Is anime a "lonely" hobby?

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Re: Is anime a "lonely" hobby?

Postby seasons » Sun Nov 01, 2009 1:15 am

ZephyrStar wrote:Sometimes I think I was born 10 years too early for the hobby. Seems like every high schoo/college has a club or a group of cosplay kids or at least some people who are into it. It was very lonely when I was starting HS (1994) and was the only kid that I knew of that knew what anime was. Course, I did live out in the country, and I did find a club at my college (which I chose not to attend very often because of some of the fans there.)


I feel the same way. Grew up in "the country" and got my hands on whatever I could, but in those days the pickings were scarce and of course no one else was into it. Just meeting someone else who knew what Akira was was pretty miraculous, but at the same time it certainly wasn't enough to bond over or anything like that.

My college had no anime club (or any clubs at all to speak of, really), the closest we came to this was the semi-regular group of students that would gather in the commons in the late afternoon to watch Dragonball, Gundam, or whatever was being shown on Toonami before the dining hall would open at 5:00. I really don't know how many people there would watch because they were "into anime" and how many were just watching it to be "ironic" or because they had nothing else to do. Anyway, I didn't really embrace my love for it until I'd left there, and now I find myself dabbling in a troublingly young scene and feeling a little jealous of how teens & tweens have it today.

By the time that I was out of college and working a part time job, I started to meet lots of other people who were really into anime and cosplaying. Unfortunately, they were mostly all just out of high school and the tiny but nevertheless tangible sense of maturity and personal responsibility that I'd built up in myself made it very difficult to socialize or identify with them, much less "join" their group. No disrespect to them or anything. We were just at different points in our lives and outside of enjoying a few DDR/Karaoke Revolution parties with them -- I was possibly only invited to bring alcohol but that's fine -- we just didn't have much in common.

I don't meant to sound bitter or anything. It's just that I really would like to have a core of friends into the same things as I am. I guess that's part of the reason I joined this site but even now, it seems like making that happen at this point is probably not very likely.
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Re: Is anime a "lonely" hobby?

Postby Evangelion Unit 01 » Sun Nov 01, 2009 6:24 pm

No when I first got into it I watched it with my younger brother and now I watch it with my fiancee. So I have always watched it with someone usually.
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Re: Is anime a "lonely" hobby?

Postby ZephyrStar » Tue Nov 03, 2009 10:40 am

/me pats Flourescences on the back. Us old guys have to stick together.

This site has been instrumental in my fandom however. I met all of my best friends through this site, and get together with everyone on a semi-regular basis. I look forward to Acen and AWA more than probably anything else out of the entire year.
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Re: Is anime a "lonely" hobby?

Postby saito558 » Fri Nov 06, 2009 12:26 am

Anime is never a lonely hobby because you get to see other people like you with the same interests and talk about the anime you like or how cool the latest episode is and show each other your anime stuff like figurines posters toys cosplay costume

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Re: Is anime a "lonely" hobby?

Postby LeapofFate » Fri Nov 06, 2009 2:37 am

Vivaldi wrote:In all seriousness, I first convince people I'm normal, personable, cool guy. After that gets imprinted on their minds, I can feel free to at least be open about, well, any of my nerdy hobbies. Though still without harping on them.


Remember, you define the impression of the hobby, not vice-versa (insofar as the two are separate things) If you're a personable guy. People aren't going to go "Oh look, he watches anime, what a nerd." They're going to go "he's a pretty cool guy, oh look, he watches anime too. That's coo' "

Or somesuch.


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I've told a lot of people about me watching anime and most people seem cool with it. I don't act like the typical "nerdy" kid so I guess people don't mind my hobby. I also tell my friends that I edit on occasion and show them some of it, but I always end up doing projects that require some sort of editing. :/
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Re: Is anime a "lonely" hobby?

Postby xPiikanyaa » Tue Dec 29, 2009 12:36 pm

It is for me. I only know, like, 5 other people in real life who like anime or manga, and they don't like the same series as me.
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Re: Is anime a "lonely" hobby?

Postby SovietJedi » Thu Dec 31, 2009 10:44 pm

Koopiskeva wrote:yes.

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HOT DAMN IT'S KOOPISKEVA!

Too bad I missed that post by about nine months.

Anyway, it's only a lonely hobby if you're one of those emo anime fans. I have friends who are anime fans, so it's not really a lonely hobby. We always talk about anime together, and it's with eachother that we usually get to here about new series to watch. I guess that proves it's always good to have friends with the same hobby as you.
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Re: Is anime a "lonely" hobby?

Postby Emotive » Fri Jan 01, 2010 3:10 am

SovietJedi wrote:
Koopiskeva wrote:yes.

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HOT DAMN IT'S KOOPISKEVA!

Too bad I missed that post by about nine months.

Oh my god he was! I hear he's a big deal on the internets. :o
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Re: Is anime a "lonely" hobby?

Postby Bixie » Sat Jan 02, 2010 10:01 pm

I don't really think it's a lonely hobby. I know this is a really lonely thing to say but, when I didn't have a companion who enjoyed anime I'd find friends among the anime itself. I was a very lonely child at home to begin with so.. I guess that had something to do with it. Either way now I have someone to talk to anime with. Although we don't really but still i guess it's nice to know someones there :oops:
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Re: Is anime a "lonely" hobby?

Postby NelTu » Sun Jan 03, 2010 4:32 pm

I live in L.A and pretty much every one I know likes anime, and video games and now that I think about it I cant think of a friend that doesn't do either or :D Maybe I'm just lucky
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Re: Is anime a "lonely" hobby?

Postby BaQuM » Mon Jan 04, 2010 11:47 am

Anime is shit in general with a few 'kindofcool' exceptions, can't blame people for not liking it.
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Re: Is anime a "lonely" hobby?

Postby SovietJedi » Mon Jan 04, 2010 3:10 pm

BaQuM wrote:Anime is shit in general with a few 'kindofcool' exceptions, can't blame people for not liking it.


Please, people. Don't feed the troll.
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Re: Is anime a "lonely" hobby?

Postby BaQuM » Mon Jan 04, 2010 3:22 pm

SovietJedi wrote:
BaQuM wrote:Anime is shit in general with a few 'kindofcool' exceptions, can't blame people for not liking it.


Please, people. Don't feed the troll.


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Re: Is anime a "lonely" hobby?

Postby Knowname » Mon Jan 04, 2010 7:43 pm

I have no qualms about Anime being profound. It's not, really, it's childish and fun. And that's why I love it :3
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Re: Is anime a "lonely" hobby?

Postby OzzieAlThor79 » Tue Feb 02, 2010 6:38 pm

BaQuM wrote:Anime is shit in general with a few 'kindofcool' exceptions, can't blame people for not liking it.


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