About

Don't Say You Love the Anime If You Haven't Read the Manga is an image macro series in which pictures are jokingly depicted as anime and manga variations of each other, including religions, political ideologies and historical events.

Origin

On January 27th, 2017, Redditor ZherofyM8 posted an image macro featuring a Soviet Union flag next to the cover of the Communist Manifesto with the caption "Don't say you love the anime / if you haven't read the manga" to /r/FullCommunism^[4] (shown below). Within two months, the post gained over 1,200 points (99% upvoted) and 50 comments.

Spread

The following day, Redditor Stanv13 submitted a version of the image with a map of the former Soviet Union juxtaposed next to the cover of the Communist Manifesto to /r/dankmemes^[1] (shown below, left). Also on January 28th, 2017, Redditor MussolinisPasta posted a Bush Did 9/11-themed image macro to /r/dankmemes,^[2] which garnered upwards of 930 points (95% upvoted) over the next two months.

The following day, the Museum of Internet Facebook^[3] page posted a picture of The Last Supper painting labelled as an "anime" next to a photo of a Holy Bible labelled as a "manga" (shown below, left). On March 4th, Instagram^[5] user @uncle.meme.head posted a Diary of a Wimpy Kid-themed image macro, which received upwards of 8,400 likes over the next three weeks.

Various Examples

Search Interest

Not available.

External References