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Imrad
No longer a weeb
Background: Even though this might be the last English course I will take in my
lifetime; I am moving forward with a positive attitude I am very grateful to all my English
teachers and professors who have helped me throughout the years. I hope this essay
shows my love for writing that I learned at university. I have been a huge fan of anime
since I was a child. I watched around 10 animes, over 1000 episodes in total. I
experienced deep joy in each of them, and I was curious why people would drop such a
TV show. So, I made a survey and did interviews to see why, and this piece is all about
it.
Introduction: Anime is a popular animation form used in Japanese films and television
series. Most of its plots are filled with action. Anime developed in the early 20th century
where the big three (One Piece, Naruto, Bleach) came into play, and thankfully I had the
opportunity to enjoy these three. When I started to talk to my university colleagues, I was
surprised that few people like Reehan and Bilal started watching anime and stopped. I
was wondering in my head why they did that. Therefore, I conducted a survey for TAMUQ
students, in addition to interviewing my colleague who stopped watching anime after
starting it. This issue is not only about my colleagues who stopped watching but also
about people worldwide. On a few websites, I have seen that a lot of people are doing
this, more than I expected. Also, I was able to see the reasons behind that, which helped
me to create my survey options for my ORQ (original research question), so I could see
how many students from TAMUQ would have the same reasons. My study of this
research aims to see why people choose each of the reasons for the survey question:
Reasons why TAMUQ students dropped anime
Which means the TAMUQ students who answered this survey will be my target audience.
The survey was super useful in my opinion, as it gave me a good view of what lead to
these TAMUQ students to drop watching anime. It was mistake not making a text box for
“other” reasons. Which made me do an interview to see other possible reasons.
Interview:
I will be honest here. I had difficulty interviewing because of finals, midterms, and worrying
about not getting an A in courses like calculus one and chemistry. I think it was a
challenge for the rest of my classmates as well. Anyways, I managed to record an
interview with my friend Belal. I chose Zoom as I thought it would be the most comfortable
way of interviewing my friend, and the results turned out to be perfect.
His answer was that he wasn’t interested in the animation style, and the storyline. His reason are
recorded in a zoom meeting which you will be listening to soon.
Secondy sources:
So, I like I mentioned before I used few websites such as Quora (Has anybody stopped watching
anime? Is there any specific reason?, n.d.) and anime everything (Silvercrowv1, n.d.) to help me
in my research. In order to strengthen my research, I will use one more website which is reddit.
(Anime_historian, 2014), as it has many useful information which I can use for my secondary
research.
References
Anime_historian. (2014). TrueAnime. Retrieved from reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueAnime/comments/2pec0y/why_do_some_people_hate_anime_
so_much_heres_my/
Has anybody stopped watching anime? Is there any specific reason? (n.d.). Retrieved from Quora:
https://www.quora.com/Has-anybody-stopped-watching-anime-Is-there-any-specific-reason
Silvercrowv1, B. (n.d.). The Most Toxic Fandoms In Anime Community + The Worst Kind of Weebs.
Retrieved from Anime Everything Online: https://animeeverything.online/the-most-toxic-
fandoms-in-anime-community-the-worst-kind-of-weebs/
Appendix A(survey)
Q1 – Gender?
Q2 - Have you ever been/are you a fan of Anime?
Q4 - Is anime getting in the way of your studies?
Q5 - "Anime is for kids, I don't wanna be one of them.(agree to disagree)
Q6 - How would you describe the anime community in one word?
Q7 - Your opinion on the anime community in about one or two sentences.
Q8 - Did you drop anime?
Q9 - What led you to drop Anime?
Appendix B(interview)
Why did u stop watching anime? was it the toxic fandom? or animation style? or do u
have another reason?