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Edo
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trackstar1013
 Posts: 179 Location: Canada |
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Not realy, I have one friend that is pretty popular and he has only seen one anime series and thats about it for the people I know. Lots of my friends watch anime (just the friends I hang out with) but there not realy that popular.
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Slayer
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Yes and no. I know of some "popular" people that do watch anime and manga, but at the same time they dont go around saying I LIKE ANIME YAY! I dont think there is a difference between popular people and non popular in the way that we can all like anime. See there are people out there that for some reason cant get into their minds that anime isnt some weird freaky japanese animation whos name is always Yugioh. Yes that right. I was watching FMA with a friend at school(he had a dvd) when a girl I know comes over and says "eww you dont watch that Yugioh stuff do you?". Im sure I could find an anime she would LOVE but forget it. I've noticed that people who dont like anime are highly religious .culturay ignorant stuborn people(no offense to the religious people on this forums).
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ShellBullet
 Posts: 1051 Location: I hit things, with my fist. |
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I don't see that, quite a few of the Christians in my midweek Bible study are into anime. Heck, I know my pastor has seen several Ghibli movies. Besides, I should point out that there is nothing wrong with not liking anime, it doesn't make someone "culturally ignorant" just because they don't prefer a particular form of entertainment. 
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Chiroptera Rex
 Space Cowboy Posts: 262 Location: The Batcave, Gotham City, Wisconsin. |
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Well, I know I'm popular and I love anime LOL.
I didn't watch anime in high school. Too busy with sports and studies and I did run with the popular crowd. In college I started to have more free time and I had friends and relatives who hooked me on movies like Akira and Ninja Scroll and I went from there. The first time I heard the word Otaku was in Metal Gear Solid when the scientist Hal Emmerich wanted Snake to call him Otacon. The scientist did seem like a nerd so I just inferred from the game that Otakus must be nerds. Well, I am now an otaku so I guess that I'm a nerd lol. All intellectuals are probably labeled nerds at one point. And they'd be called that by people who think they're too good to watch stuff and rather watch National Lampoon's movies or whatever. |
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Sir_Brass
 Posts: 476 Location: Prescott, AZ |
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Sorry, but it's still insulting to say that people with strong faith don't like anime for whatever reason. Even if you did say "no offense", it's still an ignorant statement. Now, very few, if any of my fellow Christian friends like anime (as far as I can tell, I'm one of the only Christian anime fans on campus), but that doesn't mean that we Christians don't like anime for some religious reason. Please consider just what you're saying before you post it. Some of us here take our faith quite seriously and don't enjoy getting bashed because of it (even if it was unintentional and accidental). |
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Ken Hayashi
 Posts: 752 Location: Singapore |
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I'm pretty popular around where I live, but most people don't know that I watch anime. I'm popular because of my personality. It has nothing to do with my watching anime (or not).
I have friends who watch anime but they're not really popular. |
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matticans
 Posts: 192 Location: Lewisville, Texas. |
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I am pretty popular. I have a shit load of friends in all places. I guess a lot of poeple that I know don't actually know about my anime hobby. Most people just know me as the skateboarding CKY guy, who likes to party. But my really good friends know about the anime and really don't care. But there is some people that give me the whole, "You watch that hentai stuff",and "So you like Poke'mon right." That shit annoys the hell out of me, but all I can do is ignore them most of the time.
But this once I got my revenge on this one popular jock guy. He found out I watched anime and bashed me in the middle of class. Well later that week when I was skateboarding, I saw him up at our local comic shop trading Yu-Gi-Oh cards. He got his monday morning  .
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one3rd
 Posts: 1818 Location: アメリカ |
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I agree completely. In fact, it seems to me that those who make a blanket statement to call Christians ignorant and stubborn only make themselves appear both ignorant and stubborn. But, then agan, ignorance and stubbornness are plagues on mankind in general. |
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littlegreenwolf
 Posts: 4796 Location: Seattle, WA |
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Haha, "popular". Heh. I like how that term seemed to of completely dissapeared after I left highschool.
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DownLoadJihad
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Yeah, lol, I haven't heard that term in years. 
I think later in life you're either "cool" or a "loser." A lot of it has to do with your career and how good looking you are, I guess, since there are no longer any Official Popularity rankings. |
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Haru to Ashura
 Posts: 617 Location: Termina |
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Unless you're very young (Middle schooler) or you live in a behind the times area, there really isn't that much of a heirarchy of popularity in today's highscools as there once used to be. It's more like a bunch of groups, clicks, whatever, mushed together. No group is more popular than the other. I'm coming close to the end of my senior year, and popularity doesn't really seem to exsist at my school, which is very nice. The only people who think that they're popular are, a) drunkards, or b) too stupid to realize that everyone dislikes them, they just won't say it outloud. It's nice. But there's still such a thing as the opposite of popularity, that is, geeks/dorks/losers that nobody really likes, etc.
(edit) As for the religious statements, I also resent those. There are plenty of religious/Christian/etc people that enjoy anime. Anime is a medium, not a genre. They can enjoy it as much as the next person. And calling us culturally ignorant is just untrue and rude, and hypocritical. The Christian faith, in theory, tries to reach out to all types of people, instead of just staying inclusive like other religions. Therefore, Christians would technically be more culturally enlightened than any other faith. People don't always carry this out prefectly, but don't let a few bad ones in backwater towns ruin it for all of us. |
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Mexicanime86
 Posts: 135 Location: Dallas, TX |
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I totally agree with you. I'm a devout Catholic, and I JUST LOVE ANIME AND MANGAS. The only Christians that I seem to remember not liking anime are those who are always in deep prayer, quoting from the New Testament (not the Old for some reason) and call anime a product of the devil (probably the backwater types.) I just think that we should just ignore those who don't like anime and just continue on with our fandom. We don't have to hate those who hate anime, just pray for their souls and hope that they will stop praising so much and go to live their lives. By the way, even though I'm not in high school any more, I do remember that there were not any popular kids, just the usual clicks. (I was in the JROTC click, but we all went to parties, clubs and raves every week.)  Long Live Class Of 2004!!!
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Edo
Posts: 88 Location: Ontari-ari-ari-o! |
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Haru to Ashura
Posts: 617 Location: Termina |
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Sorry, I was trying to make a point. And no, I wasn't thinking Islam. You're right, I guess this isn't the place for that, again, I'm sorry. But realize that I didn't start this argument. And furthermore, by you assuming that I was thinking of Islam, you're also making religious steroeotypes. And this isn't racism, as we are not talking about races, silly. :) So far we're all being civil about the matter, so I see no reason as to why this would be locked. What's the point of being in a forum if you can't have a bit of intelligent conversation, as long as it's kept friendly? Last edited by Haru to Ashura on Thu Mar 10, 2005 10:34 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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