| And by anime fans, I mean anyone who expresses their love for anime/manga in public. Either by cosplaying, reading manga or watching anime in public, or wearing a piece of anime-related memorabilia (e.g. Bags, T-shirt, etc.) I've personally seen more females than males that display their love for the medium. Within the past month, I saw a girl in a pink dress on the train, reading what appeared to be a yaoi/shounen-ai/reverse harem manga, another girl who was dressed/cosplaying as Sailor Moon's Minako and yet another one who was wearing the typical "school-girl" uniforms often seen in anime/manga. It's not too unusual to see males that carry around AoT or Death Note bags, or wear some sort of anime shirt, but that seems to be as far as they'll go outside of any kind of convention/expo. |
NonaryGamesJun 28, 2015 4:25 AM
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| Never |
| Yes there was this kid in my class. It was very weird and annoying and literally the epitome of giving anime fans a bad name was this dumb ass kid. |
| I live in the second most Asian-populated city in Canada. Yet, no, I have not seen an Otaku. |
| Nop. |
| When I was in high school, one of my friends would read One Piece manga during lunch. |
BullSmit said: Foreign asians are hardly otaku, or like anime.I live in the second most Asian-populated city in Canada. Yet, no, I have not seen an Otaku. |
SnugglyWhuggly said: I don't think you know what the word "otaku" means.And by "otakus", I basically just mean anyone who isn't afraid to show that they're an anime/manga fan in public. |
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| Yes one was a dude with really long hair, looked like a stoner. The other was overweight and smelled really really bad. |
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| Yes, I was lucky to see one in its natural habitat It was drooling over the anime figurines at a convention |
MechaKiryu said: SnugglyWhuggly said: I don't think you know what the word "otaku" means.And by "otakus", I basically just mean anyone who isn't afraid to show that they're an anime/manga fan in public. The term has come to mean several things now, especially in Western cultures. I just used otaku in order to shorten the title of the thread, instead of calling it something like "have you ever seen anyone in real life that dressed as an anime character and/or was reading a manga, or was just wearing an anime shirt, etc." |
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| Yep, at Anime Boston this year. There were WAY more cosplayers than I was expecting lol, and I ran into a lot of people from my school who I had no idea watched anime |
SnugglyWhuggly said: Wrong, otaku is a derogatory term used for unhealthily obsessive anime fans. Some of these people are so messed up, they would sell their internal organs just to get an action figure of their favorite anime character. I never knew that western countries can modify a language that's not ever theirs.MechaKiryu said: I don't think you know what the word "otaku" means. The term has come to mean several things now, especially in Western cultures. I just used otaku in order to shorten the title of the thread, instead of calling it something like "have you ever seen anyone in real life that dressed as an anime character and/or was reading a manga, or was just wearing an anime shirt, etc." |
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| I don't believe i have |
Belseburk said: Nope, but i do know a Weeaboo. aren't weebos otakus? |
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v8 said: The majority of western ones that call themselves that? Yes.Belseburk said: Nope, but i do know a Weeaboo. aren't weebos otakus? |
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| Hm, well I've slowly been corrupting my school so now pretty much everybody has seen at least three anime... So, yeah and for birthdays and christmas I save up all my money to but anime merch for them that they probably don't want... Hm oh and I am almost always never paying attention to my surroundings, but I always notice if somebody has something anime or fandom related.. Even if I'm not in that fandom. Once I even remember my phone dying on the train so some guy was watching bLeach on his phone so I 'discreetly' watched over his shoulder.. Oh and at Anime Boston everybody was in cosplay.. And there's two anime stores near where I live where I've seen otaku too. And on Halloween I've seen people dressed as anime characters too. I myself always carry around my Code Geass water bottle and Black Butler keychains hoping that one day somebody will walk up to me and ask me if I'm an otaku and then we'll be BFFs for life... Okay so that won't happen but whatever I still carry them around and sometimes my Sgt Frog Keroro purse thing or just manga... |
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_Charl said: Sorry, I haven't seen yet. |
 All credit goes to Sacred. |
| When I was in high school I did see a bit of otakus, they were usually very awkward people |
| Only when I look in mirror xD |
SpooksJun 20, 2015 3:38 PM
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Spooks_McBones said: One of the many reasons I contemplate suicide... |
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Spooks_McBones said:  |
MechaKiryu said: Spooks_McBones said: One of the many reasons I contemplate suicide... |
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MechaKiryu said: One of the many reasons I contemplate suicide... MEYAH! MEYAH! |
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| No |
| I saw someone with a FMA bag. I did not approach. |
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mgronald said: I saw someone with a FMA bag. I did not approach. So...? FMA is fucking sick. |
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v8 said: mgronald said: I saw someone with a FMA bag. I did not approach. So...? FMA is fucking sick. I know.. I have FMA phone case LOL |
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| I once saw someone wearing an AOT shirt, another one with an AOT bag and another person with a Soul Eater bag. |
| Yea I've seen weebs cosplay at Japantown I got second hand embarrassment just by observing. They looked like legit fedora tipping weebs |
| Plenty. Some are more pleasant than others, to say the least. |
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| saw an obese woman the other day when i was walking on the street. she had some pikachu hat on or something ridiculous, and a NERV bag, and no, it wasnt halloween. I think I saw her on 2 other occasions. kind of unfortunate my university right now doesnt have an active anime club. meh |
| Why does almost everyone on MAL only give negative examples of anime fans they've seen in real life? I've been apart of a number of anime clubs that have a good number of cool people that don't seem to fit the descriptions or depictions above! |
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| I've never met one in person, and I hope I never, ever do. |
| At least once when I was working at Walmart. These two guys came to my register with Pokemon items and were talking about it throughout the transaction. and there was a guy in my high school class my senior and junior year who was really good at drawing. He talked about it from time to time. |
MechaKiryu said: Spooks_McBones said: One of the many reasons I contemplate suicide...Well this thread sure got spookier with mcbones around *o* |
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midnightblade said: Why does almost everyone on MAL only give negative examples of anime fans they've seen in real life? I've been apart of a number of anime clubs that have a good number of cool people that don't seem to fit the descriptions or depictions above! I guess they're just more fun to talk about :P In addition, they're probably the most memorable and the easiest to identify as otakus. |
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| Does meeting myself count? |
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Man-Eating-Ghoul said: Almost everything makes me contemplate suicide, to be honest. Nothing spooky about that.MechaKiryu said: One of the many reasons I contemplate suicide... Well this thread sure got spookier with mcbones around *o* |
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| I'll wear a goku shirt every now and then, does that make me an otaku? |
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