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EVA fiend
 Posts: 314 Location: Somewhere in the UK. |
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@ OP: Your school anime club sounds more like just a club where casual fans hang out, as opposed to a club for the more serious anime fan. If they make you feel uncomfortable, I'd just move on; you're bound to come across anime fans with similar interests to yours sooner or later.
The anime club I'm a member of is not part of a school or college, but a club organised & run by a group of three fans, all of whom work for a living. The club only meets once a fortnight due to RL commitments, & the venue for the club is the upstairs of a pub, which generally means no one under 18 is allowed in, so in effect, all the members are folk in their early-to-mid 20's, with a smattering of uni students. We all have different anime genres that we prefer, as well as different eras (I'm the 'old skool' member), but it's a pretty laid back club, so there are no huge egos & we get along pretty well. 
All of my RL mates watch anime to one degree or another (they love movies, but only a couple will tolerate TV series), but none of them are as 'into' anime as I am, so more often than not, when I watch anime, I watch it alone; I've been doing that for so long that it doesn't bother me in the slightest. |
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varmintx
 Posts: 1235 Location: Covington, KY |
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This thread is all over the place. Anyway, I started a discussion about the university club I attended...once. A couple of nice posts about the glory days, but for the most part, experiences tended to be negative.
There's no reason to break a post up into paragraphs if the person doesn't break from one subject to another. And...pictures of ourselves? Would you rather see how butt-ugly we all are, or look at a nice picture of Misato? |
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Anthony P
Posts: 227 Location: Phoenix, Arizona, US |
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I actually used a picture of myself as an avatar for awhile; maybe I'll do that again. I know Randall Miyashiro uses his real name and a pic of himself as an avatar; hats off to him 
I've heard all sorts of people speak of "converting" their friends like that, and it's really not a good idea. For one, it won't work; no one's going to enjoy watching something they weren't at least semi-interested in seeing, and they'll like it even less if you pressure them to watch it. Also, trying to "convert" your friends is quite disrespectful to your friends and their own sets of interests. |
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creativename
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Say what you will, it works rather well. It's not disrespectful unless you take on a religious fanaticism for it, merely showing them anime is the best method. |
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selenta
 Subscriber Posts: 1774 Location: Seattle, WA |
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It is one thing to 'convert' your friends and try and convince them that your interests are better than theirs; it's quite another to expose them to something they otherwise would not have been, backed with a recommendation from a friend who's interests coincide enough with their own to wish to hang out together. |
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Randall Miyashiro
 Posts: 2451 Location: A block away from Golden Gate Park |
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Sorry, but I have always used my real name. My avatars have been also of me (both animated and live action) from a series that I worked on a few years ago. My character (the main villain) would frequently appear on various monitors and televisions yo taunt the main character. I've always found the internet already feels a bit impersonal without all the aliases and handles. I noticed a few people here also use the web page link to link to their personal sites, which I tend to check out. |
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SmashRackets4Fun
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Well, my friends got me into anime but they only watched Naruto and Bleach and very few other shows. so right now, I'm probably the biggest anime fan... I dont care if no one watches the animes I watch, watching anime with my friends sometimes isnt all that great since they tend to talk and make fun and I just wanna watch the show. so right now, only one of my friend is an anime fan really... fine with me.
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Cloe
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 Posts: 2728 Location: Los Angeles, CA |
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Welcome to anime fandom. I've just about had it with real life anime fans because of experiences similar to the one you've described, and finding an interesting, articulate person who is sensitive to your interests is next to impossible to find in any kind of rampant fandom. Take heed of the advice to hang around the forum; I've had the pleasure of making great friends here I'm not ashamed to say I feel close to: dormcat, Tony K, Jadress, the now missing Kazuki-san and jfrog (the latter whom I've spent a week with IRL), and many others. There are good people here. If I were you, I wouldn't feel so self-conscious talking about anime around your non-anime friends. I'm sure it wouldn't offend them if you brought up a subject you find interesting when it's relevant to a conversation. I met one of my dearest and closest friends, for instance, through anime music. I was listening to the Arjuna OST and he made a passing comment about it, and we struck up a conversation from there. If your friends actually have a problem with you talking about anime, then they were never real friends to begin with.
Heck, a picture of me has been available for ages, with access right here in the forum. People don't pay enough attention to the little "www." It doesn't bother me to have my picture and information out there (I'm a self-promoting freelancer, after all), but I can understand how it would make some people uncomfortable. |
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Viga_of_stars
 Posts: 1240 Location: Washington D.C. in the Anime Atelier |
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maybe its time to look outside the school for anime friends. Conventions, regional clubs, anime stores, online.... meetup.com can also help you meet new fan friends. but i know some people base thoughts on others on the association of their group such as. u see a black guy hanging with a bunch of crackheads. you automatically think he's a crackheaded black guy even if he's not. plus if your friends are really friends they wouldnt care if you were an anime fan. if they say you suck of sum crap F them you could be hanging with better people anyway. maybe you could help the other anime fans at school by telling them to lay off of them. and now the anime fans....to tell to truth to me they sound like elists who only watch AS or CN anime but i dont go there so i dont know. maybe joiin the club and prove you arent trying to hurt them. besides are you for SURE SURE they hate unless they ttell you or sumthing. |
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Viga_of_stars
Posts: 1240 Location: Washington D.C. in the Anime Atelier |
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seriously! i thought you were a chick! (im a girl BTW) |
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Samurai-with-glasses
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I find the usual anime fan slightly annoying -.-" They're way too utterly noticeable. Like, you look at them and go "anime fan!" and you're mostly right. Don't ask me why. No, these people do not stink, dress terribly, speak random Japanese words as if they're a Japanese foreign students, have bad personalities, or stupid, or otaku, even. I just *could* notice them in one look. The geek look, may be? -.-" Surprisingly, though, very few catches me the same way even if they know me. And yes, I'm just about as close to geek as anyone gets: Asian, shy, quiet, glasses (sometimes), smart, no fashion sense, so the list goes. And yes also, I'm in high school, and a male student; just about as likely an "anime fan, that guy!" candidate as I get. Moreover, like you, I like shows that just aren't in my friend's -- even my best friend's -- or most anime fan's interests. I like Fullmetal Alchemist as much as the next guy, but hey, nobody in the world appreciates Honey and Clover. 
Then again, nobody in the world appreciates the genius that is One Hundred Years of Solitude either, and I could hardly contain raving in madness about the amazing thing. Is something wrong with me? Gah. [/rant] |
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selenta
Subscriber Posts: 1774 Location: Seattle, WA |
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Indeed, H & C is a terrible show, that is why both the original and its sequal are both in the top 11. (the sequal being number 4 of all time) animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/ratings-anime.php?top50=best_bayesian EDIT: Dammit, I fail. I put an apostrophe in that 'its' Last edited by selenta on Thu Dec 14, 2006 1:17 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Cloe
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Posts: 2728 Location: Los Angeles, CA |
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Trust me; I know exactly what that feels like. I have a small handful of friends who share my interests, but outside that group I hardly get to talk about my favorite animated titles with anybody. H & C is like Naruto compared to Glassy Ocean or Winter Days. |
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Samurai-with-glasses
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Checking out the encyclopedia entry, Glassy Ocean sounds like an interesting animation project; the Winter Days entry is empty. No, I'm seriously asking this because, well, I'm interested. [If it's fansub you don't have to answer, though; after all, that's the Third Commandment around here] |
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Cloe
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Posts: 2728 Location: Los Angeles, CA |
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Haha, you're my new best friend. Alas, I'm not even able to break the Third Commandment, since the fansub group that was hosting Glassy Ocean is down, for who knows how long, and Winter Days was never available as a fansub (at least not that I could find). I watched it raw on a, like, 10th generation burned DVD I borrowed from the animator Igor Kovalyov. |
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