/a/ - Animu & Mango

I have to do laundry.

Excited for tomorrow.

Yeah, it's been a bit of a backlog season for me, which is nice because last season I watched so much. This time I only have 4 anime I keep up with: Endoro, Shield Hero (I don't read the threads), Kaguya, and Egao no Daika. Also, there's Precure. I'm thinking of watching more Boogiepop because I liked the original, but right now I'm having lots of fun with my backlog.

I was talking to someone who uses 4chan recently and he said sometime after 2016 /v/fags and normalfags started rushing into shounen threads because anime somehow got super popular recently. SnK threads was frodo posting and shitting on it together back when I remember, but now apparently it's just full of /v/ so I hear.

I realized we were having the same problem here with our autists in the Dragon Ball threads and Boku no Hero threads. I appreciate some of the autism in the Dragon Ball ones and but never went into the Boku no Hero ones, but I've heard stories that they are not good.

Why do you think shounen anime blew up in the mainstream and on imageboards suddenly? Those threads used to be fun. Does it have to do with the death of fansubbing and Crunchyroll? I really don't understand how people can pay for anime like that.

>>904988

>Why do you think shounen anime blew up in the mainstream and on imageboards suddenly?

The thing is. Fundamentally not much has changed. General word of mouth on forums and Ecelebs doing marketing for any thing makes it grow. The internet as a whole is growing at an astounding rate where in the next ten years the people on the internet will have doubled, don't even think of how huge that number is. With social media the first anime they will get into contact with will be the popular shounen of the time like what HeroAca is now and what Naruto was. You got thousands of kids sitting on youtube every day and binging hundreds of "Le epic greentext stories from 4chan" videos and then now they are experts and ready to enter the cool kids club and make the epic shitposts themselves. What you are seeing is just the tip of the iceberg of change that has been happening continuously for a while now and it will only get worse.

I am not going to say that the early 2000s were some kind of pinnacle of comedy but at least then it wasn't some kind of competition of who can be the most ironic.

>>905009

>immensely angry that dojin.co is down because of some retarded admin troubles and that apparently the solution for part of the community was to move onto fucking discord

Jesus Christ. I downloaded an album from there a month ago that had a readme from the discord people ranting about dojin.co stealing their songs The zip containing all the music was password locked, and it forced me to go to the discord for the password. I thought it was an annoying experience, but I didn't think it would go this far. They're apparently butthurt because supposedly dojin.co steals the music from their discord which they steal from VK Russian weeb circles. Personally I think it's nice that I can browse an English website instead of trawling slavshit sites even if the former sources from the latter. Hopefully a replacement will arrive and save me from having to associate with all those fucking zoomers on discord.

>>905046

>And here we are sitting in Byzantium watching the whole thing happen

I wasn't expecting to feel this much sadness in this kind of thread.

>>905059

>Byzantium

What would that make the bunker?

>>904988

Short version because I can't be assed to repeat myself for the umpteenth fucking time:

>after

No, during 2016, earliest by late 2015. And I'd rather the /v/fags than the normalfags. These I've seen referred to as "ironic weebs" i.e. nigger faggots who are probably underage as well; seems to be young people who grew up on the Internet, and thus were exposed to "geek" sub-cultures, and coupled with all that happened in 2007 with easier access to the Internet, popularization of "geek" culture and so on, well, no wonder they're everywhere. They frequently use black twitter speak (e.g. "when you X") and Japanese emoticons (which were turned into a shitty film; you know what I speak of). They're frequently /pol/tards (light version), but not always. They use "meme" to describe everything from image macros to mere jokes. They consume forced "memes" and revel in "ironic" (eating shit ironically doesn't change the fact that you're eating shit) "humor" (none of them are funny) for points; they don't put any effort into anything they do, and wonder why it feels all "empty" (besides being sex/porn-addicts; like I said, grew up with the Internet). They're pathetically stupid and are very emotional. There's more but I think that's the gist of it.

Have an open-mind and think rationally about things; don't just waste posts screaming or insulting and not adding anything to the discussion; don't get emotional and remember it's all alright; there is no need to be upset. Judge the content, not the poster; don't annoyingly shitfling if you think an anon is from reddit or 4chan or whatever, just hide and ignore; stay on-topic, or try to prove their opinions wrong. Spoonfeed if you absolutely have to (e.g. board won't stop being overrun with foreigners), otherwise hide and ignore. Post-quality is a better measurement of board-quality than OP-quality. Internet/imageboard culture is fucked and dead; 8chan fucking sucks, don't lie to yourselves. Retreat back into your alts and talk to people less and less. You are subject to environments (social or otherwise) more than you realize. Read Spengler and Yockey; even if autistically pseudo-metaphysical at times, the basic stuff is good. Read The Revolt of the Masses or I guess just play MGS2. Look up Mouse Utopia. Miyazaki and Chuck Jones were right.

>"One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind.

>"In order to read what is good one must make it a condition never to read what is bad; for life is short, and both time and strength limited." —Arthur Schopenhauer

>>904983

>Is this the backlog season for you? What are you excited about?

Every season is backlog season when you only want BD quality. I'm just watching a bunch of recent stuff now, but what I'm excited about is watching older stuff. I want to start from when Astro Boy aired and watch a few representative anime from every year in order to develop a picture of how anime progressed from then up until now.

>decline of internet culture chat

Conversation is (usually) good when there are mechanisms like gatekeeping, esoteric subject matter, social ostracism, early adoption, and IQ barriers to encourage quality and novelty. Imageboards lost these mechanisms, but the mechanisms are not gone, only shifted elsewhere. What's important is to keep abreast of the shifts. Smart, motivated people will always get together to talk about weird shit.

>>904983

>What are you reading, watching, pondering?

Reading many, many things.

Watching Endro, WataTen, Kemurikusa, Mob Psycho 100, LotGH. Dropped Egao no Daika; call me when we get lolifuhrer.

Pondering why everything is dying and why I can't fix anything in my life.

>Is this the backlog season for you?

It could be better. I might pick up something like a Kamen Rider, or Prepara or something after I finish LotGH I have three episodes left.

>What are you excited about?

Nothing excites me anymore.

>>904988

>I was talking to someone who uses 4chan recently

I never, ever, ever would have told anyone I used 4chan. I never would have discussed it in real life. Five years ago, I think the majority of anons would have said the same. It's subtle, but it's yet another sign of how things have changed.

>>905102

>Dropped Egao no Daika; call me when we get lolifuhrer.

Don't leave me.

It isn't necessarily a backlog season for me, but I've been watching Dororo, and Kemurikusa, and I have been enjoying both so far. Fell behind in the episodes I've watched though since I've been occupied by RL shit and wanting to go through my backlog this year. Speaking of backlogs I've mostly been focusing on watching 2010's shows I've missed out on since I figured I might as well with the decade ending and all of that. Might go back to watching a few 90's ovas over the next couple of weeks to maintain some variety.

And since this thread has derailed into a thread pondering onto reasons why the internet is so shitty again, I might as well give some of my thoughts on it, with 8chan specifically. One thing that I've noticed a lot about 8chan, is that it seems to be at the cultural borders between the mainstream internet, and other niche communities (mostly small scale ""weeb focused"" imageboards) that still manage to exist nowadays. This gives the site a unique position where you have all manners or fags from twitter/reddit/discord/ wherever swarming the most popular boards like /v/ and /pol/, but still have instances of people prefering to have small scale discussion and more communities like /a/ or the various community events that happen across the site (gamenights, all of the various movie streams like sund/a/y, /bmn/, /loli/ etc.) I think that this can be attributed to the ability for anyone to create their own boards for allowing this distinction between the two distinct cultures on the site, which does leave the benefit of the nature of the site from the 2014 exoduses to still thrive in some parts, but this does leave the bigger problem I've found with 8chan as a whole. There is simply no "national culture" to the site, and what did exist of it died around the failed implementations of infinity next.

I was going to add more to the latter section, but the more as I went on I realized I can talk about anything well unless I'm mad as hell. I just hope I said it well enough to get the general point of what I was trying to say.

Only anime I'm watching is Ueno-san wa Bukiyou. It isn't great but it appeals to me. Recently got around to finally watching Laughing Salesman NEW and it wasn't the worst successor I've seen, the one about the guy posting online was particularly fun. Next is to finally finish the second half of the Neptunia anime, the one with best girl in it.

>>905102

The only times I've posted on 4chan since exodus was to test posting limits (they're still lousy, 3MB soundless VP8 WebMs, 4MB single images), share something on /jp/ since I'd been hanging onto it for years prior to that and they were always the weird one and haven't changed a lot. Also to briefly post in the /vg/ Vita general threads, which was educational for a couple of reasons, but mainly that I was right to leave. Culture aside, another problem is the old Usenet truism that content is inversely proportional to traffic, but it's even worse for imageboards.

Actually this needs to be made a point because Futaba has a lot of topic-specific boards while 4chan and 8chan have very generalized ones. Imageboards do not scale, so generalized boards are really asking for trouble. 8chan is fine for now since threads can last a month or so even on /v/, but 4chan? General boards often end up dominated by the most popular stuff, while the less popular either dies out or devolves into throwaway bump posts to not be killed off.

>>905084

>And I'd rather the /v/fags

I'll be blunt. I post on /v/ because where else am I supposed to discuss video games these days and certain threads there are worth visiting (for /a/ specifically, their share threads have an anon that frequently uploads ASMR and another that scans ero doujin stuff). More to the point though, it's rare that anyone cares/notices where you're from if you aren't posting like a jackass.

>>905111

Right.

>>904983

I went to sleep early and just woke up. Hopefully today is going to be a great day and I'll try not to waste it.

>>905163

No idea how long since you've been to /v/ but they crack down a lot more on political derails and throwaway /pol/ posts ("kill all leftists" and their ilk). Board quality is still an issue but I don't mind to an extent and it typically doesn't spread to some of their better threads. That's part of the reason I liked /jp/ because it had its shitty aspects but sometimes it was fun, and more importantly, it was counter-balanced by some top quality contributors, and fun tripfags.

>the vast majority of games and the people who play them these days are absolute garbage.

That probably explains why I joined /vr/ when it was created and had no interest in the other two. I haven't actually looked there since but apparently they're only up to Dreamcast still. Lucky for them.

>or just hang out on the Japanese side of the medium

That's what I do despite their often lackluster gameplay. At least they get some things correct. Sadly this interest is being crippled as of late.

I love you /a/.

>>905209

By the way, don't worry. I'm insanely clinical wherever I post.

Nothing. It is all dookey! Just one punch meme man with the notorious Rape Staff working on it and a bunch of unknown Light novel adaptations that are just "This loser just like you got reborn into another world". Give me something to care about Japan. I dare you.

Except this one, this one is nice, looks nice and probably smells good. The probabilities of this one being good is pretty high. I base it on german 1945 mathematics. Industry grade. Good stuff.

Actually I'll be drinking, smoking and watching the entirety of $$\left[\frac{Made in}{Abyss}\right]$$ with 4 other final review writers by myself.

>>912593

>>912594

It's too late. Time to get bullied, nerd.

I'm too busy listening to the vaporwave someone's playing on the r/a/dio stream right now to be honest.

Snacking on some nachos and hard apple cider while waiting for the fishsticks in the oven to finish. Rewatching Hyouka again, the anime is SO much better than the novels, however, the novels do go on further than the anime. I enjoy listening to books trough a voice synthesiser, once I finish Dracula, I am thinking about starting to listen to either sherlock holmes, classroom of the elite or oregairu. I've been looking for a finished manga that can really grab my attention.

The one aspect that is most hurtful about the imminent fall of internet culture is the possibility of losing you, /a/nons, last keepers of the old ways.

I'm sure /a/ would survive the initial collapse of 8ch, but for how long? What would be left of us in the bunker would be not unlike a liferaft drifting aimlessly in an endless ocean. How long until the userbase shriveled up into a handful of oldfags that all know eachother intimately due to their daily, unavoidable, proximity (see avatarfagging, namefagging)? Mind you, places like /tea/ are pretty comfy from what I can tell, but they're no /a/.

I'm also sure im this event we'd still manage to interact with one another, every now and then, without knowing, in some other obscure chan or corner of the internet. This is still problematic however, as new "homes" for us mean different cultures, different moderation amd userbases and sadly, the more time that passes, the less likely it is to come to a place that harbours intelligent, critical individuals or a community that is able to protect itself from the tides of normalfaggots and sjws that are growing bigger by the day.

Perhaps I'm wrong and people like us will always exist in one form or another. It's worth mentioning that before board culture there were others, the first internet pioneers, those who might have been your fathers. And before them there were people doing similar things with phonelines and radio signals. There was always someone that came before and did what we do, there was always someone who seeked the same truths and camaraderie as we.

I lost what I was originally trying to say but I think the message is something along the lines of "So don't despair. Even when we are scattered among the stars, all is not lost."

This thought should give you, as it did me, the realization that you should enjoy everything we have right here, right now, fully. The next thread you read and the next animu you watch should taste extra sweet, because one day it all returns to nothing. It all comes crumbling down, crumbling down, crumbling down.

I love you, /a/.

>>912615

I've given some thought to this, and one thing that I find interesting is the idea that most of us are outcasts or at the very least more interested in personal pursuits than taking part in normalfag groupthink, but we still end up forming communities and establishing tribal rules, much like the normalfag does. Anonymity is the one thing that sets us apart, and since we have no reputations to build and maintain, no social ladder to climb, our groups tend to be uninteresting to normalfags and instead attract knowledgeable and intellectually-minded people. Such groups can be wonderful, as you know, but they always need to maintain a balance between being too small and personal which leads to loss of anonymity and leaves you with only the bad aspect of autism, and too big and open which leads to infiltration and eventual overtaking by normalfags. It bothers me that we're in such a precarious position, a kind of Goldilocks zone of the internet, and we're playing by mostly the same rules as the normalfag communities play, making us that much closer to destabilization and ruin by their hands.

The way I figure it, the way to deal with that is to improve yourself. Even if our community dissolves, we should be mercenary enough to be able to make it outside of the community, unlike normalfags. By improving ourselves, we can rely less and less on others, giving us sounder footing and preventing us from getting swayed with the whims of the normalfag currents. As far as /a/ and pretty much any intellectual hobby is concerned, and hell as far as life in general is concerned, the focus should be on introspection, thinking for yourself and becoming as knowledgeable about as many subjects as you can. The world is too big for any one person to comprehend it all and not have to rely on what others tell him, but the more you know the less susceptible you are to groupthink.

So in my vision, even if all our communities die off and we end up wandering the normalfag infested wasteland of the internet alone, you want to be the badass lone survivor. The one every other selective group hates but also envies, because he can do everything they do but does it alone and doesn't need a community. And when you do happen to run into another loner like you, won't your mutual respect and understanding be that much greater?

>the way to deal with that is to improve yourself

Absolutely agreed.

In fact, on /a/ that almost goes without saying. That's why I love this place so much. Anons here blow the stereotypical image of the typical western anime fan out of the water.

Here we have anons that actively learn Japanese en masse, anons that against all odds find a way around their autism and actually travel Nippon by themselves, anons that move in with their waifus, anons that build an entire virtual world just for their waifu, anons that are absolute sages in various aspects of Nip culture (idolshit, music, history, geography, otaku culture, culinary arts and such), anons that are trying to live healthier lifestyles, anons that actively participate in various translation efforts and even anons that actively participate in securing a future for our board culture on the internet. And many more that I missed.

They're around here and basically, despite your flaws, I'm proud of you, /a/non, all of (You).

I haven't been watching a lot of anime lately. Except briefly re-watching Lauging Salesman, and also a crappy H anime because I was floored at learning Imai Asami (my favourite Neptunia VA next to Kana Hanazawa, the one for Plutia/Iris Heart, and apparently also Sora in Sketchbook Full Colors, and Chiaki in Danganronpa) was voicing a side character in it and also done similar things for eroge. Like it's unmistakeably her, and fits perfectly too.

Right now though I just really need to vent a bit. I'm angry and sad about today thanks to the absolute bullshit that went down on /pol/ (I haven't been there for ages, I learned of it externally but it's going to bring a lot of bad attention to the site as a whole, much much worse than that THQ AMA) and those concerns hit me with similar feelings to >>912622 and >>912633 and >>912615 since I really love this site and the communities on it.

>>912622

The thing is even imageboards aren't purely anonymous either. Like on /a/ we don't have IDs, but some of the boards do, and even then some people post a bit too distinctly, especially for example people that make major contributions. Then you hit the real extreme that was 4/jp/'s tripcode culture. Other boards had them but people actually really liked having them on /jp/ because of fun people, and especially the really generous people. It did have some idiots too mind, and a certain counter-culture to posting with one, but still. It was just one of the many unique things about that board compared to the site as a whole.

Oh, and the other major non-anonymity unless your IP changes a lot is your posting history to the mods. It's partly why I do my best to not post stupidly because I'd rather not see my entire posting history vanish. Obviously how much you have to do is board-dependent though. When in Rome and all that jazz.

>>912805

I suggest relaxing, the guy who went for the NZ high score who browsed /pol/ also named pewdiepie and other meme shit. There were other times where this site looked like it was going to die and it ended up being fine.

>>912831

>flags

Christ, don't remind me.

>at least one credit page for a translation from /animu/ was urging halfchanners to come to 8chan instead.

/animu/, not even once.

>>912836

>/animu/, not even once.

The fag posted about it on /u/, which is where I saw it while checking the daily releases. Apparently he only left cuckchan six months ago after getting permabanned.

>>912830

Not that extreme but being a frequent nuisance can eventually negate good posts even if it's only to the point of a single thread purge. Obviously if you're so far gone that you're posting CP or something that warrants time out.

>>912831

>Flags

They sometimes do this by accident because they are persistent, which is also something I frequently mess up with with sage. It's a serious bit of mis-design on the site. Sage should be a conscious act. The other annoying quirk is the spoiler checkbox can get un-set if you move between quick reply and the main posting window.

>Smuglo.li was getting named on other boards as the bunker of choice if 8chan goes down.

Yeah I've bookmarked it, and prepared for if my country starts to block 8chan or something. Certain torrenting sites are (funnily, nyaa.si is but not nyaa.pantsu.cat). Are you able to post on /a/ with Tor? It's not reliable because sometimes that gets banned, supposedly /b/ had it off for months because of CP spam, but going full VPN would be annoying. Anyway I didn't really want to bring that up at all but I think it's really important for everyone here to have a plan B.

>urging halfchanners to come to 8chan instead.

Yeesh. In fairness not all boards on 4chan suffered as badly post-exodus, if I had less ideals and they didn't have such mediocre posting limits I might still be on /jp/ even. But /animu/ would be primarily getting the attention of their major boards and no way is that a good idea.

>>912837

>that pic

>fresh off the boat halfchan refugee begging his shitposting friends to come to /animu/ because it's too slow for him

Nevermind, that's fucking hilarious.

>The THQ ama hits

>Mainstream outlets get outraged and calls this place a den of the most devious crooks

>The real life Austrialian shitpost happens

>The tsunami of butthurt approacheth

Could it be that we really are the bad guys? We are not gonna get shut down right? We're not gonna be forced to go back are we? Please don't die.

>>912868

For now at least, it seems that 8chan getting shut down is extremely unlikely, but as usual expect a wave of newfags for the major boards with some slight spillover into /a/. Then again I could be potentially wrong about this and the mosque shooting could potentially turn some people away from the site so only time will tell. Either way I had more problems about the mosque shooting because of how it was acted out of accelerationism, so things might just get even worse and Brenton expecting to kickstart a revolution now was retarded; and that smaller imageboards might start to get affected by this more as people are talking more openly about migrating there when shit like this happens. Finally like >>912870 be prepared in case Jim takes gag orders, even though I personally think it is unlikely to happen.

>>912924

Wanna read his manifesto and find out?

>>912932

How about, you know, torrents?

>>913186

Australia. We're bad enough when it comes to censoring media. And as expected, the mainstream "news" here are already starting to link this to 8chan, among other retarded things I won't get into.

>>913314

And to think I didn't believe you.

Update from Aussie: Something may or may not be happening. I just had 8ch.net start to show DNS resolution errors (Telstra). Mobile data accesses it fine (Vodafone) as does Torbrowser. Also I've switched to OpenDNS and 8chan is working. Not only that, so does nyaa.si. So it's just DNS re-directing to some "this is blocked in Australia you filthy pirate" page. It could just be a temporary outage but I think it's important to throw out that info for any other fellow countrymen.

>>913552

I don't know how you missed this. Nyaa was blocked like a month or two ago with an ISP DNS block. I can't remember if cuckchan got blocked or not, but I think it might have been at the same time. But as you've done, just switching to something like OpenDNS will solve all issues. I think the government is technological incompetent enough that they won't do anything more complicated than this.

As to 8chan being blocked, I can't be bothered to check but it wouldn't surprise me.

>>913563

Further update: It seems the DNS block also now applies to Vodafone, and worse, there doesn't seem to be any way to force OpenDNS even on Wi-Fi on a phone, not sure if that matters for tethering. On laptop it still seems happy. VPN approach is being considered at the moment.

>>913563

I'm not omniscient. However there is a difference between "name not resolved" and getting re-directed to some other site or a certificate error. Anyway now I know, and it means I might finally get to continue watching Laughing Salesman since it wasn't on nyaa.pantsu.cat there's a lot to catch up on.

>>913589

Azumanga Daioh is the next anime I plan on picking up, and I'm really excited for it!

Besides that, I'm going to finally finish reading the Love Hina manga and Oyasumi Pun Pun, which I have wanted to do for so very long.

Oregairu S03 is also great news!

Despite all the wrongs in the world, I am finally catching up to my backlog after so many, many years that I feel like soon I will be able to die content.

Happy friday, friends.

>>914588

Y-you too.

>>914588

Happy Friday to you too, faggot.

If there was a r/a/dio stream on Fridey instead of Saturdey, would anon be able to make it?

Dear frens,

I've decided that because it's the third week in a row, and because it would be unusual and nontraditional timing, it would not be in the spirit of taking it easy to stream r/a/dio this Friday night. Hopefully next week or the week after will be a better opportunity. It's been quite a while, but I'd rather wait for the right time.

It's barely friday, but it's always friday somewhere, if it is not friday where you live it is friday in my heart, and my heart for is for you anons. Happy friday, frends.

After figuring out nyaa.si's block was trivial, I've finally been able to power through a whole lot more of Laughing Salesman. It's been a ride but a mixed bag. Sometimes he's just a jerk. Well he's almost always a jerk, but often in a way that is due to his customer being stupid.

Two other things. One, Evil-Saizen know how to typeset, since seeing the KAA version of Azumanga Daioh it's something I've always liked in fansubs, and something I miss in the recent reboot of Laughing Salesman and basically any subtitles done as a profession. And speaking of which, I did generally enjoy that. The new VA for Moguro fits fine. Cute detail in the ED is he's like Where's Wally in each of the scenes.

>>914588

Hey There, happy Friday.

>>922443

That wasn't a dream.

How do I live with the desire to die every day yet being unable to kill myself because of my survival instinct? Life is suffering.

Not Friday yet, but as I have a week-long Uni break. Going to play catch up all week and go camping by myself for the first time ever (normally go with friends).

Technically Friday's been for me, but my latest has been committing to Eromanga-sensei. I'm only half through, but it's pretty disappointing with what anime has been doing lately in terms of fanservice.

Happy Friday.

>>922496

Sorry I thought you thought I was a fag with bad taste and the other way around in the dream world, anon.

I had this sharp jabbing pain in the back of my throat for the past 2 days, and today discovered that it was more tonsil stones grown large enough that they weren't just falling out normally and trapped by the web of skin that partially covers the tonsil near my throat. I had to push them out with my finger, there were three that combined were about the size of a head of a q-tip. I wish I had my tonsils removed because this is going to happen for the rest of my life, and having to jam my finger in my throat and remove gigantic tonsil stones without swallowing them and avoiding my gag reflex is a horrible experience to go through.

Thanks to ths season's crop of short shows (someone put Seven and Creators In Pack back to work!), I've been able to not just keep up with current season, but able to re-watch a lot of things lately as well.

Last year, I went one-on-one, Kantai Collectioin vs Haifuri, one ep at a time. Right now, I'm going head to head Anee Happy vs. Sansha Samyou, a matchup where purple always loses. And-i'm getting ready to put two forgotten isekai against each other, Smartphone vs. Death March/

But tonight, i went back to YZQ-Tsukl ni Naku. Why this series doesn't get any continuation is crimimal. Even Strike the Blood gets new shows this year. Not that I', complainig about that, but YZQ has so much storyline to use, why not more ovas?

>>925318

I'll remind you it's break week, but I'm looking forward to whatever audio shitpost you have in store for us.

>>926401

im drunk too my friend, come to the waifu thread, you're always welcome, anon.

>>904988

I went to 4/a/ last week out of curiousity. Opened up a Dragon Ball thread, an EVA thread, some seasonal threads, HxH and Boku my Hero (despite having dropped it 3 years ago).

The DB threads were the fucking worst and strengthened my resolve to never come back.

I don't fucking know what happened. It's honestly some of the worst shit I've ever seen. Literally all template posts, they're still doing those shitty "El Gohan Blanco vs Chadren" memes, and they have their own fucking language consisting exclusively of the words "dog" "cope" "kneel" and "concession".

Stuck around for a later thread where a guy actually broke down and got angry at the shitposters and probably got banned for calling the mods shit later on. Pic related is his breakdown.

The HxH threads were basically the same shit, but more fun. You could tell the people shitposting cared about the series and they would actually discuss it.

Everything else was Fujo general.

Anyways, the reason why anime got popular with normalfaggots is just general ease of access. Same reason Shounens and some Shoujo got popular back in the 90s when they were airing on Adult Swim. Except now it's Netflix, which is why Attack on Titan got big.

No change in what I'm watching though I still haven't finished Eromanga-sensei. Sooner or later.

>>926492

4chan excursions are the best way to get appreciation for 8chan. While I did occasionally post on /a/ I never really enjoyed it or any of the major boards just because they were too noisy. But I can imagine it's gotten a lot worse post-exodus, and while I haven't checked back on /a/ recently, I know they have to post videos on Pomf sites just because their post limits are so awful. 8chan's kind of spoiled me just for the fact you're allowed to post lewd pictures, which was only a thing on /jp/ briefly where the meidos just ignored the global rules.

How baka are you?

Happy Friday anons, I dont know how your waifu's do it because I washed my hair and an hour later it looked like something out a junji ito book.

>>930623

I went back about a week ago myself and found a few more.

>>930626

>>930627

I don't know why they don't just come here. Everything they complain about in those is what we have. The sad fact is that there was never any "exodus" from /a/. There was back when Naruto Day happened, but 8chan wasn't around then so nobody came here. They all just left. And now nobody knows about us.

>>930633

I understand where they are coming from. It is fun to come back to a thread after 5 minutes and find a bunch of new posts. Yeah sure you basically ignore 90% of them but it still stimulates your desire for variety and significance like the worst gacha game that ultimately gives you nothing but a faint feeling of accomplishment, after all you never know what you are going to get.

The solution of course is to go to the places you like and contribute and pray that the hotpockets aren't retarded.

>>930616

I am much baka.

>>930629

Given GamerGate was the main cause of exodus to here, you can expect a majority of the users who left 4chan for 8chan to be from the video game and political boards, and maybe some /a/ types who cross-board or realize the tendrils infesting their medium. Regardless, /a/ has never been a high traffic board here, and it's especially hurt that /animu/ had to exist when I think the differences are not major enough for such a split. But, count your blessings. While imageboard types have a higher tolerance for bullshit, in part because of how irrelevant bans are in practice, I think anyone still trying to use 4chan now is just wasting their time.

Also, I should point out that 8chan is likely still blocked in most places after that shitfest in New Zealand. It still is DNS blocked in Australia.

>>930634

I would like the majority of threads here to be somewhat faster, but I can't agree with the overall point. Like, most of the fast 8/v/ threads are due to political flame wars, circlejerks like the GamerGate threads, or recent events which attract a lot of throwaway posting. At a certain point it just blurs together and becomes boring to read.

>>930713

I don't get why that domain splitting mattered one whit when the blue boards already enforced no-NSFW images. What's the deal?

>>930764

>What's the deal?

DLC character in a particular game made me want to check out Genshiken. Unfortunately from the initial skim she doesn't show up until like half-way in but the show itself appeals in the same way said game does in that it's about a bunch of otaku doing things they do, and I enjoy how laidback it is for the most part. I don't like the guy who makes Tanaka look on-point though.