I've seen some folks take Naruto pretty seriously but I get the impression there are more extremist factions.
tokyo ghoul, at least the tumblr variety
on /a/ it's rezero, evangelion, and SNK, but they're all waifuwars
never experienced real life, so I couldn't say
>>159237283
Evangelion has actually lead people to write academic papers on its bullshit. The original DEEP.
All the popular adult(ish) anime like eva and berserk have lots of "you can only interpret it this way or your wrong" people and they ironically edit the wikis. Especially the eva wiki is full of >opinions and missing obvious things.
>fandoms
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>>159237149
FMA brotherhood was better than 2003
People don't remember but holy shit Ruroni Kenshin fan were lunatics back in the early 00s. The female fans were scream about gay sex in public level fujos, and the male fans carried bokoto and tried to follow the path of the samurai and shit. Look up the "light rail avenger" and google the fucking name he gives the news team. I knew multiple people like this from the DDR scene back then.