What was your most favorite time on /a/?

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Another: Pie

>>143019175
>warmly
>turns it up way past Warm

Sometimes after my first year when the Geass hype was dying down and people were making generals with my favorite anime.

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>>143019175
>that sort of abuse

"Lelouch and Suzaku are your two gay dads" threads.

Honestly? Endless Eight. It was a pretty chill time in my life, too, and I seem to recall it being pretty chill in /a/, too. Geass had died down and Accel spammer hadn't popped up yet, Monogatari was this brand new thing that wasn't getting subs, Hox was scanlating the finale of Bokurano and Askeladd's death in Vinland saga. I was getting into Blame! and Bio-Meat, and Biscuit Hammer was this really cool manga that Snoopycool had scanlated three volumes of before he disappeared.

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N/a/ruto to be honest.

>>143022860
That day really cemented how humorless and out of touch the "anti-narutard" crowd is

>>143023963
so all of /ɐ/

Fuck quest was fun.

Most recent hilarity was vulvarave for me.

madoka airing

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>>143021252
This.

Another threads were the pinnacle of /a/.

R2, nigga.

>>143019175
That would actually make poison fumes if you did it for real.

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>>143022717
>Snoopycool
I miss that group.

>>143027373
The closest group I know of for finding and translating really weird stuff is FwPA, and they're not nearly as weird.

endless 8

>>143024384
whatever happened to that anyway?
I remember it got moved to /tg/, but they didn't want it. Where did it go?

>>143027461
Fingernails girl has a whole group now? I guess I wasn't paying attention.

http://archive.is/e5M62
This thread, and any other Aria thread. I don't see them much, though admittedly I don't go to /a/ often

>>143027373
Chicken Panels:

Woah, woah, keep me level.

Hi, I'm a chicken.

Something wrong, you look troubled?

Fucking panic, bitch! He just said 'dead'! I wanna live!

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>>143027049
This, and specifically unraveling and theorizing about the runes/references/mythos/etc.

Midnight manga threads with Hox and the other anons from, what? 2008ish?

>>143027699
Yeah, and making the manga charts. Those things lasted forever.

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Molester Man finale, the best new year's eve.

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Every day with /a/ is my favorite time on /a/.

Pie memes or watching mirai nikki turn into a trainwreck with /a/ was fun.

>>143029529
>not in katakana
what

>>143029424
This, I cried, I laughed, but we were all together this night.

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>>143029688
Hiragana is prettier

The last few chapters of TWGOK was fun times. Butthurt and bitter tears at that level is rare nowadays.

All the Kannaposting when Ano Natsu was airing was fun too rip bears poster

>>143027734
Christmas Punpun was another great time. Hox is truly the hero of this board.

>>143029688
Stylistic choice. Happens occasionally. See:
>>143029739

2007/2008? Definitely up there

>>143029739
>>143029758
Ah, I didn't know that. Makes sense. Thanks.

A toss-up between the discovery of the waifu school, and that one Lodoss thread that lasted close to a week.

>>143029529
oh god yes

>>143019175
>spic hands
Yep, that's an /a/non.

Unlimited Essay Works

Does anyone remember the time /a/ made a Death Note, or anime_expert (have watched 300+ anime)

>>143029424
Came here to post this. The hype was too real.

The guy that stuck his bayonet through his computer screen with a picture of kirino on it.

/a/ wasn't even better than /v/ until gamergate.

M/a/yoiga time

>>143029994
Oh yeah, definitely

>>143029994
memeyoiga

>>143019175
There have been many.

I have a particular fondness for the Medaka Box threads, especially towards its climax and finale.

There was something of a perpetual fury around Maria-sama ga Miteru, which I enjoyed a lot (broadly speaking, I think '04/5-'08 was the heyday of /a).

More recently the Hokago no Pleiades threads were great - /a/ has changed, but I still like being here.

I joined in the autumn right before the first "summer", and I haven't had such stress free and fun posting since that autumn and winter

autumn and winter are always the best time on /a/ though

>>143030223
University holidays were the best - not only were winter holidays comfy, but you didn't have to be up for anything, so you cycled through the different timezones of /a/. Even the namefags changed.

Reading finales of manga with /a/ has always been fun. Really just reading really hyped chapters of manga with /a/.

Most recently I recall the finale for Sakamoto last night or the Sengoku Youko one. Or the like 6000 post Akame ga Kill thread. I also really liked the Shield Hero live translation threads.

>>143029994
Are you kidding? By the time it became evident nobody was going to die, the threads had descended into an orrgy of tumblr and crossboarders. I enjoyed the clusterfuck of the show itself, but the fanbase was easily one of the most cancerous to alight upon this board in years.

>>143030359
Finale of SZS. Fuck me that took a month to get over.

Code Geass s2

>>143030125
/a/ is mostly newfags now

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Gurren Lagann 2007
Code Geass R2 2008
Haruhi Endless Eight 2009
Panty and Stocking ruining Christmas 2010
Madoka episode 10 causing peak hype followed immediately by the Tohoku 2011 earthquake

That was /a/ prime. Nothing after that has been good.

>>143030578
Yeah, it is. That said, I don't think the board is in too poor health. We have too many show related generals, and I'll never understand why Naruto is tolerated (I'd rather have the Elfen Lied threads back), but overall /a/ is still better than the alternatives.

Still sad /anime/ went though.

>>143030680
TTGL and Lucky Shit were the end of /a/, it only got worse and worse after that.

kill la kill

>>143029754
Was that when the series was finished? I never really cared for Punpun; it's my least favorite book by it's author.

Mysterious Girlfriend X finale, jumping in to poke fun at those poor obligate completionists that sat through it all those years. Of course, those threads were not worthy to unloose the latchet of the shoes of the Nisekoi finale threads that are to come.

>>143030692
/a/ isn't better then the alternatives its the same. All the people who ruined other sites with constant namefagging and wanting to create community for just them selves came here. Ruining /a/ culture in favor of normalfag culture.

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The final mushishi movie thread. 3 days long, thread hit cap and went down remembering the good old days.

>>143030965
>normalfag culture

Can't disagree there - although I think it's also to do with an ageing userbase. I hate to say it, but I'm fairly sure I've become something of a normalfag over the years, not least as elements of internet culture became mainstream.

>namefagging
It's astonishing how negatively the tripfags have affected the board - especially given that names were commonplace in old /a/, at the very least within the context of a discussion/thread. Yet somehow this has spiralled into the ego monsters that are (most of) today's tripfags.

>>143030729
Gurren Laggan on /a/ was terrible. I went to /m/ to talk about it. They used to be cool.

>>143030125
>Hokago no Pleiades
Awww yeah. Under rated show is under rated.

>>143030680
KLK threads were a similar but toned down TTGL response, which made them more fun IMO since the TTGL threads got way too fucking out of hand. Also the KLK OST saving christmas was a pretty great moment.

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>>143030420
Every fanbase turning into this eventually.
The same was with Osomatsu, with Psycho Pass, with Rebuild 3.33 generals, with NagiAsu and KlK. I'm not even mentioning how cancerous was Code Geass fandom by nowadays standards. Cancer, shitposting and memes would turn into nice fun memories as the time passes.

>>143030965
4chan's explosion in popularity and it eclipsing other sites like Gaia, Animesuki, etc really ruined this place, it became the first stop for new weebs and now we are flooded with low quality posters and literal children

The Free! backlash.

>>143029929
I remember when /a/ was for experts.

Anime_expert was the original tripfaggot who ruined trip codes forever.

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Where my retarded dragons nigs?

>>143030874
No that was IIRC the point that everything truly went to shit as we hit the stride of the final story arc. You should give Punpun another chance if you like Asano's style, probably my favorite manga. Of course you need to go in with it being a feel bad story in mind, but if you are familiar with Asano's other work they are mostly feel bad stories.

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>>143019175
sound threads 2012

>>143019175
New years on r/a/dio, definitely.

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>>143019175

Easily Star Driver Sundays

KIRABOSHI!

You also now have OP2 stuck in your heads.

>>143031249
What series is this? I want to read and/or watch it.

>>143031198
>Cancer, shitposting and memes would turn into nice fun memories as the time passes.
...am i happy and i don't know it?

>>143031482
If you have to ask, you'll never know.

>>143031205
>>143031224

So where do we go now? Even the text board is gone, and IRCs are largely dead/bad.

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>>143031450
Zettai Bouei Leviathan

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There are too many "favorite times" on /a/, but my highlight of the month used to be moot coming on here to drunkpost and fuck around.

I guess maybe the last time I had fun on /a/ was when Kill la Kill was airing and people were going crazy with speculah. The threads got really cancerous towards the end though.

>>143031550
>So where do we go now?
Honestly? no where.

at least on /a/ we can call people out on being retarded. And we can voice our love for anything and get met with like minded individuals without having to resort to hugbox environments.

I wish i knew the alternative. but there really isn't any.

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KLK's airing and the OST at Christmas was the last time I had fun and hope that /a/ would lose the tumblr/reddit/gaia crowd. Ironically enough KLK did the exact opposite.
Now with naruto not being banned anymore the floodgates are broken and /a/'s culture is dying

>>143031550
Hope that Hiro makes a retro anime board so all the FoTM newfags can have this board to themselves

>>143031749
Board splits are never good, have you forgotten /jp/?

>>143031749
This is a horrible idea.

>>143031749
A retro anime board would probably not be a bad idea, but you'd run into the same problems /vr/ does - arguing over what is and isn't retro, and having the same threads over and over due to lack of content.

>>143031678
Wish more people realize how damaging N/a/ruto was. Literally single handily killed /a/. Naruto/DBZ/Bleach/OP shitposting kept almost all of the newfags away.

>>143031678
Have you seen how terrible One Piece threads are now? It almost makes me miss Set Sail for Fail.

>>143031749
Not enough interest by far. There's not even enough interest in manga/light novels to move them away from /a/.

>>143031835
I love One Piece, and even I agree.

A time with no generals.

>>143031835
As a last act of spite moot killed /a/ before handing it over to the oriental jews.

>>143031952
We always had generals, they just didn't survive months and months like they do now and they had no name.

>>143031835
>Bleach shitposting
I thought Bleach threads were okay back then. Naruto threads were banned and OP threads not so active as they are now, but I distinctly remember a relaxed atmosphere in Bleach threads before moot left. There wasn't nearly as much shipping cancer in 2012, for instance.

>>143031778
Those were different times on this site back then and due to a necessity from people needing a place to discuss Touhou, VNs, and the like
>>143031806
Explain why then

>>143031835
It was terrible, and it was obvious how terrible it would be.

Not least as we had just finished fighting off a year of shitposting from trending anime.

As I said earlier, I would rather have the Elfen Lied/Ergo Proxy/My first anime XD/etc. shitposting back - at the very least one could handle it effectively through recommendation charts, and telling people not to spoonfeed. Furthermore it was a type of post that, whilst rejected, could lead to people integrating into the board culture, rather than existing concurrently (and divisively) to it as is the case with naruto etc.

>>143032040
>necessity from people needing a place to discuss Touhou, VNs, and the like

People were generally fine with those things, it was only moot who threw a pissy fit because "muh pure anime and manga imageboard".

>>143031987
We used to shit on anyone who even brought up the anime in One Piece threads. Now people go on and on about it and post those awful colored pages. They have really filled up with faggots to the point that they are the majority.

>>143031825
It could drive interest in getting a lot of old series translations, there are still tons of shows out there that most people have never seen or even heard of
>>143032101
Do you not remember Touhou hijacks or something

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>>143032101
>People were generally fine with those things
Speak for yourself, I found them annoying enough.

/jp/ being a massive failure is funny in retrospect but I would argue that it technically did its job in containing that rabble. Or at least it starved the 2hufags of any coherent discussion.

my favorite time is right now Op just having the pleasure to be on this website with all these great people brings me slight bit of joy in my life and even when everyone says /a/ is shit nowadays i still know that /a/ is one of the best places on earth because when ever i feel down i can always come here and talk to my friends c:

Geass Sundays

>>143032198
I've never understood the popularity. Isn't it a bullet hell game or something? With, like, weird looking characters who appear in all kinds of really really weird doujin works?

>>143032285
No one really likes the game, they just fap to the girls and draw doujins and compose music. Same deal with KanColle: the game itself is pretty bad but the girls are great.

>>143032040
Neither flavor of the season, nor retro threads are a problem on /a/. Splitting them makes no sense. If you look at the threads you will realize that combining both together would only even amount to maybe 60% of the threads at any given moment. Seasonal shows sometimes don't even get a thread on its release day on modern /a/. Retro threads are far and few between. The bulk of /a/ is now either in a general or shitposting with
>I want to sniff her butt.

>>143032040
>Explain why

It's impossible to have good discussion about a series that isn't receiving any new content. This is exactly why general threads always go to shit.

A retro board would end up filled with generals for the few "retro" shows people still care about (eva, bebop, etc.) and the rest of the board wouldn't even hit bump limit.

Geass is the obvious answer but a special mention goes out to the years before Katawa Shoujo came out and we had those excellent Bromont threads

>>143032374
>Oh, look, it's a [anime] thread!
>nope, just anons discussing what sex with [anime]'s characters would be like

When Mamare answered Log Horizon questions here. I wished I had asked him even more questions about the setting.

Grate nyanderful.

Watching K-ON! with /a/ was pretty good. Now the threads are nothing but cancer.

>>143032360
It has some really fucking weird doujin. The first Touhou thing I ever saw was a doujin manga were there were a lot of 'Marrisas' which were just tiny bouncing heads of, I'm assuming, a character from the series named Marisa. They were murdered, bullied, tortured, and treated kindly at random.

>>143032427
Not every board needs to have every thread hit bump limit and 20,000 anons all vying for epic shitpost upvotes and spamming memes, 4chan used to be comfy before it became overrun by people

It works fine for /vr/ which is magnitudes better than /v/

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>all those Fate/Zero coincidences
What a fucking trip

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>>143032427
Yeah, It's better to just wait and then try to have a thread about your favorite anime once a year or so.

That's what I do with Tylor.

>>143032440
I loved Bromont threads. The KS ones were better than that monster girl shit.

>>143032498
Not only did he forget to come back as he promised, he got busted on the taxes - and S2 was a disaster - and Japan abandoned Log Horizon. I hope he rebounds soon.

>>143032538
>tiny bouncing heads
They do have weird doujins but the one you're talking about is the most extreme it gets. You're talking about Yukkuri. Touhoufags are cancer but I wouldn't judge their whole thing by yukkuris alone, that's like staying away from all anime and manga because Elfen Lied was your first anime.

>>143032506
K-On was always garbage for newfags

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>>143032498
Best times.

Still waiting on him to come back.

>>143032647
I've looked at some of the other stuff on sad panda, none of it looks interesting and the game certainly doesn't. I can maybe see why it has fans, but not why it has so damn many.

>>143032647
>he got busted on the taxes
I hadn't heard. What happened?

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>>143032498
This. Log Horizon wasn't the greatest anime, but Mamare was awesome.

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>>143032756
It was a mixup between reporting things as his business and as his personal finances. By the time that story hit the whole thing had been resolved anyway.

>>143032923
>vegetable requirements
>tomatoes
Tomatoes are only vegetables for the purpose of importing into the US. I don't know why people want to turn one of the only good fruits into a vegetable.

>>143033103
>only good fruits
Wow, you have some of the shittiest taste I've ever heard of. Tomatoes are fucking garbage and don't deserve to be a fruit.

>>143033158
Cherry tomatoes are GOAT.

Geass Sundays
Katawa Shoujo release
P&S Christmas
Molester Man threads

Guilty Crown was fun.
>dropped every week

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>sage was killed off
>big 3 became allowed on /a/
These hurt, but not as much as
>spoonfeeding is now allowed on /a/
>recommendations are now given out freely
>tumblr fucking filenames (and imgur)
Every time I see this shit happen, I don't know whether to call them out since I'm sure I'm in the minority now.

I miss Gestapo military /a/.

>>143033158
I have seven varieties in my garden of only tomatoes. I grow over 30 plants and I live alone. I love fucking tomatoes. I don't really care for really sweet things. As far as fruit goes, I eat mild apples like Cameos and Galas and tomatoes, lots of tomatoes.

>>143033386
>recommendations are now given out freely
We always gave out recommendations freely, we just shat on people that asked for them instead of lurking.

>>143033386
Call em out and do your part. It's the only way.

>>143033103
>>143033158
>>143033199
>>143033419
>trying this hard

>>143033270
2015 was a shit year not just for /a/, but for the internet in general.
I'm pretty sure the world ended in 2012 and we're all in hell.

>>143033485
Trying to... like or hate tomatoes?
I don't know what you are trying to imply.

>>143033535
I haven't updated my OS since 2012. Hopefully that's just a coincidence.

>>143033535
GG alone was a literal shit storm. I wish both sides of that conflict would kill themselves but we all know that won't happen.

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>>143033602
Nope.

Favourite time on /a/?

Everything before Geass aired. And I know the joke, "/a/ was never good", but, honestly, it was better than this.

I can't think of anything single other thing that has irreparably changed the overall posting tone and style of /a/ as much as the shitposting clusterfuck maelstrom Geass wrought in it's wake on /a/.

>>143032360
>No one really likes the game
Why not though?
I hardly remember any of the Touhou characters but I find the games quite enjoyable.

>>143033897
Windows as an operating system? Haha, no.

Although I love accidental windows 10 upgrades. They've made me so much money.

>>143031198
>Cancer, shitposting and memes would turn into nice fun memories
but what if I was already having fun during code geass sundays

>>143034017
What job?

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See this?
I love this series.
I think it's a great manga with lots of great characters, strange and unique adventures, great fights, good art and everything. I think it's great and I've always loved it and I loved our monthly Steel Ball Run threads and occasional "Araki is immortal" threads inbetween.

So what the fuck happened? Was it really just the anime? Or was I always a part of such an annoying and obnoxious fanbase and I just never realized it? Like it's every fucking day with these Jojo threads. I just don't understand how it could get so out of hand. We have more Jojo threads made by the exact same people with the exact same posters every day then we have Naruto threads.

>>143033898
That probably had a lot to do with the perfect storm of new internet users in 2007-08.

>>143034223
IT/repairman/maintenance/drone
I'm some kind of weird contract work. My job changes almost every week, and then sometimes I'm temporarily unemployed for random spurts.

Tons of our clients somehow accidentally their entire workplaces. So I got some overtime rolling back machines and teaching windows 10 refreshers.

Fucking phone rings at 5 in the morning. "X small law firm had their computers upgrade to windows 10. Can you get over there and roll them back before they open at 8."

>>143034302
Anime kills all good manga discussion on /a/. People who only watch TV are cancerous.

>>143034436
>Cheaping out on Pro
>Or even Home Premium
They deserve every extra headache and incurred cost for trying to pinch pennies at the start

All I know is as a lucker /a/ is boring to read now. This place use to be perfect material to read before bed. Now it's so boring I can't even bother to come here most of the time. I've only been around here for 6-7 years and even I can tell there's been a nose dive in quality posting.

>>143034538
None of the lawyers we do work for are large enough to have an employee who even knows there are different versions of windows.

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>>143033270
2015 gave us Dandelion, that's something.

>>143034613
I don't think we've lost anything, it's just all overrun by a sea of useless repeated shit.

>>143034302
It was "manly" and "serious," and it got a good adaptation.
This attracted a lot of people who don't normally get excited about anime, and you can probably guess what happened next..

It's not your fault.

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>>143019175

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>>143034678
>lively threads while airing
>incestposting more or less at a minimum
>never developed into a general
>occasional Dandelion threads now and then to this day
I don't think we could ask for anything better.

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>>143019175
>What was your most favorite time on /a/?

the Toradora-K-ON time, 1st time I followed animes as they was airing rather than wait til it was finished and watching it all in one go

>>143034871
>animes
You just lost your license to post in this thread.

>>143024055
this guy knows whats up

the /a/ I browse nowadays mine as well be someplace completely different from the home I once knew

>>143027049
Think it was this, watching live, speculating endlessly, seeing everyone crack and translate the runes, and the endless stream of OC. That kind of thing is my favorite part of /a/.
I'll always regret missing the SnW threads.

I will say this: more stuff is translated than before and therefore accessible. More people know Japanese and are able to translate. I guess that's the silver lining.

That functionally retarded tripfag who got everyone worked up over the summer

>>143032439
>tfw I made part of this

Fucking good night, that was.

When /pol/tards weren't a thing.

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>>143032498
It was magical.

>>143032719
The community doesn't revolve around doujin, as in, hentai manga. It revolves around all kinds of doujin content, as in fan-made music, games of all kinds, art and even whole anime.

It also helps that the series creator Zun loves and has enormous respect for this aspect of the community, where anyone is free to take whatever from the universe and interpret and express as they want.

I only fap to the doujin, though, so I could be wrong somewhere there.

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>>143019175
When the first season of Haruhi aired since that's when I first got stuck in this place.
Code Geass threads always had the best content though.
>>143035626
Back to the oven kike.

>>143035626
Did you buy yourself out of the oven?

Anyone who found this site in 2007 or later needs to leave permanently
>>143035626
Hello newfriend

>>143035880
>>143035939
>>143035989
Don't worry, I'll pay your board a visit when Hillary wins.

I didn't knew /pol/ was so easily triggered

>>143036060
>"UGH I HATE /POL/"
>proceeds to be the only poster ITT to bring up politics

This is why no one wants your triggered vagina here

Probably be the yearly Komm Susser Tod, or related when Moot left.

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Shirobako airing threads. Great anime, lots of bullying but also some quality niceposting OC.

>>143036060
I'm still wondering which side will have the bigger riots if they lose. Granted the progressives are having daily riots anyway, but I wonder if trump losing would actually get people off their asses.

And for some reason I see Hilary's people rioting even if she does win.

>>143036132
JEWWWWS! WOMEEEN!

You sound happy.

I really enjoyed the Guilty Crown threads and dropping it every week.

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>>143036201

>>143035718
>doujin, as in, hentai manga
No, I meant doujin as in doujin.
Most of the Touhou stuff on exhentai seems to be non-h, although I never looked hard or counted.

>>143036221
I don't really care who wins, but whoever it is, if they sign that fucking TPP we should all fucking riot. Just look at what the last fucking trade partnership did to us.

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>>143036545
I've no idea why he went for such a plain and boring girl, she probably doesn't watch anime too

>>143027049
HOMURA IS A CAT RIDING AN INVISIBLE UNICYCLE.

>>143030333
I notice that post quality drops abysmally around noon and picks up again around midnight in the summer. In winter and fall it's usually better all day, except on the weekends towards the end of winter.

>>143036545
But Honda-san is happy making donuts. Donuts drive the bakos, so he's still supporting them.

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>>143036783

Does this count?

Lots of things have still been fun on /a/, it's just rare that we get massive, board-wide shitstorms. Say what you want about board quality but the KlaK's are fun as fuck when they come around.

>>143030680
Panty and Stocking ruining christmas was truly the greatest.

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Most recent fond memories? Shooting the shit with /a/ during hiro's Q&A, good vibes all around.

But I always tend to either be asleep or busy or just put off during the big habbenings. I just like /a/ in general. There's always atleast one thread doing something fun.

I miss the clones trip.

>>143036998
He looks kinda bored

Maybe thinking of boobs he could've juggled right now

>>143019175
endless eight

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Every year.

Nothing will ever beat CG R2.
Star Driver sundays were a lot of fun.
Valvrave was so bullshit the threads were 10/10

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>>143031399
>not YOU ARE MY SHINING STAAAAAR

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>>143030680
I've been right there with you, and here I am still.

2009-11 for sure, the community was funny, thriving and dynamic while having a respectable standard of dialogue and behavior. Jesus, I fucking lived to get on /a/ everyday. Pre-2008 was too elitist to be honest and now 4chan is just edgy Reddit.

>>143038216
i can relate to this

>>143027049
this

>>143031399
>>143038150

Star Driver Sundays were the best. I remember getting up at 7AM on Sundays just so I could download the episode, watch it and shitpost in those threads.

>>143033386
>sage was killed off
that was the nail on the coffin...

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Penguindrum for sure.

I guess the mememorable time that sticks out is when that one guy speed translated onani master kurosawa.

>>143033386
>big 3 became allowed on /a/
I know one piece and naruto were never welcome here, but bleach has been an /a/ standard series for a long time

>>143038216
What the fuck actually happened? Is it because 4chan became so well known? Now you can barely find any threads with any actual substance or meat. Most of the threads in /neoa/ just devolve into samefagging. crossboarding, and waifu wars.

>>143038469
>trying to re write history like no one would notice.

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>>143032198
>>143032285
It's a bullet hell series that,s 20 years old and have an absurd amount of official manga, books, games and like it's creator said, Touhou is a doujin game series for doujin works. Fans went with the flow and created hundred of thousand of fanarts, music remixes and fan games of almost any genre you can think of. .

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>>143038508
>What the fuck actually happened?
entropy

>>143033386
You can still sage silently if you put it into the options field. It does what sage does in the first place, not bumping a thread.

>no gorespammer or accelerator spamming
Those are some of my most precious memories of /a/.

>>143038508
Standards just haven't been tight or well defined, a core userbase hasn't been well served. If you can't ban someone just for posting a tumblr gif then all hope is lost.

>>143038604
It doesn't communicate disgust, though.

>>143032040
look at every time the split /v/ up

>>143030680
The wait or the madoka finale after the earthquake was fucking excruciating but probably helped make it all the more satisfying.

>>143038635
>No DESU spamming
>No more happy negro, cock mongler and pedo bear

>>143019175
Why would you even do that, it's not even an /a/ thing...

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S1 of Valverave was pretty good to do.

"Call me Moses." - Moses

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>>143038654
>sage as downvote
that's what reaction faces are for

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>>143038635
>>143038635
>accelerator spamming

>>143038508
A lot of different phenomena will occur over a span of several years, like new users imitating previous precedents and deforming them, or utterly replacing whatever culture was there first. Basically people leave, people come, things change.

Even though 4chan is a shadow of what it used to be, I'm actually surprised /a/ hasn't changed more than it has. It's pretty insane, goes to show you just how tight self-moderation used to be.

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Akame ga Kill 2013 - 2014

>>143031377
This. Those were so much fun.

>>143038853
oh fuck off with that shit
visible sage existed far longer than reddit
and all getting rid of it did was bring in cuck spam,
you good job fuckhead.

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Endless Eight.

Watching the board lose its shit week after week was exquisite.

>>143019175
I really enjoyed late night moot drunkposting.
Those were the days.

>>143038953
what of course /a/ fucking changed
a few years ago translatorfags using a thread for blogging or flirting with each other wouldn't have been tolerated.

>>143039027
"nice blogpost"
thats literally what the response today would be, even though it was funny as shit.

>>143039015
Why do you type like a retard?

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>>143034764
chaika posting was the best.

Call on Mwee was even better
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQZTxpUyIuk

The day pun-pun ended

Puddi Day

>>143038216
>that was 6-7 years ago
I remember the oreimo threads when it was airing well, shit got intense

>>143038523
Bleach has been a mainstay on /a/ since the anime started airing.

>>143039060
Reading comprehension anyone? I didn't say it didn't change. It's changed dramatically, but relative to other boards it's at least retained a semblance of its previous image. Go on literally any other board and tell me /a/'s been hit as hard. /jp/ has been lobotomized and castrated. /v/ is literally children trying to be as wacky as possible. /b/ is... I don't even know what to call it honestly.

>>143039198
so was one piece ,
naruto was the only one that got shitted on.

>>143039220
/b/ has always been babbys first board but the once in a month I pop in there it just looks like something from fucking 9gag, Its become that goddamn cringey. In comparison /a/ is still god-tier.

Difficult to understand how people can list something after 2012 as their best time on /a/

>>143039220
/b/ is like one off those mirrors that goes on forever, every thread and every post is a re-post of a re-post of a re-post. It's like full on meta shitposting for infinity

>>143032623
Too bad UBW was shit and the threads consisted of shitposters only.

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>>143039401

>>143034302
The fanbase was fine. The new fanbase when S2 started killed it. It mostly came from conventions from what I know.

>>143019175
Code geass R2 and KLK threads.

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Star Driver Sundays were my favorite. Also I remember watching Shin Mazinger live with /m/ and nobody knew what the fuck was happening.

>>143027318
>tfw I'll probably get some form of cancer from melting anime figures in ovens

>>143039220
/b/ is literally just endless dick rate threads

Who was that guy who used to do Katawa Shoujo and then monstergirl quests? That used to be fun.

>>143019175
Go back to /v/ with you unrelated op posts you faggot

>>143034302
>Was it really just the anime
probably, i've seen it happen so many times, that I jumped ship when the anime aired.
don't know what the threads are like now , dont want to know, not going back.

>>143019175
Watching Code Geass R2 with /a/, closely followed by Guilty Crown.

>>143038508
>Is it because 4chan became so well known?
Almost the entire reason 4chan became popular was because of /pol/ interfering with the left and happenings. It is shit now almost entirely because of the election now.

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>>143039220
/a/ is pretty much the only board which has any resemblance to it's old self.

I'm here since 2008 and /b/, /v/ and many others have changed so much over the years that I can barely recognize them.

Even /pol/ is completely different from a few years ago.

Someone once posted a graphic showing the growth of 4chan's daily/monthly(?) unique visitors. It went from somewhere around 50k in 2006-2007 to almost a million in 2013.

>>143039551
What were they?

Even though I hated the series, I loved Oreimo threads. Constantly followed the threads while the series was still airing.

>>143039768
>to almost a million in 2013.
yeah but that was its apex, its been decline since then

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I regret missing Madoka airing, but the Rebellion BD threads were great. A nice couple weeks of good discussion before spiraling back down into infinite shitposting.

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I don't understand when some of you say nothing has changed, when almost everything has
Self moderation was a thing
Resident spammers were great at pruning shit threads
Idiots were ignored quite often, baiting people was much more harder
I legit lurked for months before making my first post, just to be told to fuck off and so I lurked again
>Muh sikrit club
Quality of posts was higher, I can bet on it

>>143024384
Fuck the mods for moving that shit to /tg/.
The fun died with Fuck Quest.

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I like when there's a show that has a small enough following to not attract too many bad posters but big enough to not be considered a circlejerk.

>>143039900
If it's declining, I hope it keeps going on like that.

The bigger an online community grows, the lower it's common denominator goes.

>>143039793
Total casualty list:
Two trading fig Morrigans for testing, two Sonico noodle toppers, a Pochaco noodle topper, a trading fig Milly Ashford, a 1/10 Rinko Iori, a bootleg Tharja, an Umaru Nendo, and the Figure Builders Morrigan and Organic Felicia in the last picture.

Total cost for everything was probably around $400, including the toaster oven I bought for filming.

I had a Facebook page, got a lot of views really fast, had a lot of support, but I undermined my credibility when I tried making a Patreon. Incredibly stupid mistake. Not long after that I got a $300 AmiAmi bill for shit I had preordered, and I got cold feet and deleted everything. I don't own any buyfag stuff anymore, except for my doujinshi collection.

>>143040060
>a Patreon
for melting shit in an oven?

>>143040060
Why would you do that?

>>143040120
Yeah. Because people would send me messages and comments asking if they could donate.
I told you it was stupid.

>>143040123
It's my fetish.

>>143040060
You filmed the process? You could just melt colored plastic and say it was your figurines.

>>143040120
to be honest, if there was a patreon for hotglue id probably put in a few bucks.

>>143040179
Hmm? What happened to Keit-Ai?

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>>143040187
I started with collages like this before I moved on to filming actual videos.

We're like fish in the ocean, some of us having been here longer, some of us less. Most of the older fish have migrated away. Some are dead. This thread's an unusual current that's somehow brought us together. We'll spend a little time mingling and enjoying each other's company until the current dies out and we disperse into the vast ocean, never to cross paths again.

I'm drunk as fuck and I don't know WHAT the hell I'm typing but I wonder if in 10 years nostalgia about /a/ will be an obscure thought that maybe 1000 people across the globe understand.

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This thread only brought me pain because of my newfaggotry.
I can't help it. If i was born sooner maybe i could have made it here in time to share those moments with you faggots.

>>143040218
No, I don't know what. What's the thing that's got the janitors' panties in a bunch this time?

>>143040422
i wish i was a newfag again

>>143040417
4chan will be dead by 2020

>>143040483
Fark and /. are still around, so I kind of doubt it.

>>143040301
I'm pretty sure theres someone somwhere that jacks off to this

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>>143040422
You missed something beautiful.

>>143036154
The 2012 one was best, along with moot's last day. Mayan end of the world shit, and we had one enormous Eva thread with a bunch of good shit in it. I wrote a song for moot and Jebus Matoi sang it.

>>143040498
There is. It's me, which is why I did it.
I also made a booru.
melt.booru.org

>>143040564
So, wait, they're gonna remove Keit-ai posts, but keep Naruto threads around?
What's the logic there?

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>>143033535
>I'm pretty sure the world ended in 2012 and we're all in hell.
I was halfway convinced of that before Trump. Now it's 4chan's turn for "but it's $current_year" and pissing off the normies. On the other hand, we had some nice Ranma threads in 2015.

If everyone agrees that /a/ is worse than it was, and everyone agrees that it's because of all the tripfags, shitposters, generals etc why don't we have a non-fuckface mod?

>>143040606
kek enjoy your b&

>>143040679
4chan mods and admins have been terrible since day one. It's why we can't have nice things.

>>143040606
FINDS

>>143040679
Because the sad truth is:

1. Humans will ruin everything no matter how much you try to fix it. Ban shitposting, and shit posting becomes more stealthy, or takes another form that can be argued it isn't shitposting. Same thing all around.

2. Law of diminishing returns. It's not worth it.

>>143040624
>naruto
real manga/anime that can actually be discussed

>keitai
ebin pasta about non existing meme anime

>>143040606
A boy makes a post

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Mai Otome threads and the implementation of spoiler tags were pretty fun.
Saimoe 2006 was pretty fun.
Madoka threads were pretty fun, too.

But of course, the most fun I really had wasn't on /a/, but immediately after the split when /jp/ was fresh.
Those were good times.

>>143040787
>real manga/anime that can actually be discussed
Yeah, but it's shonenshit for fagots

>ebin pasta about non existing meme anime
Which is a good joke between the residents of this board

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>>143040554
You beautiful bastard

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>>143040148
for every 10 people that say they will buy your shit or donate money, maybe only 1 will actually go through with it.

>>143040787
>He doesn't understand keitai

You don't understand /a/ culture.

Now for the real question. Why do shitposters and the like post on /a/? Is it just to taste misery?

>>143040915
you know some people can like things you don't like. nothing to be alarmed about.
if you want "good jokes" you can go to >>>/s4s/

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Pretty much everything before GG brought the fucking dredges of society to 4chan. It was shit for awhile, but after that we hit the point of no return. Then /a/ got all the chunni retards. pic related

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>>143040956
Not him but Keit-Ai as you know it is fucking copypasta that's been around for what, a year? I knew about Keit-Ai when it was a mere idea, an actual project, when it was an fetus being gestated in IRC rooms. It's not /a/ culture. It's an ebin meme.

Valvrave threads.

>ctrl + f
>cornfapper 0 results

Really?
I miss that man, I wonder what happened to him.

>>143040422
I'm pretty fucking new and I wish I could've been here to experience things like Geass Sundays. Then again, I probably would've ruined everything and made horrible posts.

>>143019175
When Gurren Lagann was airing and the time from when the raw aired followed by that wait every Sunday night for BSS to put out their shitty subs.

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These threads.

>>143041076
>I probably would've ruined everything and made horrible posts.
like you are doing now?

>>143029739
Hiragana was invented by women who where to dumb to learn kanji.
The more you know.

>>143041149
That was a fun ride.

When Guts got off the boat.

I started coming here from other boards around 2010 or whenever Panty and Stocking first aired.
Those threads were pretty fun for me.

>>143041182
>was
but it hasn't ended. it never ends.

>>143041152
exactly

>>143040606
>It will take a long while
That's an understatement.

>Banning it is going to inspire people who didn't normally phonepost to Keit-Ai, just to spite the mods.
I wish the kind of people that are acting like this stayed on /sp/ and /v/.

>>143039728
>>143041012
Your new is showing

4chan died long before you came found out about it, people like you are just a symptom of the disease

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>>143041671
Then why are you here?

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>>143030680
>Nothing after that has been good.

>>143041792
Was this deleted or was anon banned elsewhere?

Is there a JoJoGen mod at the heart of this?

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>>143040956
Ghost Slide was better anyway.

>>143019175
When it didn't exist and was part of /b/

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Space Bros threads. They were nothing special but they were nice and fun.

Can't wait for the movie to be released so we can talk about the series again.

>>143041905
The 'x boogeymen' posts were bannable for quite a while now, blame /tv/ for spouting rettid everywhere everytime

The first year I first was on here was great. I miss it.

>>143042127
Alright thread's over everyone, thanks for joining in.

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>>143019175

>>143033898
>Everything before Geass aired

Golden Age fallacy at work.

>>143042127
>implying /a/ wasn't always shit
Take off your rose-tinted goggles, mate. Get over the fact that moot-senpai noticed you early on.

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Code Geass days

>>143042289
It wasn't just that man. There were more diversity in the threads. We talked about anime older than 6 months. That doesn't happen nearly as much now.

>>143031749
Yeah, you can kill yourself too.

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>>143042327
better times anon , better times before the cancer showed up

If you could turn back time, would you start coming to /a/ earlier or just never come here at all and become a healthy adjusted human being?

>>143042651
I'd get real friends, 100%. Of course, I'm going to do that anyway. Any day now. Any day.

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>>143040043
Never forget.

>>143042605
you're the cancer friend. Code Geass united this community and all the shows you like tore it apart

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That 7 - 0 was amazing

The Hataraku Maou Yuusha threads.

They were fucking amazing.

>>143042766
I don't get it

>>143042912
/c/ was created to /c/ontain the /c/ancer and we still have " On the front page" threads

The Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann threads. People were still using GAR at that time and everyone was hype all the time.

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>>143039095
>/a/ is dead
Come on, have more faith on your fucking homeboard, if you really "give up" then /a/ was never something special to you.

>>143040043
>that ep that coincided with the pandacalypse

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>>143019175
Not a single time but more like a time frame.

The time when r/a/dio friday with Kuma-sensei existed, fansubs consisted of many more groups than horriblesubs and commie, fakku was still a small, free hentai-browsing site, nighttime /a/ was cozy, inter-board haxball tournaments were common, and the choose-your-own-adventure threads were still allowed.

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>he thinks the best /a/ moment happen in popular show threads
I feel sorry for you.

Meguca

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>>143019175
I treasure all of /a/'s breakdowns, but this one, by far, was the most delicious, and its impact continues to this day.

What was Lucky Star's appeal?

>>143043173
> he thinks nobody talks about his favorite show because its perfect beyond words

>>143043205
Meta.

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>>143038189
I'm not going to lie, /CODEGEASS/ is in my top 10 favorite times during my teenage years.

>>143043200
I liked Free.

The ending to Naruto. Delicious Sakurafag tears and I won ten year old bets.