How to surround myself with online anime discussions?

I have been getting back into anime as of late. But even as I am getting back into anime, I feel like I am watching anime in a void, without any engagement or discussions about anime with anyone else.

I have tried looking for anime youtubers, but all of them either only have content on one specific genre (usually battle shounen) or post content very infrequently (once a month or even less than that).
Meanwhile r/anime seems to only have discussions regarding current seasonal anime (I only binge watch anime, so these discussions are useless for me).

I want to engage in and surround myself with online anime discourse.

However, since I believe that the greatest strength of anime is its variety, I want the discourse to be:

* Not restricted to a specific genre or time period.
* If I am to watch content, it should not be infrequent.

With these criteria in mind, where should I look for? Are there specific subreddits or other kind of social media for what I want? Or should I try to go look somewhere else?

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BeanyIsDaBean2026-01-27 10:16

Tiktok. What people do is form small communities with people they get to know called ‘mutuals’. When 2 people follow each other they because mutuals and their content appears more.

Essentially you make a low effort post mentioning your interests and that you’re looking for people to bond with over specific animes. Keep it short like dot points. If you do one post per day of just talking out loud (meaning a text post, you don’t actually have to share your voice) you will eventually find your people and content creators.

Posting your opinions regularly will help people get familiar with you and you can get familiar with them when they comment

You can try searches like ‘anime opinions’ as a start. Or just watch anime edits and art. We get a lot of animatics and animation memes there.

There is a lot of low quality content and it might take a little while to syphon through it but once TikTok catches your drift, you’re good to go.

Ok-Chest-79322026-01-27 15:16

But how do you have a conversation on tiktok? It's just going to be screaming opinions into the void.

BeanyIsDaBean2026-01-27 22:53

That is how it works though. It’s very easy to find mutuals

Ok-Chest-79322026-01-28 09:48

Finding mutuals on a platform that doesn't enable conversation is worthless.

BeanyIsDaBean2026-01-28 10:26

Except it does but go off I guess. Sounds like you’ve never really used tikok or tried to form connections there.

Pinky_Boy2026-01-27 10:16

Usually this sub, or discord group about gaming or anime related culture. Facebook and twitter also works, but those two are known to be a cesspit most of the time

ghostpickleonastick2026-01-27 10:16

Just post about the stuff you're watching, people do it all the time. "Currently watching Noir, here's what I think." People will comment.

Ordinary-You81022026-01-27 10:29

reddit, obviously, and discord servers dedicted to might be more "intimate"

katsucats2026-01-27 10:52

How old are you? If you're under 25, then go to your local university's anime club. If you're under 18, then start an anime club in your school.

Edit: How this relates to "online" anime discussions... Every club has a Facebook group or a discord or something like that.

zenithfury2026-01-27 11:05

Usually it’s the most fun for me to watch a currently airing show and talk about it in the threads. I follow some dedicated subs for shows but generally the discussion dies down the more time passes.

I think there’s some fun to find for niche topics. For example the wholesome yuri sub is very funny, and almost everyone seems to be having a good time. There could be some niche you might find where people are always making fresh discussions.

blanc_megami2026-01-27 11:10

Take this with caution but maybe go to /a/? It goes with the usual disclaimers but it kinda works for what you're looking for. Great variety of topics and opinions for what it's worth.

Because subreddits and especially discords do tend to turn into echochambers and beacuse of constant flow of new people discussion reliably circles around major topics.

Nite-ish2026-01-27 11:13

What is /a/?

blanc_megami2026-01-27 11:14

One of the 4chan boards.

UMP45isnotflat2026-01-27 12:35

Fuck I feel old now

SouekiSennoSTM2026-01-27 11:53

Most known anime with at least one English translated version (including subtitling) have archival webpages in the database on MAL (My Anime List - it's an established popular website for this which has been up for around 20 years) with their own sub-forums dedicated to discussion of that specific series, film, or other anime media (some even one-episode specials, short films, music videos, advertisements, etc.) and usually even a thread for every single episode it's comprised of with discussion focused on that episode and what transpired in it in particular. There are even some on there with no or very limited discussions in English as they're untranslated or even lost media.

It has the same format and space shared in the database with manga, light novels, some regular/traditional Japanese novels, and Chinese and Korean anime (donghua and aeni) and comics (manhua and manhwa).

The only caveat is that most discussions won't be current, with probably 99% of posts from a time at or very close to when the anime originally aired or close to when MAL was founded and it had a page established (for older series from the early 2000s, 90s, 80s, 70s, etc.)

But even non-current series will have new posts randomly written and contributed by anyone at any given time. It could be a series from 2007 or 1978 and have someone writing a new post and sharing their thoughts pertaining to it this morning because they're watching it for the first time or rewatching it or just desire to do so now or whatever.

So it's kind of vast and chaotic, yet simultaneously organized when you know what to expect. I don't think it's difficult to navigate at all if you're familiar with traditional internet forums.

UMP45isnotflat2026-01-27 12:36

Its just how it is, people talk more about shows airing right now. If you want to discuss specific shows you can go to the franchises subreddit. Otherwise there is the daily discussion post here and maybe someone will engage.

Ok-Chest-79322026-01-27 15:14

Print off a load of Reddit threads and tape them together to make a cylinder, then stand in it.

Durinthal2026-01-27 15:30

On /r/anime folks in the [daily discussion thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/search?sort=new&restrict_sr=on&q=flair%3ADaily) (see [yesterday's](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1qnc0t3/anime_questions_recommendations_and_discussion/) for example) will be more than happy to talk about anything even if it's not current though it will be mixed in among discussion of airing shows (as will be the case for most communities unless explicitly designed otherwise, I imagine); last year I spent an inordinate amount of time writing about generally forgotten romances from 2005 there.

There's also the [weekly non-airing thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1qmrxiv/what_have_you_watched_this_past_week_that_is_not/) that's been going for years.

Emi_Ibarazakiii2026-01-27 19:08

Well, people host rewatches frequently in here, and while they post the threads on a daily basis (one episode at the time), nothing stops you from binging it, taking notes of your thoughts and all, then discussing it with them as they release the threads!

A lot of people do that AFAIK, watching ahead then discussing the specific episode the rewatch is at.

>Meanwhile r/anime seems to only have discussions regarding current seasonal anime (I only binge watch anime, so these discussions are useless for me).

>I want to engage in and surround myself with online anime discourse.

Well, if you want to engage and discuss, you kinda need to watch and discuss the same stuff everyone else is watching; It's just like anything else, if you play a videogame from 1990 or watch a movie from 1940, the # of people who do these things will be quite small, so you can't expect much discussion.

If you just want to express your thoughts, you can do that here in a 'review' thread or something, but YMMV regarding how many people participate in the thread. If it's a somewhat 'big' anime, there will be people for sure though. Just not if it's something obscure from the 70s.

Or there's the "What have you watched recently" thread, but it's mostly just people posting their show and no one discussing.

Beautiful_Cupcake_462026-01-27 21:07

You can harass your [right hand](https://youtu.be/PzFC6lIhySM?si=9NtF-oOsBuejBbtb) then use your left hand for 'contemplation'.