| Hi everyone, Name is Mustafa, from Turkey. 31 years old. I'm one of the youngest fans here , i think. I try to watch anime every day as much as I can. My first anime is pokemon. When i was a kid, I didnt think I would reach this level. 11.000 episodes now. Nice to meet u all. Have a nice day. |
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| Welcome to all the newcomers! I hope you enjoy the club! :D |
 May the DESU be with you! Always! |
| Hello everyone i'm a 37(38? *counts) 37! year old anime fan. From the Maryland, USA area Introduced to this club by my good friend @kuri-cha I've been watching anime for ages, before I even knew it was called anime, i think some of my earliest anime was Ronin Warriors, Sailor Moon, Tekkaman Blade..some old anime moves on Sci-fi channel like Project A-ko and Iria: Zeiram The animation and G-Force! Currently on a kick of watching anime i missed, like Utena and Escaflawne. Thanks for letting me join! |
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| Welcome to all the newcomers! While we may be older than the average anime viewer here on MAL, at least we are young at heart! And then there is PhillyFlash.... ☺ |
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| Hello, I'm 39 here. I grew up with anime since literally when I was born. Parents would put on anime for me to watch since it was kids thing as considered where I was from at the time. The first series I really love was Gundam Zeta as well as SDF Macross. I'm fan of mecha anime, magical girls, yaoi and romance anime. I also really love Kaze to Ki no Uta manga series. My other favorite is Sailor Moon. However, I don't like the art style of anime after 1993 for the most part mainly because the style is no longer as close to realistic and beautiful. So I tend to avoid anime of after 1993 with some exceptions like Ghost in the Shell and Turn A Gundam. Music wise I like europop music especially Eiffel 65 music and others like Caramell and such. |
Cigarkirby said: I spend at least 4hrs a day reading manga but I do have trouble finding manga I like... so most of the time I'm waiting on updates! Your manga list was very nice and I found some interesting series from it. It's actually quite rare to see mal-users, who have used more time on the manga than anime. |
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| Hi everyone! I'll be 30 this year & I have been into anime since 2003 as a kid. I'm glad there are so many older anime fans! Nice to meet you all. |
StargazingxFeb 2, 2022 12:06 PM
“You flounder through life, struggling desperately so you won't drown, even though you would float if you'd just relax.” |
| Hello! I'm 36. Been an anime fan since 2002 when I started getting into airings of anime on Toonami in America during its original 2000s run. Been pretty active in my anime viewing, as well as writing up the occasional review for anything with enough meat to it where I can put something together. |
| Arrived on the last day of January at MAL and just got accepted in here a few minutes ago. Glad to be here. ---looking to chat it up with other anime fans across the board, but being an O.G. this place called to me. Name's Bronson but here I go by GRENDIZER_X99. Age 43.8 as of this posting, be 44 in April. Got into what was then called Japanimation in late 1991 (when it was Fan Subbed stuff and retail), though technically had been watching Anime since 1980 when I was two. GRENDIZER was first anime (albeit chopped up into 26 eps from 75), but going through it Subbed now in 2022. Basically HOKUTO NO KEN: The Movie, Super Natural Beast City [Wicked City], and Bubblegum Crisis Episode 2: Born to Kill got me hooked. Been a fan ever since. Named my daughter (all this in my profile too) Fyana after the Replicant like Perfect Soldier from Armored Trooper VOTOMS, who's 16 now and just finished that 1983 series a week ago with me [my all time fave mecha space opera]. Just a regular guy wirh too much time on his hands to watch anime again thanks to retiring from Private Contractor Security Force Protection work from 2006 to 2020 and then Covid Variable Era starting. Prolly be back in the work force soon, might even put the body armor back on and holster the Jericho 941 40 caliber, but I dunno. Kinda' enjoy not being stressed and stuff. Easy to talk to, and look forward to conversing with all of you. |
| Hi old fellas . I am 40 years old developer from Istanbul , an anime freak since 1997 . Hajimemashite minna-san :) |
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Kuri-cha said: Heyo, @Grendizer_ and @umie_dakara, and welcome to the club! Fyana is a beautiful name! That's gotta be a lot of fun reliving past favorites with your kids. And you're an anime *aficionado*, not a freak, umie. ;) Good to know :) I will change my profile aficinado many thanks. :) Also my real name is Deniz , meaning umie in japanese, sea in english :) |
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| Hey everyone! I'm 33 years old. I grew up watching Dragon Ball Z with my brother back when it was first airing on TV in America. Aside from that, I didn't really watch any other anime as a kid. Around 2014, I was browsing in Best Buy when I noticed some DBZ seasons on Blu-ray for sale. Bought them on a whim and I've been into anime ever since. Aside from watching anime, I really enjoying playing video games and reading books. I've never understood the concept of console wars. I'll play all kinds of games across all of the gaming consoles dating back to the NES. As far as books go, I tend to read a lot of young adult novels. |
| Hello there. I am 31 years old and I am from Germany. I grew up watching a lot of anime and it was kinda one of my "special interests" ever since. But it got slowed down quite a bit for the past 10 years or so. I only always looked up what's new in the current season and picked up maybe 1 or 2 anime if anything at all. However, I started to have more time since last year october again, so I've become more dedicated again towards watching anime and collecting manga. I did read a lot of manga, especially in the past ~~14 years. Mostly online. Like almost every morning after waking up for at least 30 minutes and every night before sleeping, as long as it took for me to get sleepy enough. Beside watching anime and reading manga, I also like playing videogames. I mainly played WoW in the past few years, but I got tired of it. It was hard finding suitable players for my group and we just stopped. So now I am more of a casual gamer and casually play with one or two of my friends if we find an enjoyable game. I am glad that I found some groups with people around my age and older. I tried some other groups and discordservers in the last few months, but in most cases people are more about half my age and I felt out of place. |
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Chiyomi said: I am glad that I found some groups with people around my age and older. I tried some other groups and discordservers in the last few months, but in most cases people are more about half my age and I felt out of place. Only half? I've got grand-nieces and nephews older than a lot of the people out there on the various groups. Mind you, I have a bunch of them that are younger too, but still.... To all of you folk's that are new to the club, WELCOME! I tried to send welcome notes to the new folk's, but I get forgetful on occasion (the second thing to go as you get older). |
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Hey all new people, I turned 33 in Jan so definitely feeling "old" these days haha! |
| Hi all, I'm a nearly-40 year old from the UK. Been on MAL for over a decade now but mostly had my head buried in the review section so took me a while to notice this club! I grew up in Asia on a diet of Robotech, Force Five, Ikkyuu-san, Doraemon etc. Didn't really become a conscious anime fan till the early 2000s when digital fansubs were taking off thanks to this thing called the "Internet". Started with Noir, Hellsing, Banner of the Stars etc. Was active on a site called animenfo (now defunct - anyone else remember that?) and to a much lesser extent anidb (site is still around I believe but I haven't used it for years). Reluctantly moved over to MAL when it was clear that animenfo was dying with little chance of resurrection. Not been watching much over the past 5 years or so, but trying to get back into the game. Looking forward to connecting people who (I'm assuming) watches more than just the latest thing that's still airing on crunchyroll :D |
kekekeKajMar 25, 2022 4:10 AM
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| @aremarf @kekekeKaj @luckiiiineko @Chiyomi @mandylorian @_Lycka_ @Grendizer_ @umie_dakara Warm welcome to all the new members and quick word to say we have a regular group watch here in Later Years and all welcome. We watch a variety of shows (you can see past shows we've watched in the discussion thread) and try to pick different genres as we go. A list of potential next watches are listed in the Interest Thread, all suggestions welcome, whether in our ptw list or not (we recently watched ACCA 13 which I'd never heard of and really enjoyed). We watch one episode per day but no pressure to post every day, we all have lives outside of anime which often come first. |
23feanorMay 18, 2022 4:53 AM
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| Thanks for the welcome. Ain't as active as I had been now that I'm "Outside The Domicile" Working again, usually 14hr days, but I'm still around. |
23feanor said: @aremarf @kekekeKaj @luckiiiineko @Chiyomi @mandylorian @_Lycka_ @Grendizer_ @umie_dakara Warm welcome to all the new members and quick word to say we have a regular group watch here in Later Years and all welcome. We watch a variety of shows (you can see past shows we've watched in the discussion thread) and try to pick different genres as we go. A list of potential next watches are listed in the Interest Thread, all suggestions welcome, whether in our ptw list or not (we recently watched ACCA 13 which I'd never heard of and really enjoyed). We watch one episode per day but no pressure to post every day, we all have lives outside of anime which often come first. Thanks 23featnor! I have seen the threads and do intend to take part at some point. Just a little busy at the moment with other things. |
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| Hi everyone, happy to introduce myself (thanks for having me!) My name is Arthur, I got into anime around 1994/95 with my first anime being Guyver. I am turning 34 this year, but I still enjoy anime and manga very much - even tho I had a couple of long breaks here and there. I guess my taste just kinda has changed over time (allergic to shounen nowadays). My all time favourite anime and manga is both Maison Ikkoku (mc = me irl lol), but strangely I sort of dislike other Takahashi works (Urusei Yatsura f.e.). Happy to be here and to get to know you all :) |
| Welcome to all the "new" members. A lot of people in the club aren't often "vocal" as like a lot of members they have "real world" things to attend to. Doesn't mean they are ignoring anyone, they're just busy. If I haven't sent a personal note welcoming the new members to The Club, it 's most likely that they aren't accepting messages from anyone but friends. |
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| Hello. I'm new to this group. I'm pretty old. (Gen X) Started off with popular stuff like Cowboy Bebop. But these days I'm binging on romance and slice of life. And I've recently branched out into manga. Glad to be here. |
| @23feanor Say, I Love You is only masquerading as a high school teen romance. The story is actually about bullying and ptsd, and includes subplots about stalking, sexual harassment, and eating disorders. The overall theme is trauma and recovery from bullying and peer pressure. The romance is just the plot device used to deal with these bigger themes. By the end of the anime, the main characters have grown and acheived some degree of recovery from past trauma, and together they help one another to move on in healthy ways. I would recommend it for teens, but almost everyone can identify with these characters and learn something from their struggles. And the romance is awesome too! |
OG_Otaku said: @23feanor Say, I Love You is only masquerading as a high school teen romance. The story is actually about bullying and ptsd, and includes subplots about stalking, sexual harassment, and eating disorders. The overall theme is trauma and recovery from bullying and peer pressure. So... pretty much your generic Slice-of-Life/School genre anime. |
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OrlahEhontas said: OG_Otaku said: @23feanor Say, I Love You is only masquerading as a high school teen romance. The story is actually about bullying and ptsd, and includes subplots about stalking, sexual harassment, and eating disorders. The overall theme is trauma and recovery from bullying and peer pressure. So... pretty much your generic Slice-of-Life/School genre anime. Yeah. Should've just said that. |
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