Reading the title, I thought this was going to be about lost media.

Hmm. I see. Well in so far as places where you can chat with other anime fans is concerned, the only places I really know are online forums like here on Lemmy or on Reddit or Facebook. Though, finding places where people won’t poke fun at what you like or call you a tourist depending on your tastes will be difficult (regardless of what you like, usually).

You might try checking your local library for local events of anime or manga fans or something. You could visit local hobby shops to strike up conversations with others about it. Anime conventions are a good place to go for that as well.

There isn’t really much ettiquette that would be nonstandard (such as be nice to people). But not everyone follows it anyway.

Its unclear what exactly you want from this. “Joining the community” is very vague and kind of not possible. There isn’t just one anime community. There are many groups, and while they may all share anime in common that doesn’t mean they all get along with each other. For example, some language groups don’t like others (and sometimes it’s justified, sometimes its not the language groups fault because the translators did a bad job or changed words from the original creator’s work usually without them explicitly knowing, etc). Its kinda like saying you want to join the Lemmy community. What exactly do you mean by that, or better, what are you looking for? Some instances dont get along, some communities on the same instance dont get along, some people in the same community dont get along and form their own on the same or different instance.

So what is it you want? You say to “discover anime and get more into the trends, etc.” Well the first part is simple enough, but what does the second part mean? You want to know what the current trends are? Past trends? You just want a sampler suggestion of different kinds of anime that showcase different trends? This is unclear.

I am happy to make suggestions (though my suggestions skew older and more cultured than modern offerings tend to have, but I do like some modern stuff), but without clarity on what you want I wouldn’t want to offer something you don’t need or care about.

Kevin Hart as Kakashi

Definitely missing the theme of the Gunsmith Cats OVA by Peter Erskine!

This list looks like:

1: The song most people probably recognized even if they didn’t watch Evangelion

2-16: Either a recent anime song, or a “classic” anime song regardless of merit of the actual music (ie, we would literally be killed if we didn’t include this, even if the song isn’t musically that good)

17-20: Ghibli

Died from sepsis apparently caused by meningitis. Crazy.

This kinda reminds me of Blow Up!

I sometimes think they do it on purpose.

Okay look, we finally released this thing overseas, aren’t you guys happy and want to buy it?

Looks inside: $180 USD figurine of Shinji Ikari, in his normal school clothes

I am literally never gonna overpay for that

See look, the people overseas don’t buy our stuff, so let’s just stop caring about them.

It has to be intentional at this point. Imagine if the Japanese people didn’t automatically side with big businesses because of their society and heard the prices we had to pay for the stuff they get at like, a quarter of the price.

I really appreciate the simplicity in the costume designs. In the current age, these outfits would have random and unnecessary lines and greebles all over.

Almost all award shows/events are.

Probably shouldn’t have sold out to Sony and sold my data like twice and then given away data in obviously avoidable breaches.

The world needs another Record of Lodoss War OVA series. Peak animation, peak styling, just pure awesome bundled into a few episodes. Was it accurate to the source material? Yeah, for the source material they had (anime was made before the series finished so they had to invent the ending). But it felt fun. It felt like a genuine adventure. It was captivating.

I haven’t had the same feeling from high anime fantasy, and I have watched a lot of it since.

Bro is engagement farming with that name misspelling, holy

For a minute I thought Ouro Kronii was getting her own movie lol

Only because the Japanese courts just always defer to whatever the Japanese business wants. Its like dealing with the Yakuza, but legal.

Anyone remember when a season was 27 episodes? And if the show was popular it got extended to 36?

Let me guess, they’re going to try to claim it wasn’t real like what happened with that one ID verification company recently?

I mean, I never really left, but its like, how can businesses honestly expect customers to buy their product when the objectively better (and safer in this case) experience is to just pirate the content?

Changed my account password and cancelled my subscription.

In their exit survey, I told them the reason I am cancelling is because “your ‘business’ is a massive cyber security liability, and I do not plan to return unless you give my account the most premium tier eubscription for free, forever.”

So its back to the seas for me. I tried being a good person and doing it legally, but if that comes with the massive caveat that my data is going to be harvested/stolen multiple time, then I would rather pirate. At least if my data gets stolen from malware, I didnt pay for it.

This is only true if the legal services actually offer good value and have the content the user is looking for.

Most of the time, pirates are too poor to afford legal routes. Sometimes, pirates are new to a hobby and checking out if they want to spend money, who usually switch to legal routes if they like it. Very rarely you get pirates who do it for the love of the game and were never going to pay to begin with.

And then, there is the rarest of all: an actual, countable lost sale for the business. All the previous methods are not lost sales. A business should not be legally allowed to count them because they werent going to get money from those scenarios. But the rarest instance of all is a person that was going to pay legally, and could definitely afford to, but decided to not pay and pirate instead.