I took this class during my first quarter at UCLA, and it was a great pick as an elective course and also covers the Foreign Literature in translation requirement. Though the professor claims that he "doesn't care about Anime," he is clearly interested in Japanese culture and literature, and it really showed in films he asked us to watch for the quarter. The only criticism that I have is that the TA's in my particular class were very hard graders - this is a lower division course, and a lot of my classmates were getting B's and C's on their papers. I took this class as a junior and was also enrolled in two upper division English courses with the same type of critical analysis papers, and I had no problem getting A's on those papers. Overall though, if you are doing the weekly response papers and reading the additional essays for the pop quizzes, you should have no problem passing this class.

This class is a pretty easy GE and it's actually really interesting. You have two films to watch every week, but if you already watch anime, you've probably already watched the film. For example, some films that you watch are Princess Mononoke, Tokyo Godfather, and Kimi no na wa.
There's a short paragraph due every week about the film where you can talk about what you observed, but only the top five paragraphs are actually counted into your grade, so it's easy. There's a couple of short readings, mostly in the beginning of the quarter, and sometimes he has pop quizzes so you have to read them. There's no midterm or final, just two papers.
Overall, this class is super relaxed and brings a new light to anime. Also, the professor is really fun and enthusiastic about what he teaches.