I always felt like anime was a lot more masculine to me personally than normie shows, especially as a pre-teen. So I never understood why it became so heavily associated with nerdy autists. It got me into weightlifting, sports and competing as a kid, or at least it made me take them more seriously. Anime like Bleach were fucking badass.
>the main cast is usually full of ripped guys who are disciplined with their training
>anime usually preaches things like stoicism, mental fortitude
>anime teaches that there's always gonna be someone better than you but you should always strive to be the better you
>physical health, mental health, friendships are important
>anime tells you to not be a pussy, gotta stand up for yourself
>only drink and do drugs in special occasions like gatherings
>being smart is as important as being a brute
Meanwhile normie shows just preaches degeneracy or faggot shit like fitting in or "omfg i got rejected?? :(". So I never understood how anime ended up being associated with weak beta spergs when its characters are the complete opposite. What do you guys think?

>>76331132 (OP)
>it became so heavily associated with nerdy autists
>it became

it was always for nerds, black guys and latinos who are really into dragon ball and whatever are just a different kind of nerd.

Also that sort of anime you're thinking about is about 1% of it, so much of it is babby cartoons for girls and children. Pokemon, digimon, card captor sakura, fuckin sailor moon. love live, azumanga daioh, lucky star, all sorts of other animes I don't know about where it's just tiny girls of questionable ages going neeeeeeeh? kawaii desho :3 !?

It's the kind of stuff you're expected to have grown out of by age 13-ish, like pro wrestling.

I'm into all sorts of anime, but I don't pretend it's what normies think is cool.

cartoons are for kids therefore anything drawn is a cartoon therefore only nerds and manchildren would watch it

only in the last 10 years or so have we seen a shift due to youtube content creators and netflix making anime more normie approved

men watch sports

>>76331132 (OP)
what a redundant thread man.
ok
so from the context of a childish viewpoint
it's associated with nerds becaude most people that watch anime spend more time watching anime than doing anytning else and will flipout when you get small details wrong like a kid that gets pissed when you call their xbox a playstation
through an mature adult viewpoint, no one cares. They'll think it's odd but then they'll stop and say "well i probably do somethjng odd too" and move on with their lives.
I dont watch anime anymore havent in 2 years i can see both perspectives now and i still look st hentai because that shit is great. Other than that you're looking at it through a childish perspective unless you make it your whole personality, no one cares

>>76331219
Idiots watch sports

>>76331230
There are much better hobbies to base your personality off of, dont base it off the one that requires you to sit down for 8 hours a day and get minor details correct as if you have untreated ocd

>>76331240
it also requires to stay inside for long periods and not talk to a single person. These are the same people that complain they've been given a shit end of the stick and cant get laid

>>76331238
Not him but have you ever listened to sports talk radio? Dudes are just rattling off statistic after statistic going back years if not decades. They sound like engineers and economists.

It takes some degree of intelligence to be into sports, at least more than just surface level of getting drunk at a game and then flipping over taxi cabs and setting them on fire if your team wins/loses the big sports game.

I don't enjoy team sports though, combat sports I do enjoy.

>>76331364
same here, mma, bjj, judo, buhurt
Sports that have been around longer than ballsport stuff

>>76331132 (OP)
Totally Agree. Bleach was absolutely Goated. I watched it at a very formative time in my life and it struck a chord. He protects his family, his loved ones, and is a man of action. He finds true fellowship in his comrades in arms, and constantly grows. I got heavily into Muay Thai around this time, and Bleach was a huge part of it. I listen to the Anime OP and EDs to this day. Ironically, I always thought his dad was a badass physician with his clinic. Today I am a surgeon myself. Anyway, pic-related. Cheers bro.

>>76331132 (OP)
It's media by nerds for nerds, because 80% of the authors built their characters around traits they don't have or wish they had.
It's wishful fulfillment.

>>76331132 (OP)

OP, I hear you brother. Anime can, and does teach these virtues. Fairly often does it try, in fact, although most anime is not very good. The things is that most people who chronically enjoy anime are non-confessing sexual degenerates. Many of them are would-be rapists, given the right opportunity, but in their daily lives they masquerade as innocent, misunderstood nerds with anxiety issues and the like. They are NOT to be associated with. You will learn this from experience, although it would be better if you did not have to.

Best thing you can do is allow yourself to be inspired and quietly enjoy the hobby on your own, without discussing it with other people in real life.

Because they only do bodyweight training, maybe dumbbells.

>>76331132 (OP)
Because its animated. Thats it.
Every society has its stupid norms, it allows for cohesion so its usually a good thing. Western world is no different, so for decades we had unwritten rules about how art and literature should be consumed. Following the social etos, you were supposed to transition from cartoons into live action film. This is mainly because Western animation started as cartoons for children, so it was treated as such by all the movie critic and movie director fags. Then internet came and people were allowed to find others easier and promote their niche interest, so things changed. There's also the distribution aspect. Things only really shifted when corpos found a way to monetize it (anime wasn't mainstream before streaming services).
There is no inherent quality to the anime watchers, as its an entire medium encapsulating many different genres and tastes. Beside the fact that nerds always liked niche shit/counter culture shit on the account of being outcasts.

All the other reasons you will get itt is just people trying to explain their programmed bias.
>muh media made by nerds
>muh anime people only watch anime
Its like skub vs anti skub [spoiler]FUCK SCUB NIGGERS[/spoiler]

Personally I actually regret not watching anime when I was a kid, because I was terrified of ostracism, and I thought it is gay. The only thing I watched was some stupid coomer shit like Green Green.
Now when I have a chance to watch even the stupidest shonen shit I often find myself thinking that I wish I saw it when I was a kid, instead of all these shows for degenerates like Skins or reality tv.

>>76331473
alright, I fucked up the spoiler but watch this.

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>>76331487

I don't know why but as a kid watching bleach and naruto i never told a classmate. Used.to go to the library during breaks and watch an episode of either and have a blast. Was disappointed when i learned that fat autists dressed up as these characters and went to some comiccon event, doing stupid poses, felt like they were disrespecting my childhood.

>>76331132 (OP)
nerdiness is male dominated but so is faggotry, being male dominated doesnt make something manly or unmanly
that being said anime is escapism, by rule of thumb escapism is the absolute symbol of a defeated man in a defeated rotten society, you're not watching it because you relate to the characters, you're watching it to live vicariously through them
>Meanwhile normie shows just preaches degeneracy or faggot shit
that's literally the same as anime lmao and anime has been mainstream for two decades now, you're the normie in this situation
i don't think you watch "normie shows" either and like all incels you entire worldview is built around assumptions that your fellow incels feed you in meme format

>>76331576
>anime is escapism
How is anime any more escapist than normie shows? What loser would dream of inserting themselves as a character going through suffering and toil? If anything incels vicariously live through the normie MC's in the dime a dozen normie shows on jewflix that depict a lifestyle of slaying endless sluts and getting hung over every friday.

>>76331408
Not true for Kentaro Miura. That pic was taken when he was months away from dying, so he was obbiously not at his peak condition (and he was in his 50s).

inb4 you call him dyel because of picrel, he was 15 in the bottom pic.

>>76331364
This is why sports watching has become a favorite among bugmen who love rote memorization but don‘t need actual intelligence to synthesize information into something meaningful.

>>76331576
some anime fans have good lifes and they just enjoy it, i stopped watching anime when my life went to shit i hated everything and continued to post on here and scroll endlessly

>>76331408
>>76332022


RIP Muira ;_;

>>76331132 (OP)
Anime is as mainstream as you can get. Everyone below the age of 50 either watches it or has watched it. The nerd stigma died out on it years ago outside of the genuine autists who make it their entire personality

>>76331132 (OP)
I think you're looking too hard into it. it's basically the japanese version of marvelslop, and dc/marvel/comics in general basically communicated the same or similar values. you only liked anime more as a kid because it was foreign to you and perhaps a bit more mature than you were used to. ichigo is a fag for not wanting to bang rukia frfr ngl.

>>76331132 (OP)
It's for nerds because it's fake. It's not real.
Sports, anime, star wars, star trek, marvel, videogames, really any sort of fiction. It's all fake. Caring too much about stuff that isn't real, or could be labeled "escapism", causes an innate feeling of disgust in the onlooker, and for good reason.
An exception may be folklore (fiction) that was made to pass on some sort of wisdom, but you aren't going to find anything like that made recently.
Maybe LotR could fall into that category, but only the original written text as Tolkien wrote it. There are some gems hidden in there that you might expect from a wise man that fought in a world war.