Because I can't forget I'm stuck here forever

i try to get out, BUT THEY KEEP DRAGGING ME BACK IN

Outside world is filled with fagbookfags

>OPs Image
I understood nothing.

I can't think of a less terrible place to talk about anime

Gaiafags hating K-On?
What a surprise

Because no matter how big faggotry is here, there are still some good/decent threads about anime.

This fucking robot every morning.

Because I don't know a better place.

>>48654540
God damn it

>>48654540
What the fuck

Because I always get banned from anime forums after calling the high-post count users and the mods tasteless faggots

>>48654540
>4chan licensing anime

>>48654540

4chan isn't a forum.

>>48654540
wait what

>>48654540

GUYS, WE NEED TO LICENSE GINTAMA

>>48654540
>kill 4chan staff
but there is no 4chan staff.

Because no other forums cater so easily to rapid posting and response, image dumping, and fuck-it-all nature in regard to what can be discussed.

>>48654540
I think we need to push through the donation gaiz XD

http://minitheatre.org/forum/90-fan-fiction/12294-another-leolouch-poem-with-a-hint-of-romance.html

Look at those responses

I left for about a year but then I was lured back to this shithole by the proverbial yakitori. ;_;

>>48654540
>mfw imagine /a/ dubbing it

>>48654777

>mfw I imagine /a/ editing it to be acceptable for the general public

Because people actually write legibly here without all that "xD" horse shit. And nobody cares about becoming an internet celebrity aside from tripfaggots, but they are the minority.

Sad as it is, this is the best best place for intellectual, no bullshit anime discussion on the internet, despite all the rudeness and name calling.

>>48654519
This.

Though /a/ is the most hate filled board I've come across, I can't stop loving you. ;_;

Some good threads, some bullshit. Takes all sorts, eh?

The average level of intellect compared to other anime discussion boards is much higher too.

>>48654889
Not sure if I should laugh or rage

I'm here because.

>Posting is easy.
>People use proper english.
>People don't throw random japanese phrases without some sense of irony to it.
>Faggots know they are being faggots so I can forgive them.
>Decent taste in anime.
>I'm assuming you're all fairly regular human beings who don't flamboyantly go around talking about your japanese animes at innapropriate times in public.

>>48654889
Oh wow...

I've become somewhat of an elitist because of /a/ and now every time I see anyone using emoticons or streaming anime I get angry for no reason. I've had some good recommendations on here and frankly had some of the best conversations about series. I'm here forever. Fuck you /a/.

>>48654889
My gamefaqs account has nearly 3.5 karma

For shame.

>>48654978
Oh you

inb4 walls of greentext

>>48654506
Further proof that K-ON actually has one of the more mature, intelligent fanbases in anime.

>>48654522
Also, this. Fucking robots.

>>48654540
I legitimately lol'd at the thought of us licensing anime.

>>48654985
I don't get angry at streaming - I really don't see what anyone has against it.

I do, however, rage inexplicably at emoticons.

>>48654849
>"xD" horse shit
here you go anon!

>>48655041
I'm pretty sure /a/ hates streaming because there are dumbasses who think it's faster and takes up less bandwidth than downloading a video of the same quality, which isn't true at all. Personally, the only justification I see for streaming is if you want to check out a low quality version of say, episode 1 of a show before you go ahead and download the whole series. But whatever.

Emoticons however, do have no excuse. A part of me dies every time I see "xD".

>>48655041

I streamed for a while.

Switched over to torrents about a year ago, never looked back.

I can see why people would strongly urge other to torrent.

>>48655057
My eyes...my eyes! Shit like that is why we can't discuss Death Note here. Even if it is good...until L dies anyway.

I want to apologize to some of you.

Sometimes when I argue online, I do purposely veer into troll zone, but only because I want to know that my arguments are solid, and if they aren't you guys will rock me to hell and back. I basically bounce ideas off you guys.

So I'm sorry if I've pissed any one off. You guys are great.

>>48654978
>regular human beings
Nope, /a/ is full of bisexual shut-ins.

>>48655041
XD

>>48654759
Holy shit look at this.

This is someone's signature. It's at least four times larger than their post.

Fuck me.

I don't think you guys should be pretending that /a/ is better than any other board after the multiple sakura con threads. Do I need to link them to remind you of your own retarded weeaboo faggotry? How about those threads a few weeks ago in which /a/ LOLEPICLULZRADED some poor weeaboo's DA?

>>48654540
Guys, I think they found us.

>>48655041
>he doesn´t like XD XD

Because /a/non is my only friend.

>>48654540

>>>/soc/3735885
>>>/soc/3738055
>>>/soc/3735949

>>48655123
>>48655107
Yeah, I torrent now, and I would advise it, but I don't see why streaming induces rage in others.

I can see it more clearly now though, I hadn't thought people would actually advocate streaming as a superior way to watch.

I stream while I download if I really can't wait.

>>48655041
The quality is shit out and out. I also won't watch anything lower than 720p.

I like the respect and admiration that comes from being a tripfag on an anonymous image board.

>>48655168
All I remember from the first few Sakuracon threads was making fun of cosplayers. Maybe they got worse over time.

>>48655168
A section of faggots doesn't account for all of /a/.

Because I don't like anime anymore.

>>48655024
> K-ON actually has one of the more mature, intelligent fanbases in anime.
>Mitsu89 & co.

nigga please

I'm still here because /a/ is still love.

>>48655202
Why does that board even exist?

>>48655239
Oh Destrado, you crazy.

>>48655202
>/soc/ as an example

>>48655269
>one image dumping tripfag
>assume whole fanbase is like him

>>48655278
It's an attempt to keep the really bad shit away from /b/ and the other boards, presumably.

>>48654405
tsuki boards?
Stay away from the forum/groups/etc and its a good site

>>48655278
It was made to filter the shit out of r9k and adv. Clearly it was a well thought out board and has no negative aspects whatsoever, r9k is so much better now.

Oh wait.

>>48655278
moot became a normalfag and was getting sick of looking at gore and scat in /b/.

>>48655271
I remember that thread. ;_;
I wonder if anyone who posted in it is dead now

>>48655350
I am.

>>48655123
>>48655212
I switched from torrents to DDL a couple months ago.
>mfw imagining speeds under 4MB/s

>>48655457
>>48655404
all of my WHY.PNG

>>48655404

a at its best:
decent discussion about the topic at hand. correct spelling and devoid of smileys other than ;_; (but that's halfway acceptable). sarcasm, irony, and a mix of loving shows without (publicly and obnoxiously) crossing a line. funny threads! recommendations! reaction images! spicy insults!

this is what I hope for when I come to this board. sure, half of the time it's moe/narutard shit, but I overlook that and have discovered many a show and discussion.

also, r9k died

DONT YOU EVER INSULT ANIME AGAIN!

>>48655457
http://www.youtube.com/user/suitelifegirl777
>>48655404
http://www.youtube.com/user/icygamer597

>Implying I'm on /a/

>>48654405
>read all of that three times...

Eh.... what?!

You are forced to either
1] Browse Gaia Online
2] Browse /soc/
What would you rather browse?

>>48655253
If you want to make that case, the same could be said about the images in this thread. The point was that /a/ shouldn't be throwing stones in a glass house.

THERE IS ONLY ONE LEGIT REASON TO BROWSE /a/
>pic related

Because as shitty as this board an be at times its still the best place to discuss anime.

>>48655404

>>48655575
Minority majority difference.
I'll take my section of faggots over a site full of them any day.

>>48655564

i'd rather disconnect my internet and do something profitable

>>48655612
>Because as shitty as this board an be at times its still the best place to discuss anime.
>still the best place to discuss anime.
>discuss anime
theres the problem

>>48654540
>>48655314
>>48655404
>>48655457

Does one need another reason?

it's like a magical wonderland of pretentiousness and hate.

>>48655457

>>48655689

>>48655404
W-what?

>>48655528

>suitelifegirl777
>If U Got Love 4 JESUS
CHRIST Copy This &
Put it on ur profile

>IcyGamer597
>About me: Words in my vocabulary: Anime; Moe; Kawaii; Otaku; Gamer.
>mfw

>>48654889
>Facepunch

Do people actually like this fucking website?

>>48654540
wait...what?

>>48655918
Like it? Hell no.

Go to it? Once a week on average.

>>48655918
well, if it scares people like that guy away, I'm willing to give it a medal

>mfw this thread.

Read it.

All of it.

I dare ya.

Requesting the screencap of the girl screaming over the Tales of Abyss episode where Luke gets tricked by Vaan

While we're talking cancer, does anyone else think the overuse of greentext, especially the whole >mfw thing, is fucking dumb?
It seems like /b/-style shit to me, and never contributes anything to a thread.

>>48654540
soo according to that image we can license anime now? Sweet! Let's see if we can get the rights to bleach or naruto and really troll the fanbase hard

>>48656028

oh dear lord, I'm offended on behalf of Japanese people.

>>48656028
>Posts: 4,250,550

What the fuck.

That guy must be a master shitposter.

>>48655024
>Further proof that K-ON actually has one of the more mature, intelligent fanbases in anime.

As much as I love K-on, I'm not gonna let that slide.
Have you seen the K-on generals lately? Shit's ridiculous.

>>48656028
He must be a fansubber.

>>48656028
>Posts: 4,250,550
wat

>>48655535
brofist.jpg

This is why I love /a/.

Because of shitstorms like these.

Hey, /a/, mihonguga contymaska?

>>48656094

Expect another one to pop up tomorrow when the new manga comes out.

>>48656028

>>48656094
>Have you seen the K-ON generals lately
No, because they don't exist anymore. And they weren't that bad even when they were around.

>>48656094
The K-On General is still around?! Can you show me the way to it please? Oh how I've missed it so--N-NO, I didn't mean that! They're all bakas! I-I don't want to see them! URUSAI!

>>48656135
Wakarimasen , lol

>>48656044
Everyone agrees on that except, of course, kids from /b/ who find it hilarious.

>>48656029
Oh god, poor guy.

Shouldn't have made a DeviantArt account

There's just something about here that sets it apart from all other boards.

We seem to have gone a step beyond just being a community with common interests. It's as though most everyone here shares a sense of knowing.

>>48656124
If post number threads are why you love /a/, then you need to get the fuck out.

>>48656184
They were full of stupids who just used it as a clubhouse but they're gone now (despite the fact the franchise is reviving).

Because of
>>48654405
>>48654484
>>48654540
>>48654759
>>48654889
>>48655274
>>48655314
>>48655404
>>48655457

And pic related,I love you /a/.

>>48656186
I'm waiting for another K-ON general so I can beg for rips of the Bandai dub.

>>48656124
you like shitty not anime related threads? get out.

>>48656226
Looks like someone is new.

Look up "4chan lanced jack" on google and you'll understand.

>>48656186

i was destined to filter you tripfag, this cant be a coincidence

>>48656028
>Join Date
>Post Date

Am I missing something?

>>48656205
>50 thumbs ups.

I love this place because we are all faggots.
No exceptions.

>>48656274
>>48656226
Whoa, there are people who don't remember that Lanced Jack/Taiga shitstorm?

Oh well.

>>48656303
Lanced Jack isn't exactly a reason to love the board either.

I've tried other anime forums, I've honestly tried. Yet I can never stay on one for longer than a week and see myself returning here. Why?

>>48656229
Did you even hang out in the generals? Honestly, people exaggerate when they talk shit about them. It was just people talking about K-ON and posting pictures. Everyone acts as if they were some great evil when it was just a handful of people enjoying themselves.

>>48656309
No, you can't, you love me.

So today I went to the shopping centre in London. Its like britfags version of malls.

As I was going home, this guy got into the lift before me with his son. His son was clearly half asian, and I was about to ask them which floor they wanted when his son asked, which floor.
His dad said
>Ni

I was abit taken aback at first, but then London is a multicultural place so I just relaxed and rode to my floor (2).

Then I looked at the kids dad, he had a golgo 13 tshirt on. pretty damn cool.
So I complemented him on it. It was a nice lil moment between 2 guys.

Anyway the point of this story is, I would probably stop coming on /a/ once I have children. So I guess that means Ill be on here forever?

>>48656325
I guess it's easy to get 4 million posts when you can time travel.

>Youtube comments
>Gaia
>Deviantart

It's like looking at a piece of shit and saying it is full of shit. I don't understand the rage.

>>48656428
Indeed it is!

No emphasis on post counts.

>>48656373
We have even more.
Pork Ranger
Me
Every Tripfag ever

>>48656420
>It was a nice lil moment between 2 guys.
So where did you take his load?

>>48656366
Just because I think they weren't entertaining doesn't mean I have forgotten them. They were absolute shit and carried nothing productive to this board. You could that it was funny, but all I see is pointless trolling, idiocy, and shitty posting. If you really think that that was the epitome of /a/, you are truly a faggot.

>>48656366
>people

More like, newfags.

>>48656366
You know, I haven't seen Taiga for ages now.
I'm not complaining of course.
Of course, we still have Park ranger, and Yostuba C, although I haven't seen him around for about a month now.
Perhaps things are turning up for /a/.

Anyhow, I come hear because despite all the faggotry, this really is the only place I can find on the internet where you can have an intelligent discussion on anime.

I love you /a/

>was one of those faggots posting on naruto forums when I was young
>talked all kinds of shit I know I'd be embarrassed by now
>forums were deleted at some point
safe.jpg

now if only newgrounds would delete all the really old posts on their forums...

Paradoxically, I'm here because of tripfags. I love all our tripfags almost without exception, they make this place feel like a real tight-knit community.
They should have forced trips for everyone.
Also, I like the social/meta threads far more than the boring anime discussions. I only watch moe and hentai anyway.

Because internet is just porn and games when you block boards.4chan.org
...and I don't want to go to normalfag sites with their /soc/ durrhurr.

This place is cruel enough to hang out in.

>>48656553
Yotsuba C was posting around here yesterday.

>>48656553
He was posting today, and I've argued with him for over a week.

>>48656553
we also have that weird sarah quest trip invading from /co/ every now and then

>>48656238

r/a/dio threads are always awesome.

because it is the most interesting board at this point

(note interesting =/= good)

>>48656588
...
Fucks sake.

I'm here because I got bored of /vp/
next week I'll probably have jumped ship to /co/
and then the week after I'll be on /trv/
and then I'll be back on /vp/ to start the cycle over again.

>>48656553

taiga still shows up in /ñ/ threads to ragepost

>>48656630
I remember this.
I cried a little.

>>48654736
This

/thread, but go ahead and continue posting funny screencaps of shitty internet anime communities. I'm glad my history of anime communities went like this:

1. eocities sites and webrings back in the 90s
2. only talk to my bros and a few friends about anime
3. freshmen year of college, discover 4chan
4. Have never gone to any other anime community.

Feels good man

I like /a/ because unlike /v/, /a/ isn't filled with doubles faggotry and pics of Christian Bale making a "COOCK GOOS HOOR PLOOX" mouth.

Wait, what were I saying?

>>48656553

Taiga posted a few time in /ic/ recently as well

>>48656553
>Park Ranger
You know, when Lanced Jack and Taiga used to post here I thought they were really bad trolls, but compared to Park Ranger, they are master of trolling.
I still wonder how he gets so many replies in his threads when he is so obvious as a troll. Anyone today can make a tripcode, get some big 3/inuyasha/elfen lied etc pictures from google images, make a thread writing like a faggot from gaia every day and get famous. Yotsuba °C is a little bit better at trolling but still nothing special.

>>48656708
>/a/ isn't filled with doubles faggotry

>>48656741
Doesnt stop you faggots from creating a shitstorm every time it posts

Just saiyan

>>48656741
>>48656741
Doesnt stop you faggots from creating a shitstorm every time it posts

Just saiyan

>>48656708
>What were I saying
>What were
>were
Ahem.

>>48656568

Oh god, This!
Fuck I was lame as hell

>>48656741

Does anyone have the cap of moot telling Lanced to leave?

>>48656741
Elfen Lied is actually good you fucking faggot. Kill yourself.

>>48656760
Can't you read the rest of his post?

Too obvious.
>>48656913

>>48656839
>>48656799
Well this is what I was talking about. I was wondering how many people fall to the Lanced Jack or Taiga trolls and now to the even more obvious Park Ranger trolls. Just report the thread and move on. But no EVERY THREAD MUST BE REPLIED TO.

>>48656303
Hopefully the rumours of him going batshit insane are true.

>>48654405

Because of the boards on 4chan I find /a/ to be the most amusing. /m/ is full of stuff I don't like (like Toku and SRW) and trolls the things I do like (UC Gundam), and /v/ is just full of people who have NO CLUE how to play videogames.

Anime isn't even that big a thing for me really, I've only watched like one show in the last half a year or more before this season hit, because nothing interested me. I still come to /a/ daily because you guys are just clever.

I'm also not much of a forum goer either. The speed of 4chan and /a/ is what makes me come here and stay here, not to mention how terrible it is to discuss anime on other forums than this one.

tl;dr: Because you're awesome /a/.

>be underaged
>play random mmo
>be a nigger and troll newfags
>meet a faggot
>links me to /b/
>/b/ becomes shittier than crap
>discover /a/
>Went for the anime, Stayed for the bullshit

>>48656568
>>48656891
I don't think either of you was as bad as I was. My accounts still exist as a reminder to me and oh God were they bad
>>48654405
/a/ saved me from what I was and I am forever in debt to this board

>>48656977
>no fun allowed

>>48657035
My story is a little like yours, except I used to be a Runescapefag, then got linked to /v/ and it all went from there, as I left /v/ and found /a/ along with a new hobby.

>>48656977
trolls trolling trolls trolling more trolls

I'm still here because /v/ is a steaming pile of horse shit that can't appreciate good games anymore.

>>48657067
this
they are basically out fools

>>48656205
>>48655057
I can tolerate an occasional smiley face or something OFF 4chan but the overuse of this shit is just obnoxious.

>>48657084
and that's why we're bros. I can laugh at this stuff because I used to be in the middle of all of it. I don't rage though typically because I also understand why it's like that. I don't like what I used to be, but I've moved on and found a place that suits me better. As long as /a/ doesn't turn into where I came from, I'll stay here. You guys are awesome.

I'm here because most /a/nons have a good grasp on the English language and a fairly high level of intelligence. We are all the same and sometimes we come together in agreement. That's when I realize that despite our differences in tastes, we could all potentially be friends.

>>48657191
At least he didn't link the board or something.
I remember seeing a screencap of someone on some naruto forum linking everyone to /a/ because it had "EPIC CODE GAYASS DISCUSSION TOPICS XD XD"

>>48656904

here you go :3

I'm here because it's easier to pick up new shows I may have overlooked otherwise.
Despite what everyone thinks, we all have pretty similar tastes in the end.

>>48654849

Spoilers:

[spoilers]It's like that BECAUSE we allow rudeness and namecalling. The lack of a politically correct social standard ironically attracts more intelligent discussion. No one has to sugarcoat what they write.[/spoilers]

>>48657359
That's not how spoiler tags work.

The shitstorms are the best here on /a/

hey guise am I popular yet?

>>48657359
Protip: spoiler in singular

>we all speak one language, despite being from a crapload of different countries
>we all are faggots and we don't give a fuck about it

things like this

>>48657340
>helpful emotifag
Cognitive dissonance feels bad, man.


Gendo camwhored last night. It was glorious.

I've been here for the past 5 years(started with the trip in 2007), and I have always appreciated /a/ greatly.

We have a long and illustrious history. I do miss a lot of my friends who used to post here though. This includes the people who were insane, like this one guy who was convinced that Heroic Age was the greatest anime of all time.

Because if it wasn't for you guys I probably would have killed myself already. There isn't a single other place I fit in outside of 4chan. Thanks for always replying /a/. ;_;

P.S. Fuck you moot, this lag is ridiculous.

>>48656568
I'm the same in regards to Newgrounds. I went on it the other day and read my older posts, I actually embodied everything I hate about people on the internet, thankfully I have since learnt how to act properly.

>hidden
>hidden
>hidden
>hidden
>hidden

Sup tripfags.

Anyway, I'm still on /a/ because there's nowhere better, and sometimes, you're not complete shit. I actually left during 2009, but for some reason, I'm back, even though you're worse than when I left.

There again, at least you've slide downhill slower than most of the other boards on 4chan. I made the mistake of wandering back into /u/ during Madoka. What the fuck happened in there? It's almost as bad as /c/. At least I can browse /a/ without running into fags who capitalize 'LOL' and post :) all the time for no reason.

Btw, I'm 35, so don't go assuming you're going to grow out of /a/.

HA!
did taiga really wait at the airport for lanced jack?
what is the story behind this, i really need to know

>>48654829
But we already do. It's called [GG]

I used to be a weeaboo 11 year old. Went around spouting memes and taking about Naruto, the lot. The reason I'm on /a/ is each passing day, I become less of a faggot.

You've done it, /a/. You've made a weeaboo see their ways and made them actually have good taste. It's because of you that I've been able to drop Bleach and Naruto and watch other interesting shows, and this year I made it past my 100 anime mark. Thank you, you bastards.