You still don't see the cultural elitism of your attitude.

I've heard it said that to truly appreciate Star Wars II you have to immerse yourself in the Clone Wars animated series. You know what? fuck everything about that. Star Wars II was a shit movie and the 20 minutes I saw of Clone Wars convinced me that anybody who put up with the whole series is not someone whose cultural insights I trust. In fact, it alienated me further from the movie because it illustrated that the entire exercise was conceived for tastes completely alien to mine.

Here I am, celebrating something that we both like. Rather than sharing in that enjoyment, you feel the need to correct me by suggesting that my enjoyment is incomplete due to my lack of exposure to a genre I don't give a shit about. There's no need to do that. We're dealing with a loose confederation of Internet nerds that might, if the stars align, manage to sit through 12 20 minute episodes of something created in a foreign language. My advice was "dive in." Yet for some reason, you feel it necessary to perform some cultural one-upmanship.

Anime, in general, is not "pretty accessible." I hate most of it. I would go as far as to say that the vast majority of it is poorly created, poorly executed and a trial to get through. Madoka Magika is, in my opinion, one of the rare ones that can be enjoyed by unvernaculared gaijin. So when you imply that I need to sit through 20 hours of shit that I hate by default in order to better enjoy something that I've already stated is amazing what effect do you expect other than rankling me?

Or anyone else, for that matter?