I do not know if I belong in this thread or not. I don't hate anime and I do infact watch some of it (I can count the number of series I've watched a significant portion of on my digits). I've even read a few mangas. I've posted on 2ch before. It is a big forum with a lot of people from a different culture and I'm curious. If 2ch was a russian board instead, I would probably still post on it in the same fashion.

I actually came here from 4chan. I only really was a /b/tard and I read a few of the world4ch boards... and noticed that they are (mostly) full of morons. I started reading /sup/, /soc/, /code/, /politics/, and /net/. Sure, there is some Japanese bias in /net/ and /politics/. It is only recently that I have read /anime/ or /manga/ and started to acquire anime on my own (instead of borrowing DVDs from friends). I think I've stuck around because it kind of feels like usenet used to (or what little I remember of it). Intelligent discussion and debates but also humour. I don't think anonymity really has anything to do with this, just that the community here doesn't suck.