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I am not sure how familiar you are with the /a/ that existed on the old 8chan, or 8chan prime as some call it, and no, it has nothing to do with the current /a/ that exists on this website, so I hope it might be a bit insightful. The previous /a/ board cared a lot about "quality" of posts, so much so that they had a bot that would delete posts that had certain words in it, like "tbh", "lel", "lol", "fam", "smh", "dafuq" and so on, they called it Hoihoi, and it was their beloved automaid
,now this bot did cause some problems with the functionality of the site, but that's a different story. They were incredibly rulecucked, but at least you could still say "cuck", "faggot" and "nigger". Most of the threads were about the seasonal anime, with most anime getting their own dedicated thread, and the rest in a miscellaneous thread. While there were a few /jp/ related threads from time to time, plus the obligatory manga threads and Japanese Learning Thread, most of the threads were about the current season, and I suspect most anons didn't dare to create other types of threads, of fear of getting banned. With that said, we did have a japanese video game thread once or twice per year, I guess the mods were "kind" to allow that. A few months, before 8chan got nuked, some /a/nons left /a/ and created their own board called /animu/ that wasn't rule cucked and allowed Naruto threads. it was in the top boards back then, so it wasn't just a fringe community. For some reason they also got most of the scanlators and translators from /a/ to go to /animu/. I am not all that familiar with the culture of /animu/ from the old 8chan, as I mostly browsed /a/, but I do know that after 8chan got nuked, /a/ went to their bunker board called smuglo.li (still very active, and I usually use it), they still have their bot, and on the front page it links to what all the banned words are
https://smuglo.li/a/automaid.html. On the other hand /animu/ moved to
https://prolikewoah.com/animu/ . They have become less and less active as time went on, which is a shame, but they do have the /biz/
board thread on /animu/, as well as Kemono and some translation projects like Moral Reversal and Kouya ni Kemono Doukokusu. I suggest you try visiting those places, at least to take a glance on how other anime communities have formed.
It might also be of interest to you, to know that there have been other communities from 4chan that moved here, one of the most successful is /2434/ about a V-Tuber group, and /erp/ but their owner delisted the board and it dies right away, even though it was very active in it's first few days. It might also help to talk with the anons on /2434/ to see how they succeeded in forming a community, as initially they tried coming here, but then went back to 4chan, then came back here again and stayed. Their board is almost always in the top boards(which isn't saying all that much), so they are somewhat successful.
With that said, welcome to 8chan, I am just a simple anon, I hope you manage to form a great community that flourishes, and I hope you don't mind me preferring smug/a/ for now, as that and old 8chan/a/ were my anime boards.