For your specific worries about the level on discussion here on WK, may I suggest you take a look at https://community.wanikani.com/t/囀る鳥は羽ばたかない-saezuru-tori-wa-habatakanai-intermediate-level-home-thread/51118 since it’s also been proven we can have a language discussion about a manga aimed at adults that have sexual themes, well I think it’s a matter of HOW you do it and maybe learn from our previous exploits. So, if worried, read the previous discussions so far…it’s more tame than 19.00 television frankly! XD (not the manga, but the discussions here on WK! XD )
So, in the end, it’s a matter of forum decorum!
I also asked the moderators about doing the thread beforehand, so, for further questions just ask them directly! <3
I tried looking for discord groups like that, only found TheMoeWay and Refold (didn’t join this one, just heard of it), and even TheMoeWay just seemed to have an ordinary anime club, not one for learning from anime per say.
So, in these groups you speak of, they actually pick an anime, watch it with Japanese subs/no subs JP audio and help each other out with things that confuse them etc., huh? Ah, but real time discussion, huh. Hmm. Depending on the time, things might be difficult. But I’d like to visit these servers all the same, try something out. I’m not into VN’s though, I’d like to stick to anime for now.
Yes, if this leads to an Anime type Book Club, that would be important. However, I don’t want to jump on it just yet. I’m going to discuss things a little more before doing anything. If there’s especially going to be an Absolute Beginner’s club, we’d need, what, at least one week for an episode? More than that? I’m going by my own experience here but initially I was incredibly slow, and I’m still slow especially if I find a sentence or two I seriously don’t understand. In the book clubs, you do about 15 pages per week, I think, which feels like an OK pace.
I initially tried watching Shirokuma Cafe, made it to episode 2, but I found myself getting bored and I couldn’t see myself finishing 50 episodes. I wanted to enjoy what I was watching so I started watching Acchi Kocchi. I also like that it’s only 12 episodes long.
Like, once we’ve decided on a beginner anime: then decide by making a Poll about what pacing is right, so how many episodes per week. Make it step for step - for example read the original 80s and 90s thread + sister threads to see how they were organized. We all got through these organizational steps.
Thank you, I will do that. Thank you everyone for all the replies. I tried asking in other forums/discord groups etc. but this forum is the only place where I’ve gotten so many nice replies. It’s late now and I must sleep but I will be back tomorrow!
Themoeway is the one I would recommend over the other main alternative. But yeah they pick an anime and watch it together. If you have a LOT of questions, it may not be great, but for occasional questions yeah you can ask the people you’re watching with and get some help. The reason they watch anime is to learn from it.
Piracy tends to largely be strongly correlated with poor legal services. Music piracy saw a giant decline with services like Pandora, Apple Music and Spotify. PC game piracy saw a sharp decline with Steam. Movie piracy saw a sharp decline with Netflix, Hulu, and Prime Video (and then a rise again recently with the market saturation of streaming services with small exclusive catalogs). Anime piracy saw a sharp decline with services like Crunchyroll. In general, people don’t want to have to deal with spending forever torrenting something and risking malware just to consume media. Having high piracy rates generally means the legal options are bad.
People who serve to profit off of the Japanese subs outside of Japan have collectively agreed that currently providing these subtitles costs more than it would make since it would be a niche market. Until legal options arise, you probably shouldn’t feel bad about pirating, the companies themselves accepted this as preferable to the costs of providing JP subs.
If this still continues to bother you, and you are concerned about the poor animation studios, you can always make sure you are purchasing something related to the anime where the money goes to the studios.
I think a Beginners anime club would be cool. If we are restricting people to Japanese/no subs it would probably take a long time and need to do easy/short series.
This for sure. I did my senior thesis on piracy in the international anime community and for the most part, when shows are accessible and affordable, a good portion of people prefer that route over piracy.
Seriously this though. The biggest profits for anime come from merch sales. The dvds/viewership constitute very little of their profit, so one of the best ways to support a show is to buy merch out the wazoo.
Oh, I can confirm that Bofuri was both fun and easy. Caveat: I watch almost no anime, so I can’t really judge the quality compared to the average. I’m also very bad at judging difficulty in general.
The exact opposite of profit, indeed.
(Also number 2 should be “read the original version” in case it was not from a manga )
Oof, that’s the second post from that person I see making no sense. Plus, they haven’t posted in a while and sounded very different before (i.e. they made sense). I feel like that account was taken over by a bot.
Specifically on topic: having a proper anime club would be a good complement to the other things we have here.
In terms of logistics, I thought crunchiroll covered a lot of anime for people outside Japan? And there are legal ways in Japan.
We had a club for watching a specific let’s play in Japanese on youtube (on phone right now, so it’s annoying to find the link) and asking questions here. It worked pretty well, so I feel like there’s no reason an anime club would not work…
I guess people could watch with English subs if they wanted to. I use English subs to see if my translation was more or less OK though sometimes the English sub’s translation can be wrong, but I digress.
Yes, I was thinking that any anime with a lot of episodes (eg. more than 12 episodes) may not be good.
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