>>143453197
>>143453433
I see this guy posted a lot
Who is he, the king of /a/?
UP ALL NIGHT
>>143453487
A pretentious hack memedirector
nobody posts about creatures anymore
The cake is a lie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy_xbXIJ898
>>143453866
>Banner deleted
>>143453866
This one hits deep.
>>143453877
>90% of /a/ hasn't been here long enough to remember this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP5lz2CYNR4
>>143453866
>>143453959Green a best and I am need of a rewatch
>>143453961
>girugamesh
kill me
I'd her horns.
Surprised this hasn't been posted yet.
>>143453961
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBBHXZ9E1NI
>>143453197
>>143453850
songs always hit me the hardest in the feels
>>143454358
That one's so old (and if it was ever big, it died down quickly), that there aren't a lot of people with nostalgia for it left.
>>143453961
fuck, somehow I managed to go up until now without ever seeing the full thing
I wish I had kept it that way
The boat
>>143453433
Good work, Google.
>>143454814
But he saved anime. Without him, how would we know how to eat a choco cornet?
>>143454814
Have you tried scrolling down?
>>143453961
Dude the guy is a legend, everyone knows him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfuN1fcIkq0
>>143453197
Legit one of the worst tripfags to grace this site.
>>143454780
It didn't die. It merely switched from berserk to HxH
>>143454891
I still see it on some K-ON! threads.
![maxresdefault[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/p3wznpk.jpg "maxresdefault[1].jpg")
>>143453961
>and gay men
good old 2010, I remember coming to /a/ and asking them what I should do with my life, I've watched anime dropped out of highschool then and was wondering why I shouldnt kill myself, I will never forget you magnificient bastards from that thread, every single one of you. Never change /a/ I will always love you guys
I miss when /a/ and /v/ memes would mix.
>>143453222
what the fuck happend to all the shounen fags? did they grow up
>>143456106
The boat is like the Japanese Truck, except it kills series, not waifus
![ok387[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/a75db3S.jpg "ok387[1].jpg")
>>143457121
>>143457152
We had a million threads when Naruto ended and we saw who married who. Bleach threads still happen. They're still here.
Cover Shimion will always be my favorite photoshop meme.
>>143454814
Arr rook same
>>143454891
I remember the thread when someone made that Azusa in the oven image that's a banner now. Probably one of the funniest images I've ever seen on this site. His expression is too fucking perfect.
>>143457181
>>143457160
Anyone here got the original? Miss this meme.
dead and buried
Remember when /jp/ didn't exist yet?
>>143457652
Suddenly remembered this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7liYfhRgXGk
Good times.
>>143457181
I despise NTR with a passion, but honestly, he deserved it
>>143457152
You seem to overlook those four One Piece threads every day.
>>143457694
Remember touhou posting?
>>143457181
There is literally nothing wrong with this. Broccoli is a bro.
>>143454891
I'm here since 2010, too old to be a new newfag, but way to young to have known /a/ in it's glory days.
>>143458779
>too old to be a new newfag
>>143453197
http://touhouhijacklol.web.fc2.com/touhouhijack.swf
pre /jp/ days were good
A simpler time.
I win
>YOU CAN TUNE A PIANO
>BUT YOU CAN'T TUNA FISHfuck you I lost my tenshinhan image when I had to format
>>143453222
Is the "Bleach is actually good" and "Kubo is a god" meme still a meme?
>>143459464
i don't know but the one piece version of that meme is still around
>>143458683
I take a potato chip...
AND EAT IT!
>>143459294
DAIZ LEAVE MY MANGOS ALONE
>>143458596
That's the point, you feel bad for it but just can't hate the guy.
Not strictly /a/, but I miss Proconsul Merrok/Popcorn Mariachi.
And Bromont.
OTL
It was short but I liked it.
Signs of a a Niwaka Otaku (the worst type otaku, who wants to be an Otaku, but fails.):
>けいおん、ABが面白いとか言う奴
thinks K-ON! and Angel Beats are fun anime
>化物語とけいおんをやたら持ち上げてる
Recommend to people Bakemonogatari and K-ON!
>オタクであることを隠そうとしない奴
try to hind your powerlevel
>シャフトを絶賛
SHAFT fanboy
>堂々とアニメの話してる奴
take anime seriously
>まどかマギカ、けいおんを観ている奴
Love Madoka and K-on!
>BDの売上が～って言う奴
Care about BD sales
>エヴァの新劇場版だけ見て TVアニメ版は見てない
Have only seen Eva Rebuild, never finished the TV series
>1年前はけいおんにハマってて, 今はまどかマギカにハマってるような奴
The people who love K-ON last year, and now into Madoka
>京アニ好きなやつはにわか率１００％
>シャフト好きなやつはにわか率７０％
KyoAni fanbase niwaka 100%
SHAFT fanbase niwaka 70%
>好きなエロゲブランドがkey、あかべぇ、Nitro+
fav VN studio : key, AKABEi and Nitro+
>>143458327
>>143459742
90% of /a/ are niwakas without 500tv
>>143454891
Did this crap ever have a proper name? I always called it slut money.
>>143453877
it sounds more like "garooga mesh"
>>143459765
Good times. Good times indeed.
>>143459794
RIP ;_;7
>>143459216
I wish I won
>>143459794
>>143459765
>almost 9 years after this, people are still talking about Archer
>>143453866
>there are still daily waha morning threads on 2chan
>>143459875
As it says in the pic, it resonates with something deep inside us all. The desire to be true men.
Also who are you quoting.
>>143453961
>>143460008
The first 3 episodes were A+ material, with superb storytelling and direction, but then Itagaki and Okada joined and everything went to hell.
Thankfully the original director returned for the last episode, delivering a satisfying end to the anime.
>>143459619
A boy falls in love with the economy
unable to invest he is gifted with a deus ex machina with the stock trends for the next 2 years, never minding the strange numbers he immediately invests, and is overjoyed to find out he had a net gain of 200% through one company.
>>143457181
Kurosawa did nothing wrong
I wonder what Davido-kun is doing these days.
>>143453197
I miss the threads
Daily reminder that many anons have died and live on with us in their memes.
>>143460337
It's not dead...it has just changed form.
Nice thread, anons.
Here, have one premium Grinbitch for your efforts.
>>143460264
Pedro is a cool guy
>>143460629
I miss Grinbitch
>>143454446
/a/ will never forget Mahoro!
>>143459794
That's fucked up, anon. ;_;
Remember when this used to be a daily thread?
Why don't people shop Ed into images anymore?
>>143461061
Because, while Ed can do anything, it still will never bring his mother back.
>>143461061
I'd go even further back and ask why the Gendolification doesn't happen anymore.
sage;_;
>>143461119
>;_;
Life-like texture.
>>143461092
shooping stuff has simply fallen out of favor in general.
>>143457152
Naruto ended, we still have a bazillion threads when a new Boruto chapter comes out though.
Bleach has threads all the time albeit they're kinda slow, same goes to One Piece.
>>143460226
I bet he killed himself by now
>>143460940
Are they really gone? I'm not hanging out on /a/ anymore so I'm pretty surprised
>>143461162
I've noticed this, too.
We seem to get more OC from drawfaggotry than shooping anymore, it's a strange paradigm.
Viral Marketing is a proven technique, anons.
>>143457235
2006 was such a great year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5UfIRmkv28
>>143461441
This reminds me...
>>143461548
It's notable how things kept getting better every year until 2006-7, and have been getting worse every year since then.
>>143453961
>people who just turned 18 were 11 when this happened
Now THAT makes me feel old.
>>143457652
It got old fast, but it was killed for good when it aired on adultswim and became normie tier.
>>143461842
Dude, Dragonball Z aired on Toonami years ago and is one of the most mainstream anime period.
>>143459216
underwater ray romano.jpg
This in about two weeks.
>people posting "dead memes" that are 2 years old at best
Holy shit.
>>143453197
I don't think the term GAR has been uttered since 2009, though MANIME seems to crop up every once and a while
>>143461938
Most memes don't have a long shelf life.
>>143461935
I can't believe the ride is almost over.
>>143461935
FuckTime to finally pick up S2 I guess
![[Nutbladder]_Kaiji_S2_-_08_[28493786].mkv_snapshot_20.09_[2014.03.26_00.14.29].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/efu9ZfU.jpg "[Nutbladder]_Kaiji_S2_-_08_[28493786].mkv_snapshot_20.09_[2014.03.26_00.14.29].jpg")
>>143461935
>only two weeks
>>143461985
>shelf
>>143460337
I liked this a lot more than Keit-ai desu.
For one, there was no annoying copy-pasta to go with it, people would just make up their own shit every time it was posted and it was always different.
>>143461606
God thats a dead meme right there. Everyone was so passionate about it at one point, and then once we're all satisfied with the results, its never posted anymore. I think this is the first time I've seen the /a/ University image in like three or four years
>>143461935
I'm pretty convinced the guy will use -x Days to start threads after the promised day since what else will everyone flock to for translations and stuff. Though the actual day will be pretty crazy.
>>143462120
That's the problem with something like that, once it's "complete" there's nothing more to do.
>>143460510
>>143462120
What you have to lie that cant be three to four years old!
Where does the time go?
Since there are some oldfags here, does anyone have that Death Note edit where "everything was just an elaborate prank"?
>>143460510
>>143462209
I still see these from time to time. Apparently tumblr also has a few of these images appropriated to fit their stupid bullshit with like 200k notes or something.
Maybe I wasn't paying attention, but it felt like Chen died for several years before having a huge resurgence in the last year or two.
>>143462259
Fuck, I remember that, it was great. I'll check my folders.
>>143453197
>>143453959
>tfw you realize a large majority won't get this
>Never organized image folders since three or four years ago
>Never saved the dozens of good memes from when I first started browsing
>All those memories, lost
I'm still pretty shit at organizing, but at least I have a handful of goof stuff thats recent. Theres probably an Ika Musume meme that I forgot about.
>>143453959
Is this a dancing anime?
Remember when we had to wait for subs? Sometimes more than a week if it was around college finals time?
>Select all images with a BUS.
Fucking Google.
>>143462477
I had a major hardware failure back around 2014 and lost everything save for a couple archived episodes of madoka and fucking dragon crisis.
All that history spanning back to 2005 just went up in smoke. 9 fucking years of my life on this site collecting memories and OC and reaction images and it was all gone just like that.
>>143462477
I'm the same. I somewhat envy the anons who autistically archive all their shit and thus can call up anything easily.
>>143462519
Remember when episodes took twice as long because there's a new OP/ED they need to translate and make karaoke subs for? Remember them getting songs wrong all the time? Remember total guesssubs?
>>143462519
I recall waiting a couple of months for Mai-HiME subs past episode 17-18 or so. I was overjoyed when they all came out at once.
>>143462519
Oh shit you're right, i do remember that. Around what time we started to get faster subs?
>>143462633
I got here just after Mai-Hime ended, I'll always wish I had come here a little earlier and been able to experience it with /a/.
>>143462667
I think the first speed increase came with people getting closed-captioned raws, and then again once we got subrips from places like Crunchyroll, etc.
>>143460510
>newfags aren't from Gaia anymore
>>143462622
That's why you back your old shit up, anon.
>>143462519
I remember waiting months between each episode of Akagi subbed by Triad. Back then when mahjong was this strange thing full of weird concepts. Nowadays any mahjong anime gets subbed instantly.
Also, translated doujins were rare as fuck.
These are truly good times. A shame the community has gotten worse.
>>143462742
I miss the days when Gaiafags were the worst thing we needed to worry about.
>>143462667
I'm pretty convinced we started getting quick subs only days after it'd air around 2010 or 2011. I remember waiting months for some Zetsubou-sensei episodes, and thats 2009 at the very latest
>>143462729
Someone did joke subs of three episodes of Mai-HiME back then, I wonder if I still have them somewhere.
>>143462804
Oh please, Spinzaku is still recognized by many.
At least, I hope he is.
>>143462753
>That's why you back your old shit up, anon.
I had backups, and most of my shit was spread over several HDDs just because most of them were pre-2010 and storage space was smaller back then. I had them all plugged in at once because I was in the process of reorganizing and backing up the end of the current season when the power supply failed, surged and fried my whole rig, including every single drive.
It was about 2000 dollars worth of computer hardware that all went up in smoke at once due to a lemon power supply that was less than a year old.
>>143462839
I don't think a dead meme is one no one remembers, but more like one no one uses any more.
So....moe....hnnnnnng!
I can't wait for this episode, it's going to be epic as fuck.
>>143458779
/a/ took a major nosedive after Katawa Shoujo's release, but in hindsight oldest /a/ wasn't much better. If everyone started posting like pre-2008, you'd think you were on reddit meme board with a 4chan skin.
2008-2012 /a/ was probably the best, being resistant to everyone joining "their /a/", newfags were singled out and ridiculed into either leaving or learning the proper way to post (read; lurk moar).
Unfortunately this led to new people on the site doing neither of these things and thinking that in order to fit in you have to be extremely angry and aggressive all the time, hence why /a/ is in the state it is now.
>>143462119
The Keit-ai thing is just a spam. There's no creativity or thought put into it. Even the one guy who keeps spamming it have no faith in it.
>>143462804
>fuck_the_police.jpeg
I posted this in threads for the new Utawarerumono anime. Not a single person ever replied.
>>143462908
>you'd think you were on reddit meme board with a 4chan skin.
You have to consider what was acceptable back then. In early 4chan, things like ^_^ or "rofl" weren't the signs of facebook-tier newfag they are now, because only the experienced users used them. They were a sign of oldfaggotry.
>>143462936
Hey I acknowledged you once or twice. I remember towards the tail end some anons and I reminisced about this image back from 2011 or something talking about what we expected and how much we like the first game. Hard to believe I've been waiting for Utaware2mono for five years since this image, and maybe 8 or 9 since I first watched and played it.
>>143462991
>things like ^_^ or "rofl" weren't the signs of facebook-tier newfag
They were signs of a gaia-tier newfag you fucking newfags. Nobody used that shit unironically outside of /b/ without getting a line of blue Anonymous telling them to fuck right back off to wherever they came from.
>>143463035
Angry and aggressive, as expected of a newfag.
>>143462908
There's a sad story about how 4chan culture got so big that "secondaries" took it up (without the nuances) and basically ran it into the ground and ruined it for everyone. The saddest part is that it ended up stifiling a lot of people's desire to make OC because they didn't want it stolen/ruined by these outsiders.
I know this makes us sound like huge hipsters, but there's a drop of truth to it.
>>143463101
>that panty-shaped sparkle in a sea of red
2deep4me
>>143462154
>-x
Then when will it ever end?
Nothing must last forever.
Do you regret not saving dead memes when you had the chance, /a/?
I don't think anyone has the gif of Bruce killing Rossiu anymore
Seven fucking years
>>143463197
You can't kill what won't die
>>143462622
Makes you think.
>>143462623
That was certainly short-lived.
>>143457152
>>143461196
>shonen = big 3
are you guys fucking retarded or do you seriously not view things like my hero academia, hunter x hunter and the first 6 parts of jojo as shonen
Yotsuba is also shonen as is SZS
also some of the absolute best classic manga is shonen
>>143463321
I honestly can't believe it. N-nothings going to happen, is it?
>>143463429
The thread will die and all the posters will have to live on in other threads, like transplanted organs.
>>143463309
>>143462936
Such is the life of a meme creator. Take a lesson from that pasta.
>>143463454
>all the posters will have to live on in other threads
Nah, all the posters are gonna kill themselves afterwards, they're pretty much a suicide cult.
![[HorribleSubs] Ashita no Joe 2 - 01 [1080p].mkv_snapshot_04.35_[2016.06.13_06.27.41].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/nfclJan.jpg "[HorribleSubs] Ashita no Joe 2 - 01 [1080p].mkv_snapshot_04.35_[2016.06.13_06.27.41].jpg")
>>143463408
The fact that there are still people who equate "shonen" solely with power level fighting view it as something inherently inferior on /a/ shows that this place is full of pretentious shitheads and general opinons here should not be taken seriously. A ton of shonen is written with wide appeal in mind just like shoujo is (but shoujo is more accepted because of the board's trend for pedophile autogynephilia).
There's a bigger knowledgeable minority on /a/ than there is on every other anime site. But still a TON of MAL/ANN tier people.
>>143460226
The video is such a treasure.
>>143461820
Try turning 27.
>>143463672
I don't habeeb it!
>>143459794
>useless TGWTG-tier nobody with no critical sense that people care more about than actual important influential deceased industry figures
I'm glad he's dead
>>143463704
I'm 4 months from wizardom. It doesn't get any easier.
>>143463763
>>143463282
Holy fuck I forgot all about Bruce, you just gave me a hearty laugh anon
>>143462623
I remember when I was young and anime was something you bought in second-hand stores.
Anime is amazing these days.
>>143463790
When the threads started popping up I thought you guys only liked him ironically as a "haha an old man in the mountains talking about anime this is surreal and funny" thing and was deeply disappointed when I realized people were serious
>>143463971
07 ghost was actually a decent shoujo
>>143463919
Its amazing how long he's been gone. A good 30% of this board now probably hasn't even heard of him. I never subscribed or watched more then a handful of videos, but from what other anons said and what I've seen he seems like a great fucking guy.
He proved you can still be in your golden years and love anime. Thats all that matters.
Remember when we had fun?
>>143464128
>He proved you can still be in your golden years and love anime. Thats all that matters.
I'll admit I was being a mean edgelord with "I'm glad he's dead" but I'm genuinely sad that he gets more attention than actual important industry creators who died. Ken Ishikawa is long dead and people still think Getter Robo is a Go Nagai manga.
>>143464243
"effort" =/= "creativity"
Utilizing footage of other shit and pretending it's some fictional anime isn't even Ghost Slide-caliber creativity
Found my 2009 folder
>>143464175
>political commentary and gay porn are tiny
Oh my, how the world has changed.
>>143464252
Also he was a legit bad critic. He would dismiss great things by just saying "I don't like it" (when a big point of reviews is to explain your subjective opinion in a way that others can understand why you feel teh way they do) then gave Summer Wars a 5/5
For the record I like Summer Wars but yeah
>newfags thinking /b/ memes = /a/ memes just because they have anime pictures on it
>>143464128
>Angel's Egg
>4.5
wew
>>143464252
People have been thinking Nagai made Getter Robo since the 70's though
>>143462808
>Mai HiMe mentioned in 2016
I still have folder on my computer with last six episodes that I used to rewatch with bf, we would get shitblasted and lament Shizuru's cockblock.
Man, some good times indeed.
>>143464207
Keit-Ai exists only slightly above copypasta, and even then it's still incredibly stale. The term "flogging a dead horse" is no longer even applicable. It's just sad.
>>143464252
>genuinely sad that he gets more attention than actual important industry
I can understand where you're coming from, but I don't think Grumpy Jii-san ever took the spotlight away from actual industry figures; more that he was an anomaly that made a lot of people feel comfortable with themselves. The whole "too old to be watching kid's cartoons" mentality has always been a thing so Grumpy Jii-san was something that people could hold onto and feel reassured with; to see someone much older than them (who would generally be out of touch) enjoying the same things they did. Whether his reviews were legitimate or not as >>143464359 said is in my opinion irrelevant as he was always more than just an anime reviewer.
>>143461606
>time management
every time
>>143464463
>>143464535
I've been here years before Ghost Slide was a meme, I just stopped looking at the threads. I guess Ghost Slide became just as gay.
>>143464452
Yet you're using meme arrows, which is unacceptable for someone who's been here that long.
I remember a few GaoGaiGar joke posts about requesting the deploy and anons saying fuck off back to /r/, and then someone on /r/ would post the same stuff and get the OK from Taiga.
Damn, now that I think of it, I should really rewatch GaoGaiGar
>>143464452
Also if you can find those episodes, I'd be forever grateful.
>>143461606
>>143464631
Eh, times changed, what can you do.
Next year is my 10 year anniversary with this shithole.
>>143460025
Promotions?
>>143463704
I'm 26 and I've been here for eight years. Getting old sucks dick, now I worry about everything.
FUWA FUWAAA
>>143464635
It upsets me because it's pathetic. At least Sakura Fish is generally contained to one thread. People who post Keit-Ai can't help but spew out the copypasta every time a phone is mentioned or becomes mildly relevant; regardless of the thread or context. Some might even say that since it has spread to places it's not wanted and refuses to die it fits the definition ofcancer.
>>143457181
I will never understand why this made anons so mad, afroman was a good guy who deserved her.
>>143464175
>ytmnd
Good times.
>>143457181
He got a good ending anyways and he was projecting his feelings and expectations on her anyways.
Kurosawa became a better person and would be very disappointed to hear that you all never internalized the life lessons he learned.
>>143453866
She is literally why I stayed on 4chan.
I started using the site in 2005 but a few years ago I saw some archived threads from 2003 of people mindlessly spouting dead gay memes like "thrust vectoring" without the tiniest bit of creativity or cleverness and then there was ther one guy calling them out on being unfunny meme spouters and they read exactly like a 2016 thread
People who idealize the early days of 4chan and think it was some secret club of internet elites are probably the same people who idealize 2000s Something Awful and think it was ever not a den of moralistic holier-than-thou idiots who were deeply insecure about being dorks and wanted to act like they were above it all
And yes SA was always extremely moralistic even when it was super-edgy and outright bullied people. Even "your poison womb is making heaven too fucking crowded" was morally justified a few paragraphs earlier. I'm saying this as someone who literally grew up on it and used it long before finding out about 4chan.
>>143464801
>>143463704
we are literally oldfags now
I wonder how much shit can I find on my PC from those times.
>>143464624
The fuck is this? Is Gommenasai's doujin really that old?
>>143461548
Did someone say Shmion?
>>143464801
>now I worry about everything
Why the sudden change?I'm 26 myself but I've had a shitty life so I had to grow up early on and aging is just another year to me, birthdays another regular ol' day. Not trying to brag or anything, only stating why I'm likely biased.
