So anime is for normalfags now... Where do we go from here?

>>81773169 (OP)
>So anime is for normalfags now...
always was

>>81773194
>always was
You used to get harassed like crazy if you watched it back in the era most were only on VHS from niche companies. You also used to get harassed for liking videogames.

damn watching anime was my whole personality wtf do i do now oh no no no this cant be happening

Anime about cute girls doing cute things, lolis, or other degenerate genres are still for us weirdos. Just don't watch the obvious normalfag bait.

>>81773285
Well I branched out to horse race betting

Always was. Heard of Pokemon? It's an anime many grew up on. Even boomers grew up on anime like Kimba the White Lion, Speedracer, and Astro Boy. Many normies loved Death Note when it came out.

So yeah...does anyone have the Slowpoke pic?

>>81773169 (OP)
it's not even that it's normalfag slop now that bothers me, it's the horrendous attempt at gaslighting they always do when you say you were bullied relentlessly for liking it 20 years ago
>ERM NOPE NEVER HAPPENED

gotta stay in the places they dare not visit

>>81773169 (OP)
we should make all normies watch shoujo ramune to weird them out

>>81773316
No they know it happened, but they gaslight themselves into thinking they were bullied along side you

>>81773294
Those anime will eventually be stamped out by the normies, deemed too weird.

>>81773316
We were bullied for watching it? I never was. About half the school watched it, though it was toonami.

T. 2002 grad

>>81773381
*beep beep beep*
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>>81773169 (OP)
Most of them watch dubbed, which means you can ignore 90% of them

>>81773389
>LatinX
No, complete hick. Even here in bumfuck nowhere, we watched anime. You should have seen the school when Gohan went SSJ2. It was the fucking talk for fucking days. Thst was just going SSJ2.

>>81773316
>>81773362
it's actually way worse, they bullied us back then and now they think we should be grateful that normals made anime "cool" to watch now.

holy fuck the trannys in this thread have me dying

>they bullied us
Only faggots say that shit. I already sang Dragon Ball opening in my class back then

>>81773431
Can someone explain to me why anime is now associated with trannies?

>>81773435
its the most gender affirming type of media

>>81773443
What are video games?

>>81773431
Where? Show me where the trannies are. Show me where they touched you.

>>81773447
outdated media

>>81773477
are you trolling me right now? be honest.

>>81773495
no. both of those answers are true

When people say bullied I imagine you getting punched and the money of your lunch getting taken from you. Instead what is most likely the case, it's just people looking at you weirdly and labeling you as schizo or something

>>81773169 (OP)
>boo hoo I wuz bullied for liking anime
>Now normies are copying me!
For fuck's sake you fags, Akira was massively popular in movie theatres in the west over 35 fucking years ago. I remember seeing it on the big screen in some arthouse cinema in the early 90s. When I told my friends about it, nobody said "Eww, you watch Japanese cartoons? What a fag!" Back then they hadn't even invented the term "anime", they called this stuff "Japanimation".

My Neighbour Totoro has likewise been popular since the early 90s. Dragonball Z has been a popular tv show since the 90s, and even way back then everybody knew who Sailor Moon was.

Watching Japanese cartoons doesn't make you special. If you want to be special, do something special. Learn to play a musical instrument really well, or get really good at drawing, or get good at some sport, or I don't know, get good at dancing maybe. Fucking DO something instead of trying to pretend that you're special because of the media you consume.

>>81773169 (OP)
I liked anime because I thought the medium was cool, not because I wanted to be different. So I will continue to watch anime.

>>81773512
yeah its just people thinking youre lame because you have an '"immature"' interest. the only person i saw actually get bullied did watch and display their love for anime, but they were bullied because they wore a fox tail and acted like a fag

>>81773169 (OP)
>So anime is for normalfags now...
it's been that way since 2020 bro

>>81773169 (OP)
>So anime is for normalfags now...
normies only watch dubbed shonen, try saying you watch something like ecchi and/or has lolis in it and see how fast you get called a gooner diddy blud

>>81773544
>Learn to play a musical instrument really well, or get really good at drawing, or get good at some sport, or I don't know, get good at dancing maybe.
Besides dancing, I do everything you stated, and consooming is way more comfortable

>>81773316
nah normies do acknowledge that happened but try to frame it as "it sucked so hard when you couldn't say you liked anime back then"

>>81773169 (OP)
>So anime is for normalfags now
It has been for years.
Every brocolli head zoomer thinks that jjk and one piece is "fire" you can barely find a normalfag zoomer that doesn't watch shounen slop.
But moe is still outsider media. They don't touch that.

>>81773607
normies don't touch literally anything outside of popular shonen, and despise fanservice in anime. so anime that are super heavy on fanservice have very few normie fans

visual novels

>>81773544
why you bring up dancing like that when it's clear you know nothing about it?

>>81773607
>But moe is still outsider media
normies will call you a pedophile for watching that, even if there's zero sexual content whatsoever, you still get called a pedo because the moe anime has little girls in it

>>81773607
inb4 pick-me zoomers chime in.

>>81773617
>like that
It was provided as an example.

People were complaining about normalfags liking anime since the 90s.

>>81773626
>inb4 pick-me zoomers chime in
nigga I am a zoomer and I 100% agree with him, the average anime "fan" of my generation literally only likes one piece and anything animated by mappa (chainsaw man and jjk) and dragon ball. they watch it dubbed so they can have it on in the background while they sit on their phone and only care about the hype fight scenes. also they get very mad about underage characters being sexualized

>>81773665
>nigga I am a zoomer-
And there we have it.

Faggots literally can't enjoy anything unless their identity is tied to that product
I watch anime because I despise western storytelling. I don't give a shit if normalgroids watch it too or not
The only problem is when those negros extend their claws and try to change the product to appease to their taste

>>81773627
They need to make Usenet popular again. It was nice when google allowed you to browse and post on thrm without getting a usenet reader or subscription. The free ones are flat out shit.

>>81773694
>I watch anime because
Yeah?
>- I despite western storytelling.
You think you do. But you don't. Quit being such a tryhard.

>>81773708
>You think you do. But you don't
I don't remember the last time that I cared about western storytelling(maybe 15 years ago when I read the little prince), be it classical books, videogames, modern books, cartoons. It's all abhorrent to me and even le power of friendship is better

>>81773169 (OP)
I'm just going to keep watching My cumrag Turned Into My Little Sister or whatever other name zoomer came up with for anime they morally disprove of for it's sexual content and what not. They can keep battle shonen, I was never a big fan of it anyway.
>>81773316
My favorite is when they say:
>erm actually you were bullied for running down the hall like naruto and saying random japanese words
as if anyone did that. kids are just bullies, I don't know why it's hard to admit that another kid would see someone against the grain and bully them for it, it happens all the time.

>>81773778
>as if anyone did that
NO NO NO. DON'T TRY AND LIE. PEOPLE DID THAT SHIT. I FUCKING SWEAR I REMEMBER ALL OF IT. YOU CAN'T MAKE ME FORGET.

writing's been on the wall for years. you need stats to tell you anime's been for normalfags for years? dummy.

>>81773169 (OP)
Yeah and they will change the industry to suit the so called "global standards" to the point it becomes a bland slop (even more than already is). So say bye-bye to ecchi and moe for example in a couple of decades.
Should've gatekeeped better, but otakus are autists and bastards for attention so they didn't shut up their mouths

>>81773265
>>81773285
>>81773313
I hate that normies outcast me for being into anime, gaming precovid, and then all of a sudden think it's cool. All the years of youth not having a gf because of the social ostracism.
>>81773316 is in the same boat

>>81773607
>>81773615
>moe is the bastion
I would think so. Zoomers are allergic to seeing something sexual, unless it's porn.

>>81773607
Soon they will make it too taboo to even create

>>81773544
Massively popular is a stretch. Outside of the handful of shows (mainly Sailor Moon, Pokemon, Digimon, DBZ) running on television networks targeting kids it was very niche.
There's a reason almost every distributor of anime from that era went bankrupt, including distributors like ADV Films who had the rights to popular era shows like Evangelion and Macross. It's many years of piracy that made it become more popular honestly.
I do agree with you though that media consumption shouldn't be your identity, but I also think there's nothing wrong with people not appreciating people signaling their love of their hobbies when they only appreciate the mass market entries and their adoption of it presents a real risk to the medium via financial incentives to westernize it.
This has happened with every traditionally "nerd" hobby in the last fifteen odd years. Normal people picking up traditionally outcast interests and shitting them up.

anime was for normalfags as soon as it showed up on adult swim, tons of normies watch it, it was only publicly shamed, privately a lot of them watched it.