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We all like anime, but the question is are you the only otaku out of your friends?
Most of my friends absolutley despise it and instead love Disney. Sometimes we have anime vs Disney showdowns.
In fact, I have a Syaoran keychain and one of my friends has a Mickey mouse one. There was a fierce battle between the two.:sweatdrop:
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Mine could really care less. I think that I'm the only one around here that actually does like anime. This is the only place that I can talk about it. Kinda makes me feel like an outsider, but what are you gonna do?
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my best friend isn't an animefan but at least he likes some of them (especially Spirited Away) but yeah this place is basically the only place i can talk about anime
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Most of my close friends don't like anime, much as I do. I have like two that are kinda interested in it (but really don't think much of it). One of the two I showed her fruits basket, kare kano and something else.. she likes Fruits Basket but only because thats all I've actually showed her.
However she rarely mentions it at all (and I honestly think she doesn't like anime and just pretends that she does just for me. I don't know. ) The other friend, well, I watch anime at her friends on comcast on demand. She is really the one I can discuss my interest with (at least in the group of friends).
Then I have another friends who loves it, too. I've gone to Sakura Con with her, and she's also a big fan of yaoi. That's how we became friends, actually, because of our interest in anime. ^^; But that's not how it it with most of my friends. :/
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Only one out of my friends like anime. But she only likes chobits. I tryed getting her into Tsubasa reservoir chronicle, and Card Captor Sakura, but she turn them all down. All my other friends hate anime. P.S They are guys who are in the Halo, and X-box world. So This is the only place were I can talk about anime, and news ones I like. I'm the only girl around my family, and friends who are very crazy into anime.
I got to get new friends. :lol:
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the amount of my friends that like anime goes half and half. there is that handful of people that think that anime is a waste of time and that it's not all that great while the other half love watching anime.
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some of my friends..
most of them dont like its preety sad..
the only time they like it is when i draw a pic of anime characters
butbff liks anime becuz i show her one of the movies
and seen my drawings too ^`_^
but owell wat can we do
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I've actually tricked one of my friends into cosplaying at school! It was during school spirit week when there's a theme for you to dress up every day of that week. Well, one day the theme was sailors and I got my friend(who hates anime) to wear this nice black sailor's outfit-->Sakura's school uniform. XDDD
Then I have another friends who loves it, too. I've gone to Sakura Con with her, and she's also a big fan of yaoi. That's how we became friends, actually, because of our interest in anime. ^^; But that's not how it it with most of my friends. :/
The Sakura con! I've been there 3 years in a row, now. ^o^ I was first brought there by two friends that I didn't know too well. Unfortunatley, I never got to be good friends with them, and they don't seem to be into anime as much any more. T^T Oh well...I still LOVE the Sakura con.
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You've been to Sakura Con! Oh my gosh!!! I must meet you! ^o^; Are you going this year? Sorry for my hyperness, but thats just so cool! :keke:
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Not like they care. =\
Seems like they care more about clothes than TV and stuff anyways.
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What is Sakura Con? I keep hearing about it, but what is it?
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Well some of mine like it, some don't and when I say some don't I mean one of my friends who thinks its stupid.
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Well out of my best friends yes. But a few of my friends like it. So yeah.. they're the only ones I can really talk about it with. But that's okay because I think it would get boring if everyone I knew liked it. :/
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My friends couldn't care LESS about Anime, they prefer watching novels in the TV or talking of What Not to Wear. :dodge:
I am the only one that loves Anime, and since I know they HATE to know about it, I keep my mouth shut and I talk about it here in the forums. :)
My sister is the only person besides an aunt of mine and her boyfriend that actually CARE about Anime. I am the Clamp and Hayao Miyazaki fan, and am really proud about it. :okay:
My friends..well... we are really different, but we get along most of the time... although I would rather defend MY sweet Syaoran than to accept that Mickey Mouse is better anytime, any place... hehe :heh:
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What is Sakura Con? I keep hearing about it, but what is it?
It's an anime convention. Sakura Con 06 (http://www.sakuracon.org/index.php)
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You've been to Sakura Con! Oh my gosh!!! I must meet you! ^o^; Are you going this year? Sorry for my hyperness, but thats just so cool! :keke:
I don't know yet about this year. I really REALLY wanna go, but it depends on how much money I can scrounge up before March. And there's the hotel and travel expenses. Mouu...><; Have you cosplayed? Haha...I'm always CCS Sakura, Harkuo from FLCL and Vampire Princess Miyu. Last year, I saw a TRC Syaoran and got to glomp him!!! XD
My friends couldn't care LESS about Anime, they prefer watching novels in the TV or talking of What Not to Wear. :dodge:
I am the only one that loves Anime, and since I know they HATE to know about it, I keep my mouth shut and I talk about it here in the forums. :)
My sister is the only person besides an aunt of mine and her boyfriend that actually CARE about Anime. I am the Clamp and Hayao Miyazaki fan, and am really proud about it. :okay:
My friends..well... we are really different, but we get along most of the time... although I would rather defend MY sweet Syaoran than to accept that Mickey Mouse is better anytime, any place... hehe :heh:
Wow! Your friends sound like my friends! O_O They get mad when I talk too much about anime. Nevertheless, they all know what "CCS" stands for! ^o^
Yep, in a battle between Mickey and Syaoran, our chocolate-haired prince is the one who will be triumphant!
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...friends?
what a strange word...
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all my friends love anime but not my classmates, they like local things that so boring to me. And sometimes they don't really care about it so I stop talking about it. my friends and I were previously classmate & now we already changed class.... T_T
And internet world is the only place I can talk about it. :3
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...friends?
what a strange word...
.. definitely.
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When I was still in high school, only my best friend was into anime and she was the only one I could talk to anime about aside from my online friends. I mostly keep my interest anime to myself because most everyone else either hates anime and likes to make fun of it or they just don't know what it is and when I have tried to explain it to others in the past, they just thought it sounded too weird. I recently found out that someone I knew from high school is into anime now, too. I didn't really hang around him enough to call him a "friend". He was more of a "buddy" type of person I would sometimes hang out with and talk to at school, but I never really brought up discussions about any of my hobbies or interests whenever I talked to him and we never really hung out much. But I saw him at the manga section of Walden's when I went there to buy some manga recently and found out that he likes anime too and has been interested in it for about a year now. He said he only liked the Shounen Jump stuff but it was still nice to find out somebody else I know likes anime. Most everyone else doesn't even know I like anime outside of my family. I'm just too embarrassed to tell people I like it.
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Only two classmates like anime too and I think one of them only because I do... :dodge:
But I was in another class for years and nobody liked it there...I was a real outsider... This pushed me really down...but then *thank god* I got internet and I found many friends! Some of them know me better than the guys I see everyday! :keke:
I wasn't depressive anymore and that was important... really important!
I realized that there are guys who like me as I am and I found the courage to left some "friends" who treated me really bad...they thought I wasn't good enough for them because I liked "childish" things! -_-
They always saied it's fun but for me it was not! It hurted and that's why I left them! Don't know if it's forever, but for a long time for sure!
Now I know that there is no need to let others treat me bad because there are guys who really like me! :D
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Yep, in a battle between Mickey and Syaoran, our chocolate-haired prince is the one who will be triumphant!
Completely true!!! :okay:
Today I defended Mokona from a friend of mine that saw a picture in my notebook. He kept saying it looked like a wierd, crazy, and stupid rabbit.
Must say that after a couple of BOOOMS and POWWS he ended up saying that he was sorry and that Moko-chan was really cute. This guy is not in my school, and I have known him for 5 years, since he is my neighbor, yet it seems that he really hates anime, and any cute Kero-and-Mokona looking creatures.
Oh well. I will always defend my sweet Syaoran-kun, no matter what!!! :wink:
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Scariest part of it all, I used to be one of them! :confused: I didn't like anime for the simple reason that I couldn't understand what they were saying, and now I can't get enough of it! In cases like this, I love to be wrong! Though I still wish I had someone to share it with.
My sisters claim to love anime, but that's only because they like to copy me. They still prefer to watch it in English, even if it is so horribly dubbed! :coughCardcaptorscough: I guess I'll have to be content with enjoying it and sharing my love on here. Just gotta love the internet!
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This topic makes me very sad... unfortunatly, my best friends think anime and manga are unintelligent. I could ramble and curse on and on, about how their only exposure to it was Pokemon dubs, and Speed Racer dubs, but It just makes me sad in the end. If they catch me reading a manga, they'll go into the 'why do you like that crap' ramble. When it's Tsubasa, I get SO mad.... they recognize that I read this series all the time, and the only glimpse they got of it was a page they read over my shoulder once. It was rather unfortunate that their onl exposure to my fandom was the page when Syaoran-tachi is seperated from Mokona in volume 2, where they were speaking gibberish. They officially think that my fandom is retarted. :dodge:
Funny how this same group of friends mocked my being a girl scout today as well... *sigh*
But I do have 4 friends, love them to death, that I see every now and then - my manga buddies. CLAMP isn't their fandom, for 3 out of 4... but the fourth one I can totally call on anytime to talk about any series I'm reading. :) Totally spiffy.
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I think most of them do... At least they are not against it. But most of my friends are darling videogame nerds like me! X3
I have a friend, and whenever we meet we spend almost the whole day talking Mega Man X. ^^''
Only two classmates like anime too and I think one of them only because I do... :dodge:
But I was in another class for years and nobody liked it there...I was a real outsider... This pushed me really down...but then *thank god* I got internet and I found many friends! Some of them know me better than the guys I see everyday! :keke:
I wasn't depressive anymore and that was important... really important!
I realized that there are guys who like me as I am and I found the courage to left some "friends" who treated me really bad...they thought I wasn't good enough for them because I liked "childish" things! -_-
They always saied it's fun but for me it was not! It hurted and that's why I left them! Don't know if it's forever, but for a long time for sure!
Now I know that there is no need to let others treat me bad because there are guys who really like me! :D
*hugs* Been through that as well. I was a too open about myself, which meant that I got very hurt when they attacked my weak spot, such as calling me "Pikachu", because that was all that "manga/anime" was for them. (sure, in the right company I wouldn't mind be called Pikachu! He's cute! X3 But this was negative... VERY negative.)
Now, I don't want to mention what I love the most. I think only one IRL-friend understands how much I love Subaru for example.
Then I have lots of friends online who like me, and the same stuff as me! And some who hate me(mostly on swedish forums >.< But I don't mind... it hurts, but I can't do anything against it. If I could, I would...)
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This topic makes me very sad... unfortunatly, my best friends think anime and manga are unintelligent. I could ramble and curse on and on, about how their only exposure to it was Pokemon dubs, and Speed Racer dubs, but It just makes me sad in the end. If they catch me reading a manga, they'll go into the 'why do you like that crap' ramble. When it's Tsubasa, I get SO mad.... they recognize that I read this series all the time, and the only glimpse they got of it was a page they read over my shoulder once. It was rather unfortunate that their onl exposure to my fandom was the page when Syaoran-tachi is seperated from Mokona in volume 2, where they were speaking gibberish. They officially think that my fandom is retarted. :dodge:
Funny how this same group of friends mocked my being a girl scout today as well... *sigh*
Oh I HATE it when friends come in at the wrong time while reading manga. There was this one guy who saw me reading Ranma 1/2 and thought it was something pornographic. Man, it's awful! ><
Yes, dubs on tv are what give anime a bad image! And what's really bad is when they don't even use the word "anime" and instead use "Japanimation". Yuck!
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My friends couldn't care LESS about Anime, they prefer watching novels in the TV or talking of What Not to Wear. :dodge:
I am the only one that loves Anime, and since I know they HATE to know about it, I keep my mouth shut and I talk about it here in the forums. :)
Tyahah! Same here, my friends dont care..prep girls man (: We like to chill out at a mall..haha..Yeah. And I don't really talk about forums around them..we..talk..NO DUH!
blah blah blah's going out with this this this..EWW! and..you know the rest (;
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Oh I HATE it when friends come in at the wrong time while reading manga. There was this one guy who saw me reading Ranma 1/2 and thought it was something pornographic. Man, it's awful! ><
Yes, dubs on tv are what give anime a bad image! And what's really bad is when they don't even use the word "anime" and instead use "Japanimation". Yuck!
The one time I went into the manga store with my non-anime liking friends, and what do they pick up immediately and start reading? Love Hina. >.>
One of my guy friends likes anime, but not manga, and recently I've turned another friend into a Tsubasa and Furuba fan (and, inadvertently, a KuroxFye fan ^^9 ) but that's all. The whole anime/manga culture is fairly small over here still.
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Well some my IRL friends like it but some...don't understand of my hobby XD
Some of my friend I don't tell nothing about anime or manga (I only say that I'm computer nerd), they understand..some of understand something of anime and manga and some knows everything (same nerd like me, wee XD)
At school we barely speak about anime or manga...very lamely..sometimes..
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up to date.. i only have 1 close friend who shared the same anime (or manga) interest as myself.. :sweatdrop:
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None of my friends like Anime, they all totally hate it and think its for kids. However it all changed when I met a few Anime fans from the net and now I have made my first Anime fans ^^
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When I drew fanart at school people would come up saying "Oh what are you drawing--oh that...*forced smile* Well, that's...nice. Is that pokemon?" It's like...once someone sees it's in the anime style, they immediatley dislike it.
There was this one guy in class that worked on a group project with me and he drew a lot too. He didn't draw anime style though....he drew sort of semi-realism. Anyway, I love group projects that require drawing because I'm like "Me! Me! I can do it!!" But this time he got the job of doing art. I tried to volunteer helping too, but someone said "He draws REAL art, not cartoons." Because nothing in anime has ANY realistic elements whatsoever?!? Man, talk about stealing my thunder...><
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That's too bad, Hypercrabby. In answer to your question earier, I haven't really cosplayed as anyone. Although I did cosplay as random japanese school-girl.. the first time I went. I thought that the skirt was too long, since it went to my knees. But apparently thats how long they actually are in japan. I guess I always figured they were short, due to what I've seen in anime.
Anyway.. out of the total of my friends that enjoy anime, I really have very few. I think I have more online then in real life.
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Aww...too bad ><"
Well they don't force the smile, they're just not anime type. Not like they HATE IT. haha
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A lot of people don't see anime beyond anything but Pokemon and DBZ. I do have a few friends who do like anime, though not as much as I would like. We're all going to cosplay in the next expo. One of my friends is going as Syaoran from TRC...funnily enough.
I do have a friend who absolutely HATES anime though. I mean with a passion. I would like to try and convert her but I haven't read enough brainwashing books yet. Well, whenver she's around we talk about fashion and stuff like that.
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A lot of people don't see anime beyond anything but Pokemon and DBZ. I do have a few friends who do like anime, though not as much as I would like. We're all going to cosplay in the next expo. One of my friends is going as Syaoran from TRC...funnily enough.
I do have a friend who absolutely HATES anime though. I mean with a passion. I would like to try and convert her but I haven't read enough brainwashing books yet. Well, whenver she's around we talk about fashion and stuff like that.
i think i don't have it as hard as everyone because i do have many friends who like anime. and even if they didn't like it as much as i do, they would still support me by reading my fanfics and help me get stuff off of ebay.
also, we have an anime club in school and most of my friends are in the anime club. it's like a 2 to 1 ratio with friends who like anime and friends who don't.
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also, we have an anime club in school and most of my friends are in the anime club. it's like a 2 to 1 ratio with friends who like anime and friends who don't.
That sounds like so much fun! I'm jealous! >< What exactly do you do in an anime club?
I'm thinking that at some point I'm going to start a doujinshi circle with other artists. That would be so cool! ^^
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My best friend is just like me in that we both love manga, anime, and videogames. We both like writing stories, drawing pictures, and coming up with random story ideas we know we'll never write.
So, I'm lucky in that respect. It was the Pokemon craze that brought us together as friends, so I've known her about eight years now. We've branched out since then, and both love Fullmetal Alchemist, and Tsubasa. She'll buy Candidate for Goddess, or Negima, and I'll buy Tsubasa and Fruits Basket, and then we read the volumes off each other, so we save money! Haha!
The rest of my friends...well...some like anime, some don't really care (my other friends seem to think they're 'maturing' by going out drinking a lot...hm. Whatever.) I have some friends who are borderline anime lovers, and one of my friends is obsessed with Les Miserables...so...
...We're all a strange bunch.
I have another friend a bit like my best friend. She's not afraid to admit she still sometimes watches YuGiOh. Haha. I've got her hooked on Fruits Basket, now I'm working on getting her hooked on Tsubasa XD
(Actually, I already have one friend hooked on Tsubasa. xD I just gotta work on the others!)
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You know what it seems like? It seems as if everyone goes through a Pokemon/Digimon/YuGiOh stage...
Like, you know how older folks talk about their bad 80's period? They had bad clothing, not to mention the infamous 80's hair.
It's like, those animes are the same as the 80's craze . We've all been obsessed, we're somewhat embarressed about it now. We all had that bad Digimon hair. XDD It's something that sparked our interest, so we can't really dislike it. It's our roots, but there's still a little twinge of embarressment when brought up. ^^;
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You know what it seems like? It seems as if everyone goes through a Pokemon/Digimon/YuGiOh stage...
Like, you know how older folks talk about their bad 80's period? They had bad clothing, not to mention the infamous 80's hair.
It's like, those animes are the same as the 80's craze . We've all been obsessed, we're somewhat embarressed about it now. We all had that bad Digimon hair. XDD It's something that sparked our interest, so we can't really dislike it. It's our roots, but there's still a little twinge of embarressment when brought up. ^^;
I still have a soft spot for the animes that got me started. I think I always will. ^_^
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i think i don't have it as hard as everyone because i do have many friends who like anime. and even if they didn't like it as much as i do, they would still support me by reading my fanfics and help me get stuff off of ebay.
also, we have an anime club in school and most of my friends are in the anime club. it's like a 2 to 1 ratio with friends who like anime and friends who don't.
An anime club? That would be like a dream come true if I had one at my school. You're so lucky! I'm jealous now. (Floats away into daydream land)
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my two best freinds like anime so that cool but my classmates don't except for one so i just sit next to her in math and talk about naruto!! the others are like WHAT..WHY do u like that stuff its for children..and then i'm like IT IS NOT and i start arguing but its ok in the end although there are some shakes of the head and weird looks
i like it her coz i can talk about anime with all you guys...THANKYOU!!! =)
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A couple of my friends do, but I'm the most hard core :P. My best friend is a big geek (well I am too) so she puts up with my anime love and I put up with her programming talk.
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My friends are comprised of the anime freaks and band geeks. we respect each others' interests. Oh, and there are no arguements over Disney. We all like a few Disney movies and are united in hateing the lousy sequels!
my anime-loving friends and I share our anine so much it's funny! I lent a friend 20 mangas at once!
oh, I met my friend Haru, because we both liked Inu Yasha. Now we're beat friends and I'm going to get her to read/watch TSUBASA!!!!!!!!!! Muahahaha!
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Some of my friends like anime, but the rest could really care less. Most of them haven't even heard anime! The person that I share my manga most with is my older cousin. She goes to Japan alot so she brings back tons of manga and anime to share. I lend her alot of my Fruits Basket as well, and whenever I see a new scan of it, I tell her about it. So really, it's really only me and my cousin who know about alot of anime.
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some of them are anime fans, some don't care, and others...? well...they think I'm weird o.o
the only one I ever want to talk to anime about out of all my anime fan friends is Emethyst-chan. she was the first one I talked to about anime and up to now it's only her whom I can discuss anime with properly
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some of them are anime fans, some don't care, and others...? well...they think I'm weird o.o
the only one I ever want to talk to anime about out of all my anime fan friends is Emethyst-chan. she was the first one I talked to about anime and up to now it's only her whom I can discuss anime with properly
same with Sayu-chan, although there's two persons I talk to besides her: my cool cousin (in whom I get the latest updates) and a batchmate of mine (Sayu-chan, you know him ^_^)
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some of them are and some of them don't....
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Some of them like anime some of them don't... Although anime is very popular in teh Philippines O.o
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I have anime friends and other friends. We just do different stuff sometimes when we get together. But my anime friends are a lot closer to me than my other friends cuz we share a lot more interests.
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only like two of my freinds like anime the others think their just stupid cartoons :dodge:
same with azure-chan those two friends are much closer than the others
we have much , much more to talk about :D
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My bestfriend doesn't like anime very much and he keeps referring to it as "cartoons"! And my other friends don't like it much either so I can say that I'm the only otaku in the group. :cry: It's hard cause I can't talk about animes to them as much as I want...
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Anime = Cartoon
It's from another country, that's all.
See. Simple.
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We're talking about anime and friends, not debating whether it's cartoon or anime. They are the same thing. END OF DISCUSSION!
Let's get back on topic here please.