GATE KEEPERS ANIME WATCH ONLINE SERIES
GATE KEEPERS ANIME WATCH ONLINE TV

The entire point is to get folks awayВ from the thing you love, even if you wouldnвЂ™t have such easy access to the thing you love if it werenвЂ™t for your fellow fans.

GATE KEEPERS ANIME WATCH ONLINE SERIES

How hard is it to say вЂњif you like (insert popular anime) you might like (insert similar series someone might not know about).вЂќД«ut no, that would mean actually trying to get more people into the same thing as you, and thatвЂ™s not really what gatekeepers are doing. IвЂ™m assuming the goal is to get us to watch series other than the ones listed, but if thatвЂ™s the case, um вЂ¦ why so aggressive about it? You could just recommend other series, or even make suggestions based on the popular ones. The tweet that got shared yesterday accuses folks of being, quoting again, вЂњnormies,вЂќ based on what they watch. More importantly, why do anime fans think that this is how you get people to watch what they want you to watch? It had the opposite effect, of course, because why would I wanna watch a series that IвЂ™d been shamed about? I didnвЂ™t know HIS series, therefore, I was the inferior fan. It didnвЂ™t matter that my closet door was taped with pictures from whatever anime magazines I could find, didnвЂ™t matter that I had blank VHS tapes with recordings of the Toonami block AND the Sci-fi Channel anime block. My first clear memory of it is back in 2001 when my college roommateвЂ™s boyfriend looked at my Duo Maxwell poster, asked if IвЂ™d ever seen Evangelion, then told me I wasnвЂ™t a realВ anime fan until I watched it.

The hard truth to swallow is that gatekeepingВ has been a part of the anime community (and any nerd community, really) for decades. ThatвЂ™s at least a year of Funimation and Crunchyroll subscriptions. So are we reallyВ gatekeeping anime in 2021? A time where, in the middle of a pandemic, we can watch series AS THEY AIR in Japan? For way less than I spent on that DBZ VHS boxset where all their faces line up to make a picture? My bank account shudders at how much I spent on that thing. Cristina вЂњVeeвЂќ Valenzuela February 16, 2021 Ppl trying to gatekeep anime didnвЂ™t grow up in the mid 2000s when there were 3 people in school who liked anime and you somehow found each other and rewatched the same ranma VHS tapes over and over until graduation :вЂ™) (Then you pretended you liked it because you DID just get your mom to spend part of her paycheck on it. I thought we wanted it to reach a point where we didnвЂ™t have to wait years for the next episode or beg our parents to buy us that expensive ass VHS of a series we knew nothing about, but the cover looked cool, and it was ANIME and PLEASE MOM because there was no Internet to look up any kind of review so we had to GUESS if it was good. As someone from Team вЂњ3 episodes of DBZ on VHS is about 40 bucksвЂќ and вЂњ Card Captors is Cardcaptor Sakura cut in halfвЂќ I thought anime getting more positive attention and, therefore, becoming more accessible to others was the point. Despite my mother watching plenty of Speed Racer and G-Force ( Gatchaman) before I brought Sailor Moon and Dragon Ball Z in our house, she didnвЂ™t know those were anime until I told her.ДЄnd donвЂ™t get me started on finding episodes and how much it cost to BUY anime. It would take some time before the folks in my circle realized that anime was a form of entertainment that could encompass multiple genres and appeal to all ages and not just вЂњthose porny cartoonsвЂќ that came on late at night until the tamer series started to air.ДЄssuming they were marketed as anime.

GATE KEEPERS ANIME WATCH ONLINE TV

But even if I donвЂ™t look at it from a creatorвЂ™s perspective and just stick with my fangirl POV, I always thought the point was to show that anime wasnвЂ™t just those вЂњweird cartoonsвЂќ that aired on TV during random timeslots, you know, back when we flipped through channels and stumbled upon Vampire Hunter D by complete accident?ДЄnime had such a stigma back in the day, whether it was because it came from another country and the books were вЂњprinted backwards,вЂќ because folks assumed youвЂ™d вЂњgrow outвЂќ of cartoons eventually, or because some of the stuff we got was EXTREMELY violent and/or sexual (and proudly marketed as such).

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