>>95
You're addressing the wrong person when asking that to be rephrased.

> centered around Japanophillia

It's an imitation of 2 channel, operated by and for the people who are interested in such imitation. This is chiefly the reason.

The existence of the nihongo board and nonexistance of other specialized language boards also clears this up.
There's the anime and manga board, rather than animation and comics, but I wouldn't post there even if the name and content was changed to such.
Also there's also the borrowed gags and art found in AA/DQN and some of the people who post here, which I was not referring to.