>>105868972Anime isn't cool.
What you really resent is the fact that anime has a far more autistically dedicated fanbase than Western animation. Sure, you may point out all the awful things about anime: the stiff animation, the sameface, the shonen tropes, the moeblobs, the fanservice, etc. Anime fans will always be the source of so many nerd stereotypes: the waifufagging, dakimura-hugging, dubs-versus-subs arguing weeaboo trash.
But at the end of the day, the image of the awkward highschool anime club is real because anime fans made it real. There are no Western animation clubs. The anime community, as awful as it is, has the numbers and strength of will to be a real presence, whereas Western animation, even in its own country, clings to the margins.
