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    Dizzy Anime Addicts

    partly inspired by the nerds thread and partly inspired by a friend of mine, i have to ask, what is the obsession with it?


    One of my old roommates used to be pretty close to me. he was really obsessed with anime. at some point he started dating some girl who was obsessed with anime, and i saw less of him and at some point he informed me that he and his girl were planning on holding a japanese style wedding. Mind you at the time he was 20, she was younger, and neither of them are japanese (both of them are black and born in america, actually).

    Well he disappeared off the face of the earth for over a year after this. I guess at some point his girl cheated on him. but the only sort of knowlege i had of him was through facebook minifeed, and it was almost always an anime quote, an anime drawing, or a quote about his girl.

    A few days ago he sent out a mass facebook message apologizing for losing touch with people and giving out his new phone number. and he signed it 'Haku, aka ___(insert actual name here)'.

    then a couple of days ago on his birthday, a mass text message saying 'hey it is Haku (aka ___)'.... then some nonsense about enjoying his birthday and watching anime and then this sentence "22 yrs ago a bundle of joy named Haku was born.."

    what? I just dont get it. I mean i understand being a fan of a TV show or whatever. but this just seems fucking ridiculous. am i missing something here?
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    Default Re: Anime Addicts

    http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=otaku
    http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=weeaboo

    Some people are just crazy obsessed with Japan. It's very, very different over there, most people can't afford to visit, and it gets a near magical reputation from ill informed fantasists.

    Sorry, I mean OMG KAWAII DESU~ (^________^)
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    Default Re: Anime Addicts

    I enjoy it as much as I enjoy any TV. I'm a huge sci-fi nerd and the fact that they have little to no visible CGI kind of helps with the suspension of disbelief. Then again, I'm not convinced I am a character in it like some (well, a lot) of people I know, so I guess I don't get it either.

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    I love anime, but I am in no way near like some people get.

    I have a theory that some people really need some form of escape, and this is the easiest way for them to do that. Other people chose video games, horror films, vampire masquerade, WoW, Evercrack...it's just what they feel fits them best.

    Example: A group I new back in Florida had a wedding where everyone dressed as their WoW characters. Incidentally, they were also LARPers.

    very bizarre...
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    yeahhhhhh some people take things too far. but that's with anyone and anything. sports...food...hobbies...some people are just crazy and like to plaster the "weaboo" label on anyone who likes anime, while the men who spend $3200 on season tickets to football games and paint their bodies and analyze play by pkays day in and day out are "just american men enjoying a normal american hobby"
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