No.64995
Did you choose animu or did animu choose you?
No.64999
>>64995
When I was a kid there was this open tv channel which had an early morning segment that was just cartoons for kids. It aired a lot of anime, I get the feeling whoever owned the channel was a degree of weaboo.
I watched a good deal of shounen-type anime until the turn of the millenium, and then I went on hiatus, but death note's anime adaptation got me back into anime and also introduced me to alternate genres, and nowadays I can look down on the ones who were like I was.
No.65000
My older sister was and still is a hardcore fujoshit. Whenever our parents weren't home, she'd pop in a VHS of an imported and fandubbed anime with BL undertones or some shoujo crap. I wound up watching a bunch of it because I didn't know any better at the time.
No.65002
>>65000 (checked)
She was only doing her duty.
No.65005
>>65000
Look at the bright side, shoujo is good. 1 out of 2 is a profit in life.
No.65011
>>64995
At first, I thought you meant the board rather than actual Japanese animation.
In any case, I came to anime late because my weeb friends were really annoying when discussing anime and I didn't want to be anything like them. They also made the huge mistake of showing me edgy shit like Death Note and Eva (dubbed of course) without balancing it out with fun or cute stuff, so I grew up thinking anime was tryhard shit.
Possibly the last straw for why I eventually gave anime a solid chance was because western TV/film and vidya had gone to shit so quickly and so badly that I needed something else to get into. Anime might be worse now than at its peak, but it still has some original ideas now and then, and I haven't seen all of the old shows. Above all else, it isn't super SJW like the other mediums I was coming from.
No.65024
>>65000
Did you gave her D to fuck fujoshit out of her?
No.65039
>>65011
I did mean the board, ya'll dinguses just misunderstood me
No.65044
>>65039
>talking about the board but doesn't use the proper name for the board
Nah you're the retard
No.65045
>>64995
I saw Akira on sci-fi late one night in the '00s. Was very impressed. Also Outlaw Star on cartoon network. They were different, original, creative, unlike western shit. I got hooked.
No.65046
Ended up where I am by intentionally choosing the seemingly worst options possible at the time.
>spend time browsing internet for obscure snes and genesis games to emulate, and somehow end up on some weeaboo's site where half of the posts are criticizing Eva
<obviously this man's torrential anal bloodfall is reason enough to check what all the fuss is about
>as a consequence of that chain of events, end up following the reidick posters back to old 4cuck
>watching anime and reading manga is already kind of borderlining, but dating sims are obviously a complete waste of time that could be used for more productive endeavors
<what a shame I feel like a complete faggot today, and having decided to get into VNs, this MuvLuv seems generic enough haremshit and an excellent starting point
>reading LNs is pretty much indulging in trash pulp, not worth the paper it was printed on, truly past the event horizon
<you already past like two or three of them in this category, mind as well try to max out your stat
No.65053
Watched Toonami as a kid, saw Gundam Wing, Cowboy Bebop, Outlaw Star, and stopped at Naruto. Then I got out of it a little, but came back when Fullmetal Alchemist, Death Note, and Haruhi started becoming big. Of course, my child self being a massive faggot I watched all of these dubbed on old ass streaming sites.
Then I lay dormant for a few years, consuming western entertainment nearly exlusively while I only watched a select few anime I was attached too. Then as western media became ever shittier, I got back into anime and manga right around 2013 when I read/watched Steins;Gate, then came on 4cuck and migrated here.
No.65054
>>64995
I just watched some Pokemon/Digimon/DB as a kid, like normal. But I was majorly into fantasy novels.
Over the years, these degraded in quality, with every single one becoming some version of "In a grimdark city, a whacky multicultural group of anti-heroes led by a strong woman who don't need no man tears down the evil white hetero-patriarchy", some of them even set in modern times , aka exactly what I was trying to escape by reading fantasy.
Around that time, I also got into imageboards and so was offered a better use of my time: Anime. Good, wholesome entertainment that lets you relax from the pure nightmare that is the modern world.
From then on, I also quickly got into manga and LNs. Now, with the isekai boom I could hardly.I can hardly imagine better escapism. Truly, we live in the silver age of entertainment. I just wish we could have had the isekai boom back when they still bothered with shading and there were people capable of making a story both comfy and suspenseful, but as it is now those are just myths of a long forgotten age.
No.65080
I feel like a lot of people into anime largely got into it on an entry level when they were young, moved on to other things during their early teens, and then came back to it out of both nostalgia and a lack of fulfillment in what their local media had to offer them. It's too much of a reoccurring experience to not notice. I don't know if this is going to repeat again however, now that greater access means there's nothing stopping people from just sticking with it. I didn't have that choice when I was young, it largely stopped airing around that whole post-9/11 anime drought. I'll miss staying up late to watch violent anime on the international channel, but not so much that I don't prefer it the way it is now.
No.65084
I chose Kirino Kousaka and she is my waifu.
No.65085
I started from To love-Ru, Infinite Stratos, then Oreimo, Haganai, Haruhi, Rokuasa. Then I found out about Chinese anime. Now, I only watch Chinese anime like Wo de tian jie nu you, Cupid's Chocolate, Fox-spirit matchmaker, 3D anime etc. I find Chinese anime more fun than Japanese ones. Now, I only watch Oreimo, because incest is American Southern culture and Infinite Stratos because the harem is International.
No.65087
Animu chose me. I was at a this "National Youth Leadership Forum" thing one time, and this guy in the dorms had an early portable DVD player. He was watching Trigun. Cartoons that weren't for kids? Nuanced characters with adult problems and shit? It was too late. In that moment was a weeb. I had always laughed at and mocked the weeb kids. Suddenly I got it. I've been a loser ever since.
No.65088
>all these youngfags on the thread
Announce your hatred on shounenshit amongst many other things so that old(er)fags can accept you as worthy of being Anons.
t. 2007-chanologyfag
No.65093
>>65088
How old(er) is old(er)fag? I'm 33.
No.65098
>>65088
kys oldfag. Every anime that does not have moe is cancer.
No.65102
> <10 years old watching some action movie
<"anon, it's best you don't just look at violent stuff all the time"
>mom flips through channels until cartoons and goes to sleep
>it was a weaboo channel marathoning Gantz
Since she was asleep in the same room I was on a high stress flipping back and forth whenever she rolled around and as a result Gantz seemed like a deranged sci-fi entity that beckoned me for years
>never forget the name completely
>an older cousin took me to a con
<pretty shitty
>see bootleg Gantz DVDs
After that looked stuff on and started following the Claymore manga. Continued with the usual stuff plus some ecchi.
Arrived on /animu/ because of stream shills.
No.65104
>>64995
I watched gantz when i was 12, since then hobbo bashing became one of my favorite sports.
No.65113
>>65093
>33
Respect.
By olderfag that I mean anyone that already in 4chan before 2012. True oldfags are anyone that did so before 2007, when 4chan was still truly a sekrit club and the habbo hotel pranks didn't really took off.
>>65098
After you giving me an example, youngfag. Moe is good but it's not an absolute requirement for a good anime.
>Black Lagoon
>Cowboy Bebop
>Space Dandy
>GITS
No.65114
>>65113
Watch Internet Historian if you want to know about Habbo Hotel, buddy.
No.65115
I saw a lot of shounen as a kid on TV, like Naruto, Bleach, FMA, DBZ, and InuYasha, as well as the Digimon, Pokemon, and Yu-Gi-Oh anime (I was really into collecting yugioh cards). But you know, when you're a little kid you don't really watch everything in order and if you miss an episode you just have to deal with it, so I'm not sure how much of these anime I exactly watched. I started watching "real" anime again at about age 14 with Death Note and have been obsessed since.
No.65131
>>65024
She's married with kids and still a fujoshit. I don't think D can cure her.
No.65198
>>65113
>By olderfag that I mean anyone that already in 4chan before 2012.
I stumbled across 4chan pretty early and was like, "wtf I don't get this place." Then stumbled upon it again in early 2010 and have been a degenerate chantard ever since.
No.65201
I don't even know anymore. I only had mild exposure growing up since cable access was spotty for most of it, leaving me stuck with 4kids'ed anime that was on kidswb or foxbox (Pokemon and Yugioh off and on mainly, with a bit of Digimon, One Piece, Bobobo and Kirby; not like I saw any of them in full) amidst the western cartoons that were focused on, and when Cartoon Network was cycled on the cable preview channel for a week, netting a few less kid-focused shows at night like Fullmetal Alchemist 2003 reruns, Blood+, Trinity Blood, and Eureka Seven, but only having access to seven episodes each at best before they got cycled off, airing in the middle of their runs, and the timing not always being convenient towards breaks I could stay up late on, made it hard get all that invested at the time, though the names did stick in memory to return to later. It took until somewhere in junior high or high school to branch out more, and to get somewhat less spotty access to cable. I honestly don't know how I somehow missed the notion of just watching ripped, fansubbed series online at the time, despite me killing time in the mornings before having to get to the bus stop for school chain-watching openings to various shows on youtube.
These days I don't bother with standard TV, movies, or western animation anymore (with very few exceptions; I'll admit I wish Korgoth of Barbaria was more than just a pilot that never got funding), and on the subject of the latter, I'd found myself just not having that much of interest to watch after a while as I’d gone from kid to teenager, what with western animation generally falling into either "kids cartoon/film" or "adult sitcom", while I noticed that anime seemed to have more vectors of focus, both in age group and genres from my still-then-limited exposure. Discovering imageboards way back when, and lurking for a few years minimum in general, did a good bit to expose me to more series than just what bits and pieces I had come across before, though I'll admit even now my list of stuff I still have yet to watch is fucking huge.
>>65088
Earliest files I have pertaining to imageboards date to around late 2006 (save date, not post timestamp), which fits with when I recall beginning to lurk as an underageb& during junior high. Don’t think I found my way to /a/ right away, but it wasn’t as if the likes of anime, manga, and doujin threads didn’t also work their way onto /b/.
>>65131
Is her husband at least aware of her fujoshit tendencies? Because if I were in his shoes I'd be worried about what she might potentially try to get me to do.
No.65206
>detested anime as rabbit-hole nerd shit
>FLCL on Toonami
>decide to give it a chance despite wanting nothing to do with it
>end up enjoying it
>2 years later I decide to watch more anime besides FLCL for the 4th time I've watched it at least 7 times by now
>still think of anime as rabbit-hole nerd shit but not unaware as it was in the 90s and 2000s
No.65213
>>65088
>all these fake oldfags in this thread
Announce your hatred of moeshit amongst many other things so that actual oldfags can accept you as worthy of being Anons.
FTFY
No.65226
Oldfag. Anime chose me. I started with shit like “Voltron”, “Star Blazers” and Macross. Western stuff was too formulaic and the good guy would always win, nobody died, and no developed relationships.
Then suddenly I watch these weird cartoons with heavy character development, shades of gray morality, main characters dying, and romances. I also thought the art was much better.
No.65248
I remember seeing a movie for Galaxy Express 999 on the Sci-fi channel and my world changed forever. Pure fascination took hold of me and i spent all my birthday money on a Evangelion DVD.
Then i found anipike (or turnpike)
No.65254
I chose manga and webnovels. I consider my imagination to be better than anime visuals (with few exceptions).
No.65259
No.65262
my mum was big into anime and showed me Lodoss, EVA, Ninja Scroll, Macross: do you remember love?, G Gundam and many more 80s-90s anime.
No.65265
No.65287
No.65289
>>64995
Animu chose me tbh, I hated it with a passion until I was forced to watch Attack on Titan. Before that the only animus I watched were super-serious ones like NGE or GITS, because I was a fedora-wearing faggot who thought all other anime was for plebs.
No.65298
I picked up rice cartoons, because burger cartoons werent like exosquad or xmen anymore.
Started with Robotech way back when they aired it in free TV, but later went full piratefag when there was a drought of rice cartoons and was forced to learn how to use a computer and illegally download shows.
>>65088
>Announce your hatred on shounenshit amongst many other things
fun things are fun, anon
t. first exodusfag
No.65320
>>65201
>Is her husband at least aware of her fujoshit tendencies?
Yes. He has accepted he will never occupy as large a chunk of her heart as Solid Snake's ass.
No.65325
>>65287
Only queers and women hate moe, anon.
No.65331
>>65325
That's the same as playing females in video games and claiming you aren't a fag because you're staring at a female ass.
No.65353
>>65320
>he will never occupy as large a chunk of her heart as Solid Snake's ass.
And how does she feel about Smash Bros Ultimate taking that away from her? Assuming she's aware.
>>65248
>i spent all my birthday money on a Evangelion DVD.
Given how much per volume anime can go for (especially if new), I honestly don't doubt that could be the case. Still seems kind of a sad notion to only get like three or four episodes out of your entire birthday earnings though.
No.65392
>>65287
>>65325
FLCL and moe both suck.
No.65451
>>65325
t. projecting moegroid
No.65458
No.65460
I just randomly saw Dragonball in ytv when I was kid. Didn't even know what the fuck it was but it was interesting. Then watched and enjoyed sailor Moon because it looked like it so I thought it was the same show. Then when DBZ got big and I got internet I was gone. Started by downloading vhs rips off of Morpheus/kazaa. Then found out about irc and started watching fansubs. I just wanted more serious cartoons because in that time frame everything was transitioning from the Batman animated series to goofy kids shit.
No.66099
When I was a young sprout brothers got manga because they thought it looked cool. Berserk, Naruto, Love Hina, and a bunch of Shonen Jump. Loved it all. Since I was a anti-social loner I just kept to myself and read all day while playing videogames. I would also stay up late at night just to read up on manga and watch anime. Toonami helped some but I think the anime on Adult Swim is what really pulled me into anime. Though I still preferred manga.
Fast forward to the end of highschool and I've learned that being an anti-social loner was just who I was and revolved my hobbies around that. So manga, anime, and vidya stayed with me naturally. Even when I joined the military I stayed like this.
>>65011
>>65053
>>65460
RIP western comics and cartoons. It'll take more than a generation to unfuck all the damage these parasites have done. And even then who knows if it can even recover outside of a few self-published comics.
No.66100
When I was a young sprout brothers got manga because they thought it looked cool. Berserk, Naruto, Love Hina, and a bunch of Shonen Jump. Loved it all. Since I was a anti-social loner I just kept to myself and read all day while playing videogames. I would also stay up late at night just to read up on manga and watch anime. Toonami helped some but I think the anime on Adult Swim is what really pulled me into anime. Though I still preferred manga.
Fast forward to the end of highschool and I've learned that being an anti-social loner was just who I was and revolved my hobbies around that. So manga, anime, and vidya stayed with me naturally. Even when I joined the military I stayed like this.
>>65011
>>65053
>>65460
RIP western comics and cartoons. It'll take more than a generation to unfuck all the damage these parasites have done. And even then who knows if it can even recover outside of a few self-published comics.
No.66104
>>65265
She is a small lady.
No.66118
Some of my earliest memories are staying up late watching Toonami with my big sister. She would later go on to molest me, so watching some of those anime is uncomfortable. She wasn’t even attractive.
No.66164
>>65046
You sound like you've internalized a lot of terrible opinions from outsiders to these hobbies.
>>65206
You're pretty much the worst kind of person.
No.66183
Watched Pokemon, Digimon, Beyblade and Sailor Moon as a kid, it was what they used to show early weekend mornings basically. Read some Dragonball in school due to library having them and i could get away with reading comics on school time. Was never really into anything but Pokemon and Digimon as a kid though, just like most kids around that time, Pokemon was just everything. Every kid had pokemon cards and it was like a big trading, gambling and free giveaways of cards every day basically. Shit was fun and cool. Never really into anime though, never even thought it was anime even.
Got back into it by a friend recommending me Gintama. He told me it was a fun comedy show. That fucker. Hadn't cried at anything since friend died at the age of 18, suddenly i'm crying like a fag every other arc. Now i'm stuck, the storytelling of most anime-shows is just way better, really love that it's still kinda normal entertainment in the way it used to be, they care more about telling a story than trying to brainwash you into thinking the writers way. Also like the focus on the introspective in fights and stuff like that. And finally, it's just way more fun and entertaining than most stuff i've seen.
No.66194
>>66164
>You sound like you've internalized a lot of terrible opinions from outsiders to these hobbies.
More like I had a bad habit of initially agreeing with seemingly strong arguments on stuff that I didn't give a shit about, and wasted some time on being contrarian to said preconceptions instead of just being skeptical from the start.
I regret absolutely nothing though.
No.66203
>>66164
There are worse such as modern weebs who watch Jojo on Crunchyroll and think Evangelion is extremely deep, or people who obsess over moeshit.
No.66207
>>66203
>or people who obsess over moeshit
Spoken like a true normalfag.
No.66212
>>66194
Oh, I misunderstood then. Moving past those first impressions is commendable.
No.66213
>>66203
Crunchyrollfags are bad but anti-moefags and people who hold up toonami's catalog as the pinnacle of anime are the worst.
No.66220
>>66213
>not red version
>>66118
And did you even tell anyone what was going on in an effort to try getting her to stop?
No.66221
>>66207
So I have to spam dragonmaid, umaru, and spam porn of girls in the latest trigger anime to be considered a person who likes anime or is there no in between?
No.66224
>>66221
It's more that moeshit is usually a term used by people who think Toonami/Adult Swim are the only good things to come out of anime. It doesn't even make sense either when you consider that moe is just something you find endearing and worth protecting.
No.66240
>>66224
> It doesn't even make sense either when you consider that moe is just something you find endearing and worth protecting.
Normalfag degenerates hate femininity and purity.
No.66241
>>65298
Ex-men eunuchs were pozzed from the very beginning.
Capeshit was never good.
No.66279
>>66221
No, you just have to not act like a faggot who thinks the only good anime are shonen series.
It's like how you can prefer christmas cakes without going around saying how much you hate lolis.
No.66344
>>66213
>>66224
FLCL was the only thing I enjoyed on Toonami and I have never heard anyone in a category saying Toonami is the peak of anime. Little girls doing cute meaningless things or harems teasing the protag for 26 episodes seems like a big waste of time.
>moe is just something you find endearing and worth protecting.
And it has become a genre in the form of hot anime babes to uphold mediocre shows or little girls for lonely otaku to spend merchandise.
No.66356
>>66344
You just sound like the typical western "anime fan" with a Crunchyroll subscription. The contempt you have for actual anime fans is very obvious.
No.66364
>>66344
>And it has become a genre in the form of hot anime babes to uphold mediocre shows or little girls for lonely otaku to spend merchandise.
Are you seriously so retarded to not be able to see differences between moe and ecchi?
No.66374
>>66344
How the fuck did you find this board?
No.66392
>>66220
>And did you even tell anyone what was going on in an effort to try getting her to stop?
I did, but it's still an awful memory.
No.66395
>>66356
There is no offense intended. Are you saying that anime demographics don't have a lot of lonely or ostracized men who find love in the shows they watch which prompts the studios to make similar shows and memorabilia to rake in more dosh.
>>66364
You say that as if there's an obvious difference.
>>66374
Why does everyone think that boards and this website are obscure or a tricky secret, the homepage shows the top 25 boards and there's a search bar to find more.
No.66407
>>66395
>which prompts the studios to make similar shows and memorabilia to rake in more dosh
Are you implying this is unique to otaku? You've just described every single entertainment producer in the capitalist world.
>You say that as if there's an obvious difference.
The difference couldn't possibly be any more obvious. Please go back to whichever cancerous shithole you came from.
No.66410
>>66407
>Are you implying this is unique to otaku?
No. Regardless it encourages more bare-minimum mediocrity to be made and swipes the money of unfortunate souls.
No.66413
>>66395
>You say that as if there's an obvious difference.
Are you being dense intentionally? How are you even defining these? They coincide in many cases, but eroticism and an emphasis on cuteness aren't the same thing at all.
No.66427
If you don't sincerely agree with every word of the Konata copypasta then you don't count, have never counted, and will never count as an anime fan.
No.70466
>>64995
Due to the fact that the American culture was hijacked and corporatized I'd say that animu was chosen by me, in my youth primarily as a means to compensate for a lack of being provided with a culture of my own. Being one of the only media not jewed that was available to me during my formative years I say I made the best choice. Having slight autism is better than being a fucking Disney-kid
No.70474
>>70466
Are you implying anime is not corporate?