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Shah Shahid
Comic Years
It's less an exploration of the genre that is a worldwide phenomenon, and more an advertisement for anime that is on Netflix.
Nov 18, 2020
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Caitlin Moore
The Daily Dot
Enter the Anime is an hour-long infomercial for Netflix original anime that wastes everyone's time.
Rated: 1.5/5
Aug 15, 2019
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Brian Costello
Common Sense Media
Obnoxious faux documentary has cursing, violence.
Rated: 1/5
Aug 14, 2019
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Reuben Baron
CBR
The individual artist interviews might be worth fast-forwarding to, but as a whole, Enter the Anime is not recommended for beginners, otaku, or anyone except those with a taste for cringe.
Aug 7, 2019
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John Maher
Thrillist
Enter the Anime is sponsored content winkingly performing cheeky quirk and self-awareness in that it's been promoted as a documentary. It is, undoubtedly, an ad for Netflix anime series.
Aug 7, 2019
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Kate Sánchez
But Why Tho? A Geek Community
Enter the Anime is orientalist at worst and reductionist at best. ...reducing what could have been a documentary to get people involved in the culture to nothing more than a 60-minute ad-roll for Netflix animation.
Rated: 1/10
Aug 6, 2019
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FOSTU 4
Definitivamente una carta de amor a los otakus🚬🗿
Rated 5/5 Stars •
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
10/03/23
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Oscar E
Total waste of time.
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Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars
09/27/23
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Sanjiv P
I was really interested in how anime evolved into what it is today and what the various influences over time have been. It's such an awesome art form - I really wanted to learn more. The documentary starts off seeming to want to answer those questions too. And then it devolves into the worst hour of programming I have ever seen. It was so bad in so many ways that it's hard to count them all.
1. I can almost hear the director saying ‘let's make it edgy'. In the process, she decides to curse for no reason, show herself a lot, and uses frequent cuts and special effects, which is super distracting. It's clear that the director doesn't get anime (she says this herself) and doesn't really care to, which is just insulting to the fans. Come on Netflix - you couldn't get someone who actually likes it?
2. At one point, well into the documentary, the author ‘decides' to go to Japan to learn more. Brilliant idea! Why are you wasting our time by not just starting there?
3. There is practically zero learning in the documentary. However, the 2 minutes from minute 23-35 on Toei animation were interesting.
4. Speaking of respect, the whole thing felt like it was disrespectful to the Japanese culture. The director attempts to make the creators of anime appear to be as wild and strange as the anime they create, which largely fails spectacularly. She paints the anime culture as ‘crazy', which I think she takes to mean ‘zany', but the approach is so over the top.
5. As the critics of this awful creation state, it's an informercial for Netflix. And a really really terrible one.
I would love to see a real documentary on the topic Netflix.
Rated 0.5/5 Stars •
Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars
04/23/23
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