Enter the Anime

My disgust for this title pushed me to reach for my laptop, sign up to IMDB and type a review for the very first time. That is how much anger I felt towards Netflix's horrific, cringe-worthy piece of garbage. I wish I could say anything constructive, but this is a superficial view of what anime is or how it started and it's real reflection of Japanese culture and imagination, it's vehicle for fantasy and the language of its people. I hated the narrator I thought I didn't care for her initial "I knew nothing about anime" and "i should google what is anime" intro or the lame childish voice-over script of "japan is this!" -insert visual- "and this" -other visual-, and "that's cool right?". The very first person she hosts (i'm not sure why in the world would any documentarian start with non-japanese anime producers in LA) Is the producer of castlevania (which is not a bad... "anime-inspired" animated series) and everything he utters out of this mouth makes you feel like he's a pretentious idiot, "oh i picked up the phone and this guy was like, hey I'm kanye", and "I'm a time traveller". Just. God. Awful.

Maybe further in the film there's some useful piece of information, but this did not grab me enough to want to continue and reach that part.

I felt so insulted watching this spot made by idiots who ignore everything about anime (or Japan) that I just had to revenge and post a dumber review. I love Netflix but everyone involved with this documentary should get fired. What a poor way to talk about anime and to put images together.

Lost me when she called anime a medium. one giant netflix ad either way. no real thesis to the "documentary" either, just rambles on and on eith no point.

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.