| I consider it very friendly in most cases. Their are debates regarding Casual vs Hardcore which applies to most fanbases. Even a retro vs modern conflict exists, but most people just recommend what they like instead of insulting the other side. |
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| Decent. Good enough for me to remain part of the community. |
| Well it's not as circlejerk as the gaming community, but not as free as say the soccer/football community |
 'On-Hold' is another way for a completionist to say 'Dropped' |
| I regret not getting onto the forums when I joined. This place is a lot more enjoyable than reddit. The amount of troll/serious topics and comments seem to be a good mix. Too bad the forums aren't as popular as they used to be. Everyone I meet who watches anime in real life or on the forum have been some of the best people I've met. People I've met through the bar culture ( big enough my city was named Beer City,USA) I can't relate to other than we both go to the same bar or both like cannabis. There's also a diverse group of people here all with different taste in anime but you can always find people with similar. |
| “The world is full of nice people. If you can't find one, be one.” ― Nishan Panwar 8=D ~ O: |
| Tbh it depends on where you are. I highly suggest you avoid the Series Discussion, I mean I've seen enough it's all the same. If person A disagree with person B they always go into rage mode (at least in popular series). At the same time, you have to deal with circle jerking positive or negative. This is why I avoid series discussion most of the time. However, compare to other communities this is better than the toku community where is nothing but postitive circle jerking (unless it's Ghost, Ninninger, Kyoryuger Brave then its the opposite). There's no person that disagree (or very little) |
GalacticMagnaJun 16, 2019 7:38 PM
| i heard gaming communities are more toxic so theres that |
HopefulNihilist said: I got this idea from a video Digibro made titled, "How do I REALLY Feel About The Anime Community": Where he also compares the anime community to other communities, and overall says that the anime community's been the best community he's been a part of. Based on what little experience I have with other communities, I think I agree: sure, plenty of members of the anime community are toxic, but compared to the rap forums I've seen on Genius threads, and the music community I talked to under Youtube comments (especially 2pac fans), I think the anime community is pretty cool. What are your guys' thoughts? All are annoying fucks. Not the anime community but the mal community at least. 90% of the users are immature and just awful. I hate this site so much but it's the only way I like to keep track of anime. |
| you're cool |
| A lot better than fans of certain tv shows and cartoons that I'll neither deny nor confirm being a fan of. |
HopefulNihilist said: SparkingVolt said: All are annoying fucks. Not the anime community but the mal community at least. 90% of the users are immature and just awful. I hate this site so much but it's the only way I like to keep track of anime. If you hate this site so much, why have I seen your participate in forums? I'm not trying to corner or argue with you; I am legitimately curious. It's fun to bring my self distress and pain. I enjoy getting upset |
| you're cool |
Captiaanuniverse said: SparkingVolt said: All are annoying fucks. Not the anime community but the mal community at least. 90% of the users are immature and just awful. I hate this site so much but it's the only way I like to keep track of anime. I'd expect some to at least be immature at times. That 90% on Mal are younger than me 98% are older than me and that's the sad part |
| you're cool |
| I mean, just like any community it really all depends on who you associate with. I'm pretty frequently on the forums, but I just avoid drama, and all the users I talk to on a regular basis are awesome people. Because of this, I'd say my opinion of the anime community is pretty good over all, but then again I just don't give the negative aspects (which are present within any community) enough energy to let them affect my outlook of it. |
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| I think its something between bad and toxic, theres some sense of superiority among those who have completed a lot of anime, and then there are those people who never learnt that other people have different tastes, plus the rivalries, just look at Rem and Emilia rivalry, its ok if you dont like both, but theres no reason to call one of them as trash |
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| Digibro is garbage so i'm not watching, but the community is basically the same as other communities, garbage. |
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| There are fewer people that are similar to me comparing to say, film people and literature people. For example, a lot of the shows I like is scored higher on imdb than on MAL. The way how criticism is done in anime community is in general pretty flat and boring. Even the best video essay about anime on youtube is made by a film critic. |
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| Most communities are quite similar to one another since people's behaviour do not change. We can always agree to disagree. No need to fight over things. Generally I don't bother that much. If I feel comfortable with a certain community, I stay. If not, I move on. |
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| Nah, Anime Community is bloodbath argument war full of retarded people and it's the main equivalent to politics discussion. I prefer Movie community and Gaming community over it because most people there are more critical thinkers. Huge majority on movie community agree each other that superhero movies are the lowest common denominator it's fun hating on superhero movies most of the time. Gaming community are the ultimate elitist especially PC masterrace people, all of them hate on EA, Activision and Bethesda, also they will roast you to death if you like Fortnite and Mobile Games. |
| Anime sucks, all of them are bad and that's a fact! |
| I don't honestly know since I never participated in other communities, but everything I know is that I hate this community with my whole heart. Like really, Im getting sick of it but sadly I can't stop be part of it. |
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| it's the same as any other community, toxic & some part's of it is not toxic |
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| its "eh" for me theres just WAY TOO MUCH whining about anime and certain types of fans as well as competitions to see who's more socially acceptable for my taste also, i don't find very many people i relate to, so that doesn't help :/ as i've said before, while i wouldn't go back, i definitely miss just watching anime and knowing NOTHING about the fandom |
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| i barely check out the forums, maybe once a month, i just mostly use the site to keep track of anime but one thing i noticed and dislike are the people who write reviews on ecchi wish-fulfillment anime or some simple shit like that and review it like it's some sort of Film for Intellectuals. They write in a weird way as if trying to sound smart and complain when the generic isekai anime they've watched lacked deep and profound stories, socio-political analogues, intricately woven characters or shit like that, in anime who's goal is to just make the average japanese salaryman otaku's depressing life less depressing, it's as if they don't know genres and tags exist. not every anime has to be psychological, a narrative masterpiece or some shit like that, just enjoy ecchi harem for what it is, if it's not your cup of tea then just move on instead of looking for things in an anime where it was never suppose to be in. some anime are just meant for you to flop down in bed and relax while seeing the MC have fun with fantasy shit and cute girls, if it fulfills that purpose well then good, but if it fails at being an ecchi-harem anime then you have all the right to rate it down because of that, it fails to meet it's main purpose, not because it doesn't contain elements you just prefer. but what also confuses me is those kinds of reviews are usually the ones with top votes?! then there's the people who has a mean score of 4.5 or something, they're usually the same people i mentioned above, i mean you don't seem to like anime at all, you rate a vast majority of it at 1-3 points so why bother wasting your time on them? why not just find some other hobby because it's pretty obvious anime isn't your thing? edit: sorry i got a little bit heated and ended up ranting there, i'm usually a chill guy maybe it's because i don't voice myself in the anime community all that often that i got like this, bottled emotions and all that jazz.. |
gh0strec0n141Jun 17, 2019 8:29 AM
EcchiGodMamster said: theres just WAY TOO MUCH whining about anime and certain types of fans as well as competitions to see who's more socially acceptable for my taste i think i know how you feel, they hate on anime just because it's targeted for a niche audience with a very peculiar taste, peculiar but not illegal mind you, like c'mon it's rated for teens and adults for a reason, it's not suppose to be watched by kids... |
| Not perfect, but I've made friends here, so I can't really complain. It's a lot better than video game forums. Video game forums are cancer. |
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| I'm sure it's great if you fall in line, actively keep your head down, and constantly avert your eyes to pretty much everything, or operate within a purely insular environment that tends to be based around like-minded people and blow that limited scope up to being representative of the entire anime fandom. Outside of that, I've found it more hostile and gatekeep-y than most fandoms I've been a part of and I don't know why I bother most of the time. It lives and dies by being paranoid of being judged for liking anime or being thought of as weird. "Who can I point the finger at for that one guy who made fun of my anime avatar on a YT comment section that one time?" Ecchi fans are why anime fans have a bad name. No, it's really the fujos and the shippers. No, it's the elitists. No, it's the casuals. No, it's the younger audience. It's the super-owo moe fans. It's the shounen keyboard warriors. Compounding that prevalent behavior alongside the generally strong desire to prove anime's values to non-fans and the ostensible constant fear of being judged that seems to be omnipresent in this fandom, I think it's set itself up to be quite toxic internally and has a very hammer-nails-down culture to it compared to even other toxic fandoms I've been in. It's just too fragmented to properly maintain a hammer-down-nails culture to it, so it ends up being a toxic shitfest of a bunch of different people trying to hammer each other down. Also, I feel like this is mirrored in the extremely self-depricating meme culture this fandom has. Not abiding by the "LEL LOOK AT WHAT A FUCKING NEET LOSER I AM ANIME IS A MISTAKE HAYAO MIYAZAKI" cancer feels like it draws weird looks more than anything, even if you're not specifically making an issue of those types of memes like I am here and are just not going to make fun of yourself for liking something and will carry yourself like so. The lack of willingness to not act self-loathing towards themselves and the medium or have some semblance of pride in liking something disgusts me. It feels like a fucked up, far less cool version of SLC Punk. Probably would've killed my own activity on this site a while back if I didn't run a large MAL Club/Discord Server extending from said MAL Club that, as opposed to AD, I do actually like the community for and want to be around. |
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| the larger the community, the more likely you are to find people with strong opinions you disagree with, as well as those who arent able to communicate with others in a mature manner. |
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| It depends on where you look. Some communities have much more toxic people like the DitF fandom, but generally it's quite friendly. |
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HopefulNihilist said: CHC said: There are fewer people that are similar to me comparing to say, film people and literature people. For example, a lot of the shows I like is scored higher on imdb than on MAL. The way how criticism is done in anime community is in general pretty flat and boring. Even the best video essay about anime on youtube is made by a film critic. Interesting. Why do you feel as though the way the anime community criticizes is boring? I watched the video you linked, and the way it analyzes Satoshi Kon's work is exactly the same way I've seen other anitubers analyze anime. Who are those anitubers? I mean, I have seen some videos from people who do formal analysis like Replay Value and Under The Scope, whose effort I do appreciate, but to be honest what they do as not nearly as good as Tony Zhou, in terms of editing, writing, and the actual idea itself. Almost none of their video has made any point that could stay in my mind more than a few minutes. Whereas Zhou's video on Kon to some extent reshaped my understanding of Kon's entire filmography, because he pointed directly to the heart of Kon's style. And Tony Zhou himself isn't even amongst the best film analysts out there (even though he is probably the best on youtube). Film scholars like David Bordwell are often a lot more insightful and rigorous than Zhou. So if we are comparing the standard between anime criticism and film criticism, it's hard to say they are on the same par. As for literary criticism, it's even on a completely different level. Eg. Hegel and Nietzsche on Greek tragedies, Lukács on Goethe and Dostoevsky, Frye on Blake, etc. Those are highly original studies that can have big impact on the humanities. I'm not saying anitubers should be groundbreaking thinkers, but I just don't see traces that may suggest they're trying to learn from the best critics rather than just other youtubers. I don't blame them for that either. The required amount of study will take up too much time for them to make a living on youtube. I'm just saying that personally I find most anime criticism uninspiring and forgettable. |
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| Anime community is the most welcoming place that I was a part off. People who constantly complain about anime community being toxic should look at gaming community instead now that a toxic community. Don't believe me look no further then any dark souls/Sekiro subreddit or forum. |
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gh0strec0n141 said: EcchiGodMamster said: theres just WAY TOO MUCH whining about anime and certain types of fans as well as competitions to see who's more socially acceptable for my taste i think i know how you feel, they hate on anime just because it's targeted for a niche audience with a very peculiar taste, peculiar but not illegal mind you, like c'mon it's rated for teens and adults for a reason, it's not suppose to be watched by kids... Well especially in this day and age if something doesnt fit the western status quo then people are guaranteed to claim it's a problem... not that it hasn't always been that way But that's exactly what makes anime so appealing in the first place |
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i really like pause and select, one of the few anime reviewers i'm subscribed to, it's great that he makes videos on a wide range of anime related topis, even the moe, harem and isekai stuff, not just the highbrow anime like most youtubers of his type, shame he only has very few subscribers. |
| You mean the Western side of the so called anime community? |
Please learn about cel animation and its technical process. Learn how special effects and backlighting were done without computers. |
| I would at least like to say it's as good as most other communities, but I'm not sure if this is the case. Certainly it depends on how you interact with the community, a lot of us here probably mostly through internet, this forum in particular maybe, and if so, it's pretty shit. And sadly, this is the case for most of internet communities, but at times I feel anime one is particularly bad. Then again, anime is my main hobby and I've probably spent more time here than all other boards together, so my perception might be skewed, but damn, it's pretty bad. People can be so damn immature about the whole thing, and it goes both ways. There are people getting offended and throwing fits if you dare to dislike a show they like or that you don't believe it being the best thing ever is a fact. And the opposite side of the spectrum with people that instead of just criticizng thing they dislike will go and actively belittle people for liking it, make accusations about them and stuff like that. Like a simple action show? You're a kid, an idiot, "easily entertained". An ecchi show? "sexually frustrated" "loser". A more complicated/"deep" show? Elitist, pretentious, hater or whatever. Honestly how can you be so insecure? A week or two ago there even was a retard throwing a week accusing people of beind pedophiles around here. Honestly, the whole thing is just so stupid, childish, and at times even disgusting with how seriously people go with it. And that is not to say it this thing never happens anywhere else, but it's certainly not to this extent. As I said, I'm not much around these communities, but I have yet to see people trying to do connect person's taste in computer games to their intelligence, you can safely admit to playing a simple mindless game and not be made fun of. Maybe they can understand that people just like easy to consume, mindless stuff as well and you're no better for wasting your time on fucking starcraft instead. You won't be accused of being a murderer for playing GTA either... IDK. There are some great people you can have lovely discussions with, but often items it's just a shithole. Internet is a toxic place. ganomed said: Smarter in general but more cringy, especially those 20+ dudes who like moeshit and have cute girls in their avatar/profiles, they're disgusting. yeah what I talked about even in this thread people can't stop themselves from being toxic and sad |
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| Aside from the people who curb their beliefs based on the rest of the community's beliefs, it's alright. The one thing that's always bothered me is when I see people taking the piss out of their ratings by rating something low because of the amount of "hype" a show gets or how well it's rated on the site. It's fine for you to think something is just okay when other people think t's great. You don't need to set out on your own crusade to let everyone know how shit you think it is when you're really just an insecure fuck who has convinced them self it's shit because other people like it more than you do. It gets under my skin when I see someone say a show is over hyped. Like how the fuck do you measure the appropriate amount of hype? What the fuck do you want from other people or the show? Are you really such an insufferable retard that you need to say shit like that to feel better about yourself? You get shows all the time that stray from the norm and have merit to them which attracts a lot of viewers, but you, the cynical asshole, need to make it your prerogative to piss all over it and throw around your self-important, self-serving and, primarily, egocentric half-cocked criticisms just because you're so miserable that you can't just sit back and allow people to enjoy something that you don't. It's like going on a picnic where everyone is having fun but because you're not having as much fun as them, you decide to stomp on the food everyone brought just so you can be the center of attention. It's pathetic. |
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