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| Acmlm's Board - I3 Archive - Entertainment & Sports - My Anime Rant: Anime =/= Pokemon, YuGiOh, etc... |
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Clockworkz Birdon                   Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6308 days Last view: 6308 days |
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| Whenever I try to talk anime in school, everyone discourages me from my original point of shows like Hokuto no Ken, or Blood: The Last Vampire, and instead, say something like "Oh, Anime, huh? What's Pikachu up to this time?", or "Oh! Time to go Super Sayin, huh? Ka-me-ha-me-ha! Fuck off."
I try to talk about stuff like Hellsing and Full Metal Panic, but all I get are idiots telling me that I'm immature for watching animation. It really discourages me. Anyone else find themselves in a similiar situation? |
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Thoughtless [Danielle] Thoughtless is my secret lover [Danielle] *flutters eyelashes* [Thoughtless] SECRET IS OUT I miss my two pussies :( (Part II)  Since: 11-17-05 From: PR Last post: 6308 days Last view: 6308 days |
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| Not really.
I refuse to talk about anime during school. If I do, it is less than five minutes worth and only if someone else is acctually willing to discuss it with me. People are generally close-minded. You say 'anime/manga' and all they hear is 'Pikachi/DBZ/Digimon/YugiOh' or 'childish' What you should do, is actually find people who are willing to listen and join in such conversation. It sounds as if you were trying to talk about anime to people who prefer to talk about Nascar (An example). |
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Sukasa Birdo Not quite as active as before. Xkeeper supporter Xk > ||bass I IP Banned myself! Twice!  Since: 11-17-05 From: Somewhere over there Last post: 6309 days Last view: 6308 days |
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| No... Whenever I mention anime, people I talk to tend to think along the same lines as me, and not about cartoons for kids like pokemon or other cartoons like DBZ. I find that whenever I talk about the things I think are anime (gundam seed, InuYasha, etc.), other people share those thoughts. | |||
Tarale    2710 Affected by 'Princess Bitch-Face Syndrome' ++++!! Persona non grata Since: 11-17-05 From: Adelaide, Australia Last post: 6308 days Last view: 6308 days |
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| Yeah, I used to get a lot of this, which is why I seldom discuss anime with anybody who isn't already a fan.
All anime here is automatically "Pokemon", "Digimon" or whatever. A few more enlightened people have seen some badly dubbed versions of Initial D, InuYasha or Fullmetal Alchemist on the Australian version of Cartoon Network, and a handful of others watch the also badly dubbed Ghost In The Shell: Standalone Complex on SBS. A lot of those people are that have seen a little anime are actually somehow MORE irritating But those are all so rare so that I keep my mouth shut about anime in general. Some older people equate all anime to being Sailor Moon or Astro Boy depending on their age. |
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Sin Dogan 860  Uoodo Original Blend Armored Trooper Votoms Canned Coffee! Since: 11-17-05 Last post: 6312 days Last view: 6311 days |
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Yea, it's hard to find otaku at the same level as you are at school. Or anywhere(for me, at least) . But it doesn't matter because my brother and I are very close and he's like the only person I can REALLY talk to about anime. He knows more than I do. A LOT more. (Professor Ender on animeacademy.com) |
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Trapster King Dedede Since: 11-19-05 From: Sweden Last post: 6416 days Last view: 6308 days |
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Originally posted by Clockworkz They were EXACTLY like that at my old school, except for a little bunch of friends I used to hang out with. So I preferred not to talk about it. I remember when I liked the pokémon TV show and they used to tease me about it. |
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Valcion Knuckle Joe too much high power man  Since: 11-17-05 Last post: 6308 days Last view: 6308 days |
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| Its much better out of highschool. Trust me on this one.
although, you still get immature fucktards that go "Anime? GAY." I blame Naruto |
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Ailure Mr. Shine I just want peace...  Since: 11-17-05 From: Sweden Last post: 6308 days Last view: 6308 days |
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Originally posted by TaraleHere it's mostly Sailor moon, due to it being very popular a few years ago before Pokémon. My sister is a big fan of it, but I really wonder if it was dubbed from the Japanse or American version. (Swedes are not as picky as Americans when it comes at censoring stuff, but we have our limits too  ).
I actaulyl used to love the Pokémon animé at some point. Oh god. XD Ironically, I didn't care as much as when I got the game. :/ There's two type of annoying Animé people, the one who really hates it, and the ones who really loves it so much that they want to propose their tape and marry it. I actually met one of thoose later, and like the few nuts in the furry community thoose nuts tend to ruin for the Animé community. lol otakus.(edited by Catfish on 02-21-06 10:13 AM) |
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Tarale 2710 Affected by 'Princess Bitch-Face Syndrome' ++++!! Persona non grata Since: 11-17-05 From: Adelaide, Australia Last post: 6308 days Last view: 6308 days |
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| Anime fanboys and fangirls scare me MUCH MUCH more than people who don't know what anime is, or think it's all Sailor Moon.
I get a little concerned that some of them don't have much sense of reality. Scary scary scary!
I tend to get along with fairly middle of the road anime fans. Ones that can enjoy their fandom without getting all crazy |
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Thoughtless [Danielle] Thoughtless is my secret lover [Danielle] *flutters eyelashes* [Thoughtless] SECRET IS OUT I miss my two pussies :( (Part II) Since: 11-17-05 From: PR Last post: 6308 days Last view: 6308 days |
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| See, the crazy anime fans don't bother me unless they try to talk to me.
Because they have the worst timing ever. I can't even begin to count the times where I am simply relaxing talking with a girl or a friend of mine and some crazy anime fan who heard that I watched an anime they love comes up to me and straight out says "hey, ihearduluvevangelion" in one breath. Annoying as hell. |
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Skydude Armos Knight  Since: 02-18-06 From: Stanford, CA Last post: 6581 days Last view: 6581 days |
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| It does change a lot as you get into college, for two reasons.
The first is simply that you end up having a lot more people having seen some anime and maybe liking it through college friends and the like. The second really relates largely to why you're running into this problem in the first place. Anime's place in popular culture has really been changing a lot over the past few years. The most visible elements, at least in early years, were Sailor Moon, DBZ, and Pokemon, with Gundam Wing figuring solely into anyone's perception of the mecha community (which I've seen time and again). People who don't really know much about anime are likely to see those as the most 'real' examples; foreign views of American animation are less likely to include "The Simpsons" (popular as they are) as they are to include Disney stuff. That's just what most people see. Now, in more recent years anime has been growing a bit in popular culture due to the success of films like Metropolis, Princess Mononoke, and Spirited Away, though it is by no means complete. Even those who do recognize it are rather limited, and those are mostly college age and adults...so in high school you're certainly going to see exactly what you have. |
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Dudette Metal axe  Since: 11-28-05 Last post: 6387 days Last view: 6321 days |
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| I just don't talk about anime to anyone anymore; I just got so fed up with all the stereotypes. The one's who assume or think that it's all just pokemon, sailor moon etc. I have just one good friend who I share my interest about anime with now, cause we are both “newbies� I guess, it’s easier for us to learn and watch.
Pokemon was huge at my school, the trading cards mostly. I used to watch pokemon but lost interest after I experienced true/proper anime. I can't believe that I used to be able to resite all 150 pokemon off the top of my head. I do find it hard though to talk to people about anime, I haven't watched much anime, as Tarale said, anime here is basically referred to as pokemon or digimon and when your someone who doesn't have cable or know the right places to go to get a wider range of anime shows, you start to feel left out. I'm still new to all these anime. |
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Jilkon Cappy  Since: 11-27-05 From: Teh Sweden Last post: 6389 days Last view: 6338 days |
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| I'm currently learning Japanese.. so pretty much everyone in my class watches anime/reads manga. But I seem to be the only guy who's really into anime, manga AND games. The others are like split up in factions and I'm the mediator who knows a lot about everything. | |||
Kattwah Acro RIP Acmlm's Board: Feb. 18 2007  Since: 11-17-05 Last post: 6308 days Last view: 6308 days |
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This is why Im glad we have an actual anime club in school... you get people who ACTUALLY want to talk about REAL anime, manga, and games. The club may be only 20 people, but thats a fair enough amount out of a 800 person high school. Plus Ive made some new friends with some common interests 
On the other hand, almost every teacher in school shuns us from sponsorship... so... my two cents right there.  |
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Sin Dogan 860 Uoodo Original Blend Armored Trooper Votoms Canned Coffee! Since: 11-17-05 Last post: 6312 days Last view: 6311 days |
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Originally posted by Jilkon Yea, I know what that's like. :B |
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Skydude Armos Knight Since: 02-18-06 From: Stanford, CA Last post: 6581 days Last view: 6581 days |
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| Like I said, just wait until you get into college, and then things'll get a lot better...
While my high school didn't have an anime club, I was relatively fortunate in that there were a few other friends of mine with whom I shared interests of that sort...I guess in a way that was a sort of "support group" for the lot of us |
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Anya  Since: 11-18-05 From: South Florida Last post: 6311 days Last view: 6309 days |
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| You know what I noticed:
When I was back in school, it was mostly about Sailor Moon and that type of anime. Maybe some Aikra and so forth, but it wasn't talked about that much at my school and it was a time when I was just starting to get into anime (I was 17). Then there was this break when I didn't worry about anime, nor talked about it. But when I started to work at Gamestop, OMG, I was in heaven. I learned about anime that I never knew about (same goes for talking with Colin and TJ online) and now talking about anime is common place, especially with the 20-something crowd. |
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Tommathy Since: 11-17-05 From: Cloud Nine, Turn Left and I'm There~ Last post: 6308 days Last view: 6308 days |
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| To be fair, it's like that with any field... like, if I say "I like rap" you'll all get images of Eminem and 50 cent dancing in your heads, while I'm more inclined towards, say, MC Solaar.
Or if I exp |
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Adamant Buzz Blob Staff Wii have Wii  Since: 11-17-05 From: Norway Last post: 6308 days Last view: 6308 days |
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Originally posted by CatfishOriginally posted by TaraleHere it's mostly Sailor moon, due to it being very popular a few years ago before Pokémon. My sister is a big fan of it, but I really wonder if it was dubbed from the Japanse or American version. (Swedes are not as picky as Americans when it comes at censoring stuff, but we have our limits too It was dubbed from the japanese original. If you found the swedish version bad, you don't want to touch the american one, believe me. As for the pickyness you mentioned, I guess you mean Zoicite's sex change in the swedish dub. In that case, that was apparantly a mistake, because the translator was a moron who can't see the difference between men and women. As for the american dub, however, THERE the sex change was due to american soccer moms being homophobic bastards. |
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RedFlameZero Bot  Since: 01-28-06 From: Syracuse Last post: 6323 days Last view: 6315 days |
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well ... im a HUGE fan of Anime ... but many animes are to Damn Predictible i mean ... you know the good guy will allways come on top but Geez let the Evil basterd who is Nuking millions have his Day!  |
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