anime and irl friends

do you have people who you regularly talk to about anime or watch anime with irl?

it’s very much an internet only thing for me

I have a brother, three children, and several nieces and nephews who are anime fans to varying degrees, and with whom we have conversations from time to time. But the vast majority of my anime conversations are online.

I have a few people that I talk about anime with, but I pretty much watch anime alone.
I've shown the occasional first episode of an anime to friends if my basic description of it seemed kinda interesting to them.

People around me aren't really into anime so no, I mostly discuss anime online.

Yeah quite a few people actually irl, ofc the majority of times when i talk about anime's online but i often talk with friends/people from school

It's internet-only with me too. Although I knew of people who watched anime while I was going to school. I remember one time while I was in university, someone invited me to watch Naruto: The Last in their room.

I have a buddy who used to be my roomate for a year with whom I text about anime quite a bit and now about Genshin as I had 2.5 year break while he hasn't stopped playing it so for me everything is new x).

Outside him there is one buddy with whom I talk ocasionally about anime, right now more rarely as we have different specialties so we ain't meeting that much during/after university subjects, at previous semester there wasn't any specialties decision and he rents a room not that far away so we were walking to our hourses at the same direction so sometimes I just shared some info about seasonals as he rarely checks them out.

Yer, I have quite a few friends who watch, some more, some less then me.
Even sometimes watch shows together either in person or though Discord or something like that.

No I only have these forums to talk about anime

I dont think you should be even allowed to talk about animes if you have irl- friends because you are obviously a casual and your opinion doesnt matter.

My nephew still likes Pokémon, but I'm the only person I know who likes Anime.

In the beginning I guess 'kind of' as got into it myself after seeing friends into it and browsed my own shows and have seen then. These days it's a case of sure I have a online friend to talk about it with but otherwise I'm pretty much a only engage in the medium myself type really IRL. So myself and online (Discord, YT or MAL).

Otherwise always been a gamer going deep and gone deeper with it, anime (manga, visual novels also) and EDM music the past few years 2014+ so always a researcher, aiming for veteran then casual with these mediums.

Other than that your JRPG/look over at anime type conversations. Or walking into a book store you get that your looking at the manga, at the counter after picking something out and some bit of talking about what I'm buying but that's about it their not familiar with it so I don't bother while one seemed to be open to more notable stuff most in the store (notable manga or notable anime seasonal) seem pretty normal.

Nah… think I used to have to but not anymore

what do you mean? (30 character limit)

If you waste your time with irl-friends instead of watching anime your opinion is meaningless.

hmm 🤔🤔 that's not the most right thing to say

No, i have no one to talk with about anime in my immediate vicinity.

There are 2 people actually!!!

Im not sure if the first one is a casual since i only talk about One Piece with this person!!!

The other is a female who is actually a much more hardcore weeb than i am & we watch quite a number of anime together back then!!!
We still talk about anime often for like a few years now!!!
Infact, we watch each others recommendations!!!

I watch anime movies in theaters with friends. Sometimes series too, but I prefer to watch it alone. 

Only online and i rather keep it that way.

Nope. I’m completely in the closet about anime. If people knew I watched anime, it would clash quite a bit with the type of person I’m perceived as - the workaholic who has a million things their working on at once who has zero knowledge of pop culture

Mostly watch anime by myself, although my bros and irl friends do watch anime, I prefer keeping it to myself.

Most people i know IRL either know nothing about anime, hate anime or only know of the typical stuff like DBZ and Pokemon.

Basically just one. I don't have many friends who likes anime.

I have anxiety, because I have no one to talk with about anime, in real life. I would be overjoyed if I had someone like that.

I have someone but she's as annoying as mal forums users

all of my friends i talk to regularly nowadays watch anime except 2

Many of my friends watch anime but most of them only watch anime that are very popular. If we talk about the ones who are really fans then I have three of them, two of them were already anime fans before me and one became an anime fan because of me.

Even though they all like different genres from me, I still often talk about anime and manga with them until now, and we still like to give each other recommendations, or ask each other "what anime are you watching this season?"

I'm grateful for that because I'm the type who likes to talk about what I like with others, so it really makes me happy when I have friends who share the same hobbies. ;D

As for watching it would be my mom, actually. I have a friend who like/watches anime but me and him often disagree about most things as well as just don't have the same interest in shows as well.

But the nightmare between both of these people is that my mom barely has anything to say/react to when or after watching an anime. Usually, it's always a reserved/softly spoken "eh, I didn't think it was that great. but Whatever" or "I liked it"

And my friend will talk more, but we generally don't have that long of conversations about anime.

very surface level stuff or people are interested in completely different genres, so it turns out even i find sb who used to watch stuff i cant just nerd out about the things i personally enjoy
people are usually into like whatevers on netflix or like the most popular and critically acclaimed stuff

I don't want any real life Friends.. They always Gaslights You, they Don't Respect Your Boundaries,they Never Reach Out To You, they don't Respect Your Time, they're Only Your Friend When It's Convenient for them, when it Benefits them, When They Need Something, they Violate Your Trust, Invalidate Your Feelings... Friends these days and age are toxic, poisonous, monsters...

I Don't need any real life friends and. I'm so glad I don't and I get to do everything I want, I've the freedom to do anything I want to.. Like watching anime for 18 hours...

That's why I joined Mal..
I should have joined like 15 years ago..

Bruh it's better to ring call girls and chill than hang with hoes like this..

It wasn't a mistake... I have been there and done that.. So I understood what you meant. I too used to belong to the high society..
but I realized what I explained in my earlier post ..
I have turned my back on these scumbags...

I have some people to talk with but almost all of them almost exclusively watch shounen shit. I haven't found anyone irl who has the same or higher power level compared to me.

I have two people I watch anime with witch is half the anime I watch and a bit more to talk about it, both irl or online.

yes. most of my friends watch anime and we talk about anime almost daily. my cousins watch anime too but i rarely talk to them. i have a few online friends too with whom i talk about animes.

Even here on MAL, you still have to jump through hoops, to get someone to chat with. Even the so called friends on this website, aren't really all that eager to talk about anime. At least I haven't met anyone like that. Maybe I'm to blame, don't know what I did, if knew I'd try to improve.

I have two friends who are into anime and manga. However we did not talk much about it, since both of them have other interests as well.


Sameer is more into tech, video games and philosophy, so we mostly do this.


Tsukasa is more into travel, booze and fashion. He likes shogi and traditional Japanese stuff. The kind of guy who would vote for Initiatives from Osaka party.

Nowadays the only person irl who I talked to about anime are just my brother who got me into anime in the first place. Granted our tastes are different but we're still willing to listen to each other about the things we like and I think that's pretty nice.

I meant it's better than nothing..

I know what you mean...but I laugh it off when I get anxious and think anxiety will turn into panic attacks if I didn't have anime..

Yes, I do my brother watches anime and one of my friends, but I hate talking to that friend about anime, because his taste is trash.

It just isn't enough, I wanna cry. I'm telling you I'm gonna pay for that overpriced ticket, go to an anime event and f***ing chat with someone. Who knows, I might even be able to befriend somebody. Just the thought of approaching someone is terrifying, how desperate and lonely am I for f**k's sake.

Almost all my friends have ever watched/read mangas, and a lot of people I know of my age too,
it's very usual and common, it's less rare than you think

hmm there is a lot of the time that people go like: "so it's a cartoon 😂😂😂 why are you watching cartoons you are not young at all...."
and am like.... anime has sadist killers, blood all over the place, and i can keep going.... (if you say something about pedophilia in anime, they might say: this person watches pedophile stuff, what is wrong with them???) (or you bring up hentai: "so that's why you watch these <anime>" or "this man watches cartoon porn😂😂😂"
now i will talk about western animation (these are my opinions not other people's that will judge you for cartoons)
also about a cartoon... RICK AND MORTY IS FOR KIDS????
and what if something is for kids?? if it's something that you love and enjoy who cares about what age it's intended to,
still to this day i watch SpongeBob all the time, like i couldn't care less

aww that’s so sweet even just from time to time I’d love to have family who watched and chatted about anime 

I recently got my parents to watch into the spider-verse which was maybe a step towards one day enjoying anime as my mom thinks anything animated is for children but she loved that movie so who knows 

also I gave my brother in law my Crunchyroll log in so I’m hoping he gets back into anime as he used to watch it before he joined the family lol

once I make local friends in Ireland I’ll probably go down this route, like make a suggestion based on their interests 

I never watched or chatted anime with even my longtime friends in the U.S. 
it seems like a nice mutual interest to have 

same, a lot of them think anime is kinda weird lol

also, side note, I started watched Kanon last night and noticed your icon 
gives me a nudge to keep watching as the first episode didn’t draw me in but now I’m curious! 

that sounds like a lot of fun you’re lucky! 

I’m a huge quality time type of person so watching stuff with others is always so nice 
hope you continue to enjoy anime with your friends!

sometimes I’ve noticed older generations don’t have the tendency to have big reactions to things even when they really enjoy them

your mom taking time to watch anime with you is actually so wholesome and I’m sure the time y’all spend together doing so makes her happy 

I know it can be aggravating sometimes tho, I’ve been watching last of us with my parents and when something crazy happens the episode ends and they’re like well I’ll look forward to next week and that’s it lol

or my nana meets me out for a movie cuz she loves the movies but when it’s done she just says thanks for meeting me bye and I’m like wait what did you think about the movie haha