Fanime - fanmade anime, What do you get when you add teens + ms paint + Japanese music? badly drawn gold

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During the late 2000s and early 2010s YouTube was large enough to host a large diversity of content but wasn't quite the corporate giant it is today. This combined with many young teens discovering anime for the first time who wanted to make their own, created an explosion of creative albeit poorly made animations. I like to call this time period the golden age of Fanime.

But what exactly IS Fanime?
Most Fanime have these characteristics in common: images drawn in ms paint, most likely animated in Microsoft movie maker, poorly drawn, poorly thought out plot, and a whole lot of heart and effort put into the project.

One of the most prolific Fanime that some of you have probably seen floating around the web is Neko Sugar Girls
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But the truth is this isn't really real Fanime, it is a parody of Fanime and was created to be intentionally bad, although the art seems to be better than some of the other entry's that you will see.

So lets dive into real Fanime that was made without a shred of irony. Here are some wonderful examples and some of my favorites:

Moth and The Man
This interesting creation was made by Tacky Animations. She doesn't really have an internet presence anymore and most of her animation's have been lost to time. If you happen to have archives of any of her videos please share them or send them to me. Her art is what originally inspired me to make this thread and I have a ton of nostalgia for her videos.
I'm going to put downloads for the unlisted videos just incase they get removed

Tokyo Crystal Mew
One of the most popular it had quite a cult following and many other Fanime creators did try to copy this masterpiece. It is also known for its particularly bad artwork.

Eternal
A sailor moon inspired one.
Look at this hunk
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Here are some post 2010 examples:

Amanojaku​

The art here is a lot better that the others but still has that good ms paint feel.

Nelipot
I vividly remember watching this one around the time it came out. I remember the opening for the first episode had the song kininaru ano ko which I still love to this day. That song unfortunately is most likely the reason the first episode is blocked. Here is a playlist of the episodes. There is also a Tumblr.

Finally here is a playlist I found that contains a lot of Fanime. It really is a shame that these types of creations are no longer widely made. Sure the art isn't the best and the voice acting is terrible, but you can tell a lot of heart was put into making these. They are super cringey and really make me miss old YouTube.
 
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not the kids said:
This combined with many young teens discovering anime for the first time who wanted to make their own, created an explosion of creative albeit poorly made animations. I like to call this time period the golden age of Fanime.
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One of those young teens? OP.
not the kids said:
She doesn't really have an internet presence anymore and most of her animation's have been lost to time. If you happen to have archives of any of her videos please share them or send them to me. Her art is what originally inspired me to make this thread and I have a ton of nostalgia for her videos.
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not the kids said:
I vividly remember watching this one around the time it came out. I remember the opening for the first episode had the song kininaru ano ko which I still love to this day.
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not the kids said:
Finally here is a playlist I found that contains a lot of Fanime. It really is a shame that these types of creations are no longer widely made. Sure the art isn't the best and the voice acting is terrible, but you can tell a lot of heart was put into making these. They really make me miss old YouTube.
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"JULAAAAAAAAAAAAAY"
 
So NOT that lewd old gif of Tifa Lockhart.

That I've heard of.
 
That feel when you'll probably never be able to find the cringe fanime you found as a teen. It used the "Elfin Lied" theme as it's own theme, and even featured a weird sex scene in the 4th episode. I seriously wish my memory wasn't shit so I could at least remember the name of this to contribute to the thread.

OMGOMGOMG I FOUND IT

"Blood Raining Night" is some of the best cringe I knew back in the day.

Here's the original opening that we were forced to endure, and YES that is the creator of this shit singing this herself


 
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There was the Youtube channel BoringTrousers which made fun of a lot of these. That was the first time I saw any of these awful fanimes. I can't find a lot of the ones I remember watching though because I don't remember the damn titles (if they're still even up after all this time). Tokyo New Mew was one of the ones I remember that hasn't been talked about so far. I'm pretty sure this was one of the ones that was made fun of (if not by BoringTrousers then by another Youtuber), although it's not as bad as some of the others (in animation quality, at least.)

Tokyo New Mew


The other one I remember watching years ago was this Balkan nationalist My Little Pony garbage one "My Little Macedonia", which I don't even think counts as a proper fanime (despite the title MACEDONIA FANIME) seeing as the maker doesn't seem to have actually drew any of this. I never forgot this one as it was so retarded, especially the dumb French robot voice. Too much dumb filler though. (Disclaimer: I don't know anything about Macedonia.) Unfortunately there was never any follow-up to this gripping tale.

My Little Macedonia


I also remember a Digimon one called Digimon Season Love but a lot of it seems to have been pulled from Youtube unfortunately. Some of it is blocked by copyright and some just seems to not be there anymore. This was a very long running one compared to lots of fanimes (a lot of them just posted one episode of their fanime and then got bored and disappeared)

Digimon Season Love

 
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The other one I remember watching years ago was this Balkan nationalist My Little Pony garbage one "My Little Macedonia", which I don't even think counts as a proper fanime (despite the title MACEDONIA FANIME) seeing as the maker doesn't seem to have actually drew any of this. I never forgot this one as it was so retarded, especially the dumb French robot voice. Too much dumb filler though. (Disclaimer: I don't know anything about Macedonia.) Unfortunately there was never any follow-up to this gripping tale.
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What an interesting and bizarre mash up of concepts, here are some of my favorite moments:
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Best thing to have come out of Germany
The author has made the original episodes private, luckily there are mirrors of them

I also remembered seeing this one Elfen Lied-ish fanime called Superu Ground - I get the basic gidt of what it is about but it's fucking impossible to follow, I love it!

I always wondered how folks managed to trace animations with MS paint?
 
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Lol holy shit that's just pure autism. Every single one of those videos I clicked I just couldn't stop fucking laughing at the sheer amount of retardation present in those videos.
 
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Nelipot was taken down, it's my favorite :( Does anyone have the episodes downloaded?
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Click on where it says "Spoiler: Download" underneath the Nelipot video
Luckily, the writer of the OP archived it so it isn't lost even though it's been deleted from Youtube
 
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