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Ohisashiburi
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Does anyone here on ANN know people off the internet who are anime fans? Or is your only contact with anime fans through the 'net?
I only have a couple of friends who are into anime on television, but none of them are serious about the stuff like I am. They don't buy dvds or download anime, but rather enjoy the stuff whenever it's on. Actually, the only real contact with fans for me would be browsing through anime sites and internet forums as I don't normally do the anime convention thing. |
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PantsGoblin
 SubscriberEncyclopedia Editor  Posts: 2969 Location: L.A. |
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I'm friends with quite a few anime fans offline. We get together every once in a while and watch anime. Although, they are far more casual fans than I am. A lot of the stuff I watch they won't even touch. Although, one of my friends, Berselius, will watch most anything with me. He's more of a hardcore fan than the rest of my friends and is more open to watching non-mainstream stuff.
Also, there are quite few anime fans I've met through the net that I have also met IRL. Unfortunately, none of the really live close enough so that I can see them on a regular basis. |
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ManOfRust
 Posts: 1935 Location: Seattle, WA |
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I don't know anyone in RL that is an anime fan. There are a few people I have loaned selected things to and they have enjoyed them, but they would not check something out specifically because it's anime. I am well out of the age group of most anime fans so I rely on the internet, primarily ANN, for interaction with other fans. There seem to be a fair number of people on these forums from the Seattle area but I don't go to conventions or other anime related events so I think the chances of my meeting up with them are pretty slim.
Pretty much every anime fan that I have any interaction with I know from ANN. I guess Arcwave (another member here) and I were 2 of the about 10 people at the same showing of 5cm Per Second in Seattle last fall, but we didn't realize who each other was until afterwards when we discovered through a forum thread that we had both been there. |
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Keonyn
Subscriber Posts: 5567 Location: Coon Rapids, MN |
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I actually know about 5 or 6 offline, but only one of them actually purchases anime unfortunately. The bulk of my contact with anime fans is from here or the IGN boards or others I've met online over the years with that common interest.
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Zin5ki
 Posts: 6680 Location: London, UK |
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There's a guy on the floor below me with a GITS Laughing Man T-Shirt. That's about it.
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Mylene
 Posts: 2792 Location: Indiana |
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My husband is an anime fan almost to the same level as I am (and moreso when it comes to certain series), two of my coworkers watch anime (currently my Fullmetal Alchemist collection is being borrowed by one of them), and one of my close friends from high school was also a fan, although not to any great extreme.
I don't actively seek out people who like anime, but they seem to fall in my lap a bit. Heck, I even got one of my roommates watching Magic Knight Rayearth and Fushigi Yuugi (obsessively) back during my undergrad days. |
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Jih2
 Posts: 403 Location: East coast |
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There are some people I've met in high school but none of the ones I've met actually buy stuff. I have one firend who is a hardcore fan like myself but other than that that's about it. I know so people through an anime club I led for a year or so and they watch stuff when it's on cable TV, we talk about stuff shown at the anime club but I haven't really hung out with any of them IRL for a couple months now. I have to say, it's pretty difficult finding hardcore anime fans who you'd want to be associated with, heck it's tough finding them period.
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kyokun703
 Posts: 2505 Location: Orgrimmar |
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This. I went to our local anime club here a couple times, but everyone in that room frightened me with their weirdness. I do have some RL friends into anime (phoenixphire24 who sometimes posts here is one of my best friends), but unfortunately we live too far apart now to hang out all together more than once or twice (if we're lucky) a year. Fortunately we make it count, by making one of those times an anime convention, so we go all out. |
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Bluebeard
 Posts: 267 Location: Massachusetts |
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The only person I know who watched anime is the person who got me hooked on it in the first place. I try getting my friends interested, but when I menion "anime" they tend to just give me "the look". I'm very familiar with "the look" because I used to give it when I heard someone start talking about anime. The only success I've had is getting one friend to watch Death Note episode 1, and another to watch Elfen Lied episode 1. They didn't dislike them, but didn't seem too gung-ho about chasing down the rest of the series. It would be nice to find some actual people to watch anime with however.
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walw6pK4Alo
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I know quite a lot of people who watch anime offline. I usually hang out with 5-6 of them often and we watch nearly anything, all hardcore fans who watch new and old stuff, downloaded or bought.
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IchigoK90
 Posts: 1634 Location: Scarborough, Ontario |
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Wow I feel lucky to be in contact with well over 50 Anime fans on a daily basis outside these forums. I guess living in the Greater Toronto Area is what makes it different compared to you guys. Theres a large Asian population in and around my area of the GTA. I guess me also being Asian (though not oriental, south pacific islander) helps me being in contact with other Anime fans outside forums. I guess I'm lucky to be where I am when it comes to watching and meeting those who watch Anime.
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Shadowrun20XX
 Posts: 1938 Location: Vegas |
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I still know a few.Most of them grow out of anime when they got kids,or other things to do in life.
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cool3865
 Posts: 770 Location: Austin, TX |
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i know about 10 offline, we all meet up at a club every saturday and talk about anime. one of my friends makes cosplay clothing and EGL clothing. she also does cosplay modeling.
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Ohisashiburi
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Must be nice to know fifty anime fans face-to-face. I guess for me, living miles away from my state's "anime epicenter" could be the reason why I personally keep in touch with only a small handful of fans. San Diego must be a great place to live for an anime fan, what with it being the headquarters of Comic-con... |
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ManOfRust
Posts: 1935 Location: Seattle, WA |
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That's interesting. Most of the people I know in RL who even know what anime is know because they were exposed to it through their kids, usually from buying or watching Miyazaki movies. I would think those anime fans with kids would pass the love on to their kids instead of losing interest, but I suppose it works differently for everyone. |
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