Some of the Japanese anime is really very good: I'm thinking Samurai Champloo, Last Exile, and Cowboy Bebop, if anyone's interested.
And my introduction to Dragonball Z was when my two flatmates were so addicted to it that they were getting the next season out on DVD as it hit the store. This was the season where Goku got to be alive for a day so that he could attend the Strongest Under Heaven Tournament again - the plotting of that story-arc was so incredibly intricate, detailed, and skillfully done that I got addicted for a while too. The way they'd start a plot (say attending the tournament), and then branch away, and then branch away from that, all the while keeping us to speed with the original plots... I was exceedingly impressed.
Of course, some anime and manga is also very corny, or badly drawn, or creepy.
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And my introduction to Dragonball Z was when my two flatmates were so addicted to it that they were getting the next season out on DVD as it hit the store. This was the season where Goku got to be alive for a day so that he could attend the Strongest Under Heaven Tournament again - the plotting of that story-arc was so incredibly intricate, detailed, and skillfully done that I got addicted for a while too. The way they'd start a plot (say attending the tournament), and then branch away, and then branch away from that, all the while keeping us to speed with the original plots... I was exceedingly impressed.
Of course, some anime and manga is also very corny, or badly drawn, or creepy.