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What is your opinion as to why anime is nerdy?

Postby johnny46 » Sat Mar 21, 2009 12:12 am

I've been hearing it a lot, "Anime is nerdy" or "Watching anime is nerdy." The only thing I can think of is the "anime is my life"kind of fans make it seem nerdy with your figurines and your cos play and your posters and lifesize pillows in shape of a girl.
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Re: What is your opinion as to why anime is nerdy?

Postby TerraRose » Sat Mar 21, 2009 12:19 am

Obsession with fantasy is nerdy. Showing it off in everyday life is nerdier.

Why stop at that? The truly ignorant say cartoons are for kids. I'm obsessed with anime but i'm not huge on paraphenilia, it's not really worth it to have pointless merchandise. The source material (anime and manga) is good enough for me.
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Re: What is your opinion as to why anime is nerdy?

Postby Pas » Sat Mar 21, 2009 12:53 am

johnny46 wrote:What is your opinion as to why anime is nerdy?

I don't think anime is nerdy.

On the other hand, you may have fans of anime who are nerdy. That doesn't make the hobby itself nerdy.
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Re: What is your opinion as to why anime is nerdy?

Postby The Origonal Head Hunter » Sat Mar 21, 2009 1:32 am

There's nothing basically nerdy about anime itself (or figurines or cosplay for that matter), but, like all hobbies and interests, it can be taken to an extreme.
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Re: What is your opinion as to why anime is nerdy?

Postby Kariudo » Sat Mar 21, 2009 2:04 am

It's different, and it's a minority interest (when compared to stuff like soap operas or reality tv).
That makes it easy to make fun of. The "nerdy" kids are mostly the ones who by some means show that they are into anime, and so anime is lumped in with the other "nerdy" things.

It doesn't help that the most anime exposure the majority have are Pokemon, Digimon, etc...
which leads people to think that all anime is just kiddy stuff from Japan (if only we could get something like Elfen Lied into a network's primetime lineup)
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Re: What is your opinion as to why anime is nerdy?

Postby Ishbalan » Sat Mar 21, 2009 3:06 am

It's because people who like anime tend to like other nerdy stuff like high-end PC games and D&D. We also tend to be smarter and we are knowledgable in things that most people couldn't begin to understand. People call us nerds to overshadow their own deficiencies in what we excel in.
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Re: What is your opinion as to why anime is nerdy?

Postby Taokato » Sat Mar 21, 2009 4:10 am

As the other said before, anime is not nerdy. Anime is an own culture, that includes j-music, visuel kei, cosplay, etc.
What makes you think that anime is nerdy and disney or marvel not?

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Re: What is your opinion as to why anime is nerdy?

Postby hasteroth » Sat Mar 21, 2009 10:47 am

Who cares if it's nerdy?
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Re: What is your opinion as to why anime is nerdy?

Postby InsaneWaya » Sun Mar 22, 2009 2:36 am

I think a lot of different reasons can be given here, few examples.

1. Most people that can truly say they are a anime fan watch it online and spend hours on a computer, to many that would be considered a nerdy thing to do, so i think the fact its become associated with computers may have some effect to it.

2. All the cos play and w/e...for some people its a neverending star wars atm and lets be honest, there are star wars nerds, and then theres anime nerds, ig you've seen a ton of different anime and have corrected people on the names of characters or locations, well then your getting to a high point in anime nerdum O:.

3. Not to say this is true for everyone, but most people i know that like anime, are what would be considered a "nerd" at school.

On a side note i think this also depends on location, and how the people around you act. If everyone you know in rl is also on a comp a whole lot they might just consider it a hobby and you wont be considered a nerd.

All around i get what your saying and theres no really good reason why if you ask me, but then again who cares. Everyone likes there own stuff, anime is just more popular and gets looked at differently i think. I know some people think its nerdy because its from japan and..well im sure we all know the nerdy asian stuff. But yeah, personally i dont care what other people think about this.
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Re: What is your opinion as to why anime is nerdy?

Postby InsaneWaya » Sun Mar 22, 2009 2:40 am

Kariudo wrote:It doesn't help that the most anime exposure the majority have are Pokemon, Digimon, etc...
which leads people to think that all anime is just kiddy stuff from Japan (if only we could get something like Elfen Lied into a network's primetime lineup)


Double post, sorry but i must agree with this too, many kids were exposed to those animes as kids and that is considered the standard by many i think, and yeah, elfen lied or something like that would probably changed their minds on it a little if you ask me.
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Re: What is your opinion as to why anime is nerdy?

Postby AMVguru » Sun Mar 22, 2009 9:27 pm

1: how do u define 'nerdy' i always thought a nerd was the intellectual type with no physical output whats-o-ever. im dumb as stones and quite athletic and i still love my anime.

2: I think our obsession with fantasy is more of a fascination. personally i'd love to run on water throw some shurikan before using my zampakto to blow up a building and rain down hell with my psychic abilitys. that'd be a way cooler life then jim how lives down the block and and works 9-5 at sobey's!!

3: cosplay, doll collection, AMVs what ever works for u. doll collecting i don't fully understand but i don't know how the garbage man gets up and does his job EVERY DAY ether!! and while i haven't done any cosplay i have to say that some ppl put in a lot of effort and i have often found myself surprised.

4: and as 'Kariudo' said, it is true that most of the anime down here is pokemon, digimon ect. but last time i checked pokemon was the $h!t when i was a kid and most ppl think thats all there is to anime. Deathnote, Bleach, Busou Renkin, Clannad, Cowboy Bebop ppl don't even know they exist and if they did im sure that they'd have a better perspective.

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Re: What is your opinion as to why anime is nerdy?

Postby ann34busyl » Mon Mar 23, 2009 1:06 pm

I personally don't think anime is nerdy now but I used to, and I think that was just because that's what everyone else thought. Just another thing that people belived to be true because that's what they heard from others.

We are flooded with the majority opinion of others throughout our lives and we can't help but think that is the truth until we are proven otherwise.

The Origonal Head Hunter wrote:There's nothing basically nerdy about anime itself (or figurines or cosplay for that matter), but, like all hobbies and interests, it can be taken to an extreme.


I agree. Someone can take their admiration for anime too far, but that can be said for almost any hobby.

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Re: What is your opinion as to why anime is nerdy?

Postby 76 » Mon Mar 23, 2009 3:15 pm

Summary: Anime can be a nerdy hobby; like anything: it depends on the person. Is there a large margin of people who take it too seriously? Well, google "anime" and find out for yourself, though again, you could probably do this for any hobby or subject.

Do anime fans tend to be significantly nerdier than otherwise? In my opinion: yes. Though that's entirely because of the much wider spectrum anime has over other forms of media. The many genres it takes, being book and video-formatted.[Anime Manga], action figures to dolls and *ahem* adult merchandise.

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Re: What is your opinion as to why anime is nerdy?

Postby OzzieAlThor79 » Wed Mar 25, 2009 3:55 pm

*I* am not a nerd.

*I* am a geek.

Nerds are super smart and are not capable of having a conversation well with other humans (making them incapeable of speaking to the opposite sex). :book:

Geeks are not as smart, however are still into something more then you average person would be. They however can speak to girls and not have a mental brakedown before doing so.

You can also "be a geek" for something and not actually BE a geek. Everyone "geeks" out for something in their life. They get more excited then those around them for one particular thing.
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Re: What is your opinion as to why anime is nerdy?

Postby The Origonal Head Hunter » Wed Mar 25, 2009 4:12 pm

OzzieAlThor79 wrote:*I* am not a nerd.

*I* am a geek.

Nerds are super smart and are not capable of having a conversation well with other humans (making them incapeable of speaking to the opposite sex). :book:

Geeks are not as smart, however are still into something more then you average person would be. They however can speak to girls and not have a mental brakedown before doing so.

You can also "be a geek" for something and not actually BE a geek. Everyone "geeks" out for something in their life. They get more excited then those around them for one particular thing.

This explains why Geek Squad is useless.
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