Metalheads and Anime?

Anime and metal just happens to be a coincidence, Ik a bunch of people how love metal but hate anime with a burning passion and vise versa :o! I happen to like both anime and metal but there is no real connection to it. I'm guessing its pure chance, i have 2 best friends who love metal and anime. My childhood best friend loves anime too but he doesn't listen to music at all

Love anime. For metal.. see my top bands lol.

I Love Anime and Metal, see my top bands [2] (- _ -) and }:-[

That is true, Pop is popular by anime fans, in Japan and USA mostly. And especialy J-pop in Japan, also in most of animes pop music is used for soundtracks, openings and endings. But still there are some metal tracks too.

Well i listen alot kinds of different metal, black, death, doom, thrash, etc but i also listen pop music too, mostly japanese, or some really old pop before the hookers took the scene, i mean dont really see anything valuable in lady gaga, jb or most of western pop, i dont even consider it pop... more like poop.

Krauser-sama is dissapointed with your question!

yerp! I like both... metal more though hehehe.
Metal can work well in amvs and soundtracks too though :)

I have a good friend who re-introduced me to anime (after a period of prolonged neglect!) and she's into metal as well, but she also likes j-pop/rock, vgm... whatever really. I don't think it's really that important, but a lot of anime fans do seem to be into the 'alternative' (be it metal or other crazy stuff) side of music anyway.

I love anime and grindcore\goregrind, and I dont think that's this is normal, but it's not bad too

Agreed. Metal has to have a good sound above all else, otherwise your just listening to shitty guitar playing with half-assed vocals that could sound better or at least be muffled out by epic guitar playing c:

Yeah but doesn't anything have to have a good sound to be good? I am speaking of course about real music and not western pop, people seem to like that even though it all sounds the same and everyone uses auto-tune making anyone able to do it. I look for talent and the ability to write good, memorable songs. And speaking of J-Rock, Crossfaith's new album is really good :D

Probably because, in most countries, people who like either one are a minority. If they're into one thing that isn't necessarily mainstream in their country, chances are that they'll be more exposed to other things that aren't mainstream in their country - hence both anime and metal (though that isn't true for all countries). I don't know if that's usually the case or not but it's what happened to me and several other people I know that like both anime and metal - and yes, for the record, I love both anime and metal. ;)

I like anime. I like death metal. It's an odd combo, but hey, it works for me as I listen to metal while making stuff in Photoshop.

Outside of AMVs though, I don't want to hear death metal in my anime. lol

Nice thread. it needs only a look at the connected artits i made and you can see that i'm really in metal. But i don't know a lot of metalheads who are in anime too.