Anime Quotes

We are all like fireworks. We climb, shine and always go our separate ways and become further apart. But even if that time comes, let's not disappear like a firework, and continue to shine... forever.

I discovered cosplay because I was going to an anime convention and did some research, and found out people dressed up as characters. I made a very badly put-together costume because I felt this desire to dress up.

Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth

My aesthetic sense was formed at a young age by what surrounded me: the narrow residential spaces of Japan and the mental escapes from those spaces that took the forms of manga and anime.

The Opposite of Love is not hate, but power

When a man learns to love, he must bear the risk of hatred.

To obtain something, something of equal value must be given.

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.

We don't know what kind of people we truly are until the moment before our deaths. As death comes to embrace you, you will realize what you are. That's what death is, don't you think?

Humankind cannot gain something without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. This is Alchemy's First Law of Equivalent Exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one, and only, truth.

Nothing's perfect, the world's not perfect. But it's there for us, trying the best it can; that's what makes it so damn beautiful.

I was an avid anime watcher until I was about 10, when I moved to manga. I think I am influenced by Osamu Tezuka's and Walt Disney's works which I watched during that time, such as Tetsuwan Atom and 101 Dalmatians.

After all, there is nothing but failure.

Like many other kids, I liked watching anime.

I'm part of the first generation who grew up with manga [comics] and anime [animation], you know, after 'Godzilla.' I was absorbed with Ultraman on TV and in manga. The profession of game designer was created really recently. If it didn't exist, I'd probably be making anime.

I want to have the fun of doing anime and I love anime, but I can't do storyboards because I can't really draw and that's what they live and die on.

I see now that the circumstances of ones birth are irrelevent. it is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are

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.

When I was starting as an anime director I wanted to be known for great things. I never wanted to be known for some overblown toy commercial.

The technology in making games and in making anime is really similar. There are common concepts.

I take time to watch anime. I don't know whether I'm allowed to, but I do it anyway.

My kids love anime, but I don't show them the really graphic stuff

Justice will prevail!

Anime is not the end. Don't stop believing.

Man always thinks about the past before he dies, as if he were frantically searching for proof that he truly lived.