Quotes About Japanese Anime

#1. I'm totally addicted to Japanese anime and spend way, way, way too much time watching it.

Connor Jessup

#2. Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value ... Unqualified judgment can at most claim to decide the market-value - a value that can be in inverse proportion to the intrinsic value.

Arnold Schoenberg

#3. The rise of anime had to happen. If the Japanese could tell better American stories, it would go through the roof. They still tell stories which are very much oriental. I take my hat off to them.

Ralph Bakshi

#4. And where shall we go from here? The Library is vast and infinite.

Hideyuki Kurata

#5. Life in Japan, nowadays, is nothing like a Kurosawa movie, and only the contemptible Weeaboo thinks that it is. In order to be a whole, well-rounded Otaku, you need to be up on Japanese popular culture, as much as you may be up on anime, samurai philosophy or the canon of Square Enix games.

Alexei Maxim Russell

#6. A steady heart calms the storm in mind.

Toba Beta

#7. Even if there are no new Mighty Atom manga or films created, the Mighty Atom character has become a permanent fixture of both Japanese and global pop culture.

Frederik L. Schodt

#8. In this world, not everything will be won by justice. If you want to win, you have to learn how to cheat. (Nana)

Ai Yazawa

#9. Follow your own particular dreams. We are handed a life by peers, parents and society, you can do that or follow your own dreams. Life is short, be a dreamer but be a practical person.

Hugh Hefner

#10. They told me I couldn't. That's why I did.

Unknown

#11. Jessica: If we only have daughters?
Lucius: If we have only daughters, I will be the happiest vampire alive. For I have come to learn
from you
that a princess can be as powerful as a prince.

Beth Fantaskey

#12. I'll make you so in love with me, that everytime our lips touch, you'll die a little death.

Ai Yazawa

#13. If however the law is so promulgated that it of necessity makes you an agent of injustices against another, then I say to you ... break the law.

Henry David Thoreau

#14. And then I was asleep. That deep, can-still-taste-her-in-my-mouth sleep, that sleep that is not particularly restful but difficult to wake up from all the same.

John Green

#15. In Japan, so many emoticons have been created that it's reasonable to assume Japanese appreciate their convenience more than anyone else.

Morinosuke Kawaguchi

#16. At the root of Japanese manufacturing lies a feminine delicacy and shyness as well as a childlike curiosity and fantasy-filled worldview.

Morinosuke Kawaguchi

#17. I love like a leaky faucet or I love like a dam breaking. There is nothing in between.

Shinji Moon

#18. It pains me deeply to see members of my own party attempting to legislate women's health and contraception choices.

Linda Lingle

#19. I liked to watch anime in the original Japanese even though I couldn't speak a single word of the language.

S.M. Reine

#20. I think starting in anime, like I did, gave me a good idea of how to approach games that come from Japan. Japanese developers can be very different from companies here in the western market.

Laura Bailey

#21. I'm really interested in independent publishers and memes and mini comics. But even before that, I was interested in Japanese manga and anime.

Toyin Odutola

#22. I've always loved Japanese legend, anime and manga.

Lauren Beukes

#23. You're not a true fan if you only like the Marvel movies; you can't be in the anime community unless you speak fluent Japanese; you're not allowed to dress up as Ms. Marvel unless you've read every Ms. Marvel comic, ever.

Sam Maggs

#24. In pursuing a 'way,' Japanese typically move beyond an interest in craftsmanship to a kind of sacred search for the ultimate.

Morinosuke Kawaguchi

#25. I'd forgotten I'd done the anime called Spirited Away, the English version of a Japanese film.

David Ogden Stiers

#26. I guess anime helped me understand the Japanese culture a little better and makes me want to honor certain language nuances that don't always translate to English.

Laura Bailey