/a/

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/a/ - Anime & Manga 4chan imageboard.

/a/ is one of the oldest boards on 4chan. It was created early in 4chan's history to provide a "worksafe" and anime-specific alternative to /b/. While it is the second most active worksafe board, after /v/, it doesn't even come close to matching /b/'s volume of posts.

/a/ had something of a rivalry with /m/, which became quite open during the SaiGar competition, in which the smaller /m/ had a surprising amount of success. The rivalry had since slipped in to the background after the conclusion of SaiGar. With an extremely narrow /a/ victory, conflict between /m/orons and /a/ssholes could break out again at any time.

Due to being the biggest Japanese-oriented board /a/ was usually flooded with irrelevant topics. Ever since the creation of the new /jp/ (Japan & General, created some time near /a/day) board /a/ has generally been clean of those topics. Topics such as Touhou, Tsukihime and other visual novels, and general 3D PIG DISGUSTING shit have migrated to their new home at /jp/. Of course, /a/ has suffered the loss of being an otaku culture center that discussed anything remotely related to anime and manga. This resulted in a major slowdown, but the pace was picked up after several weeks. /jp/, after exhausting the 243rd "Learn Japanese" thread, has finally de-evolved into /touhou/. To this day the split's effects are debated among wee/a/boos. Nobody cares what they think, and life goes on.