Anime "tourist" is the stupidest term I've ever heard.

if there are anime tourists then should there be anime immigrants?

To be honest, I don't what is anime tourist to begin with we don't have that word back in 2000s era.

@deg thanks Deg, I will start identifying as anime immigrant

Granted, I just noticed I don't know what "casual" means.
What's the difference between a casual and a non-casual anime fans?
What's the difference between a casual and a non-casual Dark Souls player?

Granted, I just noticed I don't know what "casual" means.
What's the difference between a casual and a non-casual anime fans?
What's the difference between a casual and a non-casual Dark Souls player?

@thewiru A "casual" is basically someone who doesn't watch anime regularly or often. Some people will judge by the number of anime a person has watched or the amount that they've watched in a certain period of time.

Based on my brief time here in the anime world, I don't think the term has any relation to the IRL meaning of the word.

Whatever the exact meaning is, all I'm sensing is a sense of superiority, lashing out and shutting down people. And worst of all, the belief that there are people who "don't deserve" to watch anime or be around in the community, which is disgusting, presumptuous, laughable and actually meaningless.

I don't feel that strongly about a lot of anime opinions I come across, but this kind of rhetoric really bothers me. But I have no idea what to do about it...

@Prideful_Lion
That doesn't say much.
How often is "regularly"?
Can someone keep flipping from casual to non-casual from time to time?

Anime tourists may be bad. But they are better than sex tourists...for obvious reasons.

Sounds like something a filthy anime TOURIST would say!


I've got my eye on you, OP. I know you're here to make my anime woke and I wont stand for it.

Tourists are to anime what casuals are to gaming.

@thewiru how about food tourism ?

@tchitchouan
Is that a good thing? Many of my favorite games were developed for Wii and DS, consoles with extremely large casual userbases.

Tourists are to anime what casuals are to gaming.

@thewiru how about food tourism ?

@tchitchouan
Food tourism is something nice.
Though I was once reading about things like lutefisk and surströmming, which locals don't actually eat, but tourists think they do.

I also never fully understood the difference between casuals and hardcore players in gaming.
According to JoshStrifeHayes, anyone that researches about the game they're playing on their free time and watches hour-long videos about the game is "a hardcore fan".
If that's the right definition, then I don't understand how someone can have fun WITHOUT being hardcore: I always love researching about the games I'm playing so I can have contact with the most amount of systems possible so I can have the most fun.

Unless hardcore/casual mean other things, in which case... what do those mean?

@thewiru i think the main difference between casual and hardcore gamers is that the former have a laid back approach to the games they play whereas the hardcore gamer take an active role in the games they play. so casuals play passively while hardcores play actively.

@tchitchouan
I still don't get it.
Isn't "to play" an "active action" in itself?

@DesuMaiden
Why is sex tourism bad, though?

@thewiru No, an active role means to go beyond the game, as in explore all what the game has to offer thoroughly, develop new strategist and techniques, immerse yourself in the story and the lore, engage with the wider community and the fandom, be competitive, always advocating and supporting the game.

To be honest, I don't what is anime tourist to begin with we don't have that word back in 2000s era.

There are a ton of reasons, but it is believed that sex tourism increases human trafficking and thus forced prostitution in many countries, endangering women and minors who are at most at risk at being pulled into these industries. It is also suggested that higher rates of trafficking corresponds to higher rates of drug usage, more widespread violence, and a bunch of other vices that prevent any actual development of the economy. Poverty, above all else.

There are stories of Thailand authorities busting down child sex rings, and Cambodian officials profitting off of children being enslaved. You hear tales of elderly women in the UK coming to South Africa to take advantage of men who turn to prostitution. Considering the nature of the work and the groups known for operating in that area, many believe that abuse is inherent in the sex trade.

I do agree with many of the wider claims in many of these countries; sex tourism is pretty exploitative, rich tourists coming to take advantage of locals like this while the government fails to invest in any long-term infrastructure, and criminal groups enslaving people or importing people to meet demand. I am speaking broadly on this, though.

@tchitchouan
This is a pretty broad definition.
If all of those are needed, then almost no one is hardcore.
If only one of them is, then no one is a casual.

For instance, in FFXIV most of the stuff you mentioned would fall into "casual gameplay".

@PeripheralVision
That has more to do with illegal prostitution than with sex tourism, though.
Someone that travels to other states in order to pick up girls at a party is, by definition, engaging in sex tourism, yet this is unrelated to most stuff you've mention.