Out of all the things that make me a degenerate you're gonna pick anime?
djshire
There is a difference between an anime fan, and a weeaboo piece of that you want to strangle. I'll let Frank explain
DJ RANN
Reminds me of my firend's roomate a few years back.
Now bear in mind, they were in their mid 30's when this happened.
My friend and his GF came home (it was their place and renting a room to that other friend) to find the DVR inoperable because it had been programmed for various recordings that eveving, through the night and the morning.
They checked the guide and found it was all for his usual penchant: Equal mix of Anime and Power rangers.
As the evening went on (roommate out) my mate went it, I'm not sitting here without TV and cancelled the power ranger recordings so they could watch something.
Went to bed, heard room mate come in, go to bed, then get up, a lot of swearing, then leave the house in the morning.
He'd made a massive sign out of sheets of A4 paper and spread it out across the entire living room floor that spelled "PISS TAKING ****S!"
Needless to say, his tenancy ended pretty shortly thereafter,
OrangestO
My best friend in the army was a black guy from the deepest part of the hood in Oakland.
He liked anime.
As many times as he tried to explain it, I never understood the big deal.
He def lost some of his street cred with me after I drunkenly stumbled upon his 100-plus DVD collection lol.
It was like I found his secret stash of cuckhold porn or something.
We were never the same since :(
Lira
Weaklings! I teach Japanese for a living, do you have any idea how much I suffer when dealing with these people?!
Do you? DO YOU? :mad:
And the people who snub weabos because they "appreciate traditional culture" tend to be even more insufferable around here. So it's a lose-lose situation when it comes to extremes :(
djshire
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Originally posted by Lira
Weaklings! I teach Japanese for a living, do you have any idea how much I suffer when dealing with these people?!
Do you? DO YOU? :mad:
And the people who snub weabos because they "appreciate traditional culture" tend to be even more insufferable around here. So it's a lose-lose situation when it comes to extremes :(
I'd rather not tell the stories in a public platform like TA, but the hardcore weebs I met seem to be emotionally stunted, as if they desperately clang to their childhood because they can't cope with adult life (assuming this is what Nick is talking about), and the "Baaaaka! Are?" type apparently refuse to acknowledge they're not Japanese schoolchildren.
The most extreme case I know involved a hardcore weeabo that got so abusive when he dated an exchange student (who was struggling with depression, so she was quite vulnerable), he borrowed hundreds of dollars worth of money for a period of time and, when she finally confronted him on Christmas Eve because he didn't even bother getting her anything, he kicked her out of his parents' house (where they had planned to spend Christmas day together with his family). As a result, she slept inside a cardboard box behind a bus stop until his mother found her. So much for a waifu.
Of course, your average weeabo isn't so problematic, and they're much more likely to stick to hentai anyway (one unhealthy former student had terabytes worth of it and would brag to his classmates about his vast knowledge about all things pokeporn - needless to say, he was considered an untouchable by his female peers). Also, I want to point out the cosplayers are usually very laidback and fun to have around, so they belong to a different category altogether.
As for the normal ones, I just can't understand what they're talking when they talk about cartoons and comics... So they switch to a different topic when I'm around or something. If they don't, then I just walk away.
Lira
In case anyone is wondering, I watched Evangelion in my late teens, and got traumatised by the experience so much that I only watched another anime a whole decade later. Then I watched Nana with my wife, and then we started watching Death Note, but lost interest halfway through and I never bothered picking up from where we stopped.
I've seen scenes from Dragon Ballz, but it was mostly my brother who liked it.
Lews
Hmm I love the Studio Ghibli films I've seen, I really liked both Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo, thought Ghost in the Shell and Akira were good, but ing struggled with Lain and Death Note. Not sure if I actually ever finished either of them. Not sure I've even tried to watch anything else.
I cannot whatsoever understand the obsession some people have with the genre. I think if someone straight up says 'Oh, I like Anime,' when queried on their interests, that's definitely a sign something is a bit off in their head. I have no idea what the a weeb is, nor do I wish to find out.
wotyzoid
Gurren Lagann is the best ever.
pkcRAISTLIN
lifelong speculative fiction tragic but astro boy and robotech are the only series i rate.
more animation from ww2 losers + narratives from ww2 winners, please.
MSZ
The only anime I could get into was Initial-D when they were rolling out new episodes and they were getting fan-translated, something about that one s with me. Ah the euro-beat memories.
