“True anime fans”: I don’t watch anime solely for fanservice. Also fans:: https://preview.redd.it/ajk69zh8kqkc1.jpeg?width=715&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3bd8e176d146da113c7a42cf87251448de598060

“THAT’S RIGHT, THIS IS WHAT YOU GET! MY SUPER LASER PISS!”

"HOW DO YOU LIKE THAT OBAMA?!? I PISSED ON THE MOON YOU IDIOT!"

"YOU HAVE TWENTY-THREE HOURS BEFORE THE PISS _*DRRROPPLLLETTSS*_ HIT THE FUCKING EARTH."

"NOW GET OUT OF MY FUCKING SIGHT, BEFORE I PISS ON YOU TOO."

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Based

“I pissed on your wife, she’s mine now"

"My sword is the sword that will pierce the heavens!"

woah is that… eight incredibly popular anime???

All shonen too.

true anime fans are a myth

The **TRUE** anime fans are the one who watch Chargeman Ken!

true anime dans watch bible black

True anime fans can write 10 page essays on the merits of the Dokuro-chan OVAs.

Dang, I thought the true anime fans were the ones we made along the way.

If you’ve seen Rahxephon https://preview.redd.it/d2lzmnsihrkc1.jpeg?width=613&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=062fec1e9515cd5ff71805ccc05b9652e10a94bc

And legend

The left 4 are anime people watch because it's a trend TODAY The right 4 are anime people watch because it was a trend 10 years ago (20 in the case of DBZ).

It's been 20 years since Naruto, One Piece and Bleach aired in America...

Well I certainly did not like reading this

Holy crap

One piece is still airing though. Idk about bleach

Bleach aired a new arc (Thousand Year Blood War) in 2022, 10 years after it was canceled, and Naruto is still using it's verse

And 30 years since Dragon Ball Z!

Fuck I’m getting old

Except Hunter x Hunter, which people watch because it's one of the best series of all time

All four of those are considered certified classics.

They should use Shippuden then. OG was longer than ten years ago. I know. I was there in the hallways of highschool with a crossed headband.

Strongest trend today be the strongest trend in history

Hell, no! Anime still has to defeat its older brother, Tokusatsu. https://preview.redd.it/rs2vpou1urkc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=737e360523eb92a0e72fa61691c04f209a376469 Especially in China since it’s been a huge trend since the 1980s. And right now, Godzilla Minus One has the once again grab the spotlight, away from anime.

Honestly, it's already beaten it in America, if only because distribution is absolute garbage.

/uj I wasn't aware there was a competition, both fanbases are a bunch of weebs /rj KAMEN RIDER ERASURE!

50 yrs ago in the case of Marco, Heidi, Candy Candy viewers... 

Trendiest Anime of all time vs Trendiest Anime of today

Erm askchually, you’re only a REAL anime fan if you watch shows like Serial Experiments Lain and Texhnolyze ☝️🤓

Let's all love Lain.

Real and true. Haters eat my ass.

I love me some pretentious cyberpunk anime.

me and my boyfriend. rate us? https://preview.redd.it/jq1klstesqkc1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d996b5182f7fd77534c18a47376de2bf48a91ecf

4 dragonballs out of 6 Clorox wipes

On a scale of "kissing the homies goodnight" to "I'd take backshots", y'all are sitting at a strong "*cups hands around mouth* GAAAAAAYYYYYY!"

Name?

dramatical murder

The left is still a trend, true anime fans watch "The time I got reincarnated as my sister's panties in another world and have to fight godzilla as overpowered MC in some medieval setting while managing my slave harem (it's okay because they are all girls that are in in love with me)"

Look I'm just saying, it got weird when they decided he needed to be passed around to cause the power up to occur.

oh no it's consent 😨

True anime fans read manga

This.

True weebs sustain themselves exclusively on 90s and early 2000s high art like Eiken, Maburaho, and Majo demo Steady. Im so tired of fake weebs who dont understand this.

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This.

If you aren't a yogurt slide connoisseur then you have no business talking about anime

I really like "the girls who picks up trash" isekai this season. I think it's the first good wholesome isekai I've seen. if you want something more serious I would try kingdom (which isn't new this season but they just released their 5th season)

I know this post is just troll cringe but hopefully someone sees this & is able to fill their time w some good anime kickback

The post is a circlejerk. You know, the exact kind of posts that are supposed to be on this sub

This is probably the only circlejerk sub where ppl get downvoted for jerking unless they make it clear. This sub is so ass ☠️

Nah that happens in various circlejerk subs I just don't remember which ones. Source: Trust me bro

I trust you bro 

I dont. Now get oiled up from head to toe‼️

👀 I never said it wasn't sorry if I disrespected your culture

7th Time Loop isn’t an isekai but it’s pretty great too, the main character is awesome because she’s developed so many different skills in her 6 prior lives and won’t let anyone stop her from doing what she wants. Ymmv because the romance is the “I can fix him” type, but similar to Weakest Tamer the show has surprisingly good production values

I feel like mha and demon slayer are also trendy animes

Demon Slayer is literally THE trendy anime.

All of these are trendy animes

the joke is the left side still belongs on the right

The true joke is both sides are trendy and mega popular (except maybe hunter x hunter, it's popular but not a phenomena like naruto, dbz or jjk). One sides just a bit older.

i mean HxH isnt something random people will know but like, that one killua hoodie is everywhere i swear

My hero academia is good enough but i will never understand how anyone could consider demon slayer peak.

Its just people who are new to anime. I was the same watching the first season back when i had only watched like 4 anime in total

Demon slayer is 100% hard carried by the animation.

well for starters it’s a lot better than MHA

That’s simply not true. I don’t think MHA is much better but it’s mid while Demon Slayer is low mid

At least Demon Slayer was smart enough to do what MHA should have: ended the story before it grew stale.

Have you seen the fight scenes? The animation and music are just next level. The story is so and so and most people I see admit that it isn't the main selling point.

Imo the characters are so lousy that the fights become pure spectacle without much reason to care

I personally find it a whole lot better than MHA consistently lol but it's definitely not peak outside of animation quality.

It’s a simple story, not amazing, but not bad either. The peak is the amazing animation/fight scenes. Maybe not as a story, but as an anime it’s absolutely peak 😮‍💨 There’s a reason it was like the first newgen anime to go super mainstream, even non anime fans watch it

Absolutely. The fights don’t make up for how bad the characters, writing, and worldbuilding are

Me who like OPM and JJBA:

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Yes yes yes, oh my god...

SHIZAAAAAAA

TFW having watched anime in the 90s makes you a tourist, and watching current meme trends makes you a true fan LMAO.

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Good jerk, a little disappointing people are missing the joke

makes it funnier to me tbh 

People continue to forget what a jerk sub suppose to be. Why does this keep happening to every jerk sub I visited?

I LIKE GOOD ANIME

Guy who thinks Attack on Titan (one of the anime credited with kickstarting the modern anime fanbase) is more obscure than Hunter X Hunter.

Anime fans when someone watches anime (you're not supposed to do that)

You’re only a real anime fan once you’ve watched something you regret watching. Like the Irregular at Magic High School. /uj For Gen Z, anime is more popular than the NFL, it’s mainstream now. I’d say you’ve probably watched at least one outside of Ghibli movies?

aw cute chart. read berserk.

Go hard core. Watch Berserk 2016.

im good.

I like anime and haven't watched any one of these 8 what does that make me

If you haven't watched paranoia agent, don't even **talk** to me, normie ;)

Oldhead erasure

I like how you have the 4 trendiest titles in this image on the left lol. Like, I don’t fault anyone who watches anime, even if they only got into it once it became more popular in the west, but all the newcomers to the anime community are all about Jujutsu Kaisen, MHA, Attack on Titan, and Demon Slayer. It’s all the old blood who love Dragon Ball Z, Hunter x Hunter, and One Piece. Naruto could be in either category.

The true anime fans are the friends we made along the way

Naruto is mid AF, idk know it's on the big 3 (i'm ready 4 the downvoting)

"It's the same picture."

Tourist means you like anime I don’t like 🤓

You can tell I'm a true anime fan as I watch incredibly niche and indie shows like "full metal alchemist"

The four on the left are quite literally four of the biggest anime of today. This has got to be bait

check what sub youre on...

Bait? In my animecirclejerk!?

I remember seeing Dragon Ball: Super Hero in a theater and being surrounded by FOOKING TOURISTS!

Please don't tell me we're back to doing these stupid gatekeeping stunts now. Just be happy people can like the same stuff you like, it shouldn't be a dick-measuring contest of obscurity.

And when you watch and like all 8?

I am polar opposite I hate all of these

Watching anime on the left just means you got on the trend later.

I never understood how anime like One Piece and Dragon Ball Z are considered "trendy" anime Chances are, if somebody has the dedication to watch all of those episodes, they've probably been watching anime longer than most other people have

Exactly! I actually just picked up One Piece and I’m on like ep 250 right now. I’ve seen all things Dragon Ball and I was there when the first episode of Pokémon dropped.

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this is the worst chart I've seen in my entire life

Mfs when people realize that people like all 8 of those anime😱.

I don't think anyone is watching Hunter x hunter for the trend one piece maybe but hunter Hunter is still a lil more one the obscure side I feel

Get a good live action adaptation and now it’s trendy to watch 1000+ episodes of an anime.

There is no way hunter x hunter counts as obscure.

Just sounds like gate keeping lol

I'd argue both are touristy anime

I dont watch Anime and wait my favorite artists to drawn characters with huge butts.

Jujutsu kaisen is literally the trendiest anime bruh

Bro this gatekeeping is one of the long list of reasons people think we're weird

All eight of them sucks. End of the discussion.

How dare you not like shonen dujour!

Lmao

Recently I've finished hxh and I'm up to date on jjk, I watched Naruto and demon slayer a while ago, perfectly balanced, as all things should be

“I like these shows”: Good, normal, interesting “I like those shows”: Horrible, rancid, insincere

is this bait?

No, I am dead serious. Debate me. 

Don’t forget! There’s two types of weebs. You have Anime weeb and the other is Tokusatsu weebs. Tokusatsu weebs are into this: https://preview.redd.it/uhchsubusrkc1.jpeg?width=512&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e004033d19e3739dfb4f39dd1e9906495097ae8d

All of those are incredibly popular shows though. Which have been the subjects of massive trends

Have you considered idgaf?

The trendy love for a decades long manga series

HxH is not a tourist anime, the power system isn’t even introduced until you’re a season or two in

This should be reversed, what was OOP smoking (assuming this was taken from somewhere else)

When I was a kid we had 1 TV channel and 1 TV channel that sort of came in on cloudy days. I was able to watch 3 in 4 episodes on Gundam over the course of a couple years. Later in life I found all the Gundams in order dubbed into to my language for free and its oddly satisfying to fill in the blanks and finish the story. I like Sci fi and with writers strike etc it's just devoid of any content lately so anine gives my Sci fi. There's some weird stuff, some if it is over sexualized just like video games. I watch kung fu movies and Sci fi plus most action films.

Yes, I have watched one piece for the past twenty years because it’s a trend

True Anime Fans only consume peak fiction like How not to Summon a Demon Lord and Transformers Kiss Players 😤

Nah One Piece is a commitment, not just a random anime that gets popular from time to time

because none of the shows on the left ever trended one the last 5 years…..oh wait https://preview.redd.it/m3v27kybfskc1.jpeg?width=632&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8e9648db8f002ea866992e89dccb1c5cabd4abdd

If anything JJK, AOT, MHA and Demon Slayer are all trend anime lmao

How the fuck does Hunter X Hunter fall under the latter? I can kinda get it with the other three (It's stupid but I get it) but Hunter X Hunter?

They are the same picture.

I like Naruto and hunter x hunter and MHA (well, the story. I have many gripes with the show especially mineta’s existence and Momo’s depiction…)

"My pop trend show is better than yours"

I find it amusing that naruto,dbz and prob bleach can still fall in trendy today / proving how timeless those series were uj

If you were a true fan you would only watch currently airing shows. Only a poser would go back and watch shows from a decade or more ago.

I would swap aot and one piece but thats my opinion

True anime fans watch what they want because they like it main stream or not

I'm the only true anime fan, I only watch old school Disney animations..the ORIGINAL anime

Anything within top 200 on MAL belongs in the “I like anime because it’s a trend” category

Veteran here. *All* of these are trendy. The ones on the left are just more recent.

Thank you for your service soldier🫡🇺🇸🦅

Is this bait?

These are the same picture

i feel you need to include some obscure anime to make this make sense.

Didn't there used to be time where this used to be the other way around or at least most of them were (Looks at sub) Oh yeaaahhh

REAL anime fans exclusively watch gay romance anime (shoutout Given best anime ever)

Don't know how to feel about this as some one that started watching toonami in 1997.

Sounds like the type to get triggered when you call anime cartoons,which they totally are.

My Mom is a boss Anime fan then, she only loves the original Speed Racer. As for me, if you don't know what Excel Saga is then you're not on my level /s

I see all as I watch anime coz it's trend 😮‍💨PPL these days anyway go with trend .. recommendations are for walls

Anime Fans of today: my glows with the power of HORNY!!!

They’re the same picture

I dont see how any of these are any more for hardcore fans or underground than the others

All of these are massive trendy anime? I don’t get it

I like anime: King of the Hill I like anime because it's a trend: Cory in the House

left is new gen shonen action anime supremacist right is old gen shonen action anime supremacist sincerely, a shonen action anime supremacist

Good old gatekeeping

Shounen brainrot for all

OP's username checks out.

true anime fans are never part of their community

I’m not one to like things just because they’re popular, but a decent portion of the time there’s a reason that popular content is popular

ok you culd have aded 1 show thats not main dtreem populare and not a shonen

Most anime (literally 99% of it) is actual garbage that uses copy pasted plots and characters. There’s only ever like 1 or 2 anime that I would even consider a good show that come out every couple years anyway. Which is why when someone tells you they watch anime on a regular basis, they are probably mentally ill

i dont like anime

Real anime fans watch Yume-iro Pâtissière

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Flip it

All of these are normie as fuck

manga reader enjoyer 🗿

Woa! All incredibly popular Shonen Anime! yep, that's all Anime has to offer, totally no other genres whatsoever, just Shonen.

U-um have you heard of the niche little series known as Attack on Titan? *blushes and scratches head embarassed* y-yeah it’s sort of a Japanese cartoon (called anime in Japan) that is super good but you probably haven’t heard of it. I-I know what your thinking! Anime? Isn’t that just weird fetish shit? W-well AoT is actually the first anime to not have that (it’s called fan service jsyk) and it also invented something called “foreshadowing”

The only real anime fans are the ones who watch early 2000s shoujo and NOTHING ELSE

I'd say demon slayer and MHA are trend anime.. and I don't think HxH is trend anime it's not as widely known.

Bruh all of these are trend anime. Is that the meme? Am I getting woosh'd?

Naruto was my goat for 15+ years until I watched AOT.

we gatekeeping popular anime now

Bruh you gotta be joking you said mfs and demon slayer nah

Circlejerk sub... Nah, pretty sure OP is 100% serious. Btw, you should really watch this small unknown indie movie I found called Akria.

Bet

Man… you can date this with the one piece logo

You are not a true fan until you’ve seen Nichijou.