blickpall said:
The problem with "animecels" is that the worst offenders seem to lack any sort of identity that isn't inextricably tied to their favorite anime.
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If we go deeper into the matter, from my personal perspective when I see someone who relates everything back to anime, it gives me the impression that this person doesn't have a very rich background outside of anime. Why is it that everything is a parallel of this anime character or this anime motif, etc.? It's because that this is the majority of what this person consumes and knows.
Good post.
You should be immodest and include it in your next "Higlights"-post.
And yeah, animecels can be like people who compare everything to Harry Potter.
Personally, I mostly like anime because two of my favorite genres are
magic realism and cyberpunk. And both are obviously very popular in anime.
Another thing is: anime can be a "red flag" for being an incel, of course, just like listening to Power Metal, but by and large, anime is perfectly accepted in mainstream society and increasingly also in the academy; just like Western "graphic novels" every feminist student writes their PhD theses about now.
So associating anti-anime with "jocks" and anime with "nerds" is as out of date as the term "jocks."
By and large, anime has been swallowed just like goth and punk. Of course, it's harder in the case of anime because it's mainly produced in Asia (which is also influenced/dominated by the US Empire like all other countries, tho), but animecels sometimes remind me of the goth kids in South Park who don't know how to react to the mainstream embracing "emo" or the vampires from "twilight." Then they end up like hipsters, insisting on listening to bands (watching to anime) you've never heard about, but once they become popular accuse them of having sold out and so on.
tl;dr: It's not a hill to die on, not a stone to build the house of your identity on.
