Anime fandom definitely has its debates and sides to choose from. You could enter the great sub vs dub wars, or the morality of pirating, or whether moe is destroying the industry, or whether you can wear ahegao hoodies at anime conventions (the answer is no). But weirdly I don’t seem to recall many fights… Read
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