Mixi is a pain in the butt to get on, just to warn you. At some point in the past, they started requiring that people registering new accounts have a Japanese cell phone number. But it's the SNS that like 90% of Japan uses, as far as I can tell. I don't know whether that's where one would find the really hardcore fandom people (doujinshi creators and so on), though it might be. It's certainly where you can find all of the zillions of obsessive middle aged women who've been rabid 49er fans for decades. (I have no idea how many of them have or still do produce fanfic and doujinshi and so on since my Japanese is pretty dreadful.)
The only reason I bring up manga over and over is that for me, anime is just an adaptation of the True Canon. (And if you're a fan of realistic shoujo romance stuff, I think live action drama adaptations may be just as likely as anime adaptations... or am I totally off there?) I wonder how many other fans feel the same way, especially Japanese ones who can actually get their hands on the manga series a given anime is based on (and who have most likely been reading the manga series for years before the anime even starts). You see the same thing a bit with American comics, at least that's my impression, though maybe it's more like LOTR where a zillion times more people got into it through the movies than through the books, so while you do have a small group of people who regard the books as primary, that's probably not the norm numerically speaking.
Blah blah blah. Anyway, none of that is actually relevant if your area of interest is animation specifically. :D
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Date: 2009-10-22 06:15 pm (UTC)The only reason I bring up manga over and over is that for me, anime is just an adaptation of the True Canon. (And if you're a fan of realistic shoujo romance stuff, I think live action drama adaptations may be just as likely as anime adaptations... or am I totally off there?) I wonder how many other fans feel the same way, especially Japanese ones who can actually get their hands on the manga series a given anime is based on (and who have most likely been reading the manga series for years before the anime even starts). You see the same thing a bit with American comics, at least that's my impression, though maybe it's more like LOTR where a zillion times more people got into it through the movies than through the books, so while you do have a small group of people who regard the books as primary, that's probably not the norm numerically speaking.
Blah blah blah. Anyway, none of that is actually relevant if your area of interest is animation specifically. :D