This thread is for discussing anime during the oldfag era of /a/: 2003 - 2009. What was your best experience watching an anime with /a/?

I'm a newfag so Toradora was the first I watched with /a/, IIRC. It was fun because of old fashioned sub waits and the fact we were mostly dumb teenager to early 20s. I had a comfy battlestation in my room and spent 10hrs a day on /a/. There were no real generals then so the whole board felt like one living cesspit.

But when I was lurking previous to that the entire board was FULL of chode goose. Like every thread was spinzaku spam and shit. That was something else.

>>279709243
>Code Gayass
We'll never get fabulous back

/a/ was best at night

>>279709933
We're never going back, are we?

>>279709933
>be me an English major
>need to read a 400 page book
>read over 400 pages of 4chan posts instead
Many such cases. How I graduated from college is beyond me

>>279709054 (OP)
when I first joined I watched very little cgdct and was immediately told to fuck off until I had finished Azumanga Daioh. fantastic show, Sakaki-san was such a cutie. From then to color wars, hsotd, and amagami what a rollercoaster.
>>279709557
>>279710019
have to make more fabulous times !

I watched Endless Eight with /a/ as it was airing and it brainrotted me before brainrot. Can't believe I'm still here.

The death note finale was the first sticky I posted in.

>>279709054 (OP)
>watching an anime with /a/
I always felt this was an enormous mistake and attracted the worst newfags honestly

>>279710909
I had forgotten this.

>>279710493
I still have a screencap of the thread where /a/ found out what Endless 8 would be.

>>279709054 (OP)
I missed that. I'm a newfag and I came here in late 2008, but I was completely new to anime so I was just lurking and checking out threads of older shows. I was only watching older stuff that was on those "before you make a recommendation thread, watch these" etc images that were floating around. By 2010 I started watching shows with /a/. Waiting for the last episodes of Bakemonogatari, Katanagatari, Heartcatch Precure, Strike Witches S2, Amagami, Angel Beats and the Haruhi movie are some of the memorable stuff that come to mind.

>>279709054 (OP)
started browsing in 2008 so technically a newfag. lurked till the Spice and Wolf threads, then went back to lurking till TWGOK threads, then went back to lurking till 5toubun threads then went back to lurking. I mostly lurk /k/ nowadays

>>279714858
>What was your best experience watching an anime with /a/?
forgot to add, I usually don't care for anime, but the days of JIBUUUN WOOOOOO were great. Also the groupwatchs for the Lupin movies

How old are you people? Why do you consider yourselves newfags when you joined in 2008? I joined in 2023 and I don't even consider myself one

>>279709243
Post battlestation pls

>>279714951
>I joined in 2023 and I don't even consider myself one
I began lurking in 2021. You and I will always be newfags

>>279714951
>I joined in 2023 and I don't even consider myself one
You are and you should.

>>279709054 (OP)
Sora no Woto was the first anime where I actively followed the threads on /a/. Looking back, anons may have been reading a bit much into the show's world-building, but it sure did make the watching experience a lot more fun. Shame the subsequent shows in the Anime no Chikara timeslot couldn't match Sora no Woto in terms of interest.

>>279709054 (OP)
GAR thread

>>279714951
I joined in 2004. You need to lurk moar.

>>279709054 (OP)
oh god, is this the thread where people chase nostalgia and circlejerk over using a website 20 years ago to avoid confronting their complete lack of identity
i guess this is just a facet of that thing people have where they like to feel more important over banal shit like taste in coffee, music, steaks, etc. you know exactly what im talking about.
isnt it about time you grew out of this

>>279714951
It's about being humble, I'm a cancer newfag that joined around 2010 because of le epic hax0rs.
Sure I've been here a while and know the memes, but my joining probably brought the quality down. I mostly lurked tho, as they used to say "lurk for about 4 more years before posting".

>>279715224
And yet here you are.

>>279714951
I've been here since 2018 and Im still a super Newfag, wait another decade before claiming you're not.

>>279715220
2006 reporting in, still here (forever)

>>279715224
>You don't get it, blogposting is good because it's just people having fun :^)
>Stop looking back, grandpa, and get with the times :^)

>>279715083
I remember the SAIMOE and SAIGAR threads. fun times.

>>279715224
I post on this place less and less honestly and have started using other sites more. People get really butthurt when I tell them I've been here since 2005.

>>279715220
I can't remember if I came here before 2006, but I distinctly remember browsing /v/ and discussing the Sony 2006 E3 presentation and pre-release Sonic 06 videos.

>>279709054 (OP)
Nothing will top those last 3 episodes. Fucking King Kittan nearly broke it alone, not to mention Viral's dream

>>279715220
2010 here off the heels of higschool but I’ve lurked here from time to time before that because of stuff I’d hear about /b/, back when /b/ was interesting.

I'm a 2013 reddit newfag scum, but I still miss the Naruto bans, the authenticity of the memes, the eloquence in the anon posts I'd read at the time.

It's all so plastic now. Not completely, but definitely incomparable to 10 years back.

>>279714951
I've been here since 2006.

>>279710990
Nah, watching 00, Macross (both with /m/and /a/), Geass, and K-on!, etc was fun. The live threads were some of the best

>>279714951
I'm 36. I started going to 4chan around 2006. I didn't start significantly posting until late 2007

>>279714951

>20 years on one website

I usually try to mention this when these threads pop up, but does anyone else remember the Bokusatsu drunk animesong radio threads? God those were good times. I still remember when he passed out live and there was like 20 minutes of dead silence.

>>279715538
what websites do you use anon? Genuinely looking for a way out and places to talk about anime and literature, which seem to be the only two things keeping me off suicide at this point. I hate doing it here though

>>279709054 (OP)
Natsukashii ne...

>>279709054 (OP)
Spoiling Mai-HiME for people. Stay mad people.

>>279709054 (OP)
>anime during the oldfag era of /a/: 2003 - 2009
The anime watching experience can be summed up in one word: Otakucore

>>279716091
Yep. I never really participated in them, but they were comfy whenever I did

I drew this back in the day when I was active on here but never posted it.

>>279717064
>Lain
>Tortov Roddle
>Boring

>>279714951
32, began lurking in 2008

>>279716176
This is a good place to get dolphin porn.
https://0x2hub.w10.site/

>>279714951
>joined in 2023 and I don't even consider myself one
You should not even be posting yet.

>>279715255
That's not the gotcha you think it is you failed piece of shit

>>279717545
And yet you came back and replied.

Are you really all grownups 30+ yo browsing this site? Do you have a family and kids? I can't see myself browsing this site if I have kids or if i'm that old

>>279718159
34, no kids. Started here in 2006 but stopped regularly coming in 2011. I just like the Tower Dungeon threads nowadays and lurk occasionally to get a feel for the current state of things. Age doesn't stop you from enjoying your hobbies/interests. I'll always read manga and I think anonymous images boards are very valuable in today's internet.

>>279718159
I don't go on /a/ even 1/10 as much as I did 20 years ago, especially due to the ever increasing lifespan of threads on here. But really what alternatives are there. Am I supposed to go on /r/anime, MALforums or some discord group? Nigga please

>>279718295
>I'll always read manga and I think anonymous images boards are very valuable in today's internet.
Do you discuss manga anywhere else? I've found discussion here is pretty much the same as various manga sites, but narrower.

>>279718721
>Am I supposed to go on /r/anime, MALforums or some discord group?
I mean yeah why not? If you really like an ongoing manga why not join the discord for it, not like you lose anything by being in it

>>279716176
>what websites do you use anon
For casual discussion whatever manga piracy site happens to be the most popular. At the moment that's weebcentral.

>>279714951
I was just looking for people talking about old robot anime and SRW, that got me on /m/ back in 2009. And it's mostly Gundam lol. Moved to /a/ in 2010 because of Oreimo

>>279714951
22. Started browsing in 2019. You are a newfag unless you were here in 2007.

>>279717772
Not even the original guy
Ever think about taking that big dildo out of your ass someday?

>>279718721
you're supposed to make IRL friends

>>279719523
Doesn't exist in 2025

>>279709933
>>279710019
Damn. You totally unlocked that memory for me.

I still use watashi wa kira dess from time to time

>>279719574
skill issue

>>279715943
>It's all so plastic now
Unfortunately it looks like the future of /a/ is the same as all other boards: A slew of janny curated generals with the rest of the board being off topic discussion and shitposting. They've been trying to really push this hard lately, there's all sorts of off topic multiple day old threads frequently, there's an off topic /tv/ thread right now. I think 4chan is just going to be some fake and gay ghost of itself going forward.

>>279719435
And yet...

>>279714951
>How old are you people?
47 years young.
started browsing in the hot summer of 2004

>>279710019
of course not. For as much as people whine about how things are different, nobody is willing to actually post the way they are nostalgic for and contribute to the kinds of threads they miss. they just want everyone else to do that for them while they lurk. so nothing changes

>>279720864
The leadership was a lot different back then, difficult to put in the effort when the moderation has an active disdain for all things otaku.

>>279720864
When every thread is goofing around and shitposting there's no room for actual fun threads. Can't let loose when everything is so awfully shit here.

>>279720283
Unfortunately the only people with time to burn being a janny are mentally broken NEETs that spend their entire lives online, so ofc you're gonna get blogposting generals, they need someone to talk to.

>>279720709
それでも

>>279709054 (OP)
I miss ragefaces, fuck I miss Cuánto Cabrón

>>279718295
>>279718721
Not a diss or anything, it's just that it's very common to have people start insulting you and being toxic in conversations here (which is understandable since tons of people here have shitty lives and are frustrated also are anonymous) and with getting older and everything I don't think I'd be as tolerant to that as I am now. Also it's not really a good site to browse if you have kids since the place really isn't kids friendly. I don't know if the alternatives (twitter / reddit / discord / tiktok) are any better though.

>>279720791
>47 years young.
damn
how many kids do you have

>>279715220
I came just in time to see the collapse a year later in 2013. Holy fuck how did I stay here for so long? Not even the 15 minute timer and AI spam got me to quit completely.

>>279709054 (OP)
>Open thread
>Only one oldfag file
To this day /v/ is the only board that can gatekeep.
Why is /a/ such a fucking wasteland?

It's insane how lax the moderation is now and how much ironic shitposting you can get away with.

>>279722579
Fair and valid. The older I get the less I care about the inflammatory discourse. It conveys a feeling/opinion in its most raw form (often hidden behind layers of irony). Reddit and Twitter are definitely more "civilized" but I hate the sort of ad hominim arguments attacking people for their profile or previous posts.

>>279709054 (OP)
Rate me

I do wonder how many people remember Haruhi these days

>>279718159
I am happily married, have a daughter, and a second kid on the way.

>>279723562
Congratz anon
Keep your child away from this place though

>>279714951
I'm 30 now and first browsed here in 2006

>>279723104
what I love about 4chan is being able to discuss on real time, it realaly feels like a convo unlike reddit or twitter where you just look at comments most of the time
discord is sort of like that but eh it's a bit weird and feels closened
also reddit way too much lgbt and wokeshit, if it's a little bit I might tolerate it but not to this point

>>279723104
>I hate the sort of ad hominim arguments attacking people for their profile or previous posts.
It would really be helpful to know the person attempting to argue with me thinks bleach is good. I would not engage with that person at all.

>>279723104
if your motives are compromised your argument is invalid since you're just using rhetoric to push an agenda and can't be reasoned with

>>279710909
Corm girl no!