how and when did anime get so popular with "underground" night club emo junkies?
You can thank the combination of Pic related's Eurobeat Soundtrack being so popular combined with dubbed anime on Toonami being accompanied with lofi/electronic music on TV bumpers all the time
>>283105828>how and when did anime get so popular with "underground" night club It always was, retard. Anime was an underground subculture in the west (and in Japan) at one point. Who knew underground subcultures intermingled?
>>283105979then why do people even began pretending neckbeards like anime when those types used to be associated with comic books and dnd?
>>283106451Neckbeards were associated with anime along with the other stuff you mentioned. This is not some mutually exclusive thing. Computers, weird foreign cartoons with overexposed schoolgirls, DnD, comic books, cosplay, sci-fi and fantasy, those were all the purview of 'neckbeards' at one point
>>283105828it looks cool. That's all those people care about after all
>>283105828When did anime become do popular with old men with boring lives?