Gamer or Manga/Anime Fan?

Well, I'm more of a gamer than a manga/anime fan, ever since I was a toddler when Nintendo was booming in popularity in the late 80s. Although I knew anime existed back then while Japanese and Korean animation studios even supported America in animating their cartoon shows including ones by DiC, Disney, Ruby-Spears and Marvel (including Hasbro Toy-based ones). But nowadays, most gamers I see hate manga/anime, but that might change. Although I enjoy manga/anime, I like gaming more, mainly to improve mental health and enjoy their BGM even in reality during busy tasks to help me concentrate better and listen to people across the room in my job or in my car during driving. But while I'm still studying Second Grade Kanji and basic Japanese grammar, I am hoping to continue at the same level of gaming with manga/anime, as well as some tokusatsu Japanese game shows, Japanese drama and various Japanese music. Which do you prefer more?

More of a gamer. I love anime but have only dabbled in manga. I don't think the statement about gamers hating anime is true. My friends who are gamers seem to also be into anime as well, to the weeaboo extent.

i only play wow and diablo when a new expansion comes out not really big on video games, especially not console games (fuck those weird ass controllers) while i don't like playing games, i love watching playthroughs. the stories in some games are so remarkable and imaginative among the sleep hit me particularly hard back in the day

Gaming was good until the 3DS. Even Switch's games are disappointing as a whole (looking at you Sw-Sh and Three Houses). Now it's just purely massified shit... I mean, it was purely massified ever since the PS3. I would only buy a Switch to play Dynasty Warriors 8 XL, something I could easily do by getting a better PC and steambuying or actually get a PS3.

Short version: Yes. Long version: May tangent several times, bear with it. Regarding the one thing that had brought me here, and here I was- ...I was about to quote that long Corrupted Vor monologue from Warframe. Ever since mid-late 2018 I came to the realization that content typically viewed as 'weeb stuff' (anime, manga and so on) had things that had opened my eyes, as it were - revealing things such as social cues that I had never managed to learn in the educational environments. That said I have been exposed to a lot of animated content over a long period of time, a lot of cartoons that were popular (i.e: Ben 10, Simpsons, Futurama, Battleforce 5, and a long list of others I currently fail to recall). And in spite of understanding why people wouldn't like anime - or anything seen as 'weeb' due to the sheer difference between cultures and other factors making a majority of people 'out there in the wild' view it in much the same disdain as how gaming, TV, and so on used to be viewed in their respective hey-days (i.e: if you knew a lot about things related to tech, theory and fiction, people often throw labels such as 'geek', 'nerd', and 'bookworm' at them/us/you/me - though I've only really been identified as a nerd in passing about once, mainly because at this point -everyone- is a nerd in terms of having to know how to use tech and possibly even digitally mend it) - I still am quite invested, heck I've even got a Daki of Lucoa who I've photo'd for my phone cover a few times. Now, regarding gaming? Been playing videogames since I was consciously able to. Playstation 1, Futurecop LAPD, Wip3out, a number of other games I forgot the names of, some 007 titles... Some Crash Bandikoot maybe? Not sure. Nintendo 64, Quake, DOOM, some very well-detailed waterboat racing game that tried to hike on Wip3out's successes... Diablo 2, WarCraft 3 and StarCraft, then a few other games like the 40k Dawn of War series, and eventually I got into World of WarCraft during the Burning Crusade. Didn't get anywhere though and eventually fell off of it due to significant investment costs - both temporally and in terms of currency. Then the Xbox 360 and Halo 3 happened. The rest is history. So yeah, that's probably more than enough information about myself as part of the answer but I think that feeds into why I hold both in high regard, but have been gaming more than reading manga or watching anime, though I intend to do those two soon when I have free time and feel the need to keep my brain distracted from the cruelties of lockdown, loneliness, and worse... Speaking of that, whatever opinions you may hear and have construed as a public norm shouldn't be taken as -the- public norm as it really depends on what gaming (sub)communities you look at, and where you're looking at them from. Need I not remind us all, a number of well-known people (such as film/TV/movie/show stars and big-names from corporates) had indeed opened up about what anime/manga they liked and how that caused a public surge of people such as us approving of their choices or just admitting that we're into that stuff ourselves.

Honestly I am way more game oriented. Been at it since the age of 2 and am hooked for life, can you blame me? That isn't to say that i don't enjoy anime, manga, etc... I just find myself wanting to game more.

I am Mr. Videogames. There are literally thousands of games in my room from the 70s up to modern times. I personally find them interesting since each and every single one has it's own story and is the result of hundreds of hours of work regardless of whether the game is good or not. I do enjoy the Japanese developed games far more than Western ones and many are based off of anime as well. The interesting thing is that I prefer the golden era of Japanese dominated development. This was around 1985 up to around 2006. Now almost everything is a cookie-cutter formula of Call of Duty shooters and boring battle royale Fortnite clones. When something like Sunset Overdrive or Astral Chains comes out, it is seen as this big groundbreaking event when you got games like this all the time from Japan a good 20 years ago.

I love watching anime, I got into it when I was in elementary school when my older brother and his friends brings and watches them after school. I love reading manga / doujinshi, I started reading them when I was in middle school. I love playing games yet I'm not a hardcore gamer like my older brother is.