Ayu fan featured on America's Greatest Otaku

[kumikomishitate]

Originally Posted by sugarbasil

This may not be nice, and people may not understand why I feel this way, but this makes me want to vomit. I really, really don't think there should be a show about this. Otaku may have a negative connotation in Japan, but I think even less of the "otaku" overseas. They may not be the same type of people as the otaku in Japan, but they're just as bad in my opinion. Worse, actually. They drive me crazy and need to live in the real world. Life isn't about spending all your money on anime and trying to know or have more than everyone else. And I certainly don't appreciate how little they actually understand about Japan and its culture. 95% of the people in Japan don't wear kimonos as their normal attire. And most people over the age of 10 don't watch that anime you're watching. Just my feelings on it, though I could rant for pages.

Nevertheless, I'll be watching that show with my roommates later to get a huge laugh. I might cry a little, too.

Agreed. Sure, I might get mega-flamed for this and called closed-minded but Montreal seems to have this little otaku minority so I've seen these people first hand. THEY MAKE ME HAVE VIOLENT URGES!

I've never seen a JPop otaku in real life, and I don't think the big negative connotation refers to that. It's more the anime thing. Listen, I obsessed over Sailor Moon and InuYasha and whatnot when I was 12 and all, and I went to Anime North once. I had fun. Yeah. Bought a plushie. Discussed "Seasons" by Ayu with some Japanophile who shouldn't have been talking with little alone me. Bought a Miyavi bootlet. Woo. But do you see me, 21 years old, walking around my university dressed as a damn Tokyo Mew Cat wtf it is. I SWEAR TO GOD I SAW ONE I MCGILL! SHE HAD A TAIL! WITH A BELL! IT JINGLED! IT ******ING JINGLED! x____x My cat doesn't want to jingle!

I cringe every time I go to Chinatown and pick up some student-friendly (a.k.a. <10$) Vietnamese food (must avoid the Chinese restaurants... I so don't trust their vegetarian "options"). Stereotypically obese (no offense to anybody) young adults dressed as "sexy" lolitas, or cat-people, or Pikachu (only babies/toddlers look adorable as Pikachu) saying "kawaii desu nyah" every sentence and sipping their bubble tea and watching Naruto at the tea longue and getting drunk off their love of yaoi fanfiction.

UGH! What was my original point in this? Oh well, I feel better now.

/rant.

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