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Anyway, I'm not gonna get too detailed here since I can easily go on forever about Anime. However, bashing (or liking) the wrong Anime is like asking for a duel from someone avid in the other direction...

I just came across the sentence above from this page. I don't quite understand the second part of it, i.e., how should I interpret bashing the wrong Anime is like asking for a duel from someone avid in the other direction? I understand every word in the sentence, but I have a really hard time figuring out what the author wanted to convey. It seems to me that the author was imitating some popular style from a movie or a book that I might be not aware of.

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It seems to me that the author simply wrote a poorly-worded sentence. (Evidently, Anime fans have strong feelings about certain characters, so stating a favorable or unfavorable opinion about a particular character will simply invite emotional protests from the other camp). – J.R. Dec 4 '12 at 10:04

closed as too localized by J.R., Matt Эллен, coleopterist, Mitch, tchrist Dec 4 '12 at 13:33

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