Is being an Anime fan the gateway addiction to Kpop?

I definitely was a manga/anime fan before i knew of kpop lol. My tastes vary a lot so asking me for 1 favourite anime is impossible, but if we’re talking along the vein of shounen anime like you are then i quite like attack on titan and ace of diamond (the latter actually got me into baseball lol)

I was an embarrassing weeb before kpop. I still watch some anime series but not nearly as many

Vocaloid is what first introduced me to kpop since I found a utauloid cover of 2ne1 and me being an anime fan is what led me to vocaloid to begin with so... in sense they connected for me.

Not really. There's very little crossover with anime and kpop. If anything anime and jpop share more of a common denominator. I knew of jpop (wasn't into it though) waaay before kpop was ever popular because of anime openings.

First anime was pokemon, Digimon, DBZ etc but they were the Eng dubbed ones after school. My first "non mainstream" was probably FMA OG series with Jap subs. From there on the usual Naruto, bleach, Evangelion etc.

Gaming may be huge too because Korea has a pretty big gaming industry. I used to play Korean game, which make me interact with Korean streamers. Meanwhile, streamers may play kpop in the background. That is what makes my interest in kpop.

the first anime I ever watched was Laupta - Castle in the Sky when I was still in China

but the first anime I got into was pokemon I guess

No. I was an anime and J-pop fan, but I only got into K-pop because of K-dramas.

Anime > book > kpop > manga > webtoons/kpop

Kinda. There was sort of this progression from anime -> jpop -> kpop for me

I guess if anything it makes u more open to listening to music in other languages

Not necessarily, I knew nothing about anime before I became a fan ten years ago.

no

kpop and anime are too different and not related at all

Nah I listened to Kpop before I watched anime (so at a very young age) but it could still be the case for many others? Not sure but they're very very different so imo I don't think so.

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I would say K-drama is a big gateway for many.

It's the primary thrust of the Hallyu Wave with Kpop being it's sister wave.

It's an adjacent (and larger) Korean industry and has a lot of crossover with idol-actors.

That's how I got into kpop.

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same in 2011 i started with Kdrama. Till this day I am still a bigger kdrama fan compared to kpop

I have never watched an anime

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same in 2011 i started with Kdrama. Till this day I am still a bigger kdrama fan compared to kpop

I have never watched an anime

blasphemy

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the first anime I ever watched was Laupta - Castle in the Sky when I was still in China

but the first anime I got into was pokemon I guess

Laputa. You have a great taste

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Laputa. You have a great taste

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I think I mentioned it to you before but I cried to this movie when i was a kid when i first watched it for some reason lol

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blasphemy

I have always thought why should I watch animated people when I can watch real people.

if you have any good anime recommend some to me and where i can watch them for free.

In my case, it's not related at all. I'm still watching anime, Jdrama, Kdrama every seasons. And I have been listening to both Kpop-Jpop for years.

Not necessarily, but if you enjoy manga and animes, you are already open-minded, and able to enjoy pop culture from a non-english country. You are already used to fan translations, subtitles, etc...

So I wouldn't say it's a gateway, but it makes sense for anime fans to be able to jump on the kpop train, more than people who consummed pop culture from their own language exclusively since they were born.

For the record, I do enjoy manga from time to time, but I wouldn't say I was ever addicted. Some of them really had an impact on me, but most of the 'classics' completely went over my head.

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I think it is easier for people to like Kpop if you are already an Anime fan.

fyi, my favorite is One Piece. which Anime show is your favorite? Were/ are you also an Anime fan before you start liking Kpop groups?

That’s not really true. Most of the vile kpop and BTS haters I’ve run into are anime weebs.

I don’t have one favorite anime. But I do enjoy watching Haikyuu and I was an anime fan before getting into kpop

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I definitely was a manga/anime fan before i knew of kpop lol. My tastes vary a lot so asking me for 1 favourite anime is impossible, but if we’re talking along the vein of shounen anime like you are then i quite like attack on titan and ace of diamond (the latter actually got me into baseball lol)

Oh Ace of Diamond fan here too

No lol I have seen so many weebs who hate kpop with passion. It feels like they are bothered by kpop's recent global expansion (add kdramas into that as well).

At least I think so cus I don't see another reason. It's weird the way they feel nationalism for a country they dont belong to

im one piece fan

and tvxq did one piece op there

so in a sense it connect

I've never watched anime

no, the amount of anime fans i know that take every opportunity to shit on kpop is too many. funniest thing is when they make fun of kpop stans because kpop is in a different language and then proceed to bop to their naruto ost

I have a deep seated and probably irrational prejudice against anime, so it's definitely not true in my case at least.

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I have always thought why should I watch animated people when I can watch real people.

if you have any good anime recommend some to me and where i can watch them for free.

i think you’re looking at it the wrong way. Anime/animated filmography isn’t about watching non-real people as opposed to watching real ones; the animation platform allows for a practically unlimited approach to storytelling that live action doesn’t provide. You could in theory literally do anything with animation and tackle every single genre with 100% control of the direction and the ability to mold everything to your liking; can’t do that with filming real people no matter how in-tuned the actors are with the script. If the story itself is good, bar a lack of budget, there’s nothing holding animated films back from being as good as any live action film. And isn’t cinema all about telling stories at its core? Animation is not excluded from that.

There are a ton of good anime out there in a huge diversity of genres, so imma need you to give me what specific genre you’re interested in bc there’s literally good anime in every niche lol. For a mainstream pick in the dark that’s non-girly, which shouldn’t deter guys who are too macho for that, i’d recommend attack on titan bc i don’t think anyone can say it’s a bad anime. Some salty fans of other competing franchises may say it’s overrated for the praise it gets (I personally don’t agree) but even they can’t deny that it’s still good. Unfortunately I don’t have an anime site I usually follow nowadays but gogoanime seems to be a popular one

I got into Kpop thanks to anime because at first I began to listen anime openings then Jpop and one of my friends told me to try some Kpop groups too.

No that they are related, but sometimes you end up more open minded to Asian Culture if you are already into one of their elements.

as an Anime fan, No.

No

Anime introduced me to BoA but I wasn't a K-Pop fan.

It actually was Maplestory that got me super into K-Pop LMAO.