I really don't have a problem with people who like and talk about anime with others. I often talk about anime with friends, and perhaps occasionally openly say those phrases that pops out a lot (e.g. Bankai, "Who the hell do you think I am") for fun, and you know what? It's a great way to have a laugh with people about it, and enjoy yourself discussing those awesome scenes you just watched. Most people I know definitely don't feel annoyed by "otaku" behaviour, and if someone else does it I wouldn't mind either. Anime-obsession is only really a problem when those obsessed fans are disrupting the class. E.g. being too loud, disrupting teacher etc. If it's in the playground and they're shouting "Bankai", then why does it really matter? If they look lame, that's their problem - and they don't affect anyone else as long as they don't go and purposely annoy others. In fact, when one of my friends was saying anime phrases in the playground, the Japanese teacher actually loved the fact that we were using Japanese and commended what we were doing. After all, why should the teacher be annoyed? It's not as if we were so loud that people actually started complaining. If you're going to criticise someone for openly displaying their anime obsession then shouldn't you also be criticing those fans at pop concerts who scream like crazy just because a celebrity is on the stage? How come that's not childish behaviour? It's the same thing - and I garantee there are heaps of people at those concerts above 20.

About the Simon cosplay on the train Omni, that WOULD be a nuisance because the dude is actually disrupting a train full of people. I live in Australia, and its prohibited to be loud on trains, so yeah, in that situation the guy really is doing something wrong. If he was just wearing the clothes but wasn't disrupting anyone else, I'd be fine with that. We all are passionate about things and things that you consider childish and stupid might actually mean a lot to someone else.

Happykari

Amrod, they weren't "hardcore otaku", they was an immature fans who is only fans because they think it makes them "cool". Please don't insult otaku by regarding them as the same as those fake fans, ok? If you watch only mainstream series and don't spend most of your time in your house focusing on anime, you are not an anime otaku, nevermind a "hardcore" anime otaku. Otaku doesn't mean "anime fan", as otaku is also used for other hobbies outside of anime.

You are right, I made a mistake, my bad, I'm sorry to any out there I insulted.

I'm a bit of an Otaku! But I know the difference between being fun or just annoying.
Whats wrong with playing naruto or DBZ? Absolutley nothing. Its good fun. Anyone who says its a problem...well I won't finish. Theres nothing wrong with people having fun. BUT theres a time and place for everything. Up the park, fine, parks are for playing in. In your garden, fine, its yours to do as you wish anyways. But kids walking down the road going KAMEHAMEHAAAAA scares little old ladies. Its rather antisocial. Now, I can expect it from a kid. Someone like ages 12- because thats what kids do at that age. But older teens and adults should know better then that. Its antisocial. And more or less makes people think you're a freak. The older ones that is. Theres having a laugh and taking things too far. Alot of people just don't have enough self control. Though I will say, hardly anyone I know even knows what anime/manga is, let alone watch it/read it and become an otaku.
[That said, whats wrong with going and playing jutsu in a playground? Or playing DBZ? Playgrounds are for playing. Admittedly, the older kids can't get away with it much now without looking retarded]

I don't think myself as a hardcore otaku. But some people around might think that way about me. And yeah, maybe sometimes I act like some character (I am not a naruto or bleach or DBZ fan) by imitating their catch phrase and that's all I do .. .

Umm never seen or experienced what the topic creator posted but I keep myself in check. The most you will ever get out of me is me wearing a t-shirt with anime graphics on it.

If anyone recognizes what's on my T-shirt we totally just talk about it quitely.

I facepalm every time in my school when I see people with Naruto jackets, headbands, wrist sweatbands, etc. I like anime, but I hate the kind of people who become stereotype of anime fans by dressing up like Naruto on a normal day, acting like everyone is inferior because they don't know anything about what they are talking about, and make people think anime fans are lonely, overweight pricks who have nothing to do but fap to figurines and anime girls.

I am into anime since then..I like talking anout anime..watching, reading, drawing them..I like sharing this things, favs and everything to someone I know or discovered to be an anime fan too..but don't talk too much anime stuff on those who don't have any interest..but for those who don't know it I could still advertise anime to them or maybe give some cues on what anime is, by that maybe they would start liking anime too..

For me, I have to admit, it really does get on my nerves. The main thing that tends to piss me off is when I hear these little weeaboos spouting off words like 'kawaii' or 'nani' in a completely English sentence; either offline or online, it just gets under my skin. I don't think its quite the loud ones that really piss me off, its the ones who base all of their information off the dub and claim they know more about anime than the fans who have been watching the stuff a lot longer. Not that there can't be serious anime fans who only watch the dub, anime is anime, but those aren't the people I'm referring to. No, you know the people who have only watched Naruto and maybe a bit of popular anime on Adult Swim and, all of a sudden, they are anime experts.

Then again, I just miss the good old days when a bunch of people could get together and talk about anime like rational people, before all these little fangirls showed up going crazy over how much they love Sasuke and want to marry him.

...And on a slightly unrelated topic, I love how Naruto is now used when describing annoying anime fans. It shows just how much the anime itself has been twisted. xD

Maybe im being a hypocrite of an /a/sshole by being on a site like this, but i agree...
so far the people ive met here arent too bad, but then theres some where theyre... yknow, so i guess the best thing is, at least for me, is to just accept those people for who they are...

i mean, i do tend to look down upon them if they do it in public (the inernets fine with me, due to the anonymousyness (... thats not even a word... i think the term is anoniminity?), but then again sometimes, i cant even stand it online...


sometimes enoughs enough, yeah?

(sorry to seem shallow, but the only reason i came here in the end was to be able to get some scans and some neat walls, but i figured, "meh, i guess ill at least attempt to contribute... dont want to be THAT big of a leech, yah?")


edit: HORRIBLE MEMORIES OF OLD SCHOOL ARE BAD.

I restrict my over-the-top activity to areas such as cons, where my limited power level would go unnoticed anyway. :P
During day-to-day life, I never mention anime to anyone. Or manga. If someone asks what I did on the weekend (scanlation time! :D), I'll merely say I was involved in some extra-curricular project because that's really all helping out in a scanlation team is. There's no need to say 'oh, I was helping scanlate a manga' when the listener probably doesn't know what manga is, let alone scanlate, and was most likely expecting 'oh, nothing much'/'I went out clubbing'/'Was studying'/etc.

So that covers IRL. What about online? Well... I mostly don't do that either... because there's really no point. You're on a board with other people who also like that stuff, you probably don't have anything to show off about because someone out there will have more figurines than you do, has liked XYZ longer than you have, has the limited and first press edition of more series than you do and has had more luck in real life than you.

I think about regions and culture. Society has different levels of culture depending on the region. Behavior is allways related to education, and it's obvious people with bad behavior learned it with people around them.

"Tell me who you walk with, and I'll tell you who you are".

you probably don't have anything to show off about because someone out there will have more figurines than you do, has liked XYZ longer than you have, has the limited and first press edition of more series than you do and has had more luck in real life than you.

very precise, the fact one has to show off his internet penis size means one has really nothing to be proud of.
I would show off, if I had any decent artistic skills, like making dolls with cloth materials for sale of maybe... i dunno, any anime character with a decently large fanbase?

On the part of having more luck in real life, I don't buy it, fact is... anyone who is somehow associated with anime... lacks a real life, especially if they already have
- figurines
- DVDs (limited eds and whats not)

it is unlikely for both of that real life and the above items to collide in harmony.

I think about regions and culture. Society has different levels of culture depending on the region. Behavior is allways related to education, and it's obvious people with bad behavior learned it with people around them.

"Tell me who you walk with, and I'll tell you who you are".

ah, Socrates right?
my philo is a bit rusted, sorry if it is not.

behavior often stems from a person with their mindset, much more likely actually.
The fact I somehow relate to football is the same, do you have to shout out loud how your favorite team scored each night to your wife?
I bet she is annoyed, but you don't realize.
The hazard that is one person who goes extraordinary distances to annoy another but not noticing it, such a plague.

Another experience

I still remember the first day of class. "Where are you?" I text messaged my friend Tuan. "The class is about to start." My friend and I had agreed to take a language course together. At the time we were engineering majors, and we needed to take a couple of language courses in order to meet our general degree requirements. The procrastinators that we were, we had missed all of our chances to enroll in the usual French or Spanish and had to choose between Russian, German and Japanese. It was my friend's idea to take Japanese, and at that moment I was glad I agreed.

In this classroom, there were girls everywhere. They were cute, skinny girls with perfect skin. Some had long black hair, others had blond hair, but each had a bright smile, and I settled in for what I was sure would be my favorite class.

"I'm in class," Tuan messaged back. Just then, as if on cue, an older Asian woman with red glasses walked into the class and wrote "Chinese I" on the chalkboard.

I ran into the classroom next door. It was full of guys wearing anime-themed T-shirts discussing manga. Most of them had neck-beards and glasses, and at least one didn't seem to grasp the concept of deodorant. There were no cute girls at all. Tuan shook his head in disappointment.

Don't get me wrong, I'm a nerd, but these guys were in a different league. At the time, I had been aware of anime and manga. Like most of the other people I knew, I had watched Dragon Ball Z, Sailor Moon and the other stuff on Cartoon Network. And thanks to Adult Swim, I had even seen Cowboy Bebop. These guys, though, were full-blown otaku. One guy even bragged that he had bought his anime T-shirt in a kid's size because shirts his size weren't available.

For a while, I didn't talk to anyone but Tuan. I had nothing against my classmates, but I knew they were nerds. Not a nerd like me, either; they were pretentious nerds. These guys wanted to learn Japanese in order to become a part of the otaku elite. They would probably leave class, put on costumes and head to an anime convention. They would walk around quoting lines from their favorite cartoons in Japanese, saying, "I watched the original without subtitles" as they looked down their nose at those of us who watched the dubbed version. I wanted no part of this nerd caste system.

I consider myself suppressed. I don't run around screaming I like anime, its just a well known fact about me. I have my Trigun bag, my $8 worth of key chains, and an assorted shirt or two, but other than that, I keep it to myself.

Unless of course I get around my best friend, who's like the only other person I know who watches more than just Naruto, Bleach, and anything else thats been butchered shown on Adult Swim or Toonami for the umpteenth time. I'm sorry, but we are fangirl buddies, and yes when we're out in public we do get a little loud, but not like what I've seen at Naka con, or from my anime club folks. We only fangirl at school (which we're known for being odd there, so its alright), Barnes & Noble (We don't get out much...), and before it went away D: Our local anime store, and they didn't seem to mind us squealing over the merchandise they supplied, cause I'm sure they saw it at least 100 once a day, and often times they fangirled/fanboyed with us ^^; But I never found us to be overly grating on the otaku meter.

The people in my anime club on the other hand... are exactly what you were describing. So much so, it makes me ashamed I associate with them... They run around screaming about Inuyasha, or Naruto (and because of them I can't stand either fandom now), and Dragon Ball Z or in one case, one of them is obsessed with Dear.S *shudders* They go wild over stuff the veterans in our anime club have seen and been into for ages, and to be honest just plain embarrass themselves, and us. Its increasingly annoying, and make me very wary coming to club. My best friend's older sister (they're not really related, but they might as well be) met one from our club that was particularly annoying when she took us to Naka con the year before last. I thought she was going to punch the girl out O_o

But I do understand what you mean, and no, I don't consider myself to be freakishly open like that. It doesn't matter if people know, since there is more to my life than just anime, but I don't make it a point of bringing it up automatically.

Well, I hate it when someone acts like an obnoxious kids over something, no matter what it is. I mean, yeah, I love animes but I don't distrupt other people's peace. Going around shouting like that is just too... well, lame. Although I have noticed most of them grow out of it once they see the serious side of anime/manga. Or the darker side. Or the sadder side. Usually those type of people who act like idiots are those who watches anime without seeing any messages behind them. So sad

Anyway, let's just hope they don't do anything weirder or more embarrassing next time. :P