How popular is anime/manga in your area?

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This is just a curiosity question. I think there is a pretty big anime scene here in Raleigh. A lot of people that I wouldn’t guess would watch it actually do. I’d say about half usually just watch the dubbed Toonami stuff and the other half go the whole torrent/sub route.

How long until anime because really mainstream prime-time type stuff and actually gets good dubbers on a regular basis? It’s a hell of a lot better than any reality show crap they have on prime time now. i’d love to see a drama like Monster shown. I think people would really latch onto it if they could put aside the notion that it is a serious “cartoon”.

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The occasional weirdass kid that’s overly otaku.

Not very popular, in other words.

3

Well in my school, not at all. I can think of one girl who likes it.

(not myself)

4

Its popular in my school with all the pirates*, though they’ve only seen stuff like naruto, one piece, and inuyasha. We have an anime club, but they only even watch stuff you can see on FOX/UPN or Toonami anyway.

  • drama emo scenesters who shop at hot topic to buy pirate pants and then go home and watch pirates of the carribean because johnny depp is SOOOO HOT OMG
5

I can’t say its very popular in the Boston area. I only know a couple people who care about anime.

A while back when I went and saw the Bebop movie in a movie theater, there were only about a dozen people beside me.

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We do have an anime club but lets just say if you take part,people will NEVER let you live it down (i.e “you have no life”)

7

It’s freaking ubiquitous. Well, maybe not, but it keeps turning out that all of my friends are into anime, and then also friends of friends who I just met. And I was just down in North Carolina visiting a great aunt, and she had just been kidding her granddaughter (who’s just 2 years younger than I) that she’s too old to be watching anime.

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i know a grand total of 5 or 6 people who are into it to any degree…including myself. there’s a few like me that read it and enjoy it, and then there’s people who go AAHH! LOOK AT THIS THIS IS ABOUT THE COOLEST THING EVAR!!!

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General Otaku from Bellevue:

Oh Ehm Gee! Its sumthing wiff teh big EYEZ and Boobies! It must be bettar than anything Amerikan artists kan make in like 1million yearz!!11!

I ware Naruto hed-band for teh winz!

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Bellevue Hospital?

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Bellevue Washington, near Seattle and Redmond. (I live across from Microsoft and Nintendo)

12

You lucky jerk… I live out in Monroe.

Anyway, I can’t really say for certain how popular it is out here, since I don’t get out much.
But, it is pretty cool that people at church are anime fans. Heheh. :cool:

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I have found my people! I have met people that are as much of an otaku as I am, and a number of yaoi fangirls. I’m not so sure about the Boston area. I know there are two little shops around Harvard Square, but I really haven’t spent much time in Boston.

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Hardly. I’m like the only one who even knows what it is. My girlfriend does too, so I guess it’s good.

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A lot of vastly different opinions. That is kind of how I figured it. There are the very flamboyant anime/manga lovers, but a lot of them are closet-types. I think the closet anime lovers are many.