History Webcomic / TheAnimeClub

* SpiritualAntithesis: To Creator/EvanDorkin's ComicBook/TheEltingvilleClub which the creator lists as an inspiration. The Eltingville Club is about a group of deeply unpleasant fanboys who constantly antagonize each other and other more normal fans, while the Anime Club is about a group of flawed but fundamentally good people constantly antagonized by their more unpleasant peers.

* SpiritualSuccessor: To "The Eltingville Club" by Creator/EvanDorkin, although it's considerably LighterAndSofter and none of the Anime Club members are half as awful as their Eltingville counterparts.

A five part web-comic (not including the original strips, a very short Part 2.5, and a [[spoiler: non canon Part Six,]]) it's a short but highly recommended read. It can be found [[http://gunshowcomic.com/ac/ here.]] A FanVid series [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8C86XAjxeU has started]] by the people who did the Webcomic/{{Hiimdaisy}} VideoGame/Persona4 fandub, and is probably even more hilarious.

* ShoutOut: To several animes, most prominently LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya and Manga/{{Naruto}}.

A slice-of-life web comic that was, originally, just a recurring sideplot in Creator/KCGreen's ''Webcomic/{{Gunshow}}''. It focuses on the four dweeby teenagers that comprise the titular high school Anime Club: [[JerkAss Mo]][[TheNapoleon rt]], [[OnlySaneMan Ma]][[TheLancer rk]], [[TheStoic Da]][[TheSmartGuy ve]], and the newest member, [[ThePollyanna Cly]][[TheChick de.]]

** Broadly speaking, Mort has a genuine love and passion for anime that goes deeper than it just giving an opportunity to do some nerd posturing. In the above-mentioned example, Mort hints that he wants to help others experience the same joy that the medium has brought him over. However, his stubborness, short temper, and lack of social skills prevent him from being articulate about this with others. His conciliatory speech at the film screening touches on these faults and seems to come from a pure place.

** Broadly speaking, Mort has a genuine love for anime that goes deeper than it just giving an opportunity to do some nerd posturing. In spite of how much he bickers with his friends, he loves watching and discussing anime. In the above-mentioned example, Mort hints that he wants to help others experience the same joy that the medium has brought him over. However, his lack of social skills, short temper, and stubbornness prevent him from being articulate about this. His conciliatory speech at the film screening touches on these faults and seems to come from a pure place.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Surprisingly, Mort is not a complete bastard. When Mark and Dave wanted to bar Clyde from joining the club for having basic tastes in anime, Mort was the one who urged them to reconsider. Beyond it being completely unfair to dismiss someone on those grounds, he argued that Clyde was merely inexperienced and hadn't had the opportunity to fully explore the medium yet. It's especially noteworthy because Mort barely knew Clyde at this point. He still felt compelled to stand up for Clyde for no other reason than it being the right thing to do.
** Broadly speaking, Mort has a genuine love for anime that goes deeper than it just giving an opportunity to do some nerd posturing. In spite of how much he bickers with his friends, he clearly enjoys watching it and discussing it with them. In the above-mentioned example, Mort hints that he wants to help others experience anime because he's seen how much joy the medium has brought him over the years. However, his lack of social skills, short temper, and general awkwardness prevent him from being articulate about it. His conciliatory speech at the film screening touches on these faults and seems to come from a pure place.

** Dave's revenge on Tony for this is an even better example. Not only does he pop all of Tony's tires and break his windshield and car hood, he [[spoiler: gives Tony's computer the very same virus Tony gave to his.]]

* JerkJock: A group of them at Elwood High are comedically played with to be more gentlemanly and "Ivy League Prep" material than (stereo)typical arrogant "muscleheads" in Clyde's backstory of how he joined the Anime Club, and with somewhat good, if selfish intentions, [[NotAllTropesAreNotBad and to show how Clyde wasn't really fitting in all that well.]] They purposely throw a football to a new Clyde, who just moved in and got started in Elwood, hoping that he would be new football team material. They just dismiss him when he gets caught off guard and carry on with their day.

* JerkJock: A group of them at Elwood High are comedically played with to be more gentlemanly and "Ivy League Prep" material than (stereo)typical arrogant "muscleheads" in Clyde's backstory of how he joined the Anime Club, and with somewhat good, if selfish intentions, [[TropesAreNotBad and to show how Clyde wasn't really fitting in all that well.]] They purposely throw a football to a new Clyde, who just moved in and got started in Elwood, hoping that he would be new football team material. They just dismiss him when he gets caught off guard and carry on with their day.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: A '''''very''''' hard lesson that Tony learns, and along with "hindsight is 20/20" if anything the epilogue implies. Doing business by ripping off teenagers, and very passionate fans of anime at that, by selling them virus spiked DVDs just because "your tastes in anime are better" will guarantee them issuing out retribution for destroying their hardware, and especially if that teenager wasn't the one you have beef with. And if Mort's mother is anything to guarantee, an explanation to not only said teenage nemesis' mother, but his club's friend's parents, and the cops and the law if they are to be involved, for selling what is essentially black market copyright violating illegal goods at a high profitable price.

* BlackComedy: Played with together in RefugeInAudacity and DidTheirResearch. The negative archetypes for (western or American) anime fans and showcasing the undignified truth that is weeabooism are utilized so brilliantly on the nose and in your face that while the cast are played to be near caricatures, its character direction has merit in being outright true in many circumstances, and that even goes for the protagonist Anime Club. What diverts The Anime Club from being pure full slung insult jest against western anime fandom with the broad brush is that everyone is given a bit of pathos for why they do what they do, and that helps to explain not only their faults but their motivations. It likely also helps that K.C. is also a casual curious anime fan, that his work not only reflects that he knows what he's talking about, but shows that he has been there in the 2000s decade western anime fandom, and that helps to bring out that this is as much of mild social commentary, accurate parody, and moderately intensely tasteful farce to the few yet treasured ups, and the many, many downs of self image that the western anime fandom had come to bring upon itself after the late 1990s. Played totally straight with [[spoiler: Part 6 of the comic]] and the Suicide Club comics that were derived from it. Mainly SuicideAsComedy.

* BlackComedy: Played with together in RefugeInAudacity. The negative archetypes for (western or American) anime fans and showcasing the undignified truth that is weeabooism are utilized so brilliantly on the nose and in your face that while the cast are played to be near caricatures, its character direction has merit in being outright true in many circumstances, and that even goes for the protagonist Anime Club. What diverts The Anime Club from being pure full slung insult jest against western anime fandom with the broad brush is that everyone is given a bit of pathos for why they do what they do, and that helps to explain not only their faults but their motivations. It likely also helps that K.C. is also a casual curious anime fan, that his work not only reflects that he knows what he's talking about, but shows that he has been there in the 2000s decade western anime fandom, and that helps to bring out that this is as much of mild social commentary, accurate parody, and moderately intensely tasteful farce to the few yet treasured ups, and the many, many downs of self image that the western anime fandom had come to bring upon itself after the late 1990s. Played totally straight with [[spoiler: Part 6 of the comic]] and the Suicide Club comics that were derived from it. Mainly SuicideAsComedy.

* BlackComedy: [[spoiler: Part 6 of the comic]] and the Suicide Club comics that were derived from it. Mainly SuicideAsComedy.

* KnowNothingKnowItAll: Mort thinks he's a brilliant connoisseur of anime whose opinions are infallible. In reality...not so much.
** Tony is much the same way.

* TemptingFate: In the first part when Mort tries to convince the rest of the club that nothing will come of them watching the hentai, he says that "we're not gonna get kicked out of here."

** The title Anime Club's only greater sins are that Mort is ill tempered and has a short fuse, which can potentially lead into fights with Mark. Topping all of this, Mort is the leader, and tends to impose his repertoire of anime onto the group. On the other hand, [[spoiler: the club is generally the most sane portrayed group of the rest, are shown to be sympathetic and redeemable, and even Mort cares for the group, going as far as apologizing to his enemies to help salvage the club at its worst time. His fuming passionate anger, though on the surface imposing and scary, turns into genuine love, implying he only wishes to share the magic of the moment he has felt out of the shows he has seen with his friends. Even if the anime they watch is sometimes highly questionable and at times is hentai, they are at least going the far distance of knowing the full spectrum of what anime is about.]]

* FatBastard: Mort, but Tony moreso.

** The Japanese Animation Club gets one for being more passive aggressive, unpleasant, and imposing than Mort. A lot of what they do as club activities is why the Anime Club was started in the first place, and a lot of it was implied to have been either embarrassing, uninformative, tasteless, and trend born sensationalist overhype. Though Aimee is seemingly more receptive and welcoming, she is way more socially clueless and is implied to be more domineering than Mort, whom though is outwardly verbally explosive, at least cares for the club's members and their experiences. None of them get their money back or watch the Naruto's Law School movie due to them not taking heed to Mort's directions prior to him forming the Anime Club.

* TokenEvilTeammate: For the Japanese Animation Club, ''Daniel'', a groggy, insufferable, and disgusting looking raving cynical elitist anime fan who makes Mort seem tolerable in comparison. Sure, Mort has a case of loud mouth and crusading his tastes, but Mark notes that though Mort can turn off his unpleasantness, Daniel always has it on. It also doesn't help that he serves as the critic and screener for the Japanese Animation Club's line up, meaning he gatekeeps just as much as the leader Aimee.

* ForTheEvulz: Mort knowingly sold Mort the tainted disc just to spite him and his club.

* AnimatedAdaptation: So far, of Part 1 and Part 2 by [=LeeJayAnimation=], (using the audio from the fandub)

* SpiritualSuccessor: To "The Eltingville Club" by Creator/EvanDorkin, although none of the Anime Club members are half as awful as their Eltingville counterparts.

* TheGrassIsGreener: For its most defining story, the heart and crux of its arc. The Anime Club gets put through its most trying time, and everyone in the club comes to realize why the club was made in the first place.

* SpiritualSuccessor: To "The Eltingville Club" by Evan Dorkin, although none of the Anime Club members are half as awful as their Eltingville counterparts.