it's not so much the fact that it's really really gay.

it's just i dont think i'd get anything out of it.

thats because you are insecure and an unrespectable member of society

I wouldn't have the guts to join even if I wanted to. I'm too shy ;_;

I don't hate the concept, just the people. If there was an anime club made of /a/nons, I'd hang out there rather than here all day.

>>27582974
pretty much this
i wentto a meeting of the one in my uni.
it wasnt filled with naruto-headband wearing people, and the girls were only KIND OF loud and obnoxious, but only slightly
i just felt kind of bored. i couldn't have interesting discussions with them because they were all a little dumb and had pretty low power levels
/a/ is the best anime group, online or offline.

Holy shit is that Ichigo Mashimaro in the bottom left?

That's my kind of anime club.

>>27582965
as much as I'd love to have more contact with people I could occasionally talk about anime with
i'd hate to be associated to the batshit kind of people that frequent them

so no


>>27582989
also this, if said /a/nons weren't irl trolls

>>27583028
Dude, that's like the one ive been to this week. Shit sux.

"Oi shii desu!"

More girls than guys seem to join the anime club, has anyone noticed this?

Certainly not, I don't want to look like a weaboo faggot in public.

Most of these clubs i've experienced have contained nothing but narutards. I'll stick to /a/.

>>27583069
more girls than guys are also attention whores. coincidence?

Perhaps, if it was a men-only club. I don't want to be near weeaboo women with shitty opinions.

Bitches and whores.

Back in my school days I was too busy dickings girls, well not to tell almost no one knows back then what anime is.

I see Pitaten and Ichigo Mashimaro so it's all good

Every publicly self-professed anime fan I've met has been autistic, smelly, fat, or all three. Like, there is something seriously wrong with these people. It's not like any other hobby or liking a sports team way too much or anything like that: it's a mental illness. I'd rather stay in my room.

Be yourself.
http://www.viruscomix.com/subnormality.html

Things I hate: American art style trying to copy Japanese anime.

This is defiantly the worst thing ever.

>>27583048
>>27583048
the best thing about it was that there was this ripped up shit-so-cash guy there, who was a huge anime fan in secret apparently, and he had brought with him 2 dumb-as-bricks miami clubber bitches with him and forced them to watch Ippo. One of them tried to say something about how uncomfortable they were in a room full of nerds, and he just makes a pinching sound with his fingers and goes "SSSHHH"
goddamn that was hilarious.

>>27583157
>>27583157
this is the absolute stupidest most unfunny, most politically biased and blatantly anti-american, anti-western comic on the internet
fuck off.

>>27583158
>Every gaijin art style trying to copy Japanese anime.
Fix'd

>> Me personally, I'd sooner die than reveal my hobby to the "normal" outside world.
Well what "normal" person would join an animu & mango club?

you could be their sensei

Fuck anime clubs! Nothing but narutards and faggots. Now where's my fucking moe~~?!

if there was an anime club that was like "The Anime Club" I'd join it.

I don't watch *that* much anime.

>>27583195
A normalfag who likes anime?

>>27583195
see this:
>>27583164

I caved this year, being amongst social outcasts seemed marginally superior to being alone as a social outcast.

No, though I don't think it's a big deal, and I don't have the same complex with most of the club-type goers as much of /a/non does, (it's not like most of them are any better than any of the club-goers who they all claim are autistic and weird, the club members just happen to be more vocal) I just simply don't see the point in watching anime with a large group of people when I have ways to watch it faster in the comfort of my own home.

And they're always about two years behind and there's not really much to strike conversation about anyways, so I question the point.

While I am in no position to even be able to join an anime club, from my past experience with such things, the people that join them have very low power levels and only watch the most mainstream of stuff. They also smell, act very autistic, and generally people I wouldn't want to be around. Now with that said, I would love to hang out with other people who loved anime and manga as much as I did as long as they actually showered daily, were not completely autistic, a little bit would be ok, and they didn't only go on about how awesome the last episode of Bleach was.

Sometimes I drop into anime club during the first week or so of school to see if there is anyone else of worth that dropped by. You know, the sort of people who like anime, they're new to college and want to make friends who share their hobby.

Then they see anime club and decide to never discuss it again.

Usually there will be atleast one cute, skinny girl with tie-dye hair and I'll talk to her and she'll be nice and we'll hang out for a while, maybe screw around.

Anime club has its uses, but anime isn't one of them.

Never.

/a/ is my anime & manga club.

Since when did 'autistic' become the new word for 'utterly moronic'?

Seriously, I don't get this new development.

fuk anime clubs now- back in the day with shitty interent - you'd just rock up to whereever and there was like 100 people who you didn't have to get to know and you'd all yell and scream at the crazy crap you were watching very much like /a/

>>27583392

this.

I actually don't hide my powerlevel much. I just make sure that I'm only seen watching mature anime for mature people such as myself.

As long as the club doesn't show itself to be full of retards I might consider it.

>>27583442
I think in this case, it actually is being used to mean autistic.
I mean, have you seen a lot of self-professed anime fans? That lack of even rudimentary social skills isn't necessarily idiocy, it's an affliction.
Not to say there aren't plenty of just dumb motherfuckers out there who love the animu, there are just a lot of socially retarded ones, too.

>>27583588
A lot of them are also teenagers, though. Just because you were a teenager and you weren't as dumb doesn't mean they all are.

And lack of social skills doesn't mean you're necessarily autistic at all, there are a lot of underlying factors that can lead to poor socialization, and there's probably some sort of critical period for that late in elementary school or something-if you don't learn it by then, you'll never understand it completely, even if you do manage to get a job and get along fairly well with others.

That's not to say that some of them aren't autistic, because some anime fans genuinely are. I just think it's vastly overused these days, it's becoming the new ADHD.

I ran an anime club.

Basically, a bunch of assholes came in to play Yugioh.
A couple retards (in the literal sense) came probably because they had nothing to do.
Some people came to actually watch shit.

I'm not sure who was the most annoying of them all.

There are no attractive people at clubs like that. Why don't you fucks just go out and party?

>>27583701

> I ran an anime club.

Why would you do that?

>>27583392
I like the idea of /a/ being one big anime & mango club - makes me imagine us all cramped into a classroom on a rainy day or something.

>>27583720
And there are no women at all there, only bros.

>>27583718
Because I was expecting it to be a good way to meet other otaku. Then I found out what other otaku were like.

>>27583718
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I met my girlfriend at an anime club.

>>27583818
I chuckled when I read that. Good idea in theory at least for someone that doesn't know, obviously there are other otaku with interesting tastes who are not complete wack jobs, but it seems such people are few and far between compared to most of rest of the anime fans out there.

I'd give it a try depending on what went in it. Mahjong? Yu-Gi-Oh? Vidja?

I'd join one if it held any interest whatsoever for me. As it is, the only ones I've ever seen have consisted of the worst kind of Gaia detritus, the fangirls who can only be described as squealy, the borderline-insane fanboys who are incapable of recognising the existence of a position on a show that is neither unadulterated worship of its every last aspect or complete contempt, people who use some shows as a means to make themselves feel smart and who take pains to seek me out every time they come up with the latest 'argument' despite my disownment of the entire organisation seven minutes after joining, and the rampant japanophiles who, despite having every opportunity, have yet to travel to the land of their dreams because the slightest scintilla of recognition remains that they are delusional as fuck. I've only met one person who I'd choose to talk to, and he had a bad dose of whatever the fuck he loaded his veins with, had a psychotic episode, and headbutted a wall until he knocked himself out and died of massive cranial hemmorhaging.

I like to talk about the shows I've watched critically, and in detail. I like to take apart the world they show and see if it can build itself. I like to figure out the mechanics behind the strange shit in the show, and the rules under which they operate. I like to take apart the message a show brings, if any, to see if it actually backs itself or if it's surface story. I don't give a fucking shit about who is awesome, sexy, a slut, my personal wish fulfilment, or how many panty shots per second. It is immaterial to me exactly how many times you have masturbated to any given character. I don't like it when they just make shit up in the show, and I loathe people who try to justify nonsense with nonsense. I don't mind talking about Japan, but I am going to talk about the Japan that actually exists and not some mystical fantasy land where all is honourable and well.I want to talk about the meanings of a show, what they say and how, why this is that and all that stuff, but I don't want to fuckign talk to you about it if you do not actually get it. I'm not going to tell you that you must be smart for getting it, because neither of us is smart for getting it. It's fucking simple and the reason some people don't get it is because they don't feel the need to. I don't want ot roleplay the characters, and you're doing a shit job anyway. Even if I did stick aroudn in a club, I'd just be ruining it for everyone else.

Some days I wonder where the fuck all the other people like me are. Then I remember we're all on the internet being bitter that we can't find anyone else to yell at constantly. It's probably a lot more fun to be a raging fanboy.

>>27584188
This man speaks the truth.

How are you going to find friends who understand your love of Japan, the culture, the food, the women (or guys, depending on preference) and why you buy anime and manga and the goodies that go along with it?

I have joined an anime club. I never hide my power level. Why should I? The people that might be likely to make fun of me are fucking assholes that I would have nothing to do with anyway.

Surround yourself with people you like and share your interests. Discard those who are just asses.

The only other otaku's I'd like to meet or hang out with are all hikikomori's or NEETs and spend all their time on /a/.

>your love of Japan, the culture, the food, the women (or guys, depending on preference) and why you buy anime and manga and the goodies that go along with it?
Isn't that everything /a/ hates? Why are you on this board?

>>27584188
Amen to that.
I've become a fan of anime and manga a little over a year now. I enjoy of the style of drawings and in a few cases the plot and storylines of a few series.
But i have seen my school's over active anime club. I don't mind letting people know that I like anime and manga, but its the people who dress up for every meeting and wear the narutard headband thinking that its the coolest thing ever.
/a/ is more of my taste

No because I fucking hate everyone who likes anime and isn't me

Personally, I own

>>27584188
Most anime have a trite, shitty message anyway, if one at all, so there isn't really much to discuss.

>>27584913
Because when you don't hide your powerlevel, you're associating with the mouth-breathing retards who cling to the shittiest of the material for dear life, all while exclaiming how much they wish to visit glorious Nippon. The other day, while walking to the bus that heads out of my Uni, I saw some shameless faggot wearing a Naruto headband.

In public. You can't fucking reason with those people; it's not like I can talk with him like I can talk with the people here. He'd defend Naruto to the last fucking breath, and do so with arguments that contain absolutely no logic and are entirely ad hominem in form.

>>27585257
This is exactly how I feel except that you are just one of them and I am the only cool guy.

When I heard that my college had a Genshiken club, I was so fucking excited, mostly because I had just finished reading Genshiken and wished there was something like that in real life. I then went on to fin out the president of said club was someone I knew back in High school. And by someone, I mean the most obnoxious, loud, annoying person I had ever met in my life. He couldn't even pronounce Genshiken right, and didn't know where it was from. Someone must have suggested the name to him and he must have thought it sounded cool enough and went with it. That soured my experience with animu clubs forever.

I'm only surrounded by idiots. All, if any exist, high power level people simply hide it. I don't talk to people but sometimes my laptop screen is visible to others and sometimes something high level is on screen Like Little Busters! or something

The said idiots have onemanga on their screens along with youtube anime. I have actually tried talking to them before but the conversation quickly hit a wall when they started to not know what I'm talking about.

There's no anime club at my uni.

I think this is a good thing.

I went to the first two meetings of my uni's animu club. I felt pretty fucking uncomfortable, I have to admit. The majority of them liked Gurren Lagann, and were enraged when I said I preferred Gunbuster. And like one other person besides me there watched it. A lot of them liked shit like Bleach, but not one of them heard of Utena, Tutu, LoTGH, or Mushi-shi. Faggots.

I was also the only girl there.

>>27585982

You, madam, have god tier tastes. Do not associate with such filth.

>>27584188
>Even if I did stick aroudn in a club, I'd just be ruining it for everyone else.
A thousand times this. One of the more fun points of watching anime are like you said, basically stripping it down to the bones and discussing it to hell and back. Even when bitching about various plot points in anime I adore, I'm having an awesome time. And I'm sure that goes for most of you here.

If I did join a club, I'd want to bitch about everything. But I doubt any of them would get exactly why I'm bitching, and would probably just think I'm incredibly bitter.

>>27586101
Thank you kindly, anon. Yeah, after the first two meetings I said, 'to hell with this' and left.

I'm now in a tea club. Fuck yeah, I can pretend I'm an elegant ojou-sama.

I wouldn't go to an anime club. Hidden power level, etc.

>>27586101
this

I would sooner die than reveal my powerlevel.

They can't even write C'EST. Disgusting.

>>27582965
As I recall, the actual Genshiken club weren't called the, 'Genshiken anime and manga club'. It wasn't something about audio and visual something something.

I was in an anime club.
It was probably the worst decision of my life.
The people there are obnoxiously loud and vocal about very stupid things.
They constantly yell internet memes.
They did the fucking Haruhi dance.
They smell awful.
They're all socially retarded. You can't have a casual conversation with them because they don't know how to.
The only reason I was in anime club was because one of my friends was there. And all we ever did was make fun of the shows they all chose. Which were all very terrible.
Long story short I was only with the club for a single semester.