cross-posted from: https://thelemmy.club/post/58638834
Disclaimer: if you’re nothing like the people I’m describing, please don’t take it personally. Otherwise enjoy the rant
Anime fans: Come on casual fans. All we’ve done is share a space to talk about anime. And yet you still don’t like us, how can you not like us?
Me:… Ok, I’ll tell you
You’re the worst community I’ve known. You constantly berate Japanese writers & animators for not meeting your standards. They pull crunch hours to meet demands at the cost of their lives and this is how you repay them? And to add insult to injury, you don’t respect their traditions whenever you visit their country.
And you guys are such gatekeepers, you get offended whenever someone either watches something mainstream or something niche. And what really bugs me, is that you use the term “mid” as an insult, expecting it to mean offensively bad or such. Yeah, I’ve seen some shows I would consider “mid”, but I can use the term appropriately, since I have some level of tolerance towards those shows. I’m not getting upset and making rants on “how mid anime is ruining the industry” or “they’re not as good as how a visionary like Hayao Miyazaki would make it”. He isn’t, he’s an anti-social asshole who’s impossible to please. And that’s why you respect him so much, he’s you. GOD YOU’RE PRETENTIOUS.
And you delude yourself into thinking tsuderes or “muscle girls” are peak waifus, even though they’re emotionally obnoxious. Like, I doubt you’ll last night with girls like that.
And what really bugs me, is how you treat anime like it’s superior to anything from the west; like “how MHA is superior to Marvel or DC” or “Death Note is a better downfall story than Wolf of Wall Street”. Well what argument can you make? I can make an argument on how Zootopia is superior to BNA. If you can make an argument against it, be my guest.
BTW, learning Japanese just to watch anime without subtitles is redundant, so you might as well watch it dubbed. OH WAIT, you won’t watch anime dubbed, “because it’s the wrong way to watch anime”. Well who the hell gives you the right to say that? The majority of you guys are from English speaking countries. Which isn’t bringing up the fact on how often you harass both English and Japanese actors on social media. How’s that cringe Twitter post that you’re using to farm for likes. But I’ll forgive all of it, ALL OF IF, IF.YOU.WEREN’T.SUCH.HACKS. That’s the worst part about you guys. You guys are nothing less than a bunch of snobbish, hypocritical, pathetic HACKS.
Well that’s it, sayo fucking nara
I think you’re wrong on the learning Japanese front. There’s plenty that doesn’t translate to subs or subs well. I’m not spending the time to learn Japanese for that though. But I’m not gonna diss anyone who does.
Sorry you’ve had such bad experiences with the fandom. But I think that kind of stuff comes with most things with an actual fandom. Fan comes from fanatic after all. There’s seemingly always people to take things too far or too seriously. It’s entertainment. People need to lighten up.