With great power comes great responsability

[vegeta rocker]

I always knew anime had power but I never really thought it could bring people together. Maybe i should explain, there I was in economics class and we needed a movie to watch. The kid who sits in front of me to my left never struck me as having anything in common with me, so we never talked. I should tell you about him, he's one of those kind of socially slow people. He carries his books in a rolling suitcase and so forth, anyway he busts out three dvds. Escaflowne, Blade 2 and Dragonball z. I was suddenly urged to talk to him, which i did. Long story short, im lending him Nadesico next week.
So this ever happened to you?

[Charles]

Situations like that mostly arise when I discover that someone is a wrestling fan. I'm probably the biggest wrestling mark in the entire world and know it inside-out from a business standpoint, as well as from the entertainment side, so when I find that someone shares such an obscure commonality with me, it's a thrilling experience.

That's probably helped me become friends with Kevin faster. I thought all he watched was anime, but he's knows his Hulk Hogan from his Roddy Piper.

[James]

[color=#507AAC][size=1]That's happened to me a few times. Sometimes I'll talk to someone occasionally and never really think much of it (especially when I was at school).

One day I got talking to a guy at school and he ended up having almost identical interests to me. So that was really cool -- we'd seen each other so many times but never really [i]knew[/i] each other.

You might be surprised how much you have in common with people who you may think nothing of. ^.^;;[/color][/size]

[Solo Tremaine]

If something like that hadn't happened to me, I wouldn't have as good a friend as I do now. It was in English sometime two years ago *cue swirly effects and silly wibbly music*, and I knew this guy from Drama club. He was sitting behind me talking to someone about Evil Dead. Anyway, at this point I didn't like the guy that much- I was jealous that he'd managed to get in with the two people who ran the club in a few weeks, even when I hadn't and I'd been going for a year. Anyway, suddenly, he started talking about the Evil Dead take-off in Reboot Season III. I listened for a while, until he said 'I really wished I'd seen that'. Immediately (and I was pretty excited about this), I turned round and told him that I had it on DVD, and that he was welcome to borrow it if he wanted. And from then on in, the rest is history. We've been great friends ever since. *Cue more swirly effects and wibbly music*

It's amazing how much of what happens in life is down to chance. Some people would call it fate, and they could be right. I certainly don't regret meeting him, and I think we would have become good friends anyway. It just happened to happen then. And I'm glad it did.

[Mitch]

[color=red] People are always deeper than they present. I can never doubt in that. Sure, you may say you know someone, but to [i]really[/i] know someone is to care, and help them. And always be there for them....

Usually if you present yourself in a positive enough stance, they will open up to you, not matter how slowly that may be, they will.[/color]

[Red]

[b]I knew a Bulgarian kid who was in my class, but I never really spoke to him. One day I was describing what Counter Strike was like to one of my best friends when the Bulgarian guy (Mitko, if you must know his name :)), corrected me on what weapon I was talking about. I ended up talking to him about a lot of gaming stuff, and since then we've been darn good friends.[/b]

[::Ex-Soldier::]

It happens. And you feel good when it does happen. Someone to talk to. Thats always nice.

[Dan L]

it's happened to me quite a bit.. but in the way that I've noticed that someone has a remarkably similar personality to me, rather than necessarily having a common interest. I think I made a few of my friends that way, but I can never remember exactly how it happened.

What exactly is this "responsibility" which you talk about in the title.. or was that just a random quote with not a lot of significance..?

[Kent]

I have most of my friends through situations like the above mentioned events. Although, I dont have any friends any more, so...

I think this is a good thread topic though. I tend to be the guy who is one of the first to go and talk with the new guy, so I always end up being suprised to find out about things like stuff we have in common.

I always end up befriending the people who are unknown wealths of good conversation. Most of the time, if they dont like anime, they end up liking it after hanging out with me.

I also should mention that I got into anime long before I ever knew about dbz, with that in mind, a little asian freshman in one of my classes that I befriended introduced me to dbz and since then I was hooked. For that, I will always remember him.

[amibasuki]

[FONT=arial]lol, here come the band stories....

for a fundraiser for the drama department, the drumline was going to be dancing to Michael Jackson's Thriller with the drill team and colorguard in a talent show of some sorts (to some of the guys' mortification :devil: ). we had already done this for skit night at band camp, so it wouldn't be too bad to do it again.

so anywho, while we were putting makeup on and such, this guy who I'd been a bit shy about talking to (if you get what I'm saying) was kinda just wandering around like I was. somehow we got to talking, and music was brought up. turns out he really likes Moby :D. that threw me for a loop, because I didn't think there was anybody that [i]did[/i] like Moby out where I live, lol. and so we talked a bit more, yadda yadda.

a couple of months later at a band competition in Rome, Georgia, the chaperones said we could draw on the bus windows with markers if we wanted to (they gave us dry-erase markers :p). I drew an anime face on the window. he sat behind me on the bus trips, so he saw it and started asking questions about anime. also turns out he likes some anime :D. so we got into a little conversation about anime and such. and after talking more as months went on, I found out we actually like a lot of the same things, and he's even gotten me into a couple of new things as well.

....erm, what was the topic about again? oh yeah. well, it's always great when you find out other people like the same things you do, and you never had a clue until they told you about it. makes you feel all warm and squishy inside :whoops:. [/FONT]

[Anna]

:laugh: Ste you make me laugh.... "warm and squishy", what a visual. ^_^ Anywho, yeah I've met people by stepping out of my 'comfort-zone'. In fact, I think besides freak accidents, that's pretty much the ONLY way to meet new people! Okay I'll quit being sarcastic... >.> But I can't think of a particular time I just clicked with someone; I mean there have been lots, but they're all my friends now anyway, so.... I could probably name off all the ways I've met them, but that would take too long. But yeah, it is neat when you can meet new people you can get along well with. ^_^

[Genkai]

most of my closest friends I didnt think much of for a while. My friend Yuhe takes chinese like me.. Er, many anime and art friends... It happens, and it's very cool..

[Mist]

[color=crimson][size=1] The same thing happened to me, although it doesn't have a happy ending.

I had known a girl for a year or two, and she struck me as a popular ditz. (Not that I hate them, but she was mean...) If you know me well enough, you'd know that I want to be a writer when I choose a profession. So, I was writing a story one day and she came up to talk to me.

I found out that she was very interested in writing and wanted to know if I could help her with her writing. I guess she had read my articles in the school paper, because she said she liked my style.

I let her read the article that I was writing at the moment, and she was laughing so hard that she claimed she nearly died.

Anyway, later on, she emailed by student ID number through the school email system with an article of her writing and and with that, we became best friends.

Problem is, she was still very rude to people, and although she may have been one of the best writers I've ever met, she was far from a nice person. So, we're no longer friends.[/color][/size]

[::Ex-Soldier::]

Hmm, sorry to hear that, Mist.