Why does /a/ hate moe now?

>>280195622 (OP)
they did early on too, newfag.

They think it will make you transsexual.

>>280195622 (OP)
We don't. Hibimeshi was one of the most popular anime of last season here.

Only retards hate moe and it's not a new thing.

>>280195622 (OP)
malformed amygdalas

childhood is thinking that cool fights are the only thing that matters
then the teenage angst kicks in and you cast that aside to exclusively watch and read serious and deep anime and manga to show everyone how mature you are
then you get sick of that and jump to cgdct to rebel against the pretentiousness of your mid to late teenage years
and then you fully mature and realize that sick battles really are cool as hell and preteen you had it figured out

>>280195869
You forgot the option of all them coexisting. And don't forget the lewds too.

>>280195869
>and then you fully mature and realize that sick battles really are cool as hell and preteen you had it figured out
What? No. You learn to appreciate all of them.

>>280195869
No, akschually watching sitcoms all day is maturing

>>280195869
No, when you fully mature, you just watch everything.

>>280195622 (OP)
According to reddit moe is a dead term in Jap zoomer lingo.

>>280195869
When you fully mature you stop watching anime, period.

>>280196440
Good. It was a shit term to begin with.

>>280196473
I refuse to accept that.

>>280195869
>and then you fully mature and realize that sick battles really are cool as hell and preteen you had it figured out
Yeah but I still watch moeshit.

Moe is like Mecha, it's an old flavor.
They should make a ossified nostalgiafag board for it just like /m/.

>>280195622 (OP)
no idea

>>280196562
It's not. There are many moe series every season. It's not like /m/ where they only have Gundam occasionally. Also I had a lot of fun shitposting in GQuuuuuuX threads last season.

Now?

>>280195869
Fucking this.

>>280195652
>/b/ fags think they can control history now
nah, fuck off

>>280195869
>childhood is thinking that cool fights are the only thing that matters
Childhood is watching hentai. Then I started watching other crap.

anons were crying about moe in 2014. it's always been this way

moe is life lets spread moe
kyuuun

Zoomers don't have souls.

>>280195869
>Can't watch more than one genre
you're still green

>>280198266
Shounenslop takes a lot of time when every show is like 6 seasons.

Who told you we hate moe?
This board was founded on it

the only people who hate moe are zoomers who are convinced its "pedoslop" or whatever. which it is, but thats certainly no reason to hate it.

>>280195622 (OP)
I hate nu-moetards

>>280195869
Accurate, but the phases overlap:
>discover mainstream anime and worship either DBZ or Pokémon as a little boy
>have a commercial kiddie shonen phase (Yugioh, Digimon, etc)
>enter & worship One Piece and/or Naruto as a preteen, and start identifying with anime
>maybe entertain Sailor Moon, InuYasha, Bleach, TTGL, Fairy Tail, and/or My Hero Academia
(enter early teenhood)
>discover & worship Death Note, Code Geass, Shingeki no Kyojin, and Maybe SAO
>get into anime communities and initiated into proper weebdom
>pick up the romcoms (Clannad, Toradora) and the lewds (HsotD, DxD)
>pick up the edgies (Hellsing, Mirai Nikki) and the snob classics (HxH, FMA, St;G)
>have a phase of being tsundere towards battle shonen that aren't HxH
(enter late teenhood)
>get let down by shonen anime and convert to shonen manga, which gets you into manga in general
>start picking up the Real ones (Ghibli, Evangelion, Bebop, Mushishi, Kaiji, Abyss, Devilman, Vinland) and the avant-gardes (Lain, Yuasa, Shaft)
>husband & daddy instincts kick in, and suddenly you LOVE moe content (Takahashi, Sailor Moon, Azumanga, KyoAni, Yuru Camp)
(enter adulthood)
>pick up more of the real ones and avant-gardes (Akira, LoGH, Berserk, Oshii movies, Kon movies, Monster)
>reach brain maturity and casually reevaluate everything
>wtf Cel mogs digital, wtf Moe is holy, wtf Where was YYH when I was 12, wtf Miyazaki was right, wtf One Piece is smart, wtf KLK is a masterpiece, etc
>pick up and appreciate the remaining non-edgy classics (oldies, '80s classics, '90s classics, movies, etc)

after mobileposting became popular, lots of thirld worlders started to post on 4chan
and here we are now

>>280195622 (OP)
>now
Lucky Star and k-on and the entire moeshit genre sucks. I hated it back then too

>>280195622 (OP)
only the shitposters

>>280195869
Spot on
I'm in my 30s and if I try watching some pseud garbage it takes me like an hour of constant pausing to get through a 20 minute episode, but I can watch like 5 episodes of shounenshit back to back
Literally just put cool and flashy fights on screen nothing else matters in anime

>>280195869
I'm 36 and I only watch romance dramas these days

>infantilised old men have regressed back into liking shounen tripe and are happy about it too
Lol

>>280196562
>Moe
>Old

>>280195622 (OP)
>Now
We have always hated moeshit, that and shonentards have always been the cancer of anime

>>280195869
>childhood is thinking that cool fights are the only thing that matters
Dragon Ball Z, Berserk, Naruto
>then the teenage angst kicks in and you cast that aside to exclusively watch and read serious and deep anime and manga to show everyone how mature you are
Trigun, Gantz, Elfen Lied, Evangelion
>then you get sick of that and jump to cgdct to rebel against the pretentiousness of your mid to late teenage years
Lucky Star, K-On, Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid
>and then you fully mature and realize that sick battles really are cool as hell and preteen you had it figured out
One Piece

>>280200503
>real ones and avant-gardes (Akira, LoGH, Berserk, Oshii movies, Kon movies, Monster)
you basic bitchass lol

>>280195622 (OP)
moefags ruined moe

>>280195869
When you mature you make the anime you want to watch

>>280202276
>KyoAni? Wow, what a terrible name for a studio. It reminds me of that tragedy.

>>280201860
>>280200503
Imagine how boring and dead /a/ would be if this was the prevailing belief here. Not a single person would ever post here. The board would be completely dead and the laughing stock of the entire internet.

>>280202404
thankfully the board is alive (and the laughing stock of the internet)

>>280200503
>pick up more of the real ones and avant-gardes (Akira, LoGH, Berserk,

>>280202172
>>280202404
>>280202655
Samefag detected

>>280196562
They should just kill off /m/ and turn it into /retro/

"moe" is an outdated old man word in modern japan.

>>280197294
As far as I can remember, the GAR polls were in part a response to moeblobs increasing in number, so the waters were fairly devided for a while.

>>280195622 (OP)
/a/ is a dead shitty board now. I can't think of a single place that's worse for discussing anime and manga. Not a single one. It's really sad what happened to this place, all over the internet people used to say things like
>/a/ is full of assholes but they really know their stuff
Now no one knows what they're talking about and /a/ is a bunch of shitty generals. You'll actually learn about things like manga 100x slower here than anywhere else because discussion is held complerely hostage by dailies and storytimes made by people who literally pay for a pass to have the privelage of enforcing their shit taste over everyone, and there's about huge gap in /a/'s knowledge of anime, where everyone who cared about anime made in the last 2 decades left and even /a/ favorites are forgotten and maligned in favor of awful /v/ and /b/ shit like TTGL. Literally what is the point of this place now? To have generals on jumpshit for people who are so vile the rest of the internet banned them?

>>280202329
Man, I wish. There's an indie animator who is doing exactly that, even though he's still in his twenties, and I look up to him so much (our tastes significantly overlapping plays a part in it). Genuinely passionate to single-handedly make half-hour movies and episodes.
And yet here I am, not even able to write a simple VN or RPGM game catered to my own tastes.

>>280195622 (OP)
90% of the posts here are made by bots and trolls, nobody likes anything here, you can't discuss anime here, the few humans left are constantly ironic and can only make jokes or are /pol/tards tourists, this place is dying

>>280203067
Where is this "anywhere else" though? You can't have serious anime discussions on Twitter, reddit only really watches the popular shows, there aren't really any old-school forums left. Private friend group discords?

>>280203229
>And yet here I am, not even able to write a simple VN or RPGM game catered to my own tastes.
It took me like a monyh to make an rpg in python and sql and I barely know anything about programming. Rpg maker attracts the dumbest retards

>>280195622 (OP)
>now
no story or substance.
>She ate a cake and smiled because it tasted good
is not a story

>>280203250
Anon, this is very unfortunate but /r/anime objectively has far better discussion than /a/ right now. I personally use old forums and discord.

the internet was crying about moe back in 1996. it's always been like that.

At some point we went back to the 90s high school mindset of calling each other fags for liking stuff like sailor moon.
>Cute girls? Are you gay or something? Why don't you watch real MAN stuff like MMA?

>>280203250
>You can't have serious anime discussions on Twitter, reddit only really watches the popular shows
I don't know why you think this.

>>280203229
Are you talking about Punch Punch Forever?

>>280203262
Oh, programming isn't my problem. My gamedev experience in particular is limited and outdated (last time I tried, direct mode OpenGL was still in vogue), but I'm a coder by trade. My problem is writing and drawing, or rather the utter lack of any of those creative skills or even a working imagination.

>>280203381
>I'm a coder by trade
Why are you using rpgm then

>>280203067
>it's not pasta
you are a fucking retard

Trannyschizo alert

>>280203067
>Not a single one
Not a single one, just every other imageboard on the internet.

It's the weirdest thing, I get the feeling the people who constantly cry about how bad the board is, pretend no discussion happens here, and bemoan how everything is better anywhere else while providing nothing themselves don't have a real interest in contributing to the board's health.

If I didn't know any better I'd think their aim is to get you to post somewhere else. I guess data becomes more valuable the fewer people that hold it.

>>280203410
Did you think /a/ was magically going to change to your way of thinking? No lol, its just going to become more and more slow and depressing then die. Look at all these crappy branching boards with schizo mods baby sitting them that get 1 post an hour, look at what /m/ looks like. That's /a/'s future. 4chan is losing on average 100k posts per day every year and its at about 400k posts per day right now. Normally as the overall userbase grows smaller we'd expect the size of the loss to proportionally reduce, but surprisingly its growing bigger. This means 4chan is projected to lose over 25% of its traffic next year.

>>280203512
>contributing to the board's health
I don't think you understand how /a/ works and how much of it is just 1 person bumping their personal thread over and over. How do you "fix" that?

>>280203534
A good start would be tripling the size of the catalogue and relocating generals and dailies, then a very arduous and painful road of slowly attracting genuine discussion back. I don't think the staff has the discipline to do it.

>>280203323
No, a Japanese guy drawing mecha anime.

>>280203534
What's to fix? Make your own thread

Half of the board are children who only care about shounenshit, what did you expect from them lol.

>>280203403
Because programming doesn't help much with the asset problem, and because it's just a common enough tool for this particular adventure and/or RPG game template. I hate menu coding though, so if assets weren't an issue I wouldn't have considered it most likely.

>>280203312
From personal experience, though I realize everyone is in some sort of a bubble so it's a very subjective experience.

>>280203596
Anon, every single thread is either bait or someone bumping their thread for 20+ hours. There's nothing left to interact with. I'm not going to bump a thread for 20 hours to maybe get the attention of a deranged jumpspic who has only watched 3 anime. If you pay attention to the catalogue most threads don't take off until like 10+ hours, I see a 3 day old thread with only 120 replies right now. And despite that it takes a mere hour or less for an unattended thread to be thrown off the catalogue. There's simply no one left to have a discussion with.

>>280200503
Embarrassing post. Even if it's bait it's still embarrassing. kys tourist

>>280203608
its either watch shonen or watch pedo moe. odd how moe characters dont age beyond pre puberty

>>280195622 (OP)
Modern anime consumers are mostly normalfags and redittors.

>shit thread
>meta thrash
>onimai avatarfag

Solo Leveling won.

>>280203643
You don't have to get hysteric. You sound like you just spend more time monitoring the activity of the site than posting about things you like, anyone'd get tired of that.

>>280203652
>its either watch shonen or watch pedo moe
Seinen
https://youtu.be/KSnKvWQgdPg
Seinen
https://youtu.be/1YVAN4QWBTg
Shonen that isn't just jump shit
https://youtu.be/s5SSAXK6bQE

Mind you this board thinks mecha is for "mature adults" despite being shonen.

>>280203749
To be fair he did leave for like a month.

>>280203649
Stay mad

Brown people unironically. They only watch dragonball and other gay animes like it.
So the nuance and appreciation of cuteness is lost upon their savage minds.

>>280203922
>dragonball
>gay
>animes
Go back to your shithole.

>>280203957
nta but you know dragon ball is dogshit right

>>280195622 (OP)
We always did new friend

>>280203964
>nta
Liar
>spaces it now
Gottem

>>280203774
Don't dishonestly disengage when you don't have an answer. If I want to deal with passive aggressive nonsense like that I'll just go to discord.

Latinx shounetroon having a melty.

>>280203989
I don't think you understand, I already answered you. Make a thread. You just came up with a dozen contrivances to explain why that isn't worth the effort you could spend metaposting instead.

>>280195622 (OP)
Because /a/ is 90% lat genz or gen alpha who only cares about hyped up seasonal shit or act like they are "nostalgic" for muh kawaiicore animecore aesthetic like azummanga daioh or lucky star even though they never watched them

>>280204112
Post your top 5 for me quick cutie

>>280203470
All other western imageboards are just an extension of 4chan. Wap died and they brought their militant retro larping here, smug is just one guy spamming screenshots and a one piece manga general, and moe is just furries and vtumors.

>>280204253
>Wap
>smug
Ok, now in English

>>280203534
by adopting how its japanese sister company that it originated from does things
hiro already owns both 4chan and 2channel, just copy 2ch. threads there have 2000 reply limits and they don't fight off bumps. Threads close within 2 weeks of noninterest and necros are heavily discouraged

>>280195869
>>280200503
Reading how people got into anime through popular titles like these during their teen years makes me wonder if I got into anime the "wrong way".
Selected few anime I watched during my teen years:
>Sherlock Hound
>Dominion Tank Police
>Project A-ko
>JaJaUma! Quartette
>Terra e...
>Patlabor movie
>Macross: Do You Remember Love?
>Voltage Fighter Gowcaizer
>Dragon Half
>Magical Witch Punie-chan
>Ika Musume
>Penguin Musume Heart
>Leiji Matsumoto works such as Cockpit, Galaxy Express 999, Queen Millennia, Maetel Legend, Space Symphony Maetel & Star Blazers

It's not that I was picky with anime (though I was still in some phase of cringing over modern anime style of late 2010s). I just watched anime that I was able to find on various video-sharing sites. Only after figuring out how to torrent, I started watching popular titles like Evangelion and Nichijou.
Probably for this reason I'm more interested in obscure anime titles (especially in CGDCT) than in popular and trending titles. I'd rather watch cute dialogue of Sketchbook anime than endure Monogatari monologue

>>280204090
>just sit there and bump a thread on a shit board for 20 hours
How about no, retarded janny

>>280204478
>Penguin Musume Heart
Takes me back.
Technically the first anime I've watched were Sailor Moon and Pokemon on the local TV, as well as Japanese G1 Transformers, but I actually got into anime through tokusatsu. Got recommended GiTS and some mecha anime (Vandread et al.) on the local internet provider forums, NGE of course, and also Ragnarok because I played the game, then eventually got into Haruhi and Lucky Star and just watched everything from then on. Kind of a shame I wasn't born earlier or in a more anime-watching country, wish I would've started with 80-90s classics.

>>280204478
>makes me wonder if I got into anime the "wrong way".
There's nothing wrong with taking a back door, if you ask me. Why would there be? It's just not usual. And the second post you quoted is a formulation of a general experience (exactly like the post it replies to), an attempt to speak for as many people as possible, not an expression of the poster's personal experience.

>>280204478
Doesn't matter how you started but clinging to your childhood experiences is definitely wrong. When I talk to someone who is nothing but nostalgia for being 10 years old, well, it's like I'm talking to a retarded 10 year old, and that's not interesting at all.

>>280204550
>bumping a thread you care about
:|
>spending all day bitching and moaning
:0

>>280205029
>bump
So you're saying the catalogue should be dictated by upvotes, the difference from reddit being a single user can just hit the upvote button all day.

>>280203723
>Modern anime consumers are mostly normalfags and redittors.
When something becomes very popular it is put to test. /a/ otaku mindset is very old-fashioned that seems it's stuck in the 2000's. So trolls have it easy here, like making fun of an old man and their old ways. I guess most oldfags just chose to leave.
>>280195622 (OP)
>another "why things are not like in the past"
I don't understand why some people here expect oldfags that were in their early 20's a decade ago to remain here. They were people too and if anime was just some sort of escapism they just left this place, also the medium has changed so they had tons of reasons to leave this place. I know shitposters are one of the main reasons but they still had a lot of other reasons. Definitely /a/ spirit will die if is not already dead, what you see is just a husk.

>>280195622 (OP)
3rd worlders only care about shounen jump.

>>280205055
>/a/ otaku mindset is very old-fashioned that seems it's stuck in the 2000's
Unfortunately it's not even this, it's just toonami normalfags and whatever spics grew up with

>>280203512
Let's do an experiment. I just made a thread on a very popular otaku subject featuring media that's absurdly popular in japan. I'm not gunna samefag or bump it at all. Let's see how many replies it gets before it falls off the catalog. (My guess is zero) I think the majority of "discussion" on 4chan is people disengenously manipulating others by controlling space on the catalog, not discussion, and making threads won't change that, as it's hit a point where it's just neets competing to see who can bump the fastest. Everything here feels very arbitrary and fake now.

>>280205118
>whatever spics grew up with
I'm a spic and i don't find spics are as common as some claim here. Sometimes i feel people here falseflag as spic.
Don't fall for their lies, in the case of /dbs/ they were proven to not have many spics in april when they were forced to show flags in other board. Spic memes are more fun.

>>280205399
>in the case of /dbs/ they were proven to not have many spics in april when they were forced to show flags in other board
On /bant/ it was found out it was like 5 Muslims from Europe and the Middle East sustaining the entire general. There were people with upwards of 100 posts

>>280205446
They use spics as scapegoat and will need to pay for it. As a spic, hating /dbs/ is justified.

>>280200503
t. 22 years old

>>280205550
Spics are arguably even worse and make threads like
>is x or y better, argue!
and
>here's 300 screenshots of 70s japanimation with no context

>>280205623
Still spics don't blame a whole group for their shitposting. That's a coward move.

>>280205619
He's right about Steins;Gate being for snobs though.

>>280205619
Why, is he wrong about 22 year olds?

>>280205961
HxH/FMA/St;G is specifically the Reddit/MAL (same thing) trio.

>>280205188
As an update, on the last page after 1 hour.

>>280205975
No one cares about what a retarded 22 year old thinks

>>280206232
And unsurprisingly it's archived, guess that settles that.

>>280204881
Why do eva posters always post the dumbest /r9k/ shit

Daily reminder that 4chan was created for the discussion of moe anime.

>>280206507
To the extent that the anime community consists of several Millions of 22 year olds, 22 year olds are in fact the topic of discussion. So I ask again: Is he wrong about them?

>>280201656
That's all that's left

>>280201645
>>280201770

>>280207032
Also, /a/ is a board for little girls and its first favorite anime was Azumanga Daioh.

>>280207533
There are better crops of zoomers elsewhere that actually like new things, not depressed retards who got groomed on /r9k/ trying to connect with oldfags who want nothing to do with them. I don't want to be around some moron who thinks he's hot shit for liking crappy toonami anime

>>280195622 (OP)
cause its gay

>>280207606
The problem with this argument is that the average male anime viewer simply isn't a current-year teenager who grew up with 2020s shows.

Ironic weebs need to be executed. Imagine only ever allowing yourself and others to like stuff superficially, fucking retarded zoomergroids.

>>280207606
Hello Onimai tranny who LARPs as an oldfag

>>280207606
There are more ppl their age who knew anime via pirated DVDs than Cable

>>280207815
For most people in their 20s today it was TV -> crappy YT videos -> anime websites.

>>280202276
>moe thread
>turns into meta thread discussion and schizo avatarfagging
Explain this moefags

>>280205961
S;G is just a poor man's Summertime Rendering. Or Primer for retards.

>>280207855
>crappy yt videos
Too bad alot was purged but I'm glad a lot of lost media OVAs are still there

>>280207555
You can tell whoever made this image was really seething kek
Those decade-old banners are worthless, 90% of this website doesn't even care about anime at all

>>280207032
that explains why it's dying then

>>280195869
>>280200503
You're brown

People who think anime is bad now are simply they're shonentards that got gatekept
https://youtu.be/YAY8tlIqEBU
It shouldn't surprise anyone that basic shonen anime for normalfags sucks, and yet the majority of /a/ is now dumb normalfaggots who only watch the most basic bitch anime, even worse than reddit and twitter

>>280195622 (OP)
not everything you call moe is moe. I fucking love things that make me go moe, but they are few and far between

Reminder that moe is positive by definition.

>>280203512
> I get the feeling the people who constantly cry about how bad the board is, pretend no discussion happens here, and bemoan how everything is better anywhere else while providing nothing themselves don't have a real interest in contributing to the board's health.
Yes, that's what every meta thread is and why they're shit. Just posts written by retarded newfags who got here a year ago and hate that 4chan isn't the intellectual otaku paradise they dreamt up in their head

>>280211350
Someone made a thread and tested it, stop being a whiny bitch in denial

>>280211620
The key to posting on 4chan, since all threads are mostly neets samefagging, is to go into their threads and make those threads be about what you want them to be about. They've rudely and intrusively ruined this board forever, so I don't feel the least bit bad about doing this. There is obviously no point in making threads on 4chan any more.

>>280196440
Yeah, it is. So is waifu, not like people in the West do or need to care.

shonen is for non whites

>>280210913
>>280211797
Tranny mad

The second when Onimai's anime came into existence was also the second where moe lost /a/'s love and when shounen finally overtook the board.

>>280211923
It's more like when shonentards got tricked into watching a SHAFT anime under another studios name and realized how badly they don't belong here. This led to existential /pol/tard panic and a desire to astroturf the shit out of the board.

>>280207855
I'm slightly older so for me it was TV -> FTP -> DC++ -> torrents -> still torrents, somehow. I have an aversion to streaming to this day, was really hoping Wakanim would get their shit together as Red promised and de-hardsub their DDLs, but instead they chose to die and get sold off.

>>280211206
>Onimai fag talking about taste

>>280212457
Don't you make a mentally ill steins gate thread every single day

>>280195869
You are overthinking it a lot.
>anime is good
>i watch it
>anime is shit
>i skip it
genre has nothing to do with it. well, i guess i've cut back on romance anime, because it hurts, and not really a fan of sports anime but i've also watched that. limiting yourself to one thing or another is retarded

>>280211725
You never belonged here schizophrenic avatarfag, go back

>>280212726
They're usually good threads because you aren't in them.

>>280195928
Ah I see you are a symphogear enjoyer.

>>280213189
You gotta take meds homie, you are one of the worst posters on the entire board if not the absolute worst

>>280203285
If (You) hate it here and love plebbit so much, how about you go back and stay there :)

It's always the most awful samefagging psychos here that constantly scream about me. At least they admit it.

>>280211725
>>280211923
>>280213327

>>280213300

>>280212457
Umamusume is better than your favorite anime plus you're black. Cry about it.

Why does every thread have resident imagefags and namefags lately? Yuri threads have constant shitflinging between two weirdos, scanlation thread has innit, onimai anon here is another example, what the actual fuck.

>>280213508
That's what happens when the board is 100% soulless generals with no room for individuality.

>>280213508
People are making/joining gay little insular discords out the wazoo and forming fuckhead personalities there

>>280213508
Natural selection as 4chan declines in popularity and schizos are desperate see (You)s again.

>>280213551
>individuality
>on an anonymous forum
Go back

>>280213412
SG is better and it's not close. Enjoy your mobile gachashit though.

>>280213592
Any anonymous should be 100% individuals, not a series of soulless communist collectives when gangs of retards compete for visibility on the board. That's how you get 25 daily threads.

>>280213599
>SG is better and it's not close
Hilariously umamusume is more popular than SG ever was. Objectively better animation too.

>>280213272
For what it's worth I'm not the one that makes most of the SG general threads here. Stop thinking that everything has to be one person.

>>280213727
Way too late to walk that back.

>>280213741
>he was the real schizo all along
I'm almost surprised, but maybe I shouldn't be considering what kind of place this is.

>>280195622 (OP)
We never hated moe, moeshitter.

>>280213832
What are you even talking about

>280213649
>muh individual
>/pol/shit out of nowhere
Gaijin amerimutt tourists will never understand

>>280211620
And didn't even link it. He's full of shit

>>280213993
I'm that anon, I made a very open ended thread on young jump magazine, which you can search for in the archive. To keep the experiment untainted, obviously I did not link it. The only reply it got was one guy scooping it off page 10 along with 15 other threads with a one word reply to slide a general. This is exactly the stuff people are complaining about and I don't know how deeply you have to drink the kool aid to not see that.

>>280195622 (OP)
Moe Moe Moe
Why don't you like me? Nobody likes me.

>>280213508
It's like the only people that come here.
I mean it sorta makes sense, you gotta be super dedicated to still use this site on the regularly afyer so many years and changes in culture and stuff.

>>280203608
>Half of the board are children
I think the average and median age of the board here is way, way higher than you think.
By a lot.
It's 4chan. People have been here for 20 years.

>>280195622 (OP)
I don't care for moe-for-the-sake-of-moe
I like moe WITHIN something already good, though.
Funny comedy that also has moe? Great.

>>280212457
Steins;Gate is shit too, what's your point?

>>280195622 (OP)
I miss Konata...

>>280215514
She died while giving birth to Umaru

>>280214079
>To keep the experiment untainted, obviously I did not link it.
You could've easily posted a link after it archived you dork
>very open ended thread on young jump magazine
Is this it? No wonder it got 1 reply

>old mag cover that few will recognise
>listing franchises that get their own threads anyway
>pointless question that doesn't inspire anything but vapid praise/contention

Think for a second, why would anyone click this over the 149 other threads on the catalog? This isn't /a/'s problem, you just don't know how to make threads which get attention

>>280215866
No one clicked on because no one reads young jump manga. Even kingdom struggles to break 100 replies on a thread, despite being insanely popular on every other manga website. I'm certain /a/ doesn't know Shadows House exists. This feeds into the accusation that /a/ has grown stagnant and insular.
>the very first issue of young jump isn't recognizable
Another problem, every thread has to be formatted like youtube clickbait with rage posts or half naked girls.

It's insane that this place has multiple naruto generals at all times and kingdom discussion is dead, and some retarded newfag janitor will smugly say of course it is. Feels like this place is just an absolute dump now.

>>280211278
Nice pic, man. Did you make it yourself or did you get mommy to help you?

>>280216154
naruto has their resident schizophrenic avatarfag spamming bait dump generals and shitting up threads making up theories about everyone samefagging or being the OP and bemoaning "quality discussion", so they should be understandable to you, that's your eventual fate

>>280214244
I only regularly visit here because I haven't managed to find any other place... Not even some private Discord circlejerk that I'd be comfortable in. Didn't help that I changed countries, my friends are also old now and busy with work or even families, and that I have a lot of goddamn social anxiety.

>>280213508
That's every board nowadays. I wouldn't be surprised if the major boards have less than 100 anons posting, and less than 1000 users for the whole site if you exclude the bots. It feels like almost every thread is just one schizo samefagging and 3 anons complaining about the schizo, with the occasional image dump and a few bits of discussion. The internet in general feels dead

>>280195869
You're 17.

>>280203250
>You can't have serious anime discussions on Twitter, reddit only really watches the popular shows, there aren't really any old-school forums left.
You're moreso outing yourself as someone who exclusively uses twitter and reddit rather than someone advocating for the quality of /a/.
Most oldschool /a/nons left ages ago. The vast majority of /a/ is similar to /v/.
This is because the vast majority of /a/ currently is just /v/ crossposters and it shows.

>>280204331
>so new he doesn't remember two months ago

>>280217163
I'm not advocating for the quality of /a/, the fact that it went down the drain is obvious, I just don't think anywhere else has any quality either.

>>280217198
Again,
>You're moreso outing yourself as someone who exclusively uses twitter and reddit rather than someone advocating for the quality of /a/.
There's plenty of other sites, you're just a retard who only goes to the most popular places on the planet. It's like saying food stopped being good before revealing you only go to McDonalds.

>>280203559
Retarded sentiment.
>take action against constant general/storytime/daily spam
This would result in counter-spam, more people defecting to sites like the sharty, and a greater spamming effort being focused on /a/ since it'd be easier to get away with it, and ultimately nothing would actually happen.
This is also ignoring the parasitic generals, /dbs/, /opg/, /csm/, shit that is just people already from other boards or sites that don't interact with /a/ at all and have no qualms with flooding the rest of the board is their generals get banned.

There is no "Well if the jannies just do something, things will get better". There is nothing to improve. I don't know where people get the idea that after 7 years of circling the drain there's some secret cabal of /a/utists who want to "save the board". The current happenings on /a/ are the remainder of the board. If you didn't get out like a normal person a decade ago when the writing was on the wall, that's on you.

>>280217237
If you would be so kind as to point me to some of those, I would be eternally grateful. I promise to stay read only and not to shit them up with my presence.

>>280217427
Just do basic research man.
Forums still exist. You may hate some of them (for legitimate or illegitimate reasons), but there are many that are still active. There's even equivalents for the two largest generals on the board- Kanzenshuu holds the oldest DB specific forum that is still very active, and ArlongPark is a fairly good OP forum.
Other sites will get some raised eyebrows, but they're still active and can fit your needs- SA is still very active and lowtax is dead so it's... basically the same, but lowtax is dead.
MAL forums are incredibly active and full of retards that are about on par with the retards here. Even has some overly wordy spergs who write paragraphs of inane nonsense.
Of course, I only listed surface level forums. Because you start there.

Also, the majority of /a/nons I've met outside of /a/ have been on discord. Not in 4chan specific ones, just in random anime discussion channels where I'll recognize their 3x3 or their specific posting style. Similarly, a majority of /m/en post like autists on twitters or run their own blogs (blogs are still around, you just have to find them yourself retard).

I can guarantee discussions on /a/ are still better than on your average manga site

>>280217693
heh

>>280217693
>I can guarantee discussions on /a/ are still better than on your average manga site
This honestly looks significantly better than the average /a/ daily.

>>280217358
>This would result in counter-spam, more people defecting to sites like the sharty, and a greater spamming effort being focused on /a/ since it'd be easier to get away with it, and ultimately nothing would actually happen.
This is bullshit because actual competent moderation did this for an entire decade against spam that was 10000x worse than what we have now. If you just roll over and say "there's nothing I can do" people will just completely assfuck you and take over, which is why the catalogue looks so insanely bland and shitty now. Clearly moderation either supports it or is happy to just maintain a position of power despite being incompetent.
>oh if they just leave me 3 threads of space on this 150 thread catalogue its totally f-fine
That's just bullshit.

>>280195622 (OP)
It's just shonentards.

>>280203652
Kill yourself, retarded tourist.

>>280195622 (OP)
It's just shonentards and "muhchoor" faggots. Don't consider anything more than flies.

>>280203652
>odd how moe characters dont age beyond pre puberty
In medalist, a currently running insanely popular new sports manga, the main character is followed from pre-teen to puberty to adulthood. She is currently a teenager.

>>280213599
Why do Steins;Gate faggots always think their anime is so superior and better than everything? Your anime gets mogged by Penguindrum from the same year it came out.

Why is this dogshit thread even getting bumped?
Literally just check the catalogue and shut up, stop engaging in bait console war tier threads.

>>280219459
>Literally just check the catalogue
I did, and its full of shit and aids.

>>280213592
This is easily the most retarded thing posted on this board all day.

>>280219404
Its one guy.

>It now proceeds to samefagging and keeping a thread hostage to continue its gay meta astroturfing

>>280195622 (OP)
forgotten board roots and probably dbzfags

>>280195622 (OP)
my wife

>>280205723
Kinda miss the spic who kept obsessively posting about your waifu bearing mexican half breeds tbhdesu

>>280219099
Okay, begone then. Goodbye!

>>280221582
You seem pretty asshurt.

>>280195869
why can't you like both?

>>280225188
Gone to where? I'll go there.

>>280195869
You're in a manchild phase

>>280219099
If this was an /a/ daily the comments would read
>Thanks OP
>Thanks OP
>ENTER xD
>Thanks OP
>bump
>20 cropped images with no context posted within the span of 5 minutes 6 hours into the thread for some reason
>Thanks OP
>bump
>bump

>>280224943
A more based poster than anyone in this shit meta thread honestly
There's plenty of mutts here asking about where the white people in anime are, this is hardly any different

>>280225258
so his /a/ phase

>>280195869
they hated him not for he was wrong but for deep down they all knew he was right

>>280216782
Why are you admitting to being a narutard while defending the atrocious state of the board, what is wrong with you people? lol

>>280195622 (OP)
I hate it because it's all yuri shit designed for perverted men to self insert and make futa porn.

>>280225469
>yuri shit
yeah that sucks
>designed for perverted men to self insert and make futa porn
hold up thats super based

I won btw, you just can't help yourself from replying to me hours later

>>280197294
I never used /b/, only /a/. You don't remember MD Geist?

>>280225532
>You don't remember MD Geist?
No.

>>280216154
>I'm certain /a/ doesn't know Shadows House exists.
There are threads for it whenever someone gets access to raws. Which is why it's weird to see complaints about storytimes when some series only get traction thanks to those, why is another issue, but I thought I'd let you know.

>>280226027
>Which is why it's weird to see complaints about storytimes
Dumping the raws or translated new chapters is fine, but having like 10 threads in the catalog for X STORYTIME or even worse, Y DAILY for already released stuff just shits up the catalog and doesn't generate discussion

>>280226027
>bumping the bait meta thread to spoonfeed the tourist newfag

>>280225291
and they're all from the same poster, who may or may not be OP.

>>280195622 (OP)
/a/ has always hated slop

>>280226027
>Which is why it's weird to see complaints about storytimes when some series only get traction thanks to those
99% of storytimes are BAD manga, so this seems to be a massive negative rather than a positive, and I fail to see what that has to do with new manga chapter discussion. This shouldn't need to be explained to you, but spoonfeeding is objectively wrong and people who can't even catch up on a manga by themselves shouldn't have any presence here whatsoever and anyone who encourages this is massively terrorizing the board.

>>280226352
>>280225291
>>280225440
Ironic, did you escape from the naruto threads schizo? Your fellow lolcow there needs your support, don't leave him alone
>>280216782

>>280226578
Thanks, OP.

>>280226578
Posts like this make me think naruto threads really ought to be booted from /a/. Along with dailies.

>>280204253
kissu is alright
reminder to check in on kissu and make a post or two

>>280210743
It really is dying very quickly, much quicker than I thought it would.

>>280195622 (OP)
because /a/ has sucked for a while now.
Never should have let naruto on the board.

>>280197294
https://old.sage.moe/_/search/text/moeshit/order/asc/

>>280196440
>>280196473
>>280211774
>>280196523
https://x.com/search?q="萌え"&f=live
it's still being used about two times per minute, hardly seems dead to me

>>280226714
where's the anime discussion?

>>280227657
make a thread
there's a stream of seasonal stuff too

>>280227686
So you don't discuss anime and hang out in a gay erp stream

>>280227686
>please please make a thread on my dying ghost town of a board!!
No.
I'm still traumatized by the experience of having fun on 8 while 4chan was hacked, only for everyone to suddenly disappear and leave me alone because 4chan got back up again.
I'm never trusting an altchan again.

>>280195869
I somehow skipped the teenage phase entirely. Never felt like watching "deep and mature" anime, but I did go from cool fights to cgdct then just both at once(which means magical girls)

>>280217163
Sauce on pic, please?

>>280219174
>This is bullshit because actual competent moderation did this for an entire decade against spam that was 10000x worse than what we have now.
If you mean shit like /b/ day and associated events, the jannies more often than not lost.
>which is why the catalogue looks so insanely bland and shitty now.
It's bland and shitty because again, the majority of "old /a/" is gone. The current majority of /a/ posts in those threads.
Here's the current top threads on /a/.
>Gigguk shit
>/dbs/
>/opg/
>Pokemon outside of /vp/
>Isekai general
>a storytime
>Another Gigguk thread
This is what the majority of people posting on /a/ want. It's 6am EST as well, so this is all Eurofags right now, this is the EPIC BASED nighttime /a/.

>>280228293
That's just one of the Summer shows, Nube.

Why is this thread still alive? My first seasonal anime was oreimo btw and I never watched shounenslop.

>>280208950
At least you acknowledge that Summertime Rending is for retards.

>30+ years later and people still don't understand what moe actually means
I'm probably arguing about this with the children of the people I argued about this with in the 90s.
[/spoiler]Revy is moe[/spoiler]

>>280229382
30+ years later and you still don't know how to use spoiler tags.

>>280229394
My entire life invalidated thanks to an errant keystroke.

>>280229413
A 60 year old newfag, Jesus.

>>280195622 (OP)
>now

>>280229425
Technically correct.

>>280227596
>733 results found between 2006 and 2013
You just proved his point, idiot.

>>280227639
He got his source from reddit. What did you expect?

>>280230473
Why do you think that's a small number?
And don't try to bring up the number of results found in recent years, that's just Dragonball's fault. They used to use different words and phrases, not every moe-hating post had the word "moeshit" in it.
For example I'm catching up on Panty&Stocking right now in preparation for the new season, looking through the 2010 threads as I do, and I see a lot of moe hate in the threads.

>>280231510
>Why do you think that's a small number?
Because it is an entirely insignificant number.
And moe is not a subgenre or a style or somthing you can reliably quantify, moeshit was just a troll buzzword for retards to fling shit agsinst LS during the 07 season when TTGL was airing and the two fanbases clashed, which was mostly ironic compared to shitflinging we get nowadays.

>>280229465
grandpa-san...

>>280233436
ttgl really did bring the worst retards here

>>280229215
>If you mean shit like /b/ day and associated events, the jannies more often than not lost.
How new are you? The shitposting NEVER stopped, there were thousands of aggressively shitty bot threads a day. And they cleaned it all up for free. Hell they even forcibly removed naruto for years.

>>280217631
>just post on this forum for already-popular shounen!
>or choose between idiots and pseud-idiots on MAL!
>you can even recognize a self-fellating 3x3tards on random discord channels!
Holy shit man. That's some GRIM shit.

>>280217631
>just post on this forum for already-popular shounen!
>or choose between idiots and pseud-idiots on MAL!
>you can even recognize self-fellating 3x3tards on random discord channels!
Holy shit man. That's some GRIM shit.

>>280195869
Truth nuke

>>280229301
>Why is this thread still alive?
Because people are fed up with how shitty /a/ has become.

There's literally nothing wrong with /a/.

>>280235598
It's absurd that people are boldly praising one piece here now when, for the entire rest of the world, Japan included, it's the worst it has ever been.

>>280225303

Wonder where his backstory got found out.

>>150430431
>The guy that makes them is Half-Mexican and has a Mexican father who knocked up and then abandoned his mother apparently.

>>280203067
>onimai
Shut the fuck up.
>/a/ is a bunch of generals
Good. I don't want to share threads with your kind.

>>280195622 (OP)
because Lucky Star is a blight upon the world

>>280203305
For a reason. At some point it's tiring trying to discuss anything with you loonies. The only thing you'll regularly watch is little girls anime, and the only discussions you'll hold are of two kinds: "uoooh" pedoposting, or "i want to become a girl" agpshit. And the worst is you'll still somehow act so fucking smug, even though everyone, you included, knows you're only obsessed with that kind of anime because you're a KHV. Had a mate who was like this, called some K-on girl his waifu, made me watch Angel Beats, and everything. As soon as the got a girlfriend he forgot all this shit.

>>280207555
>Rance moeshit
What?

>>280238594
>My normalfag friend was a normalfag like me all along
Scathing critique.

>>280195928
>>280195869
this

>>280238594
>the only discussions you'll hold are of two kinds: "uoooh" pedoposting, or "i want to become a girl" agpshit
People say this but they only watch battle shonen and clam up when I want to tall about sangatsu or kingdom or usogui or something. Liking dragon ball and basic bitch mecha isn't interesting or masculine, it's just squeamish normaltard taste.

>>280240780
You avatarfag with Onimai though, so you'll always be incorrect.