Anime sweeping the black community like crack in the 80s

[Chrishaune]

You're like 10 years late.

20+ years actually. When the weird folks got in, I got out.

If any grown person is sitting around watching anime all day....

 

[Spiritual Stratocaster]

Been thinking about getting into anime lately. I dunno where to start or look or shyt. Only saw Yasuke

Yu Yu Hakusho
DRAGONBALL
DRAGONBALL Z

 

[The Prince of All Saiyans]

“Put that energy into coding”
what a statement

 

[Spiritual Stratocaster]

How can you not fukk with this?




Yall sleeping Bakayaro Konoyaro!!!!!

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

Been watching animé since the early-80's when we got cable and I saw Speed Racer.

Then, came......



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[Zebruh]

At least they are not playing Dungeons and Dragons and shyt. Gotta draw a line somewhere

That’s gon be next mark my words. Just have to fuse it with more traditional game and I betcha it’ll catch on.

Yall would be surprised. DnD is the most popular its ever been right now.

 

[///Vega+++]

Goofy shyt is for lames

 

[Charly Wingate]

Dragon Ball Z & Gundam Wing, toonami memories

 

[bxrfan]

Been an anime fan since 1991 shyt fell the fukk off the last few years it would become super popular right when its getting to be consistently trash

There's more anime being produced than ever now so the amount of shows you have to sift through to find the good stuff has increased. That can be a detriment since anime that might actually be good can get lost in the shuffle of more popular but not necessarily better shows

Man, Sci-Fi channel on Saturdays always showed those more adult OVAs. Also the back of GameFan magazine usually talk about anime (as well as Japanese exclusive games). Anime in the 90s was just so different than most of the stuff you see today.

Samurai Pizza Cats, Speed Racer, Gatchaman, Ranma 1/2, and some others I can't remember the name of at the moment. Classics

There's a reason for that and apparently it had to do with the Japanese economic bubble of the 80's (followed by its crash in the 90's). Since the economy was thriving that allowed all those experimental OVA's to be produced that wouldn't make it onto mainstream TV. When the recession hit in the 90's that scaled back a lot of the grimier or original shows in favor of those that could be commercially successful and appeal to wider audiences. That led to the moe era in the 2000s which is where anime's reputation took a big hit from in America

 

[parallax]

Just went through the thread. How did no one mention Street Fighter the animated movie yet?
The Chun-li/Vega fight was as a kid lol

Man, Sci-Fi channel on Saturdays always showed those more adult OVAs. Also the back of GameFan magazine usually talk about anime (as well as Japanese exclusive games). Anime in the 90s was just so different than most of the stuff you see today.

Samurai Pizza Cats, Speed Racer, Gatchaman, Ranma 1/2, and some others I can't remember the name of at the moment. Classics

sci-fis summer anime fest were the shyt. iria, shadow skill, and photon were dope

 

[Rell84shots]

it's not cool anymore now that everyone watches it

Are you one of those people that only likes stuff when it's niche?

 

[Agent Mulder]

Whenever I see clips of anime it’s always shadowy characters with their backs turned peeking through trench coats collars talking about how much power they have. Then lots of high pitch yelling and big hodoken-like blasts. Also, the concrete in these places seems to be poorly manufactured as it tends to just rise up and break apart like a cookie when fighting ensues.

Maybe they should create an anime wherein a big-eyed trench coat teen with hodoken powers searches for a concrete manufacturing boss and holds him accountable for supplying all of japan with cheap cookie-like pavements.

 

[blqbird]

The masses are getting on board with JRPGs with Persona and Japanese games in general with the Yakuza series

FF14 just broke records as the largest MMO of all-time and won a few awards in 2021. JRPGs ain't going nowhere.

 

[Software]

Megan the Stallion and Michael B Jordan are repping anime proudly. It's fully mainstream now


The masses are getting on board with JRPGs with Persona and Japanese games in general with the Yakuza series


One Piece is the only Shonen that never took off all the way here in the States and it's still pretty popular

And the only reason is cuz 4kids fukked that shyt up and tried to censor it and make it childish liek Pokémon

 

[Giselle]

Never watched it, never will and I think many people are pretending like they do just bc it’s popular