r/TrueAnime • u/FuwaSoft • 15d ago

Be My Friend pls Any Old Heads Lurking Around Here?

Where are my brothers who do the Hare Hare Yukai, Boku No Pico trial by fire, 2d>3d motherfuckers.
I started watching 2009 and was an avid fan until around 2019 when I felt the community had become far too diluted by normies to enjoy anymore. If anyone remembers the golden days of watching Elfen Lied and School Days until 4 am on Kissanime hit me up I want more friends man.

talk to me Im 23

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u/Sky_Sumisu 11d ago

Started on 2012 (Technically there's anime I've watched before that, but let's say 2012), and I'm 26.
I would recommend this video to you, I watched it seven years ago: It's not that it's "full of normies" as much as "you stopped moving and got surrounded by them".

For the past two seasons where I've been watching a ton of seasonals, one thing I've noticed is that BARELY ANY PEOPLE really talk about seasonals. I saw a lot of people talking about GQuuuuuuX while it was airing, but to this day I have yet to see a single post about "Kijin Gentoushou" on Twitter.
Believe me when I say: Normies aren't talking about anime.
They might be talking about "Solo Leveling edits on TikTok" or about "Dubbed DanDaDan", or even about "One Piece discourse", but they're almost never talking about anime in general.
I don't have to worry about normies talking about my favorites this season because they have no idea what "Clevatess" or "Turkey" are.

If your problem is with normies, you just gotta do it like me: Just keep always moving, always watching some new anime (Be it a seasonal or one which is already finished).
Not for "a sense of necessity", not "forcing yourself to do it", but rather doing it naturally because, well, that's what a fan of something does.

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u/FuwaSoft 11d ago

that's an interesting point of view, I can see you what you mean though because of the more mainstream appeal most anime nowadays are just isekai number 378 and a million second seasons and movies ect, most companies are afraid to take a chance on an original interesting story because they'd rather the guaranteed audience they would get from another cookie cutter isekai or another season for something already successful since the audience is big enough to support that now

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u/Sky_Sumisu 10d ago

I can see you what you mean though because of the more mainstream appeal most anime nowadays are just isekai number 378

Going by MAL's seasonal lists, no isekai was on the most popular seasonals for the last three seasons.
In fact, of the 20 seasons I've been watching this season, the amount of them that are isekai is... zero.
And of those 20 I'm watching, five of them are original anime.