that hurt the whole thing, and seemingly random vids of Japan.

They should have taken a few notes from Trekkies or something to make it watchable -- let alone explore.

This documentary expends most of its time on random monologues narrated by the author, most of it bring no information about the subject of anime or japan. The fact that the person doing the documentary states knowing nothing about anime also doesn't help, simply because the questions you may be interested are never asked. The interviews are mostly a waste of time for the professionals, the pace is cringe, and you will not learn anything new even if you have never seen anime. Gladly its short.