I love how anime watchers are a mix of different and exciting people these days.
There are the ones who never let us forget that they watched older shows like Sailor Moon, Dragonball, and Yu-Gi-Oh. The newbies probably started with Tokyo Ghoul, Dororo, Demon Slayer or Fire Force.
The elitist
If you hate that you like anime sometimes, it’s probably because you met some of these people. They believe in gatekeeping anime and are always ready to mock newbies. They’ve seen every anime ever made, and no matter how great your favourite anime is, it’s immediately mid to them. Why? Because they said so. Lord help you if you mistakenly tell them that you watch English-dubbed anime. They think they have the best taste and every conversation you have with them ends in an argument.
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The newbie
They’re so innocent, always asking for recommendations and watching everything. They don’t argue because they haven’t seen enough shows. These ones still get shocked when they stay awake till six in the morning watching anime.
The indie watcher
The indie watchers think they’re better than everyone else because they don’t watch mainstream anime. They kind of are, to be honest. If they recommend an anime, chances are, it’ll be very artsy but good.
They become a little overbearing when you tell them you’ve seen an anime they’ve watched. The next thing it’s, “It wasn’t even that good”, “ I sha watched it first” or “I don’t even like it like that”, because God forbid you have good taste.
The casual fan
These people pride themselves as the most unproblematic types of fans, and they are. The causal fans have seen every popular anime, a bunch of indie anime, and at least one old anime like Sailor Moon just because. They don’t care about the subbed or dubbed discourse. Wetin concern them? They’re big fans, but their whole personalities don’t revolve around anime. They think anime fandoms are a little problematic, so they’re always observing from a distance, and I don’t even blame them.
The cosplayer
Not only do they love certaincharacters, they also want to live them out physically. They spend so much time detailing their outfits and rewatching the shows they like to master the mannerisms of the characters they want to cosplay. They’re almost as wholesome as the newbies, and it’s nice seeing them be so enthusiastic about what they love — when they’re not over-sexualising a character’s outfit.
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The serial monogamist
If you’ve never met one of these people, you don’t know what God has done for you. They are almost as annoying as the elitists because how have you only seen one anime and somehow think it’s the best? I’m talking to you Naruto lovers, and it’s always them. They know everything imaginable about the one show they like, and that’s about it. They’re only fun to be around if you enjoy their favourite show.
The former fan
We get it, you’re older, and suddenly, anime is childish to you. Peak cinema, to them, is every bad series about someone breaking out of prison or some weird obscure psychological thriller. For people who claim to hate anime a lot, their entire personality is the fact that they “Hate anime” and think that “Anime is for losers”.
These kinds of bad vibes make people miserable; just saying.
The Seiyuu nitpickers
These types of fans make you feel like you’re a terrible person. What do you mean you can tell that the same person voiced Dabi from My Hero Academia and Zenitsu from Demon Slayer? They even have a favourite voice actor and know every character voiced by that person. Watching anime with them can be annoying; you’ll hear complaints that the voice acting doesn’t fit the character. Okay boss, go and do it and let me hear word.
The Manga readers
These people usually mind their business and read their manga whenever a new chapter drops. You barely hear from them until they watch the anime of whatever manga they’ wee reading, and then it’ll bes everybody’s problem. They’ll complain about how one thing is missing from the source manga, spoil characters’ deaths for non-readers and boast about how the fights were better in the manga. Every small conversation ends with them saying, “Just read the manga.” Okay na, I don’t want to read. Come and beat me.
The Activists
Say all you want about them; they are my favourite types of anime fans. They are criticising problematic aspects of anime culture, like the fetishisation of women in anime with ginormous boobs, the lack of strong female leads in anime, how Attack on Titan is every imperialist dream, etc. They’re by far my favourite types of fans because it’s about time people called out all these things.
