Researchers determine that anime fans are at the bottom of the high school social hierarchy
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First hour is okay though? Man I wish I knew that back in high school. I'd have started the schooldays wearing my beloved hentai sweatshirt too.
I wish there were an anime club in hs. Stuff was all on vhs and expensive and hard to get back in the day
i used to have a huge collection of anime vhs tapes, gave those fuckers away as soon as i moved
not even Cutie Honey is worth lugging that mass around from state to state
As someone who was part of my high school's anime club......... lol yeah, definitely accurate.
Although half of us were also art kids so not all of us were completely unfortunate. The lot that were only into anime and had nothing else going for them, tho, oh jeez. They felt awkward even to most of us in the club lol.
Although half of us were also art kids so not all of us were completely unfortunate. The lot that were only into anime and had nothing else going for them, tho, oh jeez. They felt awkward even to most of us in the club lol.
I would read mangas back in HS and only ever watched Attack on Titan. I thought that was a qualifier for liking anime. I was wrong. So wrong.
The anime club was so fucking weird, about as bad as the furries, with their main competition for creeps being Whovians, Sherlockians, and Superwholockians.
I remember two of them were in my class and when roll call began, one insisted on being called "Shadow" and another "Sasuke."
Them being *really* into anime was def a symptom of something else. They were normally loud and obnoxious, with no social empathy, and looked like they rarely exercised or bathed. Not to mention they were pedantic and looked down upon mainstream entertainment. The guys were sexist and always spouting "girls dont like me because I'm a nerd." Bruh, with the amount girl nerds in the Bay Area, they don't like you because you're repugnant.
The only person who got a pass for liking anime too much was our resident Japanese exchange student. I think it was because they wanted to see her in Lolita cosplay more.
The anime club was so fucking weird, about as bad as the furries, with their main competition for creeps being Whovians, Sherlockians, and Superwholockians.
I remember two of them were in my class and when roll call began, one insisted on being called "Shadow" and another "Sasuke."
Them being *really* into anime was def a symptom of something else. They were normally loud and obnoxious, with no social empathy, and looked like they rarely exercised or bathed. Not to mention they were pedantic and looked down upon mainstream entertainment. The guys were sexist and always spouting "girls dont like me because I'm a nerd." Bruh, with the amount girl nerds in the Bay Area, they don't like you because you're repugnant.
The only person who got a pass for liking anime too much was our resident Japanese exchange student. I think it was because they wanted to see her in Lolita cosplay more.
Opinions are subjective. You can't speak for all anime fans. Many anime fans love Sword Art Online and it's perfectly valid to recommend it to newcomers. It's one of the most popular anime for a reason. Sword Art Online might be considered the peak of the anime form with its focus on wish fulfilment male power fantasies (this of course means sexual fanservice for the virgins and rape scenes are perfectly fine as just mere challenges for the hero) that can be inspiring for losers to finally go up a level in the social hierarchy. Please try to understand the importance of Sword Art Online to losers.
I was the single anime fan in my grade in high school (weird since I didn't really watch quite as much back then)
I was also the guy known for jackin it to hentai
I was also the guy known for jackin it to hentai
I meant the first hour because thats how much it should take at most for some teacher or whatever to notice and demand he takes it off and throws it in the trash. I cant see how my post wasnt clear.
Did you throw that fact around back then or something? The only way anyone would know that about you is if you told ppl about it.
Nothing wrong with masturbating to hand-crafted 2D animation beauty than crude live-action figures who don't recognise the art of sex.
One day, some us guys were talkin about what kind of porn we watched, and that was what I told them. A bunch of kids teased me about this all throughout high school, and so I went like 5 or so years without watching hentai afterwards.
One of the coolest guys in my high school was an anime fan but never really talked about unless he was mocking it himself.
Oof, I fit right into this. High-functioning autism with a history of more severe autism put me into an odd spot when I graduated from special ed around senior year. College has been extraordinarily great for my social development and sense of self vs. high school.
On the contrary, my dad thrived in high school despite being an original Trekkie with family issues and similar ASD expression. I think being in a rather strict, hypocritical extracurricular program (marching band) made me reevaluate my life goals and why I felt so numb and conplacent about myself.
Damn I feel like the anime fans at my highschool were a mixed bag. A lot of the artsy and emo kids were anime fans, and from what I remember a lot of them were fairly popular because they were in bands and shit.
Also, my HS taught Japanese so that's where a bunch of the anime kids were lol.
The Japanese teacher was actually one of my dad's students, and he would come over to our house sometimes. It was super awkward seeing him in the hallways because he'd start speaking to me in Japanese and I hated being put on the spot like that.
Also, my HS taught Japanese so that's where a bunch of the anime kids were lol.
The Japanese teacher was actually one of my dad's students, and he would come over to our house sometimes. It was super awkward seeing him in the hallways because he'd start speaking to me in Japanese and I hated being put on the spot like that.
I tried joining an anime club once in college to try to make friends and figured that I should look for clubs that had similar interests to mine.
I lasted a day in anime club. I wanted out after 30 minutes. Everyone there was so embarrassing. It was then that I realized that there are some groups even I'm way too inherently cool for.
Too many hardcore anime fans are fucking weirdos.
I lasted a day in anime club. I wanted out after 30 minutes. Everyone there was so embarrassing. It was then that I realized that there are some groups even I'm way too inherently cool for.
Too many hardcore anime fans are fucking weirdos.
I was part of the "loner" club and even I distanced myself from the anime group. And this was when anime was good
jk
Though most of HS I pretty much flat out didn't care about making freinds outside of the few HFA students in SE.
The shit happens, freinds get expelled/graduate, and I start questioning what the fuck I'm gonna do with myself when I leave school.
During my final year I made massive progress on my social skills and made some great freinds.
But yeah, actively not paying attention to and interacting with other students around you because you don't care about them can really stunt you socially.
I didn't get bullied though. Just ignored by everyone in turn.
Yep. Back in the late 90s anime wasn´t really a thing in my school, so the weird kids gravitated to Magic.
In my class there was a clearly divide between popular ones, the stoners, and the nerds(anime fans, yu gi oh fans, nintendo fans, comic fans, xbone fans and pc gamers, cartoon fans and some geeks ones), this was my group, but the thing is that the nerds were the biggest group, at first the popular ones and the stoners were mean and look down on us every time someone was playing yugioh between class or drawning cartoon and parodies in the whiteboard or playing marvel vs capcom in a laptop, nintendo fans talking about super smash bros DLC, or watching attack on titan or SAO, eventually thank to this most of my group became friends with each others and some even married, this is how i began playing yu gi oh seriously, read manga and playing lol and Dota 2.
Edit: at the beginning it was really rough, but latter it became one of the best times during my life, and is curious but nobody was super ankward, except only one weird guy, the majority tried to talk to him but he was too agressive with weird mannerish so eventually the majority stop talking to him, there was times when we had pity of him so we tried to socialize with him but only for a little time because he would do something really stupid.
Edit: at the beginning it was really rough, but latter it became one of the best times during my life, and is curious but nobody was super ankward, except only one weird guy, the majority tried to talk to him but he was too agressive with weird mannerish so eventually the majority stop talking to him, there was times when we had pity of him so we tried to socialize with him but only for a little time because he would do something really stupid.
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That movie will bomb so hard. Those eyes are uncanny valley all the way.
I guess I was a "Floater" in high school. I had no idea there was a name for that. Me and some other friends were into anime, but we were never super open about it. Anime club was always super fucking weird. Our school had a fucking Super Smash Bros club that was less embarrassing then whatever the hell was going on with anime club
I can't really say that this was the norm at my high-school (germany in the 90s) but maybe i'm to old for this.
Sure we had popular kids, jocks, nerds, weird kids, loners, etc. but to be 100% honest the groups were somewhat open and most of us liked/tolerated each other.
I wasn't part of the cool kids or the jocks but hat some friends in these groups. I was invited to the same parties, wasn't bullied (bullying wasn't that big in our classes) and was just able to "enjoy" my school years.
We openly played magic or even the pokemon card game, talked about movies, videogames and anime without being laughed at.
But maybe i was one of the lucky ones. We watched out for each other a bit. We surely hada few kids who were targeted from outside our class but we involved them as good as possible so that bullies never had a real chance to get to them without angering a whole lot of us. That happened only once and ended quickly.
Sure we had popular kids, jocks, nerds, weird kids, loners, etc. but to be 100% honest the groups were somewhat open and most of us liked/tolerated each other.
I wasn't part of the cool kids or the jocks but hat some friends in these groups. I was invited to the same parties, wasn't bullied (bullying wasn't that big in our classes) and was just able to "enjoy" my school years.
We openly played magic or even the pokemon card game, talked about movies, videogames and anime without being laughed at.
But maybe i was one of the lucky ones. We watched out for each other a bit. We surely hada few kids who were targeted from outside our class but we involved them as good as possible so that bullies never had a real chance to get to them without angering a whole lot of us. That happened only once and ended quickly.
I took Japanese in college, and oh boy, some of the people in that class...
They spoke in internet memes and pop culture quotes constantly. Me and one of the only other "normal" people in that class were constantly giving each other the "can you believe what this asshole just said?" look. I was embarrassed for these people, because even though I enjoy manga and (to a lesser extent) anime as well, I at least know how to communicate like a fucking human being.
Also, I remember spending a full 2 hour class sitting in silence as the entire classroom went around sharing their victim stories about how hard it was growing up as an anime fan. I'm certain a good percentage of them want on to become Gamer Gaters.
They spoke in internet memes and pop culture quotes constantly. Me and one of the only other "normal" people in that class were constantly giving each other the "can you believe what this asshole just said?" look. I was embarrassed for these people, because even though I enjoy manga and (to a lesser extent) anime as well, I at least know how to communicate like a fucking human being.
Also, I remember spending a full 2 hour class sitting in silence as the entire classroom went around sharing their victim stories about how hard it was growing up as an anime fan. I'm certain a good percentage of them want on to become Gamer Gaters.
Hahahaha, no. We don't activelu discuss it or have a huge neon arrow pointing at us saying "WE WATCH ANIME" but a lot of people these days with normal jobs, relationships frkendships, etc all watch Anime. Like A LOT of people.
If you're alone all the time, how can you judge your own popularity if you never know what others actually think of you?
Here's why Anme Club kids are shunned:
- They're overzealous about it.
- Terrible hygiene
- Poor social skills
- Many of them are red pillers/Alt-Right
- Group tends to be lilly-white
Mostly I was friendly and well liked when I was around others, however the caveat was that I always just kind of went off doing my own things and that usually did not involve others, shrug.
Basically, liking anime is the least of the actual causes. I mean, don't get me wrong, I have sympathy for the bullied. Hurt people hurt people, and all that. But it's just wrong to frame anime as the source for that bullying, and addressing the real issues could actually be helpful to them.
Being a fan of anime is not the problem. The problem is, if you are literally unable to carry a conversation that is not about anime or manga, then you are weird. Same as with videogames, drugs, or anything else for that matter.
why is anime so popular in the west these days anyway? when i grew up in the 90s i didn't know a single person who liked anime, it wasnt even a thing. we played a lot of Japanese videogames but no one cared about cartoons.
it's interesting. how did it blow up without me noticing at all?
it's interesting. how did it blow up without me noticing at all?
4chan soaked up all the high functioning kids on the spectrum in the meantime. Especially the white boys for some reason.
It's a dog eat dog world. Even the biggest of weebs have to learn to adapt and fit in with the crowd. If not you are just going to have a miserable high school experience and even open yourself up to possibly being bullying. It's fucked up but for some reason that's just how high school is in America.
I grew up in the 90s and when you turned on the kids programm it was full of anime. o.o
edit: but of course different countries show different stuff. from dragonball to the arina tanemura stuff, we got everything
Pokémon, Sailor Moon, Transformers, Dragon Ball - anime was indeed everywhere during the 90s. Later on, you had Studio Ghibli stuff become popular.
But that's mainstream anime. When people are self consciously part of the anime/manga crowd, that's usually not what they mean.
Looking back my life was well ruined before I got into anime in a serious way. I was already into comics, games and the like in the mid to late 90s it was something else to add to the pile lol. I doubt I would personally have turned out any different regardless.
Honestly I agree.
Not saying every anime fan wasn't popular at school. But if you had to compare the percentage of socially awkward anime fans compared to say socially awkward football fans. It's usually anime fans that are at a much higher percentage that are socially awkward.
Not saying every anime fan wasn't popular at school. But if you had to compare the percentage of socially awkward anime fans compared to say socially awkward football fans. It's usually anime fans that are at a much higher percentage that are socially awkward.
How times change.
Back when I was in school in the 90's, everyone referred to Japanese animation as "Manga" (no-one knew the term "Anime", nor that the term "Manga" actually meant comics), and all the cool kids were into it, buying and exchanging VHS tapes.
Back when I was in school in the 90's, everyone referred to Japanese animation as "Manga" (no-one knew the term "Anime", nor that the term "Manga" actually meant comics), and all the cool kids were into it, buying and exchanging VHS tapes.
