I'm going to watch anime and read manga

gaia, obviously

sup moefag

A place where the mods aren't as big powertripping faggots: SA

>>42965961
>>42965927

It will die down in about 12 hours. I'll go watch farscape until then.

>>42966051
for it to "die down" the shitty mod would have to be removed, which isn't going to happen

tohno-chan

> /a/
>dead
Choose one.

>>42965981

/thread

I already have my avatar ready for when I have to make the move.

Oh no, the mods banned the General thread for a show that hasn't been airing for two months because it's against the rules, IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD.

>>42965927
/sp/ will welcome us.

>>42966269
Which general? PSG?

/gee/

>>42966269
So it's fine for mods to delete anime threads for shows they don't like?

>>42966107

Not really. There's just the usual shitstorm because of the sticky. It will turn back to how it was in 12 hours though.

I agree, we need some actual moderators, but moot couldn't give a fuck about the state of this website, so we are stuck with it as it collapses during this final 1-2 years of it's transition to /b/3.0, you can't educate and inform every idiot the pops on here to lurk, keep their opinions (without a shitstorm) and do their own research.

>>42966269
ahem, strike witches

>>42966373

>against 4chan's rules
>THEY DID IT BECAUSE THEY DON'T LIKE IT

Seriously?

>>42966441
Funny how K-on is the only show that rule apparently applies to. I wonder why!

I always have tohno chan on another window.
If we all massively migrated there the speed would become better too.

What are you talking about? These faggots are finally starting to be banned. There is hope yet.

So I take it now is not the best time to start an OreImo doujin dump?

General threads have to be about currently airing shows.

Spam moot with more moe. Make him see the light and fire that insolent mod. Or we wait until the fire dies down.

Like always

>>42966512
Ah yes the golden age when people who discuss anime are banned. Soon this board will be the doubles and personal blog paradise it was meant to be. Thank you, mod

>>42966494

General threads currently appearing EVERY day:

Strike Witches
Raildex
K-on

K-on has stopped airing 2 months ago, get over it.

As for Strike Witches, I don't know what's gonna happen, but I wouldn't be surprised if they're the next ones getting the banhammer.

Index is currently airing, General is serving its purpose, nothing wrong there.

But anyway, the only thread reoccuring on a daily basis that has a GOOD reason to do so is the drawfags thread.

Also, stop crying K-on faggots, it's been weeks since anything new was discussed about K-on, faggotry has its limits.

/a/'s been dead for a while.
I'll still waste my time here, I think.

K-on may be shit. But the point of general threads is to contain one series in one thread at a given moment.

It works extremely well.

Whats the problem?

Love what /a/ has turned into

>>42966708
I'm not a big fan of general threads but that is true.
That shit ends when the show does, stop digging it back up.

/a/ isn't dead you drama queens. This type of thing happens from time to time. This isn't even close to being the low point.

Go find something else to do then come back in a day or two.

>>42966800
Thats what you guys turned it into.
This is the cure.

Metathreads like these are even worse then the faggots getting butthurt over their precious K-ON. No one will know if you left /a/ since you're anonymous. So leave it's not like anyone forces one to post on these boards anyways.

Okay, so I have been watching crappy SyFy movies for the last few hours, so I have no idea what is happening.

Someone explain the situation.

>>42966800

A:LKSJG:LHE:LKJ:KCLN:KLCL:IEWHBDF:LJWEHD:CJN JMHN>LKJEH:H:DLKCJ:KLDJC:LHDEDC:LIHWBE:FLKH:GH:LSKDH:LKH:CEH:LEFHLKEHJRKJE:KLRJE

There is no image that can accurately describe the rage I am feeling from reading those posts.

>>42966892
>cure
>delete anime discussion, keep unrelated threads and let newfags run free
I'm not seeing the connection

>>42967025
Mods have decided to finally enforce the "older series should be discussed on the text boards" rule, but only for series they don't like (K-ON, in this case)

>>42966800

If anything, it's the faggots hating on anyone asking/giving sauce that are the issue here. It's an anime discussion board, for fuck's sake, not your internet secret club. I love saucing if only to see guys like you foaming at the mouth because they think they have some kind of privilege to know about an anime or another.

>>42966708
I have a feeling Strike Witches will be okay, since they always have a fair bit of new material being churned out. The anime may have ended for the time being, but they are still translating and releasing manga chapters and other things. On the other hand the K-On general hasn't got a lot going for it in terms of releases, since the manga and anime have ended. I don't mind either one's existence, but I am just saying for the sake of the argument.

>>42967142
I don't remember that rule.

Kind of sounds like a dumb one in all honesty, considering in the grand scheme of things K-On isn't really that old, it only ended a few months ago.

>>42966800
Its hard to take you seriously when you're using the doll/a/r's theme.

>>42967025

Standard K-On shitstorm. Sticky and a mod saying it's shit with it's last words.

Idiot's arguing endlessly, unable to keep volatile opinions to themselves. Yotsuba tripfag shitstorm and batshit insane defense from him and a few others. Basically nothing new. It will settle down by tomorrow.

>>42967142

>Mods have decided to finally enforce the "any good series should be discussed on the text boards" rule, but only for series where the General Threads weren't serving any purpose other than being cancerous (K-ON, in this case)

Fix'd

>>42966837
This is one of the many low points.

>>42967179
It's not about "secret club" bullshit. It's about not bothering us with something the guy could do himself.

>>42967217
They're interpreting something like "long term discussion can go in /anime/ please" like that.
Personally I find it so laughable I'm not sure if they're trolling or being serious.
The mere assumption that absolutely all discussion should be only about the current season is an offense to anime as a whole, to every old classic, to every nostalgia show you liked before.
No old stuff, only current stuff.
Furthermore its not specific or clear too. A rule can't be like that, that is a guideline only.

You can quote me on this if you want the next time someone tries to bring that thing.

>EF quit
>"OH NOES FANSUBBING IS DEAD!111!!!!111!!"
>doesn't matter within a week

>Mods make a sticky
>usual shitstorm
>doesn't matter within a week

>Mods ban general threads of a show that stopped airing
>"OH NOEZ /a/ IS DED!!!!!111!!11!1!!"

just guess what is going to happen within a week you idiots?

I just got here, why is /a/ dead this time?

>>42967529
read the thread idiot

>>42967179
The problem isn't people not knowing an anime, it's being a shitposter faggot. If a person posts saying "Where can I get anime torrents" or "What's so-and-so animu about?", it isn't much work to say tokyotosho or give a summary, and even if you think it's too much work, you can ignore it. That's not the worst part though, it's the POSTER THEMSELVES. Anybody that posts instead of googling or tineyeing is a huge fucking retard and is almost certainly an underage newfag. And they are the worst people on /a/.

>>42967340
In his case, yes, but in most cases, saucefags only ask when a screen or something like that is given, in which case I have no issue with giving it to them.

>>42967592
No, they come in second. You though, you get gold prize.

>>42967621
where have you been, under a rock?
numerous are the occasions when someone asks for sauce when it is clearly in the filename, in the actuall picture itself, or was just given out a few posts above them

>>42967621
There are ways to get a sauce with a screen.

>>42967694
I've seen a couple cases like that, but 90% of the people asking for sauce are asking from some random screen titled 1291002345.jpg or some shit like that, one of an anime from the year 2000, and are legitimately curious. It is you, who is lumping everyone who asks for sauce into one single group, and calling the group cancer, that is the problem. Saucefags are not killing /a/, elitistfags that think their tastes>anyone elses tastes are the ones killing /a/, the douches that can't even take part in a proper discussion, or contribute anything of value.

>>42967743
I know them, and they are shitty as hell methods. If you guys weren't stuckups, you would see that in an ideal board it would be faster to ask for sauce and get a quick reply from someone who wasn't an ass. Instead, you guys say "Boku no Pico" or some shit like that in then huff and puff till you feel good about your sorry lives.

>>42967621
Then instead of giving them the animu name (a fish), give them sites such as iqdb, saucenao, tineye (a fishing rod)?

Turning a newfag into a decent poster is a much better idea than rewarding them for their faggotry.

>>42967975
It's your elitism that is the problem here. A poster who asks for sauce is not a bad poster, there is no need to improve what isn't even an issue. There is no such thing as a newfag, there is just elitists like you and the normal people who want civil discussions, and would like an answer to an honestly simple question.

>>42967975
there are way too many newfags to make helping a single one actually useful

the mods are fags who will only sticky troll posts, so we can't even stop all this faggotry

im going to /c/

>>42967961

Because it's endless. I'd rather a recommendation thread, we all use scripts so hiding it is easy. It's also the style of post that aggravates us.

>>42968048
elitism is the only thing seperating /a/ from any other animu website. if you want things spoonfed to you you're welcome to fuck off to animesuki or wherever.

>>42968048
Holy shit, I have such a baseless rage against you right now, but I'll swallow it.

Why are you actually DISCOURAGING making people look for it by themselves? Why do you want this board to bend over backwards for random faggots who can't be damned to do things for themselves? What, so /a/ will become friendlier?

>>42966800
This is what awaits your ass if that happens. /a/ may be elitist, but if I have to sacrifice 1/5 decent discussions to keep out a billion retarded ones, then that's A-FUCKING-OKAY.

>>42967961

Is a sub version of episode 9 out yet?

>>42968057
>--------------------
LAWL datz fukkni stupid u retard ur totally wrong xD
fuk u if /a/ foght gaia gaia would kill /a/ becuase ur all FAGGETS xD

umad?
umad?
umad?
umad?
umad?
^_^

newayz hu wnts 2 mayk a naruto thred?! =D =D NaruSasu 4eva xD
>--------------------

So if the above became perfectly normal for /a/ you'd have no problem with it, and would call anyone who did an elitist and say that the post is fine? Because if so, fuck off.
"Sauce?", or preferably, "What anime is that, couldn't find it through tineye?" is fine with me, but people who post like above (okay, so that's an extreme example, still) and newfaggotry go hand-in-hand.

>>42966800
I'd brofist you for Doll/a/rs
But you're too much of a whinny faggot

There is nothing wrong with asking for sauce.

>>42967179

>It's an anime discussion board, for fuck's sake

Why the fuck would I want to discuss anime with an ignorant/underaged faggot who knows NOTHING about anime?

Knowing the goddamned names of shit should be a prerequisite for posting on /a/.

>>42967961

That's because you're a moron who can't lurk more/google some keywords to find what anime it is even though sometimes the filename tells you specifically what the name of the anime is.

I wish A-san was still around.

>>42968325
>sauce in filename
>sauce throughout thread
OMFG Y WONT U GAIS JUS TEL ME SAUCE OMFG IM GONNA SPAM UNTIL U TEL ME

Problem?

>>42968234
Is it?
Elitism has only taken us to being as bad or worse than all those sites combined.
Perhaps there's a better way.
Instead of trying to send away bad people we could try attracting good people and making everyone in the board a better person too.

Christ, it's a normalfag vs anon war in here.

>>42968237
So is the reason you guys act like elitistfags is because you think it fends off some imaginary apocalypse? I have news for you, giving the source to a couple people and being friendly won't turn this into a shithole like other communities. This senseless fear of some impending force of bad posters has to stop, because you have yet to see that in your slew of sacrificing legit discussions, you yourselves are no better than them. To stop what you fear, you are becoming what you fear, and you can't even see that for yourselves. You want to keep the status quo of a million things wrong with this community that come from elitism, because you fear just fixing one issue will bring doom and gloom, but you don't see that maybe you can improve and still not lose your identity.

Seriously /a/, you have a phobia for change or something?

>>42968446
That shit doesn't work.

Act friendly, and you'll attract timid faggots. Notice how there's no emoticons all over the fucking place? Because people stomp on you for using it. Those who can't take it, leave. Those who can stop using emoticons. It's win-win.

GIVE A MAN A FISH TEACH HIM HOW TO FISH ETC ETC.

I don't mind giving a source if it's not painfully obvious (filename, in-season show, googling names of characters) but otherwise they need to learn on their own.

>>42968543
Yeah we stomp them in the face tire?
XD jk~

>>42968321
you seem to misunderstand
I don't mind the saucefags, its the idiots who cant look at a filename or the thread that are annoying. Helping/getting angry at one of those people does nothing compared to the massive amount of people who will take their place. If we had a sticky of sorts, it would at least cut down on this faggotry, way more than helping/berrating one idiot would. Sadly, we all know the mods are useless trolls.

>>42968466
I want to know your definition of "improve". A discussion filled with shitty grammar, bad typing, and pointless emoticons still doesn't sound anything near pleasant.

>>42968576
Problem is, is that most of the time it isn't painfully obvious by your definition, yet /a/ still demeans them and shuns them, seeing no issue with becoming the very thing they are trying to avoid, shitposters.

Hey faggots, is the subbed version of My little sister episode 9 out yet?

Fuck...

>>42968662
What, looking at a filename isn't obvious? Googling "<character> anime" isn't obvious? That's just being lazy.

>>42968446
>Instead of trying to send away bad people we could try attracting good people and making everyone in the board a better person too.
Too bad the average idiot is too blockheaded to change.

>hey gaiz i wached dis animes da otha day n i lieked i XD recummen meh sum anime
You get things like this and:
>Hey, you must be new here. You see, here we are not lazy typers. We /a/non are pretty good when it comes to grammar. Also, it would be best to avoid using emotes. To get the best out of /a/, please put a little more effort into your posts, and also check out /rs/ for recommendation charts for your anime watching needs.
However, if anything like this is posted, we get shit like
>*** u i wil type da way i want >(((((((
or
>:) XD :3 =D >___>
As a response.

This wouldn't be a problem if less people acted like this and actually attempted to adapt to /a/.

Now, as a result, post quality has dropped quite a bit.

/a/: More isolationist than the Japanese they adore. There's so much irony, I could feast on it for days.

>>42968662
It's not painfully obvious because nobody actually suggests tineye, saucenao, iqdb, or Google. It's either boku no pico, or the actual source. People who try to suggest those image finding sites get swarmed out by faggots who think elitism is bad and that the best course of action is to hand everything over on a silver platter so the OP doesn't have to do any work whatsoever.

Too many casuals is what killed this board.

People that watched at most 20 anime in their lives and for whatever the reason become pretentious.

>>42968642
The fact is, is that again, the example you have all been using of some idiot who has the answer right in front of them but can't see it, is a very very small minority. Most of the requests for sauce I see are legitimate, and I answer them, and I get fucking demeaned for it. Shitty grammar, oblivious posters, etc are all minorities, rarities, and you stomp out 100 legitimate posters just because you think it might prevent 1 actual shitposter.

Take away the general K-ON! thread and look what happens. Let them have their fucking general, who cares.

As far as the cancer goes, yes, it would be nice if they used their brains and resources before posting like a dipshit and annoying the fuck out of us. But if someone has an actual fucking question, we don't need to be asswipes either.
Those that are newfag cancerous are usually dealt with pretty swiftly here anyways.

>>42968798
see
>>42968723

>>42968237
brofist for you sir.

What I like about /a/ is the elitism. I don't want retards coming in here and setting up camp because we're "nice people" because we give sauce every once in a while. If you can't figure it out your damn self, ask on another forum that actually has "nice people." We aren't your research team and we don't care if you think we're assholes.

>>42968664

Can you faggots just fucking be useful and FUCK

/a/ really is fucking dead and worthless. Go back to your shitty ass moaning and bitching.

One simple question you fucking weeabo cunts.

>>42968712
So instead we get people that hate almost everything for no real reason but just because and I wish I was exaggerating.

All I'm saying is this. We've been using one method for a long time and the results haven't been good. There's another method we haven't tried and it could give us better results.

>>42968798
"Legitimate" requests are completely under the discretion of the poster.

And shitty grammar is a minority of sauce requesters? No. majority? Maybe not. But they're at least half of them.

>>42968798
well I can see that are experiences vary greatly, because the minority in my case are the people who aren't mentally deficient, although I will agree that those that help the non retarded are attacked aswell

Is there a fucking easy solution?!

>>42968702
Again, they don't have that information 90%+ of the time. 90%+ of the time, it is a cropped screen with 10 random numbers followed by .jpg or .gif, with no mention of character names, series names, or even actual themes.

>>42968850
Agree.
Recommendation threads shouldn't be accepted on /a/, for instance.
Being nice to those retards and giving them anime to watch made them stay here. And look how much good this did to /a/

>>42968723
>/a/: More isolationist than the Japanese they adore.
Having an interest in a medium doesn't mean you like the country or people it's from.

Same shit with /jp/. They like Visual Novels and Touhou, not Japan.

>>42965927
tohno-chan

>>42968871
Specify.

>>42968466

Err, yes. Are you that blind. /a/ has never wanted change, those of us who've browsed /a/ and other boards for years, want to return to how it used to be.

You can't just up and move after coming to the same fucking site for seven years.
You just can't.
Sigh.

>>42968881
Which is 90% of the time followed by discussion of the show, including screencaps from MPC with the original filename and names of characters. I could start an thread, for example, and the words "Touma", "Accelerator" or "Biribiri" are probably going to pop up within the first five minutes.

If someone asks for the source to something blitheringly obvious, there is a 100% chance that said person will never have anything interesting to say about anime/manga.

I'm going to stay back in /tg/ where things make sense.

>>42968850
>/a/nonymous: We are legion. We do no forgive, We do not forget, etc.
The problem is that most of these people know and don't care that this place is full of abusive jerks. I agree with you completely in making people find things for themselves, but you are delusional if you think that being an asshole is going to stop anyone. Mod intervention is the best way to go with this.

>>42969017
>an Index thread

>>42968881

Then lurk more. Usually your character name/series name will pop up in the thread sooner or later.

Or if you really want sauce, go post on animesuki/gaia or something.

>>42968466
/a/ got much worse the last few months.
Too many people complaining about
>"moeshit"

for example

Giving recommendation to people that only watched Cowboy Bebop and GITS made them stay here. And this is the result of that.

>>42968940
yes you can


I've been here for five and the captchas were enough for me

>>42969017
Fucking this.

People see the OP picture, and don't bother reading the rest of the thread. They look at the first and last posts, and then ask if the source isn't there.

>>42968850
Okay, 5 years from now, let's say I were to ask for the source of the .gif which I already know is from Star Driver, and it was titled as it is in your post, in a thread similar to this, an off-topic gif that has sparked my interest in something.

What would you guys say to me?

>>42969055
And yet, you're still here.

>>42969036
Being an asshole weeds out the thin-skinned teenagers. The "ay iz leejun" thing is retarded, but there's nobody who thinks like that. It's not comraderie, it's the fact that we hate the same type of people.

>>42968936
Not him, but I think he's saying that we should basically be nice to all the stupid faggots that come through here and hope that through our kindness they will see the faggotry of their ways and change.

It's pretty funny when it's all typed out and all, because you see how unlikely it is to happen.

I wonder what was the evolution of the average "powerlevel" of /a/nons over the last few years

>>42969099
lurk more

also, doubles

When doubles threads started hitting this place I started going to /jp/ more and more. /a/ isn't dead, it just sucks most of the time.

>>42969017
Most of the time that does not happen.

Look at many of the pictures in this thread, now back at me, now back at the pictures, now again at me. If you were to have amnesia, and the only clues to the origins of the picture was in this thread, could you identify any of them?

This is the context of most sauce requests, you are just to blind to see it because what might be an obvious picture of [anime title here] to you is just a random, yet interest peaking, picture to someone else.

>>42969159

barely

http://green-oval.net/cgi-board.pl/a?task=search2&ghost=&search_text=&search_username=ho
licisms&search_tripcode=&search_del=dontcare&search_spo=dontcare&search_int=dontcare
&search_ord=rel

http://green-oval.net/cgi-board.pl/a?search_ord=rel&search_del=dontcare&search_int=dontcare&
amp;task=search2&search_username=holic%E2%99%AA

>>42969099
We might just tell you, in that particular case, since it's completely fucking unrelated and won't ever be brought up again.
But you'd have to ask in such a way that wouldn't make us think that you're a fucking moron. If you seem like a moron, we'd just make fun of you.

You'd be much better off learning the source sometime in a different thread through your own legwork. Why are you in such a damn rush?

>>42969162
The state of the board as of late tells a completely different story. As I said, being an asshole is not going to help. Look where it has got us. Fair enough, tell people that they need to do independent research to find out the name of an anime or manga, but you aren't going to weed them out, as they will just bite back with that same attitude, since they think they are entitled to the answer from us, the people that can and won't often provide it.

>>42969264
And why does everything have to be so difficult? Why does it have to take 10 Google searches for something that can just as easily take one post? This is the internet, ease is a perk that comes with browsing it. Not everything has to be a chore for one person, when it can be a piece of cake for two.

>>42969247
Barely there, but still here.

>>42969328
Being nice to newfag in recommendation threads got them to stay here.
Now we have a fuckload of people with low power levels that only watched whatever aired on Toonami/Adult Swim plus a few more shows (probably less than 10) they got from here.

I'm going to go to the best boards on 4chan
/tv/ and /jp/

There is no reason why gets should be on any board other than /b/. 4chan is capable of not allowing people to post if it has a word in it, it is also capable of dissallowing unicode which could be used to bypass the word filter. The only reason they are not banned is because mods/moot don't give a fuck

>>42969328
> they think they are entitled to the answer from us
That's the fucking problem. If you act nice and give them what they came for? Congratulations! You supported their mindset. Act like an asshole, and they bite back? Keep going. The newfag isn't going to win that fight. A humble poster that asks "Is there any way I could find the source on my own?", would get useful answers outside of the actual source.

>>42969423
>>42969423
>I'm going to go to the best boards on 4chan
>/tv/ and /jp/

>>42969409
So if you aren't obese, don't live in your parent's basement, and don't have a room that looks like this one, you can't post on /a/?

>>42969377
>Not everything has to be a chore for one person, when it can be a piece of cake for two.
Sure it can. But that's your romanticization of the internet. When one person doesn't want to do the work because others can do it for him a lot easier, it boils down to "Why work for myself when others can do it for me?"

>>42966000
ADTRW is full of absolute faggots

I'm sure you have all heard about hobos and how some will refuse food because they want money to spend on beer. Are all homeless people drunks? no. Are some out on the street because of bad circumstances? Yes. However, if you gave that obviously drunken hobo money when he was right next to a liquor store, you aren't improving his mindset at all. That is why we don't like people who give sauce to idiots, you aren't helping him. What do you think will happen when that person wants a sauce again, is he randomly going to ask for a method to find sauce on his own, or is he going to do the thing that worked last time?

/thread

>>42969571
But what is a difficult task for one person is a trivial one for another.

Here is a better answer. You need a cure for Polio. Well, one already exists. Should the person have to make another one from scratch himself, or should he be able to use the one that already exists?

It's not dumping your work on someone else if it isn't work to them.

>>42969619

I wish /a/ had rules in a sticky like they do:

Don't post like a Japanophile moron.
Nobody cares that you know four words of Japanese from watching so much Urotsukidoji. Don't intersperse stupid Japanese phrases into the stuff you post.
Similarly, stupid Japanese smilies make you look like an inarticulate choad. We have lots of horrible smilies on SA already: use those!

Don't have multiple threads for the same show.
We're not going to ban worn-out threads about shows like FLCL or Evangelion anymore. However, if your thread sucks or is a duplicate of another thread in the live forums, the hammer's coming down on your head. Just look back however pages are active for a thread about the series you want to talk about before posting a thread.

If you're talking about external material (official manga, preview magazines, etc) in an ongoing series' thread, use spoiler tags and label them every time!
This should be obvious. Not everyone watching _____ anime has read the manga/ wants to be spoiled by what's going to happen! Be courteous and use the tags and label them properly as (MANGA SPOILERS) or (MAGAZINE SPOILERS) every time, or if it's a manga, take it to a new thread!

>>42969742

Finding sauce yourself cannot be compared to reinventing the wheel. Stop being a lazy asshat.

>>42965927
Why hello Anewe.

>Where are you going to go now?
I'm going to Disney world!
no, seriously. I go to Florida every winter

>>42969706
That isn't what I'm complaining about. It's the fact that on /a/, giving money to the legitimately homeless sober person who wants to spend that money on food is looked down upon just as much as giving it to the drunk.

The problem with /a/ is that it consists of almost cookie-cutter responses to posts that don't deserve them.