Naruto Bleach and One Piece made anime what it is now

As in the West.

DbZ Eva and Gundam laid the ground work

and then it took until after the japs got rekt by America to start making "modern" anime

Japanese anime’s beginning is less relevant than it’s spread in the West.

not really

it's not irrelevant, at least

For this conversation, Inmean.

not when you are talking about

Anime dub companies struggle hard

the early, beginnings of the two groups

Funimation is just barely doing well now

Furries began in the 1970’s.

And they were a branch-off of DND stuff.

He is basically they are both nerd fandoms and he is upset furries are looked down on

Despite furries doing nothing to ever further a positive image

also a reason that anime is large and furry...dom(?) isn't is because furries are a small offshoot, an inherently niche group

anime had an entire *country* to back it up

^^^

and a productive country at that

Anime is a countries culture Furry is a degenerate sexual preference

what with their crazy work-centricness

But isn’t that the origin of most fandoms? A small odd-shoot of one genre that eventually takes off and grows?

Anime isnt a fandom

Furries got it bad mainly because the media conflated it with “beastiality.”

Its an entire countries animated media

as Ehzek just said, anime is not a fandom

anime is an entire country's form of entertainment, it is an extension of Japan's culture

furries are just a weird group of people who like anthros

Its like the difference between NFL and Fantasy Football

which is something that could never be mainstream, or larger than it is

NFL has fans

FF is a fandom

Anime is a fandom as well because they are a weird group of people obsessing over another country’s animation.

in the west maybe, but the west isn't important to Japan and anime

as I went over already

You can be an anime fan and not in a fandom

if an anime bombs in Japan, even if it is a huge hit in the west, companies don't care and will stop

You cant be a furry fan and not in the furry fandom

But it is important when considering the fact that weeaboos are not from Japan and are from other countries.

That is the key difference